| Save the gun for later, there is a lot that deer can teach you
about deer behavior that would take years of hunting to accumulate.
Watch the same area when he goes into rut, start walking the general
vicinity looking for other rubs and scrapes. Look around the scrapes
for low hanging branches where the tips have been licked and small
saplings that have the scent from the glands rubbed into them.
Usually if you can find the spot where all or most of these things
are found you have located one of the primary scrapes which he will
visit at least every other day to "renew" and see if any does are
in heat. It is quite a sight to watch them since they appear really
pissed at that tree and attack it in ernest. You are sitting on
a gold mine of deer savvy. By the way, taking the other half out
to watch can get them interested in deer hunting too, gets them
some woods walking experience while the weather is still moderate.
happy hunting
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