WHAT GETS MOVING DEER?

A lifestyle of chasing and analyzing whitetails for over 30 years has been fun and rewarding — if not frustrating at times. Pursuing mature whitetails is a constant game of trial and error. After years of studying data, weather phenomena, and the animals themselves, I believe I have narrowed down the top things to get whitetails on their feet.

Through our groundbreaking app and algorithm, DeerCast, we have put all this information in the hands of every hunter in the country. Here is what I deem as the top factors in getting white-tailed deer to move.

TIME OF YEAR

This has a lot of parts. You must break it down into each of our 13 phases, but you can generalize the times of year as leading into the rut, during the rut and post-rut. Years of experience have shown me the fact of the matter is there are certain phases where deer move