Ciao Cinghiale,
I lived in Gaeta Italy for a couple of years and love your country. I now live in Virginia and suspect that North Carolina is much like it is here since the woods in the mid-atlantic area are fairly consistent. By Thanksgiving the rut should be about over, allthough it appears to be about a week behind schedule this year. The pre rut seeking and chasing is just starting up here. The biggest issue for you will be that the leaves will all be off of the trees by then and they will be in their gun season. I don't know whether you are hunting public or private property so I can't tell you about the impact of the gun hunters. My advice would be to set up close to thick bedding areas in the morning - get in well before first light and catch them coming back to their beds. In the evening, set up in a funnel on a travel corridor to a food source. The acorns should all be gone by then, so I would look for any crops that might still be standing. If there are a lot of gun hunters about, they tend to get the deer moving, so I would sit in the stand a little longer in the morning and hope they stir some deer up as they are returning to their cars.
Topic: Deer Post rut tips (Read 356 times)
