What are my chances?

[MnDeerStalker]

I was just wondering what you all think my chances are? Heres the story I have been hunting here at home and after taking a great bunk and doe around the gun season  I have not seen a deer in the area, the last day of the firearms season the farmer that has the land around me plowed everything under and not just chisel plowed I mean he turned it all so food sorce is scarce and I know you are suposed to hunt food sorces for the late season. I know that there are still deer around but I just havn't seen anything so do I stick it out and hope something comes in or do I go someplace else? The only problem with going someplace else is it would have to be public land and we all know the hunting pressures are far grater there then on your own land. my place is all wooded and there are some good thick areas that I know they use for bedding but I leave those areas as a sancuary (sp?) and I wont go in there unless i have too. Also there is a river just across the field and the only unturned soil is a bean stuble field but have not seen any deer in there so what are your thoughts???

[cobb]

I have been hunting here at home and after taking a great bunk and doe around the gun season  I have not seen a deer in the area....................

Maybe I misunderstand, but if you took a great bunk, which I think you meant buck, during the 2008 Minnesota firearm season, I think you are done. 

[MnDeerStalker]

i did mean buck sorry but I still have a tag left. I am a meat hunter for the most part but when he came in i couldn't resist. but my family eats venison at one or two times a week so if I have a tag I would like to fill it.

[cobb]

OK, now I understand. 

You have an intensive harvest tag left for a doe and are archery hunting in one of those zones.
 

[MnDeerStalker]

something like that, we party hunt but there are a few of us who want to get out of the woods and cold asap so we use there tags firsst and I am the opposit I will hunt untill the last min. of the last day.

[Grute Man]

Well if the food source is gone, the water is not.  They HAVE to have water so if that's still there move down that way.  I saw a spot on a frozen pond this last weekend where the deer had made a hole in the ice; it looked like a bowl with no bottom.  They kept coming in and drinking from that hole.