Urban Deer Hunting Strategies  Posted by  Saturday, October 19
2013 6:00 am  I'd covered a lot of real estate hunting
whitetails over the years, and no question, I was now studying
the biggest buck I'd ever seen. He was a giant, with a wide,
extremely heavy 10-point rack. His neck and body were solid,
like an athlete's in prime shape. He was truly a magnificent
animal, and perhaps most startling, he was on my own farm, no
more than 500 yards from my backdoor.  UrbanDeer 1 Big smiles
and nice bucks are two results of hunting deer on the edges of
suburbia.  I studied the buck with binoculars for several
minutes. It was early September, and he was on the back edge of
my sweet corn field, munching on nubbins left over from summer.
I think animals have some sixth sense about when they're in
danger, and when they're not. As long as I stayed in my pickup
and kept my distance, this monster buck was content to chew and
watch me in those last few minutes before darkness descended
over north-central Tennessee.  I had di