Snowless post season scout
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Snowless post season scout
I am feeling a bit lost here- our deer season ended tuesday and my favorite time to scout is here...but we have no snow (and hadnt all season)......at a loss....to keep me from overthinking a good time to be in the woods; Anyone ever scouted farm county without snow following the season? If so, how did you approach it?
Green and growing... Or red and rotting
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Re: Snowless post season scout
gjs4 wrote:I am feeling a bit lost here- our deer season ended tuesday and my favorite time to scout is here...but we have no snow (and hadnt all season)......at a loss....to keep me from overthinking a good time to be in the woods; Anyone ever scouted farm county without snow following the season? If so, how did you approach it?
i wouldnt let it stop you .....all the good sing from this past season is very visibal right know....hair, tracks , beds...
i would be hard at it if i was you
im going scouting tommarow ...agin
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Re: Snowless post season scout
Great time of the year to see sign. Trails are very prevalent this time of year. look for crop fields and back track the deer movement until you find the bedding areas. Look for buck sign back in the bush. What you are looking for is deer sign so you can pattern the movement. Good luck.
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Re: Snowless post season scout
No snow is how I do most of my scouting. That way no one can scout you.
As mentioned most of the trails are worn down and easy to find and follow. The rubs and bedding will be easy to see once you start following the trails back. Bad part about now (after season)if there is snow most of the deer herd up and are on a winter feed pattern which is usually when your not hunting them so the info you get from the snow is a late season pattern. Follow the sign that is from when you want to hunt them.
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As mentioned most of the trails are worn down and easy to find and follow. The rubs and bedding will be easy to see once you start following the trails back. Bad part about now (after season)if there is snow most of the deer herd up and are on a winter feed pattern which is usually when your not hunting them so the info you get from the snow is a late season pattern. Follow the sign that is from when you want to hunt them.
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Between the flu, for me & the daughter, and Christmas I havent been able to make it out... but great points guys
Never thought of the no sign left behind aspect JRM either
Never thought of the no sign left behind aspect JRM either
Green and growing... Or red and rotting
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It's not post season for me yet.
No snow = suckity suckity suckville!
No snow = suckity suckity suckville!
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Re: Snowless post season scout
JRM6868 wrote:No snow is how I do most of my scouting. That way no one can scout you. ;-)
As mentioned most of the trails are worn down and easy to find and follow. The rubs and bedding will be easy to see once you start following the trails back. Bad part about now (after season)if there is snow most of the deer herd up and are on a winter feed pattern which is usually when your not hunting them so the info you get from the snow is a late season pattern. Follow the sign that is from when you want to hunt them.
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I would add that my general approach to most flat farm land is to grid search scout the property. I don't walk every inch, but I do like to look at any piece of cover that could hide a buck. I am often pleasently surprised to find where a mature buck is hiding right under everybodys nose in a tree line or some other spot that generally gets over looked.
The main thing I am looking for is bedding, doe and buck. The rest is easy, you can see funnels and food very easy... Find the beds, thats whats important to me. Big bucks don't often move far in daylight, and when bucks do move in daylight, it usually revolves around doe bedding or travel. In deer hunting, everything has to do with bedding... What there doing in late season in the snow ain't going to help you near as much as what you can see without snow right now scaring the lanscape from the last couple months... I am hoping it don't snow at all this year!
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I hear ya Dan with the no snow! Its supposed to tonight though .
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Czabs wrote:I hear ya Dan with the no snow! Its supposed to tonight though .
It was raining on my way to work at 4am
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