I was able to get out the other day and do some scouting and shed hunting.
Post season scouting and shed hunting is a great time to start putting the pieces of the puzzle together and improve your chances of getting that big buck when it comes time to go deer hunting.
I walked the property that I have permission to hunt behind my house which is about 80 acres. I didn’t find any bone but I did find some nice rubs that I had overlooked when I was deer hunting.
When you are out on your deer hunting property looking for sheds it is a great time to do some post season scouting.
I wasn’t able to hunt the property as much as I would have liked this past season mainly because I was focusing on another piece of property but I know there are some really nice bucks in the area and there should be some sheds out there. It was nice to find several big rubs that I hadn’t seen before and it just confirms what I was already pretty sure of, that there where some nice bucks using the property. Tomorrow I am going to look for sheds on another deer hunting property that has some really nice bucks on it and I am hoping to find the antlers of one of the big bucks that I missed during bow season. Have you started shed hunting? Are you having any luck shed hunting on your deer hunting property?
Also I wanted to remind everyone that now is a great time to establish salt/mineral licks and is an effective practice of whitetail management.
Establishing mineral licks is a effective whitetail management practice.
The big bucks will be growing their antlers very soon and the minerals will help provide them with the essential nutrients to grow nice big healthy racks. Today I went to Cabela’s and bought a 20 lb. bag of Imperial Whitetail mineral/vitamin supplement and a mineral block. Tomorrow when I go looking for bone I am going to be post season scouting as well and I am going to establish a mineral lick and start a little early whitetail management. The way I am going to do this is I will locate an area where two or more trails intersect and I will dig a hole about two feet in diameter and several inches deep. I will mix 5lbs of the mineral/vitamin supplement with the dirt and put it back in the hole I just dug then I will top it off with a mineral block. I will be placing my Moultrie Game spy on a nearby tree and then we will be able to watch the bucks grow their antlers from the very beginning. It should be fun to watch their progress. Hopefully some of the same big boys will be back this year. Time will tell. Do you do any whitetail management where you hunt? If not you might want to think about it. You can make a difference in the quality of the bucks on your property by doing a few things and even if your funds are limited you still can make a difference. Establish mineral/vitamin licks. Let the small bucks walk. Shoot more does if your buck to doe ratio isn’t 1/1 or 1/3. If you do just these three things you should see some improvement in your quality of bucks in the very near future.
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admin says:
December 16, 2011 at 9:09 pm (UTC -5 )
It will be time to go shed hunting in a few months.