Giant winter deer

The latest article in Field and Stream dishes 54 tips from four late season deer experts on how to get that huge winter buck. Here's a tip. Any hunter who is not from the west initially assumes all the deer, especially the whitetails, are in the river bottoms. But they don't use that cover as much as you think. They used terrain instead. They can disappear in nothing more than a wrinkle on the Prairie. That's why they live out in the open that and because everyone is looking for them in the river bottoms. When you stare out across the plane, it looks flat. But you're only seeing the tops of the grass. It appears to be all the same height, but it's not. What you don't see is that some of the grass is 3 feet tall, growing on a gentle rise, and some of it is 6 feet tall, going up from a slight bowl. And there's a buck that you can't see standing in the latter. You can cover ground quickly on foot until you find a good buck track, then you follow it until it hooks left or right and starts to meander, which tells you that the buck is just up ahead, either feeding or bedded. Now you're close and this is the make or break apart: either you or your buck is going to make a mistake. Your job is to make sure it is him.