greenhorndave wrote:Denisboyko22 wrote:greenhorndave wrote:I hunted and scouted in cold and nasty at the end of the late season last year. What I thought what I saw then was going to be valuable for this late season, but the weather is radically different this year. It's more like a typical November from a temperature and snow standpoint in Southern WI.
I'm about to go on a last-ditch push to tag out and I'm wondering what people are seeing. I know of bedding areas, but they were used with significant snow on the ground and brutal temps, but we don't have either right now.
Are you seeing the usual late-season (January) bedding and feeding areas being used, or is it something different? If so, like what? Are they've still utilizing the real wet areas?
In any case, I'm simply not seeing many deer period right now. Nothing in the fields, not many crossing the roads. Bizarre year.
Have you tried shining at all? I got some very valuable Intel after I hunted by driving and shining fields right after dark and I knew immediately where the deer were late season from that
I have in some areas, but the prime area I have been hunting is not conducive to shining. Terrain does not cooperate nor does the trees, etc.
This might be alittle bit of a stretch but I was having trouble this late season but I got the job done my last hunt for the year , for some reason everytime where the weather looked perfect for deer to be moving the deer were hunkered down and wouldn't move and they would move during the snow storms and on warm days but not the cold days the past few weeks I found that very odd I was onto the deer but you cant do anything if they wont get up until after dark and I hunted the warmest day and they were up and moving maybe look at the weather alittle or try even setting up a trail camera by the food or a main trail a few hundred yards from the bedding and leaving it sit for only a few days might get you the Intel you need , you might not have any mature buck show his face on it but the smaller deer will and he shouldn't be to far behind maybe avoiding the camera as long as you know the bedding area