So every year around August i dump a couple of bags of corn, 30 yards inside one of the nastiest pine thickets you can imagine. It borders a fresh clear cut. I always get four or five pope and young bucks on camera this time of year. I only hunt the spot once or twice before the rut to try to catch them in there routine. My problem is that i'm out of state and i cannot continue to bait on a regular basis. Also i believe this is a bedding area that is hard to get in without the bucks busting me. Which in turn leads to no further pics. They bed so close to the corn site that i think its a lost cause. They leave this core area during the rut. Should i get in 1 hours before they come to bed? Or simply leave them alone in this area and try to find another place near to make a kill?
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Back when I hunted the Piney Woods I loved to use mock scrapes with freeze dried tarsal glands that I collected. The mock scrapes worked great in pre-rut, that seemed to be the best way to see mature bucks regular. Just don't over do it and the results will be forthcoming. -
I would find a place that allows you to get to your stand from another direction. I had a place that no matter how or at what time I got there, I had a doe bust me. The wind changed direction all day long. I finally up and got another spot.Comment
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I want to know more about freeze dried tarsal glands????Originally posted by caughtandhobble View PostComment
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Stay out of the bedding area. Find an oak tree that has some acorns on it. Start hand corning around there.Comment
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" pine plantation "
is this a private, lease, community lease or public ?
if no one is going to hunt there stay out or find an alternative route.
if someone is most likely going to hunt there I would sneak there like a ghost an hour early.
i ones had a community lease by Rusk and had the same problem, I tried to avoid an area only for a weekend that i was not there someone shot the deer i have been seen for the last 10 months.Comment
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