GREAT!!!! I just need to practice! I also need to find a place to practice without poison ivy, LOL Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Well I just got back from Kansas. Three lock on stands set and five more sites identified for my climbers and blinds. Gotta love hunting private family land. I saw 1-12pt, 2-10pts, 2-8pts and numerous does. fingers crossed!!!!!
Nothing huge, but a lot of decent bucks showing up on my cameras so far this summer. Looks to be a promising season!
Just got home from second shift going through old deer porn bored. I have a problem for sure........but I do wish I had this on video! Buck is by the big oak to the right watching her drop it low
Thermal hub + funnel/pinch point? Just curious on thoughts of this spot. it is crazy thick mountain laurel and almost impenetrable from the East. I want to check out the funnel on the west side. looks very interesting, and could hold amazing potential. No signs of hunters on the East side of the swamp. almost two miles from the truck. Predominant wind from the West/Northwest. Would be tricky to hunt, especially in the afternoon with falling thermals.
The thick black line by the saddle/funnel is the property line between state land (East of the line) and state bowhunt only land (West of the line) I need to put some boots on the ground to see if I can find sign of hunters on the west side. Even though it is far far far from the parking area, someone could kayak/canoe to the spot. I might have to stick to the east side when the bucks get pressured to the swamp.
I’d walk as much as you can. I have no big bucks to validate my reasoning, but if I were looking at that map, I’d check these places first. The green is a ravine of some sort, I’d check it from the lake to the top of the ridge. Might be some intersecting trails there. Red could have some summer beds in it, being a low lying area next to water. Maybe check for bedding to the west of the red around that point for a SW or SE wind( I assume we’re looking at the map with the top being North) Blue might have some sign too.
I appreciate your advice! I’m pretty sure I know where I’ll find the beds, I’ll post up my marked up map in a bit! I Won’t be able to get out there on the ground till next week. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
3 days and a wake up. My season opens this Saturday. Hoping a nice velvet buck hangs out or comes on the property just after day light.
Ok here are my guesses. This is coming from my knowledge gained the past few years from the a few on here (Brett, Grizzly, Rick James) and the beast hunter forum, and Dan Infalt's DVD's. Yellow: Buck runs on military crests'ishsesesdepending on the wind. BLUE: Buck beds on the leeward side on the military crests with a West wind. Wind at his back, rising morning thermals and vision in the front White: Buck beds on the leeward side on or near the military crests with an East wind. Wind at his back, rising morning thermals and visions from the front. Orange: buck beds on the leeward side on or near military crests with a North wind. Bucks love points.. If the swamp is not standing water, I expect to find A LOT of sign, rubs, community scrapes...etc. However, I'm thinking that seeing as it is a low point, it is used at dusk/dark with dropping thermals. This all depends on how thick it is, or if there is hunting pressure coming from the West.
I'm thinking the sign you see in the blue is all made at night, same with the green. They only come down to low spots at dusk/night to feed, because they can catch the falling thermals to smell for predators. During the rut, the bucks can cruise safely above those spots in the morning and catch the rising thermals/scent check those spots for hot does.
Yeah! Get in there and back track it, then look at the big picture and ask, “ what time of year does this most make sense?”
Or there may be no sign at all besides a cow path doe trail around the ridges. That’s what I ran into last weekend. I found monster buck tracks but no previous sign of a big buck. Half mile away I found monster rubs in the thermal hub which is directly below ag. After scouting this two years in a row and the rubs not slowing down, it tells me people are holed up on the sign and ag. I don’t know. Where would you hunt this?
