to rattle or not?
- Thread starter rhino519
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driftpounder
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- Location
- Martensville, SK
Way to late now in my opinion. I have found the best time you rattle is the week before the rut. Otherwise it is just noise that tips bucks of where you are.
canadian hunter312
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- Location
- Brant County
I've had deer investigate me while using deer calls when I "shouldn't be", setting and securing trail cameras, using predator and turkey calls, and climbing in my climbing tree stand. It's late in the season and deer are naturally curious, give it a shot.
A few calling sequences of any call isn't going to effect deer activity.
A few calling sequences of any call isn't going to effect deer activity.
so here is why i asked;
last week, having a day off, i decided to scout an area for yote tracks, i grabbed my bow, just in case since i still have my tag, and the tag soup is not my forte, and off i went. I walked this track in the woods, and after awhile a buck tracks fallow the same path, after a while my path turned west while buck's tracks went straight. It was close to an area where a fellow hunter scored a nice pointer on Thanksgivings so I decided to fallow the big buck tracks just for a bit and see which way he went. The tracks were fallowing along a farmers field that was posted No Hunting/Trespassing. no more then 30-40 m since i passed my turn, i've noticed another buck's track, cutting across my quarry. not making much of it i just stepped over them when i noticed a faint faint droplets of blood in the snow.
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it was actually less then what you see in the pic. since fallowing the tracks into farmers field was out, due to it being posted, i decided to go and see where did the deer got injured. not more then 5-10m down the track, into the trees, the blood splatter doubled. there was no human footprints in the snow, so i knew no one was tracking this guy. shame.
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i keep at it when i come to another trail in the woods, the blood splatter increased with each step. I looked to the right and i see a whole area trotted all over.
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here it is in black and white, little better to see the extend of disturbed snow
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my quary's tracks were heading from there, so i stepped right in the middle of it, thinking it was just a deers feeding on acorns that i came accross, just to find this
im not sure if the bucks would fight over resources, but the snow was fresh from a night before. few days later i found another area that would suggest bucks sparring but this time without one of combatants ending with a bloody nose.
the area in question is about 20 min drive from Barrie, Ontario.
last week, having a day off, i decided to scout an area for yote tracks, i grabbed my bow, just in case since i still have my tag, and the tag soup is not my forte, and off i went. I walked this track in the woods, and after awhile a buck tracks fallow the same path, after a while my path turned west while buck's tracks went straight. It was close to an area where a fellow hunter scored a nice pointer on Thanksgivings so I decided to fallow the big buck tracks just for a bit and see which way he went. The tracks were fallowing along a farmers field that was posted No Hunting/Trespassing. no more then 30-40 m since i passed my turn, i've noticed another buck's track, cutting across my quarry. not making much of it i just stepped over them when i noticed a faint faint droplets of blood in the snow.
it was actually less then what you see in the pic. since fallowing the tracks into farmers field was out, due to it being posted, i decided to go and see where did the deer got injured. not more then 5-10m down the track, into the trees, the blood splatter doubled. there was no human footprints in the snow, so i knew no one was tracking this guy. shame.
i keep at it when i come to another trail in the woods, the blood splatter increased with each step. I looked to the right and i see a whole area trotted all over.
here it is in black and white, little better to see the extend of disturbed snow
my quary's tracks were heading from there, so i stepped right in the middle of it, thinking it was just a deers feeding on acorns that i came accross, just to find this
im not sure if the bucks would fight over resources, but the snow was fresh from a night before. few days later i found another area that would suggest bucks sparring but this time without one of combatants ending with a bloody nose.
the area in question is about 20 min drive from Barrie, Ontario.
Nope, no other tracks but deer, no fence anywhere by either
The way blood was dripping, it also made me think deer was suffering an internal injury, the blood, at the place I found it first, looked like it was a spray from mouth, it was smack middle of the hoof prints, not to the side. The lack of human or other tracks alongside made me think that since it was comin from the direction of a road that maybe he was bit by a car and suffered some broken ribs. That was before I found the fight scene.
The way blood was dripping, it also made me think deer was suffering an internal injury, the blood, at the place I found it first, looked like it was a spray from mouth, it was smack middle of the hoof prints, not to the side. The lack of human or other tracks alongside made me think that since it was comin from the direction of a road that maybe he was bit by a car and suffered some broken ribs. That was before I found the fight scene.
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Could have a bloody nose! I have watched deer fight over food, both doe`s and bucks will stand on hind legs and swing away with their front hooves! All so could be internal injury from a run in with a car. Its all part of the fun of looking at the sign in the snow and trying to picture what took place!
