First Snow that's been on ground more than a day!

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First Snow that's been on ground more than a day!

Unread postby seuss79 » Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:54 pm

It snowed Sunday night and early Monday morning. I can finally in season scout and know for sure the tracks are fresh. Let's hope they take me to food and beds! I plan on walking the tracks to and from.

Any advice? Should be an all day hunt/mostly in season scout!

Excited to actually see how many tracks can be made in a day and a half.


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Re: First Snow that's been on ground more than a day!

Unread postby DhD » Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:33 am

Doing the same today. Yesterday too. Learned a lot.
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Re: First Snow that's been on ground more than a day!

Unread postby NorthStar » Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:58 am

seuss79 wrote:It snowed Sunday night and early Monday morning. I can finally in season scout and know for sure the tracks are fresh. Let's hope they take me to food and beds! I plan on walking the tracks to and from.

Any advice? Should be an all day hunt/mostly in season scout!

Excited to actually see how many tracks can be made in a day and a half.



I would like to hear peoples thought on this as well. I am hearing that deer do not bed too farm from their food sources this time of year and I am scared to get to aggressive when trying to follow track back into the bedding areas. Obviously I will have no problem doing this when the season ends but I am sure its a balancing act when the plan is to set up on this sign.
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Re: First Snow that's been on ground more than a day!

Unread postby seuss79 » Thu Dec 19, 2019 1:42 pm

I gained knowledge. Not what I was hoping for but hope it helps next year. Didn't find any beds but I marked on GPS the most used trails I found. Spent 6 hours on public ground. Tried back tracking some large lone tracks only to find them converge onto other used trails. Couldn't locate any fresh beds. I couldn't get over how many coyote tracks I found!


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