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Old 11-15-2012, 11:05 PM
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The best time to road hunt is before the season opens, around dusk and at dawn.

That lets you cover a lot of ground for your scouting.

Once you find out where the bucks are, after roadhunting them before the season, then you need to get your boots on the ground and hike into the areas where you have pre-spotted them.

You should park your rig on the high ground wherever you intend to hunt. Then still hunt very slowly, or make a stand and watch, while the road hunters scare the deer to you.

The bucks will be hidden in brush thickets up high, as high as they can get and still have cover. They won't move at all during daylight unless someone else drives them out, or if the sun around midday makes them get up and move a few feet back into the shade.

That's what you should be watching for. Movement.

Don't whine about the road hunters. They are helping you with their roadhunting.
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