Letting an area cool off.....
 

I went ALL through the adjoining property over the weekend.....and I mean all over it. I didn't actually walk the land I'm hunting much at all, though. The adjoining property is a recent (last 10 years) clearcut.

So....me....two more people and a dog went through there on Saturday. I walked it alone Friday and Sunday.

I've got some SMOKING sign, there (see pics).....and I wanna know when you guys think it might cool off enough to go back in there. I know I could get a traveler going through.....but I'm thinking the buck I shot at wasn't likely the only one making these rubs and this scrape.

How long would you wait?





Rubs (3)and scrape together

RE: Letting an area cool off.....
 

give it a week or wait til a weather system passes and washes your scent.

RE: Letting an area cool off.....
 

Jeff, on your way around did you (knowingly)bump a lot of deer? Is an intrusion of any sort that rare in the area? If not I'd get back in there, you've been out of the area for what 2 days now? If the area's hot I'd be in there now.

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I'm sure that area hasn't seen an intrusion like I made in quite some time (likely since the clearcut...lol). And no....I didn't knowingly bump a lot of deer. I just left a lot of scent in there.

It rained here, today...but not enough to wash anything out. Don't know when we'll get a rain like that.

RE: Letting an area cool off.....
 

Not sure but the small buck I shot yesterday walked the same trail I came in on.
If you are not there you will never know if it makes a difference.

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I did the same thing over the weekend, I am waiting until Thrus or Fri.

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This time of year I would hunt it whenever you can. Bucks can come in from any direction from miles around. You have got to be getting close to the chase phase there.

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If you didn't disrupt your property much....... why wait?

I think you'll be just fine. In fact, you may have helped yourself.

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Small bucks will follow your stand to your trail sometimes, just out of curiosity/stupidity.
Big bucks fat chance.

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I can hunt it any time....lol. I've got a good wind....and it's still probably my best chance to kill a nice buck that I have. I may go in ther ein the AM.

I've seen one small buck traveling what I would call outside the regular early AM and late PM's. I saw a fork horn, today, at 3:30. Only deer I saw all day....(which was fine). otherwise....I haven't seen a buck on his feet after 8:30AM and earlier than 30 min before dark.

I know it's getting to be that time though Chris.

Greg.....ALL the bedding area is on the property I disrupted. I have the hardwoods on my land. They have almost all "bedding area". That's the area I pretty much tore through over the weekend. Many, many acres .....I trampled through.

I will be trying to catch them coming home .....and maybe they'll be coming through the undisturbed land to get there. Like you all say.....never know until you try it. I think I'll sit there again in the morning.

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your not the only one in that bedding area though, If we're talking about the same bedding area, but we passed a stand and feeder, and a ground blind.

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That is probably true. But this is the only time of year the big ones get stupid,right? And I have seen small bucks avoid the trail I came in on also, earlier in the year.

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Aaron.....they're using any and every place we went through as a bedding area. They could literally bed anywhere in that stuff. Those pines are a likely spot.....but we only (I only went through with you that one time) went through there once....and we did that pretty unintrusively. I'm MORE worried about all the fuss we made in the clearcut.

Thoserubs are bigger than any I've ever seen, here, though.....and I have to think maybe that wasn't the only buck using them.