![]() My favorite muzzleloader season is definitely the late-season hunt offered by many states. Patience and smart scouting are the keys to making an early-season muzzleloader hunt successful, and the harder you work at these key aspects, the luckier you’ll be. The hotter and dryer the weather, the more important this aspect becomes. A smart early-season deer hunter should spend some serious pre early-season scouting time locating potential watering areas and include them in the hunting plan. You might be hunting deer that haven’t been pressured and aren’t overly spooky, but keep your incursions into their habitat as low-key and unobtrusive as possible.ĭuring the heat of early fall seasons, deer need to water several times a day. Generally at this time of year deer will establish travel routes and patterns and stay with them, so locating these travelways is vital to success. In some states this can be a real challenge, as the crops are still in and deer can move from their bedding and sanctuaries into the unharvested fields with little if any exposure or visibility. Lots of preseason scouting to locate where the bucks are actively feeding at this time of year is of utmost importance. ![]() This limited travel can work to an early-season muzzleloader hunter’s advantage or disadvantage depending on the lay of the land in their hunting areas and their willingness to spend lots of scouting hours pinpointing the exact travel patterns of early-season bucks. Their daily travels are limited to moving from bedding and sanctuary areas to water and feed before returning to their hideyholes. Mature bucks at this time of year are only interested in food, water and rest, and they haven’t started traveling as they will later on. Early-season muzzleloader hunters have to plan their hunt to overcome the hot weather, bugs, limited visibility and tendency of the deer to move only late in the evening and very early in the morning when the weather is coolest. ![]() The early muzzleloader season lends itself to those muzzleloader shooters with “first seasonitis,” giving them a prime opportunity to hunt bucks that haven’t yet been subjected to hunting pressure and are somewhat easier to pattern during a season with little pressure from other hunters. A number of states have early muzzleloader seasons starting in mid-September and early October, and these seasons definitely have their pros and cons.
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