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Walking the transition

Unread postby CHMJ0914 » Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:21 am

When walking a transition in the marsh looking for sign to hang your stand, how far off the transition are you walking? 10 yards? 20 yards?


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Re: Walking the transition

Unread postby hunter10 » Sat Aug 26, 2017 2:25 am

Walk where the activity, trails and sign tell you. Hanging a stand is based on this. All transitions aren't straight so if you walked 20 yds off the transition the entire walk, you would miss out on many things
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Re: Walking the transition

Unread postby Redman232 » Sat Aug 26, 2017 3:15 am

I walk a little further off the transition line(20-40 yards) and when I cut a trail coming from the thicker cover I look for big tracks. If there aren't big tracks I keep moving. If there are big tracks I'll walk the trail towards the cover to investigate further. I like to follow big tracks to where I start seeing browsing evidence and big scat. Then I set up, this lets me know this buck comes to this point and spends a little bit of time, mostly likely waiting for darkness before moving further.
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Re: Walking the transition

Unread postby BA-IV » Sat Aug 26, 2017 3:50 am

Redman232 wrote:I walk a little further off the transition line(20-40 yards) and when I cut a trail coming from the thicker cover I look for big tracks. If there aren't big tracks I keep moving. If there are big tracks I'll walk the trail towards the cover to investigate further. I like to follow big tracks to where I start seeing browsing evidence and big scat. Then I set up, this lets me know this buck comes to this point and spends a little bit of time, mostly likely waiting for darkness before moving further.


Awesome post right here!
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Re: Walking the transition

Unread postby tgreeno » Sat Aug 26, 2017 3:59 am

Redman232 wrote:I walk a little further off the transition line(20-40 yards) and when I cut a trail coming from the thicker cover I look for big tracks. If there aren't big tracks I keep moving. If there are big tracks I'll walk the trail towards the cover to investigate further. I like to follow big tracks to where I start seeing browsing evidence and big scat. Then I set up, this lets me know this buck comes to this point and spends a little bit of time, mostly likely waiting for darkness before moving further.


That's a great quote! It falls right in line with the Dan's saying, "Big sign, don't lie"!
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Re: Walking the transition

Unread postby hunter_mike » Sat Aug 26, 2017 4:24 am

A lot of times where I am at, there is not a hard transition line to follow. So my transition line is the place where bucks move in daylight meets the place bucks don't move in daylight. When in-season scouting and placing cams, I try to stay in the non-daylight movement areas. Its easy to imagine a nice perfect transition line but in most areas it does not exist. Instead there are lots of mini transition lines and many very gradual transition lines. I obviously want to stay on the part that doesnt have any bucks bedding in it. That's the way I think of it at least.

You can also find hot sign in some very obscure places that are not even near a transition that has to do with bedding. Its pretty much all night sign but if you find a smoking hot scrape out in the middle of a 100 acre field with one tree in the middle of it, at least you have a starting point and you can start to study the terrain around you and start making some educated guesses.
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