Usual problem: no deer
Another frustrating beginning to the season: lots of sign but no deer in sight, morning or evening. Anybody else face this problem? I' m in southeast Massachusetts, not Wisconsin, but there are still supposed to be 25-35 deer/square mile heer. When I get done being frustrated, and try to think it out, I think I' m pretty quiet on stand, I don' t smell (much, anyway), I' m hunting areas where there are lots of deer (scat, tracks, trails everywhere, some rubs and scrapes -- although still not many), evenings and mornings between open food and likely beds. Does it all come down to this: I' m too far from their beds and so not catching them in legal light? So is the basic answer (the one I kind of fear, because it takes a lot more work and especially swampwalking), finding their beds and getting right up next to them, almost in them? If you know there' s deer, but you don' t see them on trails, is it time to head for the beds?