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How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
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01/03/20 12:59 PM
01/03/20 12:59 PM
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As much as I enjoy deer hunting to pass the time to get to turkey season, I know very little about why I am hunting where. I am trying to get better at maximizing my time in the woods to set up and hunt high probability areas for larger bucks. I could shoot a doe on the fields just about every hunt, but I am wanting to give up seeing lots of deer and hunt the bigger bucks that rarely make it into the fields during shooting light. I have located some scrapes along fire brakes between pines and hardwoods along a creek, but it's my understanding that they don't use those on a daily basis. So what do you look for with regards to pine vs hardwoods, fire brakes with scrapes, etc. ? Do you hunt the scrape, between scrapes? I am all ears!
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
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01/03/20 01:23 PM
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Check out Catman and The Hunting Public on YouTube. I've learned a lot by watching their videos. The big key is to find good, fresh sign and hunt there. Focusing on fresh tracks, fresh poop, and bedding areas and food. They tend to hunt transition areas like the edge of thickets. They also get really tight to bedding areas, like almost too tight, but just as close as they can without disturbing it. I'm no buck killer by any means but I feel like watching them has led me to be more successful in the woods.
Last edited by southernr; 01/03/20 01:24 PM.
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Re: How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
[Re: Squadron77]
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01/03/20 03:42 PM
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lances
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The closer it gets to the rut the closer I move to or into the bedding area. The bedding area is the thickest place on your property. Agreed
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Re: How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
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01/04/20 02:34 PM
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I appreciate the replies. It seems logical to be where the does are, or hunt fresh sign and bedding area between food sources. My problem is there is a lot of fresh sign, so picking which one is the hard part.
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
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01/04/20 02:34 PM
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After a big rain, does that make the bucks visit scrapes the next day to freshen them back up?
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
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01/04/20 02:59 PM
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This shows the green field surrounded by pines, with a hardwood finger along the creek. Scrape sites are marked in yellow (fire brake along creek) and red flag is shooting house. Deer icon is where I shot a 7pt earlier in December. Where would you focus?
Last edited by AU_trout_bum; 01/04/20 03:00 PM.
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
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01/04/20 06:13 PM
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What’s the topo map look like? I generally use terrain features to help find the travel corridors
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Re: How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
[Re: Remington270]
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01/04/20 08:19 PM
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I’d sit right at the red flag, all year. Seriously. X2
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Re: How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
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01/04/20 08:30 PM
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Sit in the woods above the plot on the firebreak if does are using it where you can watch plot and woods
Retired US Navy Corpsman Life is too short to hunt with any ugly dog!
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Re: How to Maximize Time in the Woods?
[Re: AU_trout_bum]
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01/04/20 09:10 PM
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I appreciate the replies!
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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