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Post by Freeborn on Sept 13, 2021 13:19:03 GMT -6
I was at my place this weekend and my wife and I stopped at my large Redneck stand that looks west over my primary food plot. To the east of the stand is a marsh area that is 250' across with a strip of land near my stand. The marsh is usually very wet and the deer don't cross it. We had a small buck cross that marsh to the east about 2/3 across it and you could hear the crackle of dead grass as he crossed it. That marsh is bone dry.
I would imagine this is the case with allot of area that is typically wet. My thinking is this drought could change deer travel patterns as well as change where deer go once bucks start to push deer. My place has several small marsh areas that typically funnel dear but this year they will probably just cross these areas.
With that in mind I need to cut a few shooting lanes so i can see farther out into the marsh as i don't think the deer will stay along the edge.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 13, 2021 14:22:33 GMT -6
I’ll be sitting near water early season if possible, or near the acorns which are dropping. Any lush greens should be attractive!
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Post by sd51555 on Sept 13, 2021 15:18:19 GMT -6
If I had the intel (I don't) I'd be down in the tag alder/grass swamps hunting from the ground. I'd expect the mature bucks to head way out into those now dry spots and ride out the hunting season there, with the exception of coming into town at night for the rut. The swamps by me can be in the thousands of acres, so I wouldn't dare tackle that without some serious scouting in December the year before. That's the kind of hunt you turn into a book. Thanksgiving weekend, no sign of humanity anywhere, blizzard, roads impassable, miles back, buck of a lifetime.
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Post by wklman on Sept 13, 2021 18:39:36 GMT -6
I've got 6+ deer on my rye field next to the lake every day so I'll probably observe them the first day I'm there, and then hunt the next.
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