If you’re determined to make your hunting area as productive as possible, every acre must produce maximum benefit—either prime food for deer or excellent habitat. If even a single acre falls short of this standard, it is worth making changes. In this short piece I will offer several tips to help you maximize your whitetail habitat.
First of all, with regard to prime habitat, deer feel most secure in thick cover. Not all habitat needs to be thick to hold deer, but if you hunt in an area with moderate to heavy hunting pressure, thick cover will be a definite asset because it will give the local deer population a place to run to when the shooting starts. I like thick cover for another reason too: It makes the hunting area of my property much larger. When the deer can see me walking from 200 yards in every direction, it is very hard to sneak in and out of my stands. Reducing that distance to 50 yards really improves hunting success.
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