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<blockquote data-quote="Troutslayer" data-source="post: 127704" data-attributes="member: 4354"><p>Since you're not too far away from where I've been hunting whitetail almost every day... The rut is getting started. Bucks are getting a little brazen as they chase does around. I saw several today in an area where I hadn't been seeing any lately. So things look good for you. Find the does that are walking with their tails waving in the air, they're doing that to get their scent in the air. If you find a doe that is doing that there going to be a buck right behind her, or not too far behind. Basically if you find the does you've found the bucks. Depending on where you're hunting you could try an estrous call in a can type thing, those work well if only to stop a buck that you see moving not too far off- I like the big can, which is way louder. One thing I have noticed lately: the deer are on the move after shooting light ends. The best time to catch them in the open is early in the morning. With the moon decreasing in size they shouldn't be moving all that much at night, but should move in the AM and then move all day when the rut really gets going, which though some people claim has happened, I haven't experienced. Not knowing what kind of terrain you're hunting makes it hard to give advice. Look for sign in the snow that also happens to be a spot you want to hunt. Be there at first light then go glass in the afternoon and look real hard for them bedded down on hillsides or benches, or just about anywhere that you think they might be. If you find one in it's bed and you can shoot far maybe you can just shoot it where it lays. Those bucks think they're invisible when they're bedded down and sometimes they won't move from the beds because of it. It takes a lot of time behind the binos/scope to locate them though. Good luck dude, don't road hunt or you'll just end up seeing deer that you can't ever get a shot at plus if you get a wallhanger do you really want you're story to start off "I got out and rested my gun on the hood of the Chevy..."?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Troutslayer, post: 127704, member: 4354"] Since you're not too far away from where I've been hunting whitetail almost every day... The rut is getting started. Bucks are getting a little brazen as they chase does around. I saw several today in an area where I hadn't been seeing any lately. So things look good for you. Find the does that are walking with their tails waving in the air, they're doing that to get their scent in the air. If you find a doe that is doing that there going to be a buck right behind her, or not too far behind. Basically if you find the does you've found the bucks. Depending on where you're hunting you could try an estrous call in a can type thing, those work well if only to stop a buck that you see moving not too far off- I like the big can, which is way louder. One thing I have noticed lately: the deer are on the move after shooting light ends. The best time to catch them in the open is early in the morning. With the moon decreasing in size they shouldn't be moving all that much at night, but should move in the AM and then move all day when the rut really gets going, which though some people claim has happened, I haven't experienced. Not knowing what kind of terrain you're hunting makes it hard to give advice. Look for sign in the snow that also happens to be a spot you want to hunt. Be there at first light then go glass in the afternoon and look real hard for them bedded down on hillsides or benches, or just about anywhere that you think they might be. If you find one in it's bed and you can shoot far maybe you can just shoot it where it lays. Those bucks think they're invisible when they're bedded down and sometimes they won't move from the beds because of it. It takes a lot of time behind the binos/scope to locate them though. Good luck dude, don't road hunt or you'll just end up seeing deer that you can't ever get a shot at plus if you get a wallhanger do you really want you're story to start off "I got out and rested my gun on the hood of the Chevy..."? [/QUOTE]
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