Everyone loves to pick up a big shed whitetail antler during a cabin-fever hike, but if you’re a hunter don’t ignore the smoking-hot evidence in the whitetail woods. You can cure cabin fever and scout your whitetail property simultaneously for a hunting season jumpstart.
Before you go, remember to plan your trip into the whitetail woods after the wrath of winter subsides. Extra stress on deer when they are still battling the elements could lead to death.
The most obvious benefit of a spring hike, shed antlers aside, is learning the country. By hiking and scrounging around in your hunting area you obtain a unique, firsthand perspective of a property that Google Earth can’t provide. No matter how hard you peer at your screen you can’t see under the canopy.
