I know it's not ideal to do in season scouting. But, how do you guys go about in season vs out of season scouting? Still start with transition lines? Stay out of certain areas? If your tag(s) are filled do you go back to scouting during the season?
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In vs Out Season scouting
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Re: In vs Out Season scouting
It really depends. I do a lot of inseason scouting. I do a lot of off season scouting. Kind of my motto is...the less I know, the more I go. I want to know what nuts are dropping, what apple trees are producing, what deer made it through to this hunting season, which areas have my best odds....on and on the list goes. It never really stops. It just changes. Any known bedding areas, I take a wide berth around them. But where I hunt, deer numbers are not real high in some spots. Many apples and acorns rot on the ground ...just not enough deer to eat them.
After tags are filled, I keep running cameras right through. I scout year round. Never really stops...unless we get bunch of snow. All of my hardcore jumping into beds is all done in the spring. I tend to do most of my scouting and cam checking in the middle of the day. Very rarely jump deer and trail cams do not show any negative effects with this method. I have mature bucks show up the day I set cameras.
But that is how I do it. Lots of guys on here would do it differently. I err on the aggressive side. I would say I probably scout 3-4x as much as I hunt. Typically I am only 2x but this year, ramping it up. More areas, more scouting time, more cameras to see if I get any different results. Camera pulls to date have been awesome.
After tags are filled, I keep running cameras right through. I scout year round. Never really stops...unless we get bunch of snow. All of my hardcore jumping into beds is all done in the spring. I tend to do most of my scouting and cam checking in the middle of the day. Very rarely jump deer and trail cams do not show any negative effects with this method. I have mature bucks show up the day I set cameras.
But that is how I do it. Lots of guys on here would do it differently. I err on the aggressive side. I would say I probably scout 3-4x as much as I hunt. Typically I am only 2x but this year, ramping it up. More areas, more scouting time, more cameras to see if I get any different results. Camera pulls to date have been awesome.
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