Hi all,
I took a gander at the forecast and decided to take a little "rut-cation". Planning on hunting Thursday evening to Saturday afternoon on public land in southern Oklahoma (bow hunting).
I'm pretty familiar with this specific WMA, but I honestly don't have a ton of experience hunting during the full-on rut (which is what I'm expecting this weekend). I know of several bedding areas, both for does and bucks. I also know of some active scrapes and pretty major travel corridors. I have several mature, shooter-bucks on camera and know the general areas they occupy. I'm having a hard time deciding how to approach the hunt though.
What should my general approach be? Should I be looking at setting up in tight cover, right on travel corridors? Or would you set up on a field edge, where you could potentially see a cruising buck at a distance? In the evening, should I be targeting oaks that are actively dropping acorns, like I would in October?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Woke up at 2am this morning going over all this in my head.
I took a gander at the forecast and decided to take a little "rut-cation". Planning on hunting Thursday evening to Saturday afternoon on public land in southern Oklahoma (bow hunting).
I'm pretty familiar with this specific WMA, but I honestly don't have a ton of experience hunting during the full-on rut (which is what I'm expecting this weekend). I know of several bedding areas, both for does and bucks. I also know of some active scrapes and pretty major travel corridors. I have several mature, shooter-bucks on camera and know the general areas they occupy. I'm having a hard time deciding how to approach the hunt though.
What should my general approach be? Should I be looking at setting up in tight cover, right on travel corridors? Or would you set up on a field edge, where you could potentially see a cruising buck at a distance? In the evening, should I be targeting oaks that are actively dropping acorns, like I would in October?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Woke up at 2am this morning going over all this in my head.
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