What is your strategy now?

Folks,
What will your strategy be for the coming weeks, before the start of the 2 nd rut? Now that a lot of crops are off the ground and food sources change.

Me for the next couple of weeks, I don't think I will change anything, do the odd bleat here and there, few young grunts, will put the rattle bag away .

I know there is all kinds of scientific info as to when the rut is supposed to begin, but, a deer has a heart beat, a brain, and does are woman, so they have moods too, but I found this past week saw some
weird behaviours, late in the week, Saturday still saw does running and I mean running from bucs, still saw scraps being visited. \
Also had a nice size 8 pt come out, I grunted softly, stopped him, softly grunted again and he turned and walked back the way he came????

So what will your strategy be?

More still hunting travel corridors and the edges of food plots.
Best of luck

Don't think I'll change nothing, by the looks of the snow I'd dress warmer. Gang brought 6 bucks in during rifle hunt and none of them had a doe with them except for the one I saw on Thursday. Ended up taking the doe as it was worth half the money pot back at camp. But she didn't look to interested in him either. Lots of corn and beans still on in my area.

In my area the rut just finally kicked in watched big body 6 chase doe around for 10 min yesterday morning in soybean field after he was done I rattled him at 300yard he came all the way in to 30yards broadside but I let him pass I got my bowtech sighted on something else that’s bigger but 6pointer he came in to fight the next week and half has always been prime time rut activity in my area

switch back to morning and evening hunts, lighter on the calls, start hunting over bait less over scrapes.

Hunted WMU 60 for 2 days. Too much snow and very cold, but I sat in a treestand ALL Saturday plus Sunday morning. No deer seen, but guys next door had three hanging. My friend had a good sized buck come out Sunday morning, but he had no shot...
We will continue to bait and hunt that area. No changes. We will also bait closer to home for the December controlled hunt.
Snow on the ground reveals their travel patterns, so if I change anything, I will set up an ambush point along those trails.

As an aside, hockeymjt, do you hunt close to home? We had a cottage south of Tobermory for many years (Cape Chin North area) but we never saw any deer up there. Just bears and rattlesnakes!

Going to try and get out for my first hunt still!!! Was not able to before the first controlled hunt due to work and family, But I am planning on hunting a few days in a row in the next week or so.Going to still hunt and a bit of walk and stalk....hopefully I have learned enough from the past years hunting this farm to actually connect this year. Good Luck to all

Talking to my neighbor, friend, rut is just starting in our area. Farmer called me on the weekend to say he started cutting the corn. Planning on hunting this Thursday to Sunday. Will sit quietly in my tree stand overlooking field. If I don’t get anything, I will hunt the last 4 days of muzzle loader season. Nice to see a few guys get their first. Congrats and good luck to all.

Action just starting to heat up. I wouldnt put the rattle away quite yet.

Lots of bucks on the move in 93....the next week should be really good.

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Originally Posted by Hawkman

Hunted WMU 60 for 2 days. Too much snow and very cold, but I sat in a treestand ALL Saturday plus Sunday morning. No deer seen, but guys next door had three hanging. My friend had a good sized buck come out Sunday morning, but he had no shot...
We will continue to bait and hunt that area. No changes. We will also bait closer to home for the December controlled hunt.
Snow on the ground reveals their travel patterns, so if I change anything, I will set up an ambush point along those trails.

As an aside, hockeymjt, do you hunt close to home? We had a cottage south of Tobermory for many years (Cape Chin North area) but we never saw any deer up there. Just bears and rattlesnakes!

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Hawkman, I hunt a number of places, Mount Forest have some properties, Caledon a few. If I still have my License in December I will hunt the Tobermory area, closer to miller lake and Ferndale. I know a few people that are very successful in the chin area, There are some very large bucs if you go deep, One are I love to hunt is just outside the Johnsons harbour, have seen some serious bucs there, yet to take one mind you, but they do not show themselves until mid to late December, when they start to head to yards, and yes lots of bears too,

Over the next couple weeks the peak of the rut will be winding down and I think it'll be a good time to hunt over water, and food sources. Sitting over scrape lines or rubs, will become less and less effective as the day's go by. Setting up between bed and food, you may still catch a buck checking doe bedding areas, I wouldn't leave the rattle at home just yet.

In 77b scrapes and rubs are still active, but really haven't seen the amount of does or bucks cruising as in years passed. Wondering if things are a bit late or if they were early and we missed the bulk of the seeking and chasing.

I'm tagged out & time to take care of the honey do list. That's my plan... lol

Wait to december once corn is cut and bait. They always come to bait late season.

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Don't think I'll change nothing, by the looks of the snow I'd dress warmer. Gang brought 6 bucks in during rifle hunt and none of them had a doe with them except for the one I saw on Thursday. Ended up taking the doe as it was worth half the money pot back at camp. But she didn't look to interested in him either. Lots of corn and beans still on in my area.

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How does your camp organize the pay out?

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Hawkman, I hunt a number of places, Mount Forest have some properties, Caledon a few. If I still have my License in December I will hunt the Tobermory area, closer to miller lake and Ferndale. I know a few people that are very successful in the chin area, There are some very large bucs if you go deep, One are I love to hunt is just outside the Johnsons harbour, have seen some serious bucs there, yet to take one mind you, but they do not show themselves until mid to late December, when they start to head to yards, and yes lots of bears too,

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Thanks for that info. Our niece is building a cottage just south of Tobermory, so I might have a place to stay next year ;) .
Johnson's Harbour is where everyone used to hunt from what I heard in the area, but I was lucky to find a single shed antler there, and bagged a bird or two over the years... Lost our dog there for three days in 2000 during a cold Thanksgiving hunt. I never hunted deer in that area, but signs or tracks were next to none.
Places like Caledon or Collingwood sound more promising to me anyway!

I'm still baiting and taking pictures for another hunter who hunts my property. deer have stopped coming by and i saw alot of tracks in the snow elsewhere. deer are changing things up. might be worth moving to where we are seeing the travel routes.