Cameras haven’t picked up any of the shooters I had marked last year but I’m not concerned. Food changes and deer move. Going to trust in my spring and summer scouting.
Now that I have an elk down and trip is over I’m excited to hit archery season for opener next weekend and start chasing the big boys again in
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Strange encounters on public land...I'm about 4 miles into what would become an 8-mile scouting day, in the middle of nowhere in one of MI Lower Peninsula's most remote forests, when I stop to take a break and sit on a log crossing the path. I'm drinking water and hear something behind me, turn and watch a late teens/early 20s couple, in street clothes, walking a dog, come walking out of super thick brush, apparently blazing their own trail perpendicular to the path I was on, just 10 feet from me, get on the path and pass by, mumbling nothing but "She's a good girl", referring to their dog which I petted as they passed. They didn't look me in the eye nor say anything else and continued on their way, going deeper still into the forest. I don't know if they were as astounded as I was or what, but I suspect they were either "fooling around" out there and/or were smoking dope or something like that due to how shy they were. I have no idea what they were doing there miles from any parking or campsite at 10 in the morning on a weekday, didn't see them again once I continued.
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Looking forward to catching up with this guy. I’ve watched him 3 years now.
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Twenty Up wrote:8F58DE4D-A1CE-4ED0-A7FF-12A2DD0E8E9E.jpeg
Looking forward to catching up with this guy. I’ve watched him 3 years now.
Yeah, that'll work!
Good luck getting on him.
Is this the first time you're hunting him hard? What"s your approach?
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greenhorndave wrote:Twenty Up wrote:8F58DE4D-A1CE-4ED0-A7FF-12A2DD0E8E9E.jpeg
Looking forward to catching up with this guy. I’ve watched him 3 years now.
Yeah, that'll work!
Good luck getting on him.
Is this the first time you're hunting him hard? What"s your approach?
Thank you!
I casually hunted him last year. I focused more on killing his running mate, a 7+ year old 7pt which is the buck in my Avatar picture.
I’ve got 2 cell cameras on scrapes near his bedding areas that are adjacent to saddles and located in oak flats.
Typically they’ll start transitioning to acorns around Oct 9 here and I’ll start seeing them daily. Generally around late October they’ll daylight more on this farm I lease.
It’s a small cattle farm. These deer don’t bed on it, so I’m at the mercy of the acorns and rut to bring them to me.
Very different style of hunting than having thousands of acres of public land to chase them. I am enjoying figuring them out and setting a “trap” in advance. The trap is a mock scrape in an oak flat that’s connecting bedding to food. I’ll use saddles, benches and points in the topography to sweeten it up when applicable.
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I just got a nice buck on camera at 8:30 am out in the open. It's close to some thick stuff where I think they are bedding. I just thought it was really odd to see what looks like a 4yr old buck that late in the open. What time do you guys typically see bucks go to bedding this time of year? It's about 100 yards from a corn field. Season opens Saturday. Hope he's still hanging around.
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Today I explored a hard to get to area. Only 200 yards from parking to hunting area BUT,
Major cliff face and after dropping down it, you are standing at a 35 yard stream crossing that may or may not work with my hip boots.
It will be an option after boots on the ground but any big rain storm will shut it down. and probably for the year.
I did spot a buck sneaking away. So the idea of safety in this spot must be true. Puzzle pieces made sense but needed to see it.
Season has been going 2 weeks and have seen a lot of ground. Bumping deer in expected spots. High hopes.
Major cliff face and after dropping down it, you are standing at a 35 yard stream crossing that may or may not work with my hip boots.
It will be an option after boots on the ground but any big rain storm will shut it down. and probably for the year.
I did spot a buck sneaking away. So the idea of safety in this spot must be true. Puzzle pieces made sense but needed to see it.
Season has been going 2 weeks and have seen a lot of ground. Bumping deer in expected spots. High hopes.
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Well that’s it for my deer season of 2022. I went out today and still hunted/scouted some out of reach areas. I found some good sign and big rubs. I found this historical rub 6 years ago. It was not used do to some of the branches growing out. I trimmed it back this spring and it is getting used again. I’m not sure what if means. A community rub?. Just a nice tree to rub? . I thought it was pretty cool it’s getting reused. It’s kind of in a central hub of transitions. But out in the open marsh.
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