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Offline JDHasty

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Re: Only seeing does with no signs of bucks
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2017, 09:15:36 AM »
Once the rain and wind starts then you'll find your buck, they'll stick to the clearcuts more when the weather is stormy , just gotta be patient. With the weather we had today they can hear ya a mile away and they'll be alerted allot easier.

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Re: Only seeing does with no signs of bucks
« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2017, 09:33:09 AM »
Don't let it get you down, you have found the does...that is half the battle. 

The bucks are generally nocturnal right now and will stay that way until closer to the end of the month when the rut starts kicking in, then knowing where the does are will become clear.

Here are some shots taken last week from our property, note the times as they are correct.  Not one of these bucks has shown its self during daylight...

I have enough pictures to identify one little spike and two three points.
It is better to be consistently incorrect than inconsistently correct...

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Re: Only seeing does with no signs of bucks
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2017, 09:39:06 AM »
The little spike and the two 3pts:
It is better to be consistently incorrect than inconsistently correct...

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Re: Only seeing does with no signs of bucks
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2017, 09:54:18 AM »
They may not ever show up at light in the early season.  What you might try if nothing improves is to follow one of he more active trails that leads to your cut, walk it back a couple hundred yards.  In the trees it get's darker earlier and sometimes bucks will stage out nearby the open area.  They are up and moving, but not in the open.   You might catch one that's just gently easing toward the cut but stuck back in the woods till sun down.

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Re: Only seeing does with no signs of bucks
« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2017, 09:58:39 AM »
Don't let it get you down, you have found the does...that is half the battle. 

The bucks are generally nocturnal right now and will stay that way until closer to the end of the month when the rut starts kicking in, then knowing where the does are will become clear.

Here are some shots taken last week from our property, note the times as they are correct.  Not one of these bucks has shown its self during daylight...

I have enough pictures to identify one little spike and two three points.

Yup, that's pretty much how it works for me.  We were in after dark w/our lamps getting the doe I shot out and lit up a mature buck, but the mature bucks are pretty well hunkered down during the day.     

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Re: Only seeing does with no signs of bucks
« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2017, 10:24:07 AM »
They may not ever show up at light in the early season.  What you might try if nothing improves is to follow one of he more active trails that leads to your cut, walk it back a couple hundred yards.  In the trees it get's darker earlier and sometimes bucks will stage out nearby the open area.  They are up and moving, but not in the open.   You might catch one that's just gently easing toward the cut but stuck back in the woods till sun down.

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