Sunday morning so I drove up to the WMA I adopted, decided to walk the 2 track from the parking spot. There was some work done along the woodline then into the woods between a mature stand of hardwoods looks like 40% oaks. Not a single track in the dirt. Granted it was more of a walk rather than scouting because I was wearing crocks and shorts. I need to serious and explore the east side over by a farm field.
Yeah it is about 7 miles north of the house, it is a little over 200 acres not real big. I keep an eye on it for the DNR Sunday mornings I drive up make sure nobody dumped anything in the ditches and pick up litter in the parking area. It is walk in only so less litter, I did pick up 2 old aluminum cans in the woods and a tampon insertion device in the parking area this morning.
I made it pretty easy for the Wildlife Manager, you could sign up we cut out a lot of paperwork by giving him my state employee number. Gives me a reason to go look around. I miss walking the pasture.
Can't no cams allowed, no over night stands. You have to use a rake to work the soil on a deer trail and analyze hoof prints and dropping size, look for old rubs. Thing is here the game changes when the crops come out.
[QUOTE="Sota, post: and a tampon insertion device in the parking area this morning.[/QUOTE] WTF is a tampon insertion device?
Does it cum with batteries? Pun intended. Really, I had no idea? Anywhoo, Sotapop, those oaks producing acorns? I checked quite a few huge burr oaks today and didn't see a single one. Bummed out as usually it's a HUGE crop.. Deer will be in big trouble iffn we get a bad winter.
Buddy and I were hunting on a military base last year. Run in to do a quick scout on a bedding area. 10 minutes later we come out of the woods and see this by my truck. We fell out laughing...a Male rubber thing.
This thread is going down hill quick! Haha Sota, , I have a piece of public that similar in size and has crops to the side of it. Its some of my best hunting. Look for those impossible to walk spots that are just to thick, then walk between them and the neighbors crop field. You will find the deer. I find that the deer don't mind traveling up to a half mile from bedding and food. Got to get really close to the bedding in this case, because they don't get close to the fields before dark.
Not sure how big of an acorn crop the canopy is so thick there is nothing that grows under the trees, think it would be hard to hunt because the deer would just wander thru randomly.
Just sitting on the ground , maybe behind a root ball in the oak grove could produce some good deer numbers. Just go in during the season and look for acorns on the ground with piles of poop there. If you don't find this, then move on to the next oak trees. Keep doing this til you find what your looking for, then hunt. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
I will keep an eye on the acorns seems like peak acorn dropping is in August in Central MN, the deer will eat some but they usually wait till there is snow on the ground before they really go after them.
Walked a little of the other half of the WMA this morning, jackpot found the 20% that is where it's at.
