Sitting on an area this time of year for 2 days may leave enough scent to pressure a buck to change his pattern or go nocturnal or both.
Look for heavy use deer trails. These will be doe trails.
Follow the trails looking for feeding areas and thick cover for bedding. Don't go into the bedding areas.
If you are hunting wooded areas, look at any kind of edge you can find. Fences, streams, between ponds, just inside dirt roads, edge between old growth and new growth, edge between pine and hardwood, marsh and forest, natural low spots between higher spots, 1/3 rd the way up small ridges, field and forest, or any other type of natural distinction between terrain or vegetation you can find.
Find a junction of trails leading to or from those areas or a natural funnel between the areas. Hunt that early in the season.
Young bucks will follow the doe trails, Mature bucks will follow the doe trails offset and parallel or intersecting to be downwind of the trails and will check them from a distance while in heavy cover.
Look for rubs and scrapes in a line. This will be a bucks travel corridor. Along the buck's travel corridor find small open areas that are surronded by good cover. Those are potential prime scrape areas. Old scrapes may be visible to confirm this. Hunt this end of Oct through nov.
. Always de-scent and wear rubber boats when scouting. Try not to touch anything.
If you leave too much scent, they will change their routines and or go nocturnal.
Keep us posted. If you want to read a very informative book, read Bow Hunting Pressured Whitetails. Eberhart
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