ORIGINAL: wallhangr
ORIGINAL: shed33
Really the only other evidencethataccounts for anythingto me for hunting a mature buck, especially a specific deeror a few different mature bucks outside of the rut is daylight visuals and where I find his sheds. I will not hunt a spot, insteadonly spots where abig mature buck likes towalk. Tryhunting a nice looking spot here in this huge country and your relying on luck and cirucumstance.
"Sign" really means nothing to me outside of the rut either.Bucks especially mature bucks do most of their moving at night. Thats how the big mature bucks in the mountains here operate anyway. Outside of actual visual daylight evidence, shed antlersprovide a second levelevidenceincludingsome absolutes but not totally. As long as the snow levels in the area were manageable by the deer, sheds almost alwaysidentifythe buckscore area. I believe this wholeheartedly as I have killed several 4 year olds and older within 500 yards of where I had found their sheds. I have also seen as many that I didnt kill using the same core area and I had a shed or two from them.
I started a thread a while back about hunting where sheds were found and found it strange that I got responses like " I hunt where I know the buck will be, not where he was". Thought everyone would be using that info as well.
I remember that! You know, sometimes the buck likes to be where he's been!
