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Your last buck: Food Source / Travel Route / Bedding area?
04-03-2008, 06:09 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 1,559
RE: Your last buck: Food Source / Travel Route / Bedding area?
I put down food source, but only because I was sitting on a food plot. This buck was chasing a doe really hard, I watched him run her out of a bedding area and across the food plot. Niether one of them had intentions of feeding, just happened to be where he chased her to, then he made the mistake of stopping. Last mistake he made!
04-03-2008, 06:15 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Wentzville, MO
Posts: 1,375
RE: Your last buck: Food Source / Travel Route / Bedding area?
Wel I put my vote in for food source after 10/25, but there was another during the same time frame in a travel corridor. The first was going into standing corn, the second chasing 2 does.
04-03-2008, 06:20 AM
#15
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 899
RE: Your last buck: Food Source / Travel Route / Bedding area?
Shot him in the morning, in a travel corridor just on the edge of a protected sanctuary that I never touch or go into other than a quick walk through in February looking for sheds. My last 2 bucks came from the same stand, on the same day of the year, within 1/2 an hour of each other.
I know where I would be this Fall!
My last buck was shot November 12, chasing does in a small woodlot.
Good post!
04-03-2008, 06:30 AM
#17
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,716
RE: Your last buck: Food Source / Travel Route / Bedding area?
Seems like the vast majority of the success comes in natural funnels and travel routes - especially when buck activity spikes around 11/1.
One thing I'm noticing - and I'm not sure if it's just because nobody tries it, or whether it's just ineffective - is the lack of success hunting bedding areas.
Personally, once the seek phase starts - I observe a fair amount of buck activity cruising likely doe feeding areas and likely doe bedding areas... And it's not outside the bounds of the game to set up for a bowhunt right in or around a doe bedding area. At that point - it doesn't matter if you bump out the does. The bucks are coming to look for them - so naturally, the boys willhit up the most likely areas - they don't know that the does arebumped outuntil they get there.
I guess we're looking at the paradigm between "destination hunts" and "travel route" hunting.
There are times when a doe bedding area is situated such that a cruising buck has no option but to walk right through it - and can't scent check it from afar. For example, if you have a ridge where does are known to bed - on a calm day, with rising thermals - a buck has to walk that ridgetop to look for receptive does. The wind is putting him at a disadvantage, and he has to march right through the middle ofit. If you're "doe hunting" a doe bedding area might not be the best option, but when you're trying to lay the smack down on a cruising buck - sitting right in the middle of his likely "destination" isn't always a bad idea.
These can be very productive hunts. Disruptive, yes. But if it's a one-and-done scenario - not always a bad idea.
That's not to say that you can go wrong hunting in a travel route, though.
I've done it all - shooting bucks on the feed, in the funnels, and cruising the bedding areas... But these results clearly show that the majority of our damage is done in travel routes between "destinations."
Good stuff guys - keep voting.
One thing I'm noticing - and I'm not sure if it's just because nobody tries it, or whether it's just ineffective - is the lack of success hunting bedding areas.
Personally, once the seek phase starts - I observe a fair amount of buck activity cruising likely doe feeding areas and likely doe bedding areas... And it's not outside the bounds of the game to set up for a bowhunt right in or around a doe bedding area. At that point - it doesn't matter if you bump out the does. The bucks are coming to look for them - so naturally, the boys willhit up the most likely areas - they don't know that the does arebumped outuntil they get there.
I guess we're looking at the paradigm between "destination hunts" and "travel route" hunting.
There are times when a doe bedding area is situated such that a cruising buck has no option but to walk right through it - and can't scent check it from afar. For example, if you have a ridge where does are known to bed - on a calm day, with rising thermals - a buck has to walk that ridgetop to look for receptive does. The wind is putting him at a disadvantage, and he has to march right through the middle ofit. If you're "doe hunting" a doe bedding area might not be the best option, but when you're trying to lay the smack down on a cruising buck - sitting right in the middle of his likely "destination" isn't always a bad idea.
These can be very productive hunts. Disruptive, yes. But if it's a one-and-done scenario - not always a bad idea.
That's not to say that you can go wrong hunting in a travel route, though.
I've done it all - shooting bucks on the feed, in the funnels, and cruising the bedding areas... But these results clearly show that the majority of our damage is done in travel routes between "destinations."
Good stuff guys - keep voting.
04-03-2008, 08:13 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 2,849
RE: Your last buck: Food Source / Travel Route / Bedding area?
11/3/07 and 11/9/07 both in travel corridors. The first one was from food to a bedding area. The second was a funnel between two large tracts of timber.
