My Minn rifle buck

[magicman54494]

Congrats Great Buck!

Can you expand a little about what you are looking for on bigwoods areas? Water crossings? Beaver Dams? I have heard nearest water is a good place to find big bucks in the northwoods but if you can expand on that a little I am all ears. Were the deer using the beaver dam as a bridge?

I was thinking about doing a post on hunting the northwoods rut. Maybe later near Jan - feb you can remind me if I don't. Biefly, I locate deer then bottlenecks and travel corridores near those deer. Water is always a good place to look. Deer use the beaver dams and or shallow water to cross. They also use these area to get a drink. In my above story the doe and fawn I saw both crossed and stopped to get a drink. I'm learning a bit more each year and I'm learning that if you want to kill a bigger buck 95% of the woods is useless to hunt. Good spots (travel corridores) may not have a single track on them. Big bucks don't often move during the day eithor so a great spot may only produce a big one once a week and you have to be there when he is which can mean a lot of deerless sits. Also keep in mind that this is a rut tactic. It is hard to explain but you have to think big when picking a spot. Most people think 100's of yards, I think in terms of miles.

[G3s]

Beautiful deer! Congratulations

[magicman54494]

Great read Todd... Way to keep at it, and change up the tactics when needed. I wonder if the buck was watching or smelling the crossing for does and your call pulled him out of his hiding spot?
Congrats again!

Quite possible! This buck was really aggressive in the area. Lots of rubs and scrapes. I figured it was a nice buck but not a old buck. I commented to Hodag that I think it was a 3 maybe 4 year old just reaching the point where he was king of his area and being kinda cocky. the deer fits the description and the rack matches the rubs so i'm quite certain that he was the one leaving the sign. I'm guessing (from vey brief scouting) that he was actually bedding on the other side of the river on a point about 150 yds from doe bedding. I didn't want to muck around too much and risk the hunt. I know these are a lot of guesses and I could be totally wrong. I also noticed that his hooves were quite wore down so he was doing a lot of running as well.

[Swampthing]

Great stuff, my nephew was up north hunting with my dad last week. They were around the Orr , Cussin MN area. My nephew got his first buck up there , .

[goldtip5575]

congrats

[DropTyne]

Referring to how you answered my previous post, you find an area that's holding deer and sit the best funnel you can and just be patient? I know there's more than that, but is that the basic concept?

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[magicman54494]

Referring to how you answered my previous post, you find an area that's holding deer and sit the best funnel you can and just be patient? I know there's more than that, but is that the basic concept?

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yes

[NatureBoy]

Beauty! Congrats!

[BackWoodsHunter]

Your the man Todd! Way to get it done, I love reading your stories, there's never a bad one!! Awesome northwoods buck!! Congrats!

[KLEMZ]

Congrats Magic!

I totally enjoyed reading the account of your hunt. Your observations parallel mine in terms of finding the current active area first, then capitalize on some terrain feature and be patient. The bigwoods is quite a challenge. I look forward to when you open the thread about bigwoods rut hunting. I have some thoughts to share on the subject when the time comes.

[RaisedByWolves]

Very well written! Congrats on the buck and what sounds like a great hunt

[PredatorTC]

Way to go magic!!

[natvbearhntr]

Great buck, congratulations. Looks like the rut is still going good!

[Jackson Marsh]

Congrats! He is a really nice buck! Way to stick with it and tag a good one!

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[PeteJ]

AWESOME!