Copycatting SB's posts of his scouting missions here. While most of my recently turned 21yr old buddies spend to (st pattys) in the bar, I spent my morning in the woods scouting some land in SE WI in the city limits and the afternoon fishing late ice crappies. What a day today was! As I posted a few months back I received some very LIMITED access to a piece of private land in the city limits in Waukesha County. In the town of Pewaukee. The property is 73acres in size, has the fox river running through it, as well as an abandoned railroad grade and it is bordered on the south side by I-94. Its a really crazy piece of property based on how the river winds through it and breaks it up. There is a dense stand of spruce trees that are dark as night when you get inside them bordered by a pine stand and then it contains wide open fields of crops and prairie grasses PLUS some marshy areas with trees/dogwood that thrives in those nasty wet environments. The place is for sale if the guy didn't want millions for it'd sell in a hearbeat. Anyhow the goal today was to walk the property thoroughly, figure out the deer patterns and FIND SHEDS! Well as I was creeping through the spruce forest I spotted a deer stand up in the distance shake off and mill around feeding. I snuck up on him but he spooked before I could snap a picture. He left me a present though. A fork horn shed. I continued my tour of the property finding scat and deer trails everywhere I went but never saw another deer. I did spooked multiple turkeys in multiple locations which I think will make hunting this property even harder because they seem to be everywhere. I didn't find any other sheds unfortunately but found some beds- All small. Unfortunately I still can't pin point where a good buck is bedding on this property or if there is one. Dan pointed me in the direction of a buck bedding area based on a topo map in January and it is definitely being used I just don't know how big this deer is or if he has any sort of a pattern. Enough rambling though it was a great day to be outside in WI even though I was surrounded by the city I was still able to be lost in the woods. Kind of a neat feeling. Also got out on the ice again in the afternoon and put a dozen more fat crappies in the freezer.
as it lays...
There's nothing cooler than the biggest tree in the forest....
My wandering took me to the only funnel the deer have between the north and south side of the free way. I know they feed in the corn fields to the south and I think in fall they travel through here alot.
just the little guy
I found a ton of spots with huge clumps of hair. One spot (no picture) had more hair in it than I have on my head. Are they jut ditching their winter coats?
