re: How to get deer to move during daylight?

Deer consume on average 6% - 8% of their body weight daily in browse / forage. Find the bedding area, and major food source: honeysuckle, acorns, planted beans, rye grass, persimmons, pecans, etc... Hunt the corridor and travel areas as you will see trails. Deer move throughout the day due to food, weather, moon phase, breeding, social activity.

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your deer are smarter than mine. Do they have a meeting in Oct to talk about the hunting season?

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The MS Hill Deer where I hunt are smart as hell. The ones that have survived all these years have been naturally selected to be straight up ninjas. You go in their living room and throw corn out in October they know what the heck is up.

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Deer on my property are only moving at like 3:00 in the morning.

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Sounds like you need a Q beam baw

The guy that invented lone Wolf tree stands had a technique (and this could be all BS) but makes some sense. He said you can bump a deer once or twice and they will return to the bed later in the day, but more than that and your risk them moving.

So he’d scout the big bucks hard and then go into their bedding area in the morning and bump them out, then sit all day waiting for the buck to return. You gotta be a damn good hunter to do that, but maybe something to consider OP.

OP hunt the day time.

If they are out in the middle of the night hunt from 10-3. Common areas of travel.

You can ride the road that cuts our lease in half and see the trails coming in and out of a major thicket where they lay up dead middle of the lease.

Setup in the middle of the day and wait for em to traverse. You know they will and have to.

Edited to add. Got to kill the first deer with my son. Shot with my dad's rifle. Cleaned with his knives after. Just took the backstrap of the pit. What an experience. Building him and my daughter a gun. Waiting on the barrel and optic.

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Dogs

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When the tailgate drops, the bullshite stops, baw.

Horny does.

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The last thing most of LA woods needs is more bedding areas. I just see that as Midwest stuff where their 'woods' are thinner and you can focus deer's attention to focal points.

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Plenty of woods around us are very open. Can see 50-60 yards on the ground and can walk around standing up easily. That kinda woods is not doing much for bedding or food.

The big difference as you mentioned is concentrating bedding in the Midwest vs the south. In the South a buck will use 20-30 bedding spots scattered over a 1,000 acres. In the Midwest, there is only 20-30 acres of woods in a 1,000 acres. Becomes easy to figure it out.

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The last thing most of LA woods needs is more bedding areas

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Yeah I stated that. There are plenty of thick and swampy areas that are thick as hell that don’t need it. But you get a mature pine forrest that was just logged and it’s very open.