ORIGINAL: DropTine249
4. How do you determine #3 if you're not hunting "sign"?
Tracts/Poop. Tracts/Poop. Ive said it time and time again..Tracts and poop are the BEST scouting tools. A buck can enter and area and not rub or scrape, but he cant not walk or answer the call of nature. On the same token, if you're not seeing alot of doe poop, tracts and the forest floor is very green with undergrowth, then this is not an area of high traffic. You'll notice that areas containing and aroundfood (like acorns) are beaten down. Not a ton of green on the ground. So, areas of high deer activity will show little undergrowth while areas of low deer activity will show abundant undergrowth.
Once youve found a few areas like this, scout them hard. Look for some kind of food, water, tracts, poop..any reason that a buck would travel through here and browse. If you knwo where he is bedding, youll figure out which "untouched" area he is using. You wont see many if any doe here.
Not picking on you droptine but is there any truth to the Poop idea? I'm assuming you're referring to clumpedfeces as buck poop. I was under the impression that the clumped poop was from a certain diet and the way the deer(buck or doe)bedded down, not specifically from a buck.