Early Season Bowhunting Strategies

Summer is the best time to locate bachelor groups and pattern early-season bucks—but you need more than just good glass. The MoonGuide App helps you find high-odds locations based on moon and movement data so every glassing session counts. Pair it with your Vortex optics for the ultimate scouting advantage.

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 Forget outdated moon phase charts.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...