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Old 07-24-2003 | 08:21 AM
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Default RE: Scouting techniques

Well I will start off with my standard line about deer caca, buck taste like chocolate and doe taste like vanilla!

Ol Bud does and young bucks use primary trails, another words any trail you see that is heavily traveled will 90% of the time will be doe and young bucks. Older more mature bucks will generaly use trails to the sides of primary trails, sometimes they will use trails totally seperate from the primary trails. Buck trails are harder to easily identify, but when you think you may have found one, preferably well before the season slowly walk it looking for old rubs on trees, you may only find one rub or many, some bucks do multiple rubs and others will fall in love with a particular tree. Of course multiple rubs can also be the result of multiple bucks. Follow the trail until you either come upon a bedding or feeding area, hopefully you will find a bedding area. Do not go into it, what you need to do is figure out several different stand locations to allow for different wind directions, with a big buck you have to be near their bedding area or you probably never get a shot at him. They return to their bedding areas before the doe even finish feeding and leave their bedding area long after the doe have left to feed. Now when the rut coms on who knows, even the big boys get stupid then, where the does are is where the bucks will soon be if not there all ready.
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