Here's my update on our new property up north Missouri, and to answer Kevin's question while I'm at it.....no I haven't, but the rubs and scrapes are Everywhere!
I found the best funnel/pinch point on the entire property and laid claim to it with my Big Dog Man and a Half 18' ladder stand. The property is fairly flat with few hills, mostly brushy ditches and draws. It was mainly pasture ground for cattle for years, but this year the property owner decided to move the cows and plant soybeans......Yummmy!
There's also a dry creek bed that holds pockets of water running right along the edge of my funnel. Squirrels, doves, skunks, and other critters have been drinking from it daily and I think it's one of the few water sources in the area. That's a bonus!
All the beans have been harvested and the only cover left is the ditches, draws, and fence rows. Where my stand is place is right at the intersection where about 4 of these come together and connect to the main chunk of timber that runs the entire length of the property from one end to the other. It's a major artery for all deer movement on the property which is 1/4 mile wide by 1 mile long. Rubs and scrapes are plentiful throughout this major timber highway and on my first morning sit a couple of young bucks came cruising by...a fork horn and a wannabee 8pt. which had 4 on one side and a dagger like spike with a brow tine on the other. I also got them on video. You can see it here >>---->
I saw quite a few does also and deer movement was restricted to early morning and late evening due to the warm temps and full moon, but I saw plenty to give me the confidence boost that I was needing.
I also found some of the largest rubs I have ever seen in my whole life that ranged from the size of your thumb up to the size of a cedar fence post. Then as low as knee high off the ground up to even with my man boobs.
Here's a large rub that's one of the many that adorn my funnel and is less than 50 yards from my stand. I stood my Bear Grizzly next to it for size comparison.....I'd like to get a crack at the Hoss that whittled on this cedar tree!
This shows part of an access road that crosses the dry creek bed for tractor and combine access to the fields. Deer tracks galore in this road and I've got my trail camera set up on the edge of it facing in one direction up through the ditch my treestand sits in. Hopefully I'll catch one of the bruisers on camera that are roaming this area.
Topic: *** 2010 Missouri Tradtional Deer Hunt thread (Read 5110 times)
