I got out for a quick scout this morning before the snow arrives in central Wisconsin. The property is public it gets a fair amount of pressure mainly due to mature oak ridges, and to be honest I have wasted so many sits hunting with the masses in the open woods expecting to see a mature buck it makes me sad. So for the past few weeks I have been on Google earth and caltopo coming up with a scouting plan, I chose to focus on a river bottom on the south side of the property. From the computer I could see one large tree in the middle of what appears to be tall grass or cattails. I put a waypoint on my gps and I was really pleased when I got down in the river bottom and could see a decent sized track heading right towards the tree, the buck walks directly under the tree as part of his j-hook and then he walks another 15 yards directly down wind of his bed he then turns around watching his back trail wind blowing over his back.
It is the classic j-hook that all the veteran beasts talk about. It just amazes me how these bucks bed and how they access there beds. This buck has the wind over his back from the west, watching the highway to the east, with a river to the north and if he gets spooked he's headed south. I prepped a tree 50 yards from his bed I will have 15 yards of ground scent once I exit the river here is a view from the tree.
And a picture of the bed.
The buck has a really round front track not extremely wide
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