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Last year my hunting buddy witnessed an interesting sight. He was able to watch a deer drive from an elevated position. He was not hunting but knew this deer drive was going to happen and just wanted to be an observer. There were 2 guys posted watching a field which was right across the river...

Madplotter, I do have one corner that is exactly like that. It is one place where I have seen a definite pattern. This particular area is far off any roads and quite isolated. The main row crops sit up on a plateau and then slope off on the backside into a few small drainages. Instead of staying...

The farm I hunt is primarily rolling hills with lots of pasture, some CRP and lots of row crops. There are a few small drainages and small woodlots but they're separated by lots of open ground. There are a couple small rivers on the perimeter which have a little timber along the edges. The...

Thanks for all your thoughts guys. Love the input. I'm going to start another thread on travel routes and trying to determine where those are for more mature animals. I agree with the basic idea that scrapes can be a real plus in helping to bring animals within bow range if they are in natural...

Would love to get your input on things that have worked for you when hunting scrapes or about scrapes in general. Here are a few of my thoughts: Last year I had a group of scrapes that were getting pounded daily during the 2nd week of October. Bucks were active almost up to shooting light. I...

The tuft of grass thing is definitely coming into play though.

That could have something to do with it, since rangefinders work off a laser beam being reflected back to the finder I believe. The perplexing thing for me is that I know that there were times that I was bouncing the beam off a tree and I still could not get a reading at times. The weather...

Just wanted to touch base with you guys about a basic issue I'm having with my Nikon rangefinder. Normally it preforms great but last year I noticed that there were times where it just would not make a reading. I'm normally just rangeing various things around my stand such as trees,posts, shrubs...

Have you guys noticed any patterns for buck behavior during the late archery season. One specific question: Have you noticed if they bed down in a solitary places to recuperate? Or will they often hang with a doe family group perhaps for more eyes and ears to keep watch on their surroundings...

Thanks for your input guys. Really appreciate it. One thing I've been doing the last several seasons. I'll use natural ground cover and set up on the ground using a ghillie suit. Even when I have a tree stand in a location, I'll always carry in my ghillie suit and a bucket in case the winds have...

The place I hunt is very spread out cattle country. The deer numbers really seem to be down this year so trying to pin point their movement can be a real guessing game. I really want to use any snow on the ground to try to figure out more specifics about their movement patterns. I'm also...

How do you guys decide each year on what age buck you are going to wait to take a shot at? I haven't been bow hunting too long so I've only shot a couple bucks. The other thing I wanted to mention is that I probably bow hunt on average 1 time a week and a little more during the rut. How do you...

That's one of the reasons I created this thread. I hunt in wide open, rolling hills, cattle country with drainages throughout the place. Often times the bucks are out moving in the open and need to be brought in closer. I've thought about the Heads Up decoy myself for the portability factor.

My friend and I have experienced the same thing 4-5 times the last couple of years. When bucks are traveling near doe bedding area, often times they will stop and visually inspect that area to see if any does are around. Or if we call to them, they will stop and do the same thing. They will stop...

My friend and I have noticed lately that we're seeing a lot more buck activity such as chasing does, hitting scrapes on an accelerated rate in the last week and we've also seen and heard rubs being made. In light of this activity, I'm thinking about using a buck decoy to try to get another...

I posted a question about aging a buck a couple days ago and several guys suggested that I needed to show them a few pics of the buck's body. Here's a few.

I believe I've found the core area of a buck but I'm having a hard time aging him based on the width and mass of his rack with the pics I've gotten. One thing he does have though is a strange little 4" tine coming out near one of his brow tines as well as several other small stickers that are...