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My experience has led me to believe that the pre-rut is the time to hunt and it can hit about the second week of the season to the end of Oct. The late buck hunt in Nov is good, but alot of the big bucks are locked down with does.Keep glassing those thick cuts for bears and you should find some bruiser BTs.There is no way to age a deer by it's rack. A mature buck will be 3 to 4 pts. A forkie could be 1-3 years old. A lot of it depends on genetics, feed, location, etc.
can you feed them like wt?
apple bucket huh? ide be afraid of doing anything like that, to many people would think you were doing something questionable.
I've seen a buck belly crawling through knee-high grass so as not to be spotted (darndest thing I've ever seen).
Mid august about 7 years ago I was checking a stand of timber I usually hunt. About 50 yards aeay there stood a deer, looked like a doe until I realized the horns were way wider than I am used to seeing, he was about 23-24 wide and just a big 3 point. Told my girlfreind at the time to watch that buck I wanted to get a closer look . That I walked almost straight to him but had a little clump of brush I had to go around. He disapeared , I kept going right to where he stood and nothing. This is a flat wide open peice o ftimber with 2 ft tall ferns. The only thing he could have done was crawl away!