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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Jan 9, 2016 12:45:25 GMT -5
So is the official end to my 2015-16 deer season. Just got done loosening up all my stands and taking down ground blinds. Placed a little corn out and cameras to see what bucks survived and try and get a count on does. I know since the does are herding up it won't be a true count but, it should give me an idea.
My 2016-17 deer will officially begin in a few weeks when I start scouting late season travel routes and looking for missed rub lines.
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Post by throbak on Jan 9, 2016 14:39:18 GMT -5
My season ends tomorrow when the 30# of jerky is done cooking Taking bone to Wolf rehab then no more deer stuff
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Post by deerhunter23 on Jan 9, 2016 21:08:22 GMT -5
So is the official end to my 2015-16 deer season. Just got done loosening up all my stands and taking down ground blinds. Placed a little corn out and cameras to see what bucks survived and try and get a count on does. I know since the does are herding up it won't be a true count but, it should give me an idea. My 2016-17 deer will officially begin in a few weeks when I start scouting late season travel routes and looking for missed rub lines. Describe these rub lines and how do you hunt them? I'm always open for learning! |
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Jan 9, 2016 23:50:55 GMT -5
Rub lines are a series of trees that are rubbed on. Rather than just one tree or two, there will be several. To me, that indicates a buck likes that area a lot. It gives me a starting point for next season and a location to either hang and camera or check during the rut.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 10, 2016 10:23:51 GMT -5
2016-2017 was going to start today. I woke up to snow, decided i was going to scout bedding areas. Took the dog outside and changed my mind, 14*, ill just hang out with my kiddo.
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Post by deerhunter23 on Jan 10, 2016 21:56:48 GMT -5
Rub lines are a series of trees that are rubbed on. Rather than just one tree or two, there will be several. To me, that indicates a buck likes that area a lot. It gives me a starting point for next season and a location to either hang and camera or check during the rut. Thank you. Are these rub lines spread out down a trail? With a tree hit ever so often? I'm always looking for rubs..I've never really new how to put it together though. You said you check them during the rut...check them as in you hunt them? |
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Jan 10, 2016 23:08:55 GMT -5
Yeah they are often found along trails. They make a lot of them during the rut but, I don't like to scout real hard during hunting season for fear of shooting deer.I will usually make just one or 2 walks trough the wpwoods during season.
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Post by parrothead on Jan 12, 2016 8:42:08 GMT -5
  looks like one shed and this might be a good one for next year |
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Jan 12, 2016 12:57:34 GMT -5
Thanks for the pics Parrothead! I am hoping to see some of the same when I go check my cameras next week. BTW, he looks like a dandy!
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Jan 12, 2016 14:32:18 GMT -5
That'll be a nice one next season, Parrothead.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jan 12, 2016 14:35:09 GMT -5
Rarely do I venture around in my woods during the season. With only 10ac, they're either coming through or not. This year, they just didn't much.
The only thing I have to go on is that I fed them in 2014. Possibly this just got them to cut through my property. There's food in any direction for them, so I figure that I'll feed them in the bottom land this year when pickins are slim and see how it goes.
I have been riding though the property lately to set traps, but haven't seen any rubs. When at the Brownsville property, they stuck out like pimple. They were hard to miss.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 12, 2016 17:16:29 GMT -5
Rarely do I venture around in my woods during the season. With only 10ac, they're either coming through or not. This year, they just didn't much. The only thing I have to go on is that I fed them in 2014. Possibly this just got them to cut through my property. There's food in any direction for them, so I figure that I'll feed them in the bottom land this year when pickins are slim and see how it goes. I have been riding though the property lately to set traps, but haven't seen any rubs. When at the Brownsville property, they stuck out like  le. They were hard to miss. le = ZIT biggrin2 |
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jan 12, 2016 17:17:14 GMT -5
Yeah! That's what I meant. LOL
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 12, 2016 17:20:05 GMT -5
Lol Jon, such horrible language
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jan 12, 2016 17:22:06 GMT -5
looks like one shed and this might be a good one for next year When I get a photo like this ...well, I've never really gotten a photo of one this big, but he never seems to want photographed again. They seem camera shy. They hide from me like I'm a paparazzi or something. |
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Post by bartiks on Jan 24, 2016 9:05:05 GMT -5
When I get a photo like this ...well, I've never really gotten a photo of one this big, but he never seems to want photographed again. They seem camera shy. They hide from me like I'm a paparazzi or something. Well are you?? I know what you mean by the deer are either coming or going. I'm in a very similar boat, I have 12 acres which I'm trying to make a main travel corridor between 2 other large woods. I thought they would naturally use this to stay out of the fields, however on the contrary they seem to want to stay out in the field when they are moving from one to the other. OOH that sounds like a good thread to start. |
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Post by throbak on Jan 24, 2016 9:42:07 GMT -5
They are staying in the fields because no one ever goes in the middle of the fields I have seen deer bedding in the middle of large Corn Fields Around Kingsbury No one goes in the fields They figure that out and use it to their advantage
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jan 24, 2016 11:38:54 GMT -5
When I get a photo like this ...well, I've never really gotten a photo of one this big, but he never seems to want photographed again. They seem camera shy. They hide from me like I'm a paparazzi or something. Well are you?? I know what you mean by the deer are either coming or going. I'm in a very similar boat, I have 12 acres which I'm trying to make a main travel corridor between 2 other large woods. I thought they would naturally use this to stay out of the fields, however on the contrary they seem to want to stay out in the field when they are moving from one to the other. OOH that sounds like a good thread to start. My does and little bucks will run across the field, but my bigger buck will cut through the woods. I have started feeding in the woods on a path that I want them to travel. I put up a camera, but haven't checked it yet. |
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Post by bartiks on Jan 24, 2016 13:09:43 GMT -5
Jon let me know what you come up with, and by the way what are you feeding them? I've thought about putting a couple of salt licks in there one at each end and then maybe some corn or apples on the ground so they start linking up with the other lick.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jan 25, 2016 9:43:25 GMT -5
Jon let me know what you come up with, and by the way what are you feeding them? I've thought about putting a couple of salt licks in there one at each end and then maybe some corn or apples on the ground so they start linking up with the other lick. It didn't take them long to find it. I've been putting down food from Rural King. I want to feed my turkey too, so I put down cracked corn with Lucky Buck minerals sprinkled in it. It smells like apples. I also put out a bag of food for meat birds; this is for my turkey. Then I'll put out some deer nuggets, not sure what is in this. LOL It sure does last a lot longer with no coons around. Plenty of birds though, but I don't mind feeding them. Deer don't seem to hang around very long; they eat some and move one. On one set of photos during the day, they stayed about an hour. This is the first time I've seen them for that long in the three years that I've photographed them. The snow was great to see how them move. |
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