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Bud
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posted February 06, 2003 06:55 PM
I'd bet that most of you are deer hunters. This is how I scout for blacktail(reminded while yakking about Solunar Tables).
I call the Fish&Wildlife and the State Police(our wildlife enforcers) and tell them where I'll be, when I'll be there, and what I'm doing. I then make sure there are NO firearms and No flashlights in my vehicle. Load the truck with coffee and snacks and surveyers tape. It's off to drive the logging roads.
I ease along watching for deer in the headlights. When I see a decent(three point or better Western to me) buck I let it cross the road and get gone(a good time to pour the coffee). I then tie surveyers tape to the brush where it crossed. I spend a few nights, a week prior to the season, doing this during the Solunar peak periods. The next morning I return and check the tracks and area in the daylight.
I know the tracks were made by a good buck. I know where it was coming from. I can pretty much tell where it is headed(either lay up for the day, water, or feed). A couple nights doing this and I might have a dozen trophy(to me) deer scoped out. They don't move around much even when the rut is on. They'll be nearby a week later(blacktails).
This works. I have NOT been skunked in 30 years of blacktail hunting and I've Never taken a forkhorn. You still have to hunt them and big blacktail bucks are no bargain under any condition. Ever notice that you see pictures of hundreds of big muley bucks and hundreds of big whitetail bucks. You see very few pictures of big blacktail bucks. I've hunted all three,and I know why.
Try it for your deer, mule deer-whitetail-whatever, you'll like it. Good hunting.
Bud
[ February 06, 2003, 07:00 PM: Message edited by: Bud ]
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Leonard
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posted February 07, 2003 05:12 AM
Okey dokey, but how are you setting up? Are you still hunting or making a stand?
I know what you mean about decent Blacktail bucks. Here in California, it is probably caused by mismanagement, maybe 95 out of a hundred deer are does, so the forked horns don't last too long.
Another difference for me is that I don't hunt locally, so it's impossible to pattern the bucks by your method. Sounds effective, though....pass the coffee!
Good hunting. LB
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Barry
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posted February 09, 2003 07:41 PM
The idea sounds promising.I never see them in the day where I saw them at night but following their tracks to a bedding or feeding area makes sense.At least you know what type and size of trophy is using that area.Unfortunately out here the road access is limited and the landscape too big to get a pattern down.Those midnight rides are always fun though,except when Bigfoot appears.
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Leonard
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posted February 09, 2003 09:55 PM
I know what you mean, Barry. Out here, hunting the desert burro mule deer along the Colorado River, you could die of old age before a buck uses the same wash again that he used yesterday. You can't hunt them that way, they don't pattern. Or, what I should say: I can't. The locals always do better, for several reasons.
Good hunting. LB
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