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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: booner]
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01/23/17 11:42 AM
01/23/17 11:42 AM
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Huntsville AL
Rocket62
14 point
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14 point
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Huntsville AL
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Our club has a place where 3 steep draws converge into a single creek bed. At the bottom where the creek forms is surrounded by fairly open hardwoods (i.e. no thick stuff around). So, basically the same type of terrain less the nasty cover. I've scouted it twice, one time a few weeks back. Not a danged sign of deer anywhere.
I don't want to pass quietly into the night. I want to slide in sideways kickin and screamin
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: booner]
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01/23/17 12:56 PM
01/23/17 12:56 PM
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Boxes Cove
2Dogs
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Boxes Cove
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One of my favorite places is where four draws tie into one creek bottom that is only about 60yds wide and goes into some of the nastiest cover on our property. I have killed four bucks out of there in the past 4 yrs and hoping to add another this week. Seems like my best rut hunting has always been associated with a creek or draw of some sort. How many of yall have had luck hunting creeks and draws during the rut? Sounds like a classic pinch point with a edge change.......money!
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: booner]
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01/23/17 01:06 PM
01/23/17 01:06 PM
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Chilton County
MarksOutdoors
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Booner
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Chilton County
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I have a little. Problem is that I have to get in real tight and the shots are usually 30 yards or less. That close in and they can bust your scent real easily.
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
-G. K. Chesterton
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: booner]
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01/23/17 01:14 PM
01/23/17 01:14 PM
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North Jackson
ridgestalker
14 point
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14 point
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North Jackson
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I like to hunt the top of several draws coming together myself.
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: booner]
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01/23/17 02:14 PM
01/23/17 02:14 PM
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Round ‘bout there
Clem
Mildly Quirky
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Mildly Quirky
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Round ‘bout there
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One of my favorite places is where four draws tie into one creek bottom that is only about 60yds wide and goes into some of the nastiest cover on our property. I have killed four bucks out of there in the past 4 yrs and hoping to add another this week. Seems like my best rut hunting has always been associated with a creek or draw of some sort. How many of yall have had luck hunting creeks and draws during the rut? Place I hunted many years ago had a similar setup: three draws leading to a creek that flowed out of one of them, with nastythickchit on one side and open on the other. Saw some nice bucks there. Learned a lot. Wish I'd known more then and hunted it differently, because I think I could have killed a whopper or two in there. Now it's all privately owned and I think the owners don't hunt it. 
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: booner]
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01/23/17 04:00 PM
01/23/17 04:00 PM
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alabama
BhamFred
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Freak of Nature
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alabama
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just be careful of swirling winds in creek bottoms.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: BhamFred]
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01/23/17 04:38 PM
01/23/17 04:38 PM
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Round ‘bout there
Clem
Mildly Quirky
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Mildly Quirky
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Round ‘bout there
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just be careful of swirling winds in creek bottoms.
No chit. I've learned more about that this season via trial and error than in years past, some good and some WTH moments. All learning experiences. Stupid wind and hills and such.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: booner]
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01/23/17 04:49 PM
01/23/17 04:49 PM
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alabama
BhamFred
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Freak of Nature
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alabama
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Thats the reason I rarely hunt creek bottoms, it is almost impossible to find a stand that won't let swirling winds spook the hell out of everything in the bottom. I will put a stand high enough up a ridge to catch the prevailing wind and still see the bottom.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: booner]
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01/23/17 06:58 PM
01/23/17 06:58 PM
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KY
AUstan23
10 point
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10 point
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KY
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I don't hunt "in" the bottom but a top ridges looking down in them. I can't deal with the swirling winds either. ^This. I've killed my two this year cruising the top of ridges.
It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he has been fooled.
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: booner]
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01/24/17 04:08 AM
01/24/17 04:08 AM
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somewhere around 112.
slippinlipjr
I make Calds fer a livin
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I make Calds fer a livin
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somewhere around 112.
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I've figured out in these rolling hills we have down here, if you hunt a south facing slope on a north wind, your scent will end up blowing north at some point. One of my favorite places to hunt on the national Forest is in a creek bottom
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Re: Creeks and draws during the rut.
[Re: Rocket62]
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01/24/17 10:15 AM
01/24/17 10:15 AM
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Rising Fawn, Ga
booth2
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Rising Fawn, Ga
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Our club has a place where 3 steep draws converge into a single creek bed. At the bottom where the creek forms is surrounded by fairly open hardwoods (i.e. no thick stuff around). So, basically the same type of terrain less the nasty cover. I've scouted it twice, one time a few weeks back. Not a danged sign of deer anywhere. Ive got a place a lot like this, and no sign what so ever. Don't let that fool you tho, them bucks funnel through there when the time is right. Don't just not hunt it because of lack of sign. The spot I have, the bucks just come through every which way, they don't make trails in there.
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