Hate to hear that, lots of public land in your area.
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Anyone scouting?
- Thread starter timberjack86
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themanpcl
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yea, it sucks but hopefully i'll get another lease soon. I haven't hunted public here but if I have nothing by turkey season...lol
megalomaniac
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Nope.
Still hunting hard in south MS till Feb 14th. I don't scout deer until turkey season opens.
Besides, my TN deer are so stressed out from the drought and lack of acorns this year they need a respite.
Still hunting hard in south MS till Feb 14th. I don't scout deer until turkey season opens.
Besides, my TN deer are so stressed out from the drought and lack of acorns this year they need a respite.
tree_ghost
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We squirrel hunted a couple days and I scouted on the process. I can't imagine being in a place where there was lots of snow every year and big bucks…it's just so much easier to get good information on what they're doing in late season when the mature ones are seemingly hiding under rocks.
Double-D-Team
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Me and my hunting partner start scouting the day after season ends. Feeders and camera's all over the hunting area. This allows us to inventory who and what made it through the season. We place salt licks and mineral block out to help get through the cold. We try hard to help the herd.
JCDEERMAN
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Will be posting property and scouting sat-sun. This time of year requires boots on the ground for a hunter
BSK
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I no longer do a lot of post-season scouting, although I certainly used to back when I was trying to figure out the deer patterns on my place. In essence, trying to figure out the basics - how deer use our habitat and terrain. Now it's more of - which of the features I know they prefer to use did they use this year? I generally figure that out during the season.
I'm very much a "visual" learner, and because of that, maps are a huge help. I started hand-drawing maps of my property when we first bought it but eventually moved up to digital maps. I collect everything. I have maps showing all of the rubs and scrapes I found each year. I can then lay these maps one on top of the other and see patterns that have developed or changed over the years as the habitat has changed. I can also see the very different patterns in buck sign that occur in good versus poor acorns years. Extremely helpful.
I'm very much a "visual" learner, and because of that, maps are a huge help. I started hand-drawing maps of my property when we first bought it but eventually moved up to digital maps. I collect everything. I have maps showing all of the rubs and scrapes I found each year. I can then lay these maps one on top of the other and see patterns that have developed or changed over the years as the habitat has changed. I can also see the very different patterns in buck sign that occur in good versus poor acorns years. Extremely helpful.
