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<blockquote data-quote="Recon$$" data-source="post: 2297031" data-attributes="member: 34122"><p>For what it's worth here was my experience last year. If its anything like NM, you are not close to the rut. I found a spot hunting sheep and practiced shots on multiple monsters I ran across at the very beginning of last year "the rut". I thought I had found a honey hole.</p><p></p><p>Your thinking is correct. I glassed every morning from a high point the first 3 days and saw nothing but does. There was one water source I was aware of and they hit it in the middle of night, not even close to sunrise sunset. I could see it from camp. I found the bucks almost did not move at all except for a few 1 year Olds. I worked the drainages hard after the first 3 days and managed to sneak up on one big boy who had eyes in the back of his head... did everything but pull the trigger before he figured it out. The second opportunity on the last day we did long methodical drives where one guy posted and one guy crept through the drainages. We both missed a very very nice deer on the run. I'll admit he was dead but my safety was on...and the second shot in the drainage (So the first shot that went boom...) was rushed. I would work big intersections within the drainage section and glass long hours in them. It's a tough hunt because they don't move. My weather was 85-20, winds 0-60 mph. I got beat up, but learned alot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Recon$$, post: 2297031, member: 34122"] For what it's worth here was my experience last year. If its anything like NM, you are not close to the rut. I found a spot hunting sheep and practiced shots on multiple monsters I ran across at the very beginning of last year "the rut". I thought I had found a honey hole. Your thinking is correct. I glassed every morning from a high point the first 3 days and saw nothing but does. There was one water source I was aware of and they hit it in the middle of night, not even close to sunrise sunset. I could see it from camp. I found the bucks almost did not move at all except for a few 1 year Olds. I worked the drainages hard after the first 3 days and managed to sneak up on one big boy who had eyes in the back of his head... did everything but pull the trigger before he figured it out. The second opportunity on the last day we did long methodical drives where one guy posted and one guy crept through the drainages. We both missed a very very nice deer on the run. I'll admit he was dead but my safety was on...and the second shot in the drainage (So the first shot that went boom...) was rushed. I would work big intersections within the drainage section and glass long hours in them. It's a tough hunt because they don't move. My weather was 85-20, winds 0-60 mph. I got beat up, but learned alot. [/QUOTE]
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