cdn1canhunt
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- southwestern ontario
Same for me...bucks show at minerals until shedding time then quit until the rut...but does especially with twin fawns keep coming to the rocks
New to deer hunting need a little help.
- Thread starter Rottiguy
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Same for me...bucks show at minerals until shedding time then quit until the rut...but does especially with twin fawns keep coming to the rocks
The best thing you can do as a new hunter is to get to know your 100 acres on foot looking for sign and visit it often leading up to the hunt. If there are deer around, you will find their travel routes and good places to watch their trails on higher ground with good shooting lanes. You should have more than one watch picked out for promising spots so you can adapt to different wind conditions.
cdn1canhunt
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- southwestern ontario
I would offer another suggestion do your scouting now hang trail cams and hang some stands or blinds right now on the fringes of where you think the deer are showing up. Think more about how to keep your presence a secret to as many deer as possible. Think very carefully about how to get to and from your stands without alerting any deer to your coming and goings. That is the real hunt! As soon as they deer figure out they are being hunted your chances for success will drop dramatically
Peanut butter! Some guy on another forum suggested this. Take the lid off, screw it into a tree with a lag bolt and washers. About 3 1/2 feet up. Spin the plastic jar back on and cut a descent size hole in it. It worked for me. And is cheap as hell. Lol
I ended up grabbing a bit of feed, a cheap hanging feeder, and a few licks. Set up 2 spots on beside my beaver pond where we saw saw some big tracks (along with moose sign and wolf sign hopefully this doesn't effect it) and one on another active trail a little into the bush. Got cams at both so we will see how it turns out. I might have to give this peanut butter idea a try though thanks everyone again for their insight!
