He believes the last few days of October are optimal for hunting as they avoid the crowds that save vacation for early November.

“like that 29, 30th, 31st, those last few days of October, right before November. Um, you can kind of beat the public land craze of everyone that saved their vacation for, you know, the first few days of November.”

He argues that high-pressure deer rely heavily on the wind, making it the most important factor in their movement and bedding decisions.

“Wind is king. Wind is always king. At least for me where I hunt high pressure deer, everything has to do with the wind, how they move, where they bed, all the stuff. And and the higher the pressure is, the more they use the wind.”

Kent Boucher argues that prairie habitats are natural, historically vital environments for whitetail deer that provide essential nutritional and water resources.

“deer have benefited from just a a population standpoint. They have benefited from land development for sure. However, they existed um here long before we developed that land and they were thriving in our vast prairie ecosystems that we had here in Iowa”

It takes about three years for a new hunting property to develop into an effective spot for harvesting deer.

“They say about three years usually.”