Originally Posted By: 2Dogs
I don't think I'm yer huckleberry before pre-rut when scrapes are hot. I can't kill them during the 2-3week shut down period before to pre-rut. I've killed several opening day , then after that can't buy one till scrapes get hot. To be honest, I don't know anyone that consistently kills them say from about now till Dec 20. I quit worrying about that period years ago. From about Dec 20 till Jan 10 is my happy zone. But that's everyone else's too. smile



I don't think you can get much better advice than this. I don't hunt Jackson county mountains but the mountains up here in Eva that I hunt are nearly exactly the same. I gave up the idea of trying for bucks until about late Dec through the end of January. After 15 years of hunting with the same results I finally just decided to except it. I normally bow hunt public land for meat until late December and then start hunting our lease for bucks.