Early Season Bowhunting Strategies

If you’re hoping to tag a mature buck this fall, the real work starts now. July and August aren’t downtime—they’re when the patterns begin. But it’s not just about hanging cameras and hoping for the best. It’s about understanding why deer move, and when they’re most likely to do it. Forget outdated moon phase charts. The MoonGuide app uses gravitational positioning—overhead and underfoot moon times—to predict peak daylight movement with pinpoint accuracy. When that data lines up with trail camera intel, you’re not guessing anymore. You’re planning. This isn’t about getting more pictures. It’s about making better decisions.

Spring is here, and it’s time to prepare your food plots for deer season. Whether you manage large or small plots

With the Whitetail season fast approaching, it’s a great time to start getting your food plots dialed in, especially your kill plots within these food sources. For most of the summer my strategy has been watching and patterning a couple mature bucks in my Whitetail Institute plots, especially on those Red Moon evenings. These bucks have been very regular in appearance, but not in their approach to the field in the evenings. In order to maximize my chances for opening week success and throughout the season, I’m establishing a mock scrape right where I want these bucks to show up for...

With season fast approaching, it’s that time of the year when hunters start putting together their game plan for the season opener. A lot of these plans revolve around those velvet giants we’ve been watching all summer in the soybean fields, showing up like clockwork and giving some hunters a false hope for early season success. Even though the bachelor groups of summer have been very predictable for weeks or even months, there’s a change about to take place and you better be prepared for it if you want to wrap your tag around an opening day buck. At this...