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With a lot of states opening bow season this month I thought it would be good to discuss early season set ups for mature bucks.
For the first week I set up on the edge of short fields, e.g. beans clover alph alpha etc... in the evenings only. (I've had too many deer bust me hunting fields in the mornings) I try to always have a cross wind so the wind blows away from the trail, their beds and the field. After the first week I move back and hunt heavily traveled routes in order to get those late rising bucks before it gets dark in the evenings and hunt rub lines in the morning. Then I hunt between acorns and beds and then around Holloween I hunt where the does are to try to intercept a buck sent checking doe bedding areas through the pre rut.
For the first week I set up on the edge of short fields, e.g. beans clover alph alpha etc... in the evenings only. (I've had too many deer bust me hunting fields in the mornings) I try to always have a cross wind so the wind blows away from the trail, their beds and the field. After the first week I move back and hunt heavily traveled routes in order to get those late rising bucks before it gets dark in the evenings and hunt rub lines in the morning. Then I hunt between acorns and beds and then around Holloween I hunt where the does are to try to intercept a buck sent checking doe bedding areas through the pre rut.
