MossySNPR

Theres mine for the season, gets me stoked!

Theres mine for the season, gets me stoked...

Diaphram all the way, once its mastered, the possibilities are endless.

That looks so good, I want to live in it...

Beer swillin' hockey nut...LOL. Good times, good times

MossySNPR Adult Easterns

Hey guys, I've been trying to figure out what that amazing painting is called that shows a tom gobbling with lightning in the sky?! I'm not sure if their are several of these, but if anybody could tell me the name of the painting or a link to it I would much appreciate! -Moss

Hang in there TurkeyGirl, let them heat up. Your birds might still be with hens and not willing to gobble. The season here in Ontario just began a week ago, and I haven't heard one gobble but I slammed a jake on tuesday. It was all about being where I knew the turkeys would be later in the day, I never had to call once, except to stop him. Remember, rooks go out afraid to make mistakes, vets go out knowing their going to make em. Shoot straight n' keep giviner - Moss

Whuddapppp dudes... haven't reported for awhile. I didn't see the buck I was after at all bowhunting, although his sign is still there. He has yet to come out of his nocturnal routine for that time of season, visiting his scrapes in the cover of darkness! Shotty just opened on monday, and I have been out with the boys in the club all mornings, lucky I am on afternoons this week! Monday a fella we didn't know was 80 yards behind a bros stand and dropped a monster canadian 8 point. I got to take a look at the buck, it was very nice, since I can't even remember this dudes name I can't gewt a picture lol. Tuesday I had 2 big country does traveling with a fawn, rangefound at 31 yards , my scentlok worked absolutely perfect. They crossed my entrance path as they fed around my stand a couple times and continued off into a bushline at 70 yds. Nothing today but a wet rump and some jerked fellas! rained all mornin here got so bad we had to call it quits at 8. Keep truckin boys I got a huge deer drive day tomorrow with another group of our club members.

LifeNRA has it right, I also love to bring dried fruits and seeds, little snacks of that nature. I just go to the bulk store and buy a couple big bags. As for lunch, I pack extremely light so I just like to stack up one sandwich, a bottle of water, an apple and or a banana.

In non pressured areas, mature bucks will not react as severely to scent use as they would in a pressured area, thats a fact. I hunt in mostly pressured areas and I am a firm believer that scents can and do work. I DEFINATELY do not agree of ANY human odour, whether it turns to ammonia or magic fairy dust in 30 seconds, to be used anywhere near my stand sites. I think that frequent scent use causes mature bucks to associate strong scents with human activity. Sex scents used at only in the pre rut and rut are most effective. Use them in moderation or like the directions imply, DON'T squirt half your bottle of Tinks69 at the base of your tree and all over the bushes. A mature buck will recognize this as an estrus doe scent, but associate the over abundunce of scent as being un-natural. He will simply avoid the area all together. The only scent I will use these days, is dominant buck urine, and real tarsal glands. When myself or somebody I know shoots a buck and I am present, I always cut the tarsal glands out, shrink wrap them and put them in the freezer for next years season. I mark the time of season and relative age of the buck. These are GREAT for scent drags on way to stand, then to hang within comfortable shooting distance. Any buck that crosses a tarsal gland drag will come into investigate where as does will sometimes ignore it.

Right on guys keep gettin out there! Headin to the pre rut spot I have picked out this year, The stand will be hung tomorrow morning at 5AM on a large corner patch of hardwoods protruding into a massive cornfield thats inbetween a major road and a row of busy country houses. Lots of scrape activity I found while turkey hunting made me choose this spot, I haven't even been in there once this year but I know its a perennial hot spot. I'll see what the does and bucks are up to at this time of season, hope I slam one for some meat, memories and points for the boys. Guns to the lungs and giver' to the liver! Goodluck

Common problem at this time of year. Simply arrive on stand 2 hours before daylight. Let the deer pass by you in the dark. When light rolls around, they will not have been spooked by your entrance. I do this almost every hunt this time of year.

colescott is right, depending on the amount of hunting pressure your area recieves will depend whether or not you have initiated his nocturnal phase. If you have spooked him, then most of his movements will take place between right after dark and right before first light. This is ESPECIALLY true when hunting a field or extremely open area. You will have to wait until the pre-rut and rut phase, when, like colescott said, his urge to breed overcomes his natural caution. I would definately wait a week to a week and a half to hunt this spot again, just to be sure. Yes, its hard when you know there is a nice buck in your area, but if you keep hunting it and leaving behind more human scent, he will totally avoid the area himself and thats not even including the does that get spooked, which in the rut will drag your buck around on a string. Does are like buck magnets at this time of year, so watch them also. Remember, everytime you enter the woods, you leave behind a trace of yourself. Hunt this spot right, and sparingly if you want to connect with this mature deer.

Thanks philip

Hey bud welcome to the forums. First off, if your season has been going awhile, you are experiencing the dreaded "october lull" where it seems like every buck in your area disappears into thin air, leaving does and fawns behind. The case is that in pressured areas, after only a couple days of the season, most deer experience a few bowhunters walking around in the woods. Because a mature buck feels he has been intruded upon, most of his movements take place between right after dark and right before first light. Also, surrounding foliage loss causes a buck to feel as though the woods are too barren for him to risk traveling normal routes and exposing himself in the open. This is natural for all mature bucks to become "nocturnal" during the middle weeks of october. When the pre rut and rut rolls around, a bucks urge to breed makes him want to move in daylight hours to accept does that come into estrous.

Scrapes are located anywhere there is a tight point in a natural funnel, in or around deer bedding areas, following rub lines, along field edges, and most importantly any funnel that goes between a bedding and feeding area. Look for an area you know a buck is comfortable using, with ample cover to conceal him in a funnel. A mature buck will have a primary scrape area, and that can either mean a long line of scrapes along a rub line, or even 3 or 4 main scrapes under a single tree. The most important part of a scrape is the licking branch(can be anywhere from 5-10), deer will nip off the ends, and rub their pre orbital glands over it(located under the eyes). This relays herd information as to what does are in the area and receptive to the mature bucks breeding aggression. Scrapes along field edges in pressured areas(which most are) usually will be visited only in the security of darkness, no mature buck likes to expose himself in open areas at anytime, until the pre rut and rut when a bucks breeding aggression makes him move in daylight hours to conquer estrous does. Primary pre rut scrape areas are your best bet of the whole season in my eyes. None of the does at this time are in estrous, and that means the ground and surrounding cover take the punishment of the mature bucks breeding aggression. Bucks are vigorous at this time and start to question any buck surrounding them. Dominance is established at this time. Hunt a primary scrape area sparingly and try not to leave any trace of your presence, otherwise the buck thats making them might just adjust his time frame as to when he tends them, or travels that particular route. Rut scrapes tend to be hit or miss because of the time of year. Does lead bucks around on very unpredictable routes and most of the time it doesn't include around rub lines or scrape lines. Bucks still tend to scrapes during the rut, all I'm saying is pre rut is your best bet for hunting over rub lines, scrapes or primary scrape areas.

Well fellas the ol' pre rut is startin' to kick it into high gear! Getting colder here, found 8 new scrapes opened days prior to my hunt. Nothin' but the ground and bushes are going to take a poundin' by mature bucks the next few weeks. Now we can start to call just a little, follow those rub lines and hunt those prime scrape areas, its the best bet for this time of season!

Nice nice boys gitter done keep it up! Headin' up north this weekend to check and hunt a perennial scrape area I know of. Should be getting around that time it becomes active. The buck that made the scrapes last year was not killed, I know this because of what the surrounding hunt camps killed and my bud who killed a yearling 6 point there. Going to go in two hours before first light, hope for the right wind, hang on my stand and sit all day saturday and half the day on sunday. Thats all I will hunt this spot until the first week of rifle. Anyways, you can't kill big bucks on the computer boys let em' have it goodluck!

hey Wtnhunt, thats great you already have a pre-season scrape line open and active. I'm not sure of the rut stages where your from but if I found an active scrape line opened already I would definately save it until the pre-rut when your buck decides to start moving more in daylight hours, to tend his scrapes. You could have a nice buck there buddy, take care of er'... GO TEAM

Sorry I haven't been that active guys, I haven't forgot! I've been out for only two bow hunts, I've decided that because of my lack of scouting this year, its best if I limit my hunting until the rut stages. I do know on my new solo property their is a big mature buck walking the east fence row, every year, first week of November. Surrounding properties are gentle farmers that do not allow hunting, so I know unless he was hit by a car or fell on his last year in winter he will walk that fencerow again like he did the past years, and with the owners MRI, i'll be there with my shotgun by that time. Late october should produce BIG chances for me, because by then the hunt club members will be almost fed up with rockin' geese and ducks and focus more on trees and bucks . Anyways boys just checkin in!! By the way, the hunt club is up to a whoppin' 550 geese so far this year between members and guided hunts. Sick year!

Yeaaaaaaaaa boys good line up! Its great to be back on the site right in time for the annual deer contest! I have to follow my fellow Canadians on this team name thing, Team #7 - CAN-AM BUCKINATORS Monday october 1st is D day for myself here in Ontario, going to stick to hunting fruit and mast baring trees until the pre-rut starts, then its serious game time. I have a buck tag, a doe tag , a muzzle loader tag for the week long december muzzleloader hunt, and access to more tags if I need them.

Opportunities for both geese and duck are plentiful here in Ontario but man I gotta say.....as long as I live, bring on the honkers!!! Mozz

MossySNPR 20 Oct 1 - Dec 31

Right on thanks so much!!! Tomorrow morning I'll get a little closer, even if I have to be there at 5:15! By the way, I usually just use a single hen decoy(I pack light), I've already tried turkey fights... I think the key here is to be close to them, not call them at all and simply intercept them!