What do you like to do????
02-08-2002, 01:34 PM
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Marquette MI USA
Posts: 300
RE: What do you like to do????
This is how I do it in the Big Woods! As soon as the snow is gone and that won't be until April-May, there is a window before spring green up and that's when I hit it hard - real hard. Don't care where I walk, I put on the miles. I look for the "blue print" from last fall. All the tell tale signs the deer left last year are all real visibible. I then stay away in the summer and fall. First time I go back is opener of Bow. Good Luck!
02-08-2002, 07:26 PM
#13
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Omaha NE USA
Posts: 261
RE: What do you like to do????
I scout a lot while spring turkey hunting in March through May. I'll go out a few other times in the summer and then I start setting up my stands for that season in August and September.
02-09-2002, 07:36 PM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tioga, Pa
Posts: 454
RE: What do you like to do????
All deer hunting is over now here in Delaware. I'll be going out to scout tomorrow. Basically checking the thickest cover that I can find and look for BIG tracks and rubs and scrapes left from this past fall. I'll normally scout once or twice a week until the woods starts to turn green. By then the farmers are starting to plant their crops and depending on where I found the most sign, I will scout the fields that are nearby from a distance once the crops are coming up. Then determine where to setup to bowhunt sometime in august. Our bow season begins around sept. 1st. Hunting never ends!!!<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
02-09-2002, 10:11 PM
#16
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: McMinnville Oregon USA
Posts: 214
RE: What do you like to do????
Greets,
every time I am in the woods I am scouting. I Go small game hunting, and this year started coyote hunting. I also go out just shooting. But each time I spend some time hiking and scouting, just checking the area for sign so I can learn a bit more about those elusive bucks!! I even scout during the season, when I am not sitting in a blind I have made, usually from brush at hand, I am moving and looking.
Just my uneducated opinion!
Terry
every time I am in the woods I am scouting. I Go small game hunting, and this year started coyote hunting. I also go out just shooting. But each time I spend some time hiking and scouting, just checking the area for sign so I can learn a bit more about those elusive bucks!! I even scout during the season, when I am not sitting in a blind I have made, usually from brush at hand, I am moving and looking.
Just my uneducated opinion!
Terry
02-12-2002, 09:00 AM
#20
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: port orchard WA
Posts: 416
RE: What do you like to do????
i live a good couple hours from mine, but take the time to run the hills at least a few times a year. browsing and walking in the late winter early spring, brush cutting/trimming in the summer, and finalizing early fall. the rest of the trips are just mearly walking around checking stuff out.
