I feel like I'm in the Jungle

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powdergun

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I've been scouting this month for the bow season and it has been a real challenge. There has been a lot of heat and precipitation this year and my spots have grown in massively. The grasses are shoulder high and the brush is thick as dogs hair. Finding trails has been a real b*tch.

The deer are still around but I'm at a loss as to what to do about a set up. Visibility is terrible and the deer are not really feeding in the fields. A good frost would be the answer but that's not happening any time soon.

What are you folks finding in your travels ? (I'm in central sask.) Any ideas about tactics ?

I know I can just wait for colder weather but the season starts soon and I reeeeeeeealy need to get out hunting.:D
 
I hunt southern ontario with a ghuillie suit. I use a crossbow as well. I find a trail not closer then 200yards from their bedding area and sneak into it very slowly and back up off the trail about 10-15 yards where the trail has a tree or other obstacle that the deer are used to traversing. I back right up into the under growth with the wind in my face and wait. Backing into a big spruce tree also works and I snap 1 big branch wait 30 seconds and then scream like hell on a cottontail distress for 20 seconds then wait motionless. I've found bucks early in the year will come out to see what's going on and the tree and ghillie suit hide you. Just wait for your shot and it will be close. I like to take a doe or fawn on opening day from the only tree stand I hunt 4-5 opening days I've shot deer less then 5 yards from that stand over fine blue cobalt salt. My salt "pit" is added to thruout the year and the deer have dug a roughly 8'x 6' pit more then a foot deep. I just asdd a cup of salt a month. Good luck. These tactics work for me year after year in the thick. My average shot over the 26 deer I've taken has been roughly 9 yards. Bow and muzzleloader. I've had 1 80 yard shot and 1 257 yard shot both with muzzleloaders all else basically under 10 yards
 
In central Sask. I used to spend time in a tree blind, only to find them always feeding out in the fields beside the bush I'm in. They seemed to take a dif. route everytime from every/any direction to feed in that field and i seemed to be wasting my time in the treestand. I don't know how an archer would take advantage of this.
 
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