It amazes me some of the areas I find Deer sign. We leased a tract of land this year in hopes of finding some bruiser bucks. Turns out that alot of it was wet land, It holds Deer, but im not into wearing chest waders to get to some of the places, and a boat is out of the question with all the buckbrush. Today found me in a Duck blind me and my son had built a couple weeks ago. He nailed a Mallard green head and peppered another as it was exiting. It was first light and we thought we seen it go down waaay out in the lake. The wind was fierce so a couple hours later I decided to go to the side of the lake that the waves were pushing on to see if i could find it. This side of the lake has a massive Beaver lodge and the woods behind it is about 12" deep with water all over, other than one little strip about 15 yards wide and 100 yards long. I imidiatly found a monster rub on a cedar tree in this strip of land. NOW for the Deer to get there requires them to navigate some nasty flooded timber ridden with trees fell everywhere from all the Beaver. There had beed a Whitetail there earlier blowing at us after daylight. OH did I mention there was ice on the timber water It just blows my mind that anything would even want to be there. Makes me wonder just how big a boy he is Man these animals get my respect for there survival extremes There was a slammer Rob buck found on this property by one of the guys that had been poached got any places that blow your mind that the ole mighty Whitetails have been hiding?
It always blows me away out here how a big buck will nest up in a thick northern face mountainside full of blowed down timber and standing timber with brush all over as well.. I wonder at times how they even navigate it. Today I was out shed hunting/post season scouting and got on an old old skid trail that I had to crawl on quite a bit just to get through the tunnel the whitetails have made for the last 30 years on it.. I just kept crawling up it when I had too because in the past I have found some big sheds on these nasty grown in skid trails.. I didnt find any sheds today but I found more concentrated whitetail rubs in a 50 yard stretch of that hands and knees up and down crawling ...than I have seen in a long time. Big rubs too.
yea i know we have had a doe in our neighbor hood foor the last week its bedding in diff yards every night. its really cool cause she was in my backyard the one night
