I treked about 500 yrds back into my sanctuary. I was reading in a book about building the ultimate managemenet property and it said to leave about 1 1/5 area that is untouched, or untraveled by humans. This gives them the sense of a safe place to escape and bed down. After figuring the best place to have this in my property,, I treked the borderline of the place where Im staying ot of.

After setting the stand up, I stayed an hour to see, glass, and listen to my surrounding. Sure enough I saw no less than 3 scrapes...licking limbs included. The trails all lead to this area. Since its a haul through thick hardwoods I put flourescent property tape on trees about 50 yrds apart.

Since I have 5 other stands on the property this is the closest to the "sanctuary I have gotten. I went to the mineral sites and they are absolutely tearing them apart. I went to download the pictures from that site...and the unit was never turned on!!!![:@]

I have other cameras, but this one was the one! Oh well, I replenished the rackmaster mineral and will look again in a week or so and show some pics. My camera on the hottest trail was stolen this weekend.

It is a trip to see the animals that are using my mineral sites. Turkey, groundhogs, rabbits, oppossum, and then the deer.

Last year we worked a rub line that used about 4 trees in a line, but never got a shot. I think he's back as i got pictures of him...boneles.

Can you se him hiding out about 50 ft away?