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Everything posted by dvdegeorge
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Small 8pt 2 doe and piebald button buck... Oh yea and a hunter sitting on a bucket 75 yds behind me Touchy situation as he's a friend of neighbor where I park and yard I cut thru to get to my stand Told him he wasn't on property he was supposed to be on that he cut trees and saplings on someone else's property and that it wasn't very cool setting a stand 75 yds from me Did I mention I hate gun season
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Today consisted of throwing a trespasser out of a stand 75 yds from me at 8:30 am,driving to next property to find out more people in woods around my set to then driving to 3rd property and seeing 1 doe...Did I mention I really hate gun season? The yahoo's will quit soon enough and I can actually start hunting deer again instead of orange jerks
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This is true
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I piss out of my stand and I'll piss in a scrape...my track record speaks for itself
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The rut or actually the pre rut(rut is actual breeding period which can equal limited sightings and the so called "lock down") We as hunters actually want the "seeking" then secondly the "chasing" stage of the pre rut This has been going on for better than a week and a half. This does not happen on the same day or date every where. The rut is more of a couple week marathon than a couple day dash, Doe to buck,ratio,weather,human and hunting pressure all have a hand in things. Right place at the right time is a major factor also.What one perceives as no rutting activity may be happening on the next ridge over and you are not seeing it but that does not mean it's not happening. Factors I use to judge the stage thats happening. When scapes that have been hot go cold abruptly things are getting close( my scrapes have been cold for 2 weeks now) When I see fawns wandering alone without mamma I have doe that are in heat or very close to being in heat When no doe seem to be present but buck are being sighted, some doe are in heat and the others are hiding out to avoid being run to death by searching bucks(I believe thats where we are right now) You just have to be in the woods as much as possible at this time even when things seem slow.A buck will hunker down with a doe for 24-48 hours while she is receptive to him breeding her. Once that is over he will be on the prowl again looking for his next doe I have seen bucks running doe and heavy pre rut activity as early as the middle of Oct and other years not starting till Nov Lastly use your game cameras as a barometer. When its on you will have a sharp increase in photos and buck pictures as well. (Saturday between 6:30 am and 5:00 pm I had pictures of 11 different buck cruising and I sat that spot saturday afternoon and saw other buck that didn't walk by the camera, From Sunday am till Monday am I had pics of only one doe from the same camera) I don't know where I will hunt Saturday opening morning yet,I will decide Friday after I check my cameras. If the spot I had 11 buck in a day has good natural movement I will hunt there and try for the Hammer I saw last Saturday,but if not I will hunt another property that will have pressure surrounding it. The spot will the Hammer will not see pressure so if deer are not moving naturally it will be a long day of not seeing much. I'm not a biologist but after many years,days and hours in the woods this is how I have it sorted out Good Luck DD
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