DropTyne wrote: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.