Guys, I have a monster patterned. He's 14 points, he's wide, tall and has mass like a mutha . . . He's an absolute beast!! Looks like he's near 300 lbs. My question is, how long until they break their summer patterns?
???????? Not real sure but I would say here shortly the bucks should be breaking from bachelor groups if they haven't already at least it's getting close for around my house, about the time they start rubbing their velvet off they break out of groups..... But I wish you the best of luck gettin him!!!!!! I want to see the pic's....
I know we're definitely cutting it close, but he still had his trusty 8 point side kick with tonight, so I'm hoping we have a little time
Good luck! Hope you get on him this Saturday. They're already breaking out of their bachelor groups here, but the few real decent ones I saw here this summer were traveling alone. Our cabin (which is 15min north of me) already is seeing the summer groups disperse.
Well with the weather as it has been here, we've had nice cool mornings and evenings , but the days are still sitting in the high 70's and 80's. So I bet the deer are sitting put till near dark,, I would target a water source,near a proven food source if possible. and right now the food choices are plentiful still. so you will need to target the best ones first.. I have heard of some guys who hunted the unseasonably warmer october weather, who where sure of bedding areas and hunted the skirts of these areas as to get a shot off with some daylight remaining, as the buck begins his crawl towards his evening feeding spot,, but me personally, I dont like to enter a bedding area ever! as a mature deers "sanctuary" is disrupted he tends to leave or switch to completely nocturnal.. so field edges of a good food source , or a bottleneck leading to a food source would be my first choices now,, but as the bachleor groups are dissolved here in the next few weeks, Ive had luck hunting rub lines and scrapes,, followed by hunting in known doe areas later towards the rut.. good luck
Thanx fellas :d That's my biggest issue, Mike. It's dark at 8, and the big guy doesn't step out into the field until 8:30ish , but I do know where his bedding area is, and it's less than 2 hundred yards from the field edge (if not closer). I'm going into the woods a little ways on Friday night (season opens on saturday) to see if I can pinpoint the trail he's using and his timing. . . and pray to God he repeats it all on Saturday.
Good idea! Make sure your wind Is a good one Friday night and try finding that staging area that he's holding up In before he enters that field. If you know exactly where he's bedding, that right there Is a huge plus on your part!!
some of my buds have been seeing rubs already. I think as soon as the weather cools down, that'll start the rubs/scrape acitivity. get him while he's going back to bed. they're not aware of humans in the woods yet.
Would be a great idea, but they're forecasting north/north-east winds this week end . . . and that's pushing me dangerously close to panic mode . The wind should be coming from the WEST
