103. MUST SEE video on Post Season scouting and why to wait until the snow is gone to do it. скачать в хорошем качестве

103. MUST SEE video on Post Season scouting and why to wait until the snow is gone to do it.

During pre-season and in the early part of the season, all deer are primarily in bedding to preferred feeding area routines in the evenings and vice versa in the mornings. When I began bow hunting in the mid 1960's, there was zero information that advocated anything other than scouting during pre-season and that was fine for my deer hunting goals at the time. As my hunting skills progressed, so did my goals and by the mid 1970’s I was targeting 2 ½ year old and older bucks. I had no option but to take on some in-season scouting and location preparation practices because as the season progressed into the rut phases, buck activity changed from what it was during early season and I had to react to it. The problem with in-season scouting was that my scouting and location preparation intrusions would oftentimes alter the daytime activity at the locations I set-up at. By the early 1980’s, I had figured out how critically important the rut phases were for taking mature bucks and that my in-season scouting intrusions of, searching for fresh rut sign, finding it, preparing locations, and altering the daytime activity in the process, was hampering my rut phase opportunities and progression as a hunter. To put myself on rut phase activity without altering it with my current scouting program intrusions, I had to do something outside the ordinary pre and in-season scouting box. After taking my second good buck during the rut phases in November of 1983, I decided to change things up and scout a large area of public land after the season ended. So, in early January 1984, with no snow on the ground, I took off on what was my first ever, planned scouting trip after season. That trip was an awakening as I covered so much ground that day without being concerned about spooking deer and I have been doing it ever since and in my hunting articles and books, termed it “post season scouting”. Statistically in every state, 55 to 65% of the Pope & Young record book bucks were taken during the 4-week, pre, peak, and post-rut periods. I annually researched those statistics from 1998 through 2012 for the 3 instructional bow hunting books my son Chris and I wrote. With those known statistics it only makes sense to concentrate most of your hunting time and efforts on the rut phases and scout and prepare locations during post season while sign such as scrapes, licking branches, rubs and runways to name a few, from the previous season are still identifiable. I consider scouting during post season to be of utmost importance when pursuing mature bucks in heavily hunted areas, where everything matters. Proper scouting and location preparation is what lays down a solid foundation for success. The more thorough and effectively you scout and prepare locations, the better your chances are at receiving opportunities, and capitalizing on them, it’s that simple.