Newbie scouting/stand placement question here:
This will be my third year hunting and I am still working on learning some of the fundamentals of scouting and tree stand placement. My family owns 30 acres of land which runs N/S along a cattail swamp. In my scouting, I have found an old tractor or logging trail about 150 yards long which is about 30 yards away from the swamp edge. The old trail has become a heavy deer travel corridor, along the trail is a collection of what I believe to be old rubs. At the end of the trail, there is a clearing that opens up to the swamp edge and a sapling with a scrape which was active last year according to my trail camera data.
Would you set up over the scrape or the cluster of rubs in the travel corridor?
Am I correct that these are even old rubs?
What time of year would you hunt this area? I am assuming rut/pre-rut as Bucks might run the old trail to scent check the swamp for Does. Hence the rubs.
Thanks In Advance!!!
The red line: Old Tractor Trail
Yellow: Old rubs
Blue: Scrape tree
Old Rubs
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Scrape Tree at the end of the trail
Logging Trail Along Swamp Edge
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Re: Logging Trail Along Swamp Edge
Logging trail run along edge of swamp where scrapes are located? Or does it lead up to edge of swamp? If it leads up to edge swamp. I would back off swamp a little so you could get a shot of them running edge of swamp. Do not know how deep swamp might be? Maybe some good sign going out in swamp that would be more promising?
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Re: Logging Trail Along Swamp Edge
The scrape is located where the logging trail opens up into a small clearing in the swamp.
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Re: Logging Trail Along Swamp Edge
I would say the scrape. I shot a buck this last season hunting scrapes along a logging trail bordering swamp. Especially good if known bedding is in the swamp and you sit down wind. They like those logging trails.
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