Sunday, February 7, 2010

When scouting for deer, if you find many tracks but little or no droppings, what does that mean?

I have read that deer most often relieve themselves soon after getting up from bedding. If I scout an area with a good number of tracks but no droppings, does this indicate that the bedding area is not nearby? Been bow hunting most of my life in Vermont. Any advice would be appreciated.When scouting for deer, if you find many tracks but little or no droppings, what does that mean?
Some of my best bowhunting has been over areas that had tons of tracks but no droppings.Areas such as this is usually located between bedding and feeding areas.Bedding areas will contain droppings and feeding areas will contain droppings especially a good feeding area they are spending a lot of time at.But droppings do not have to be present for you to have successful hunting.When scouting for deer, if you find many tracks but little or no droppings, what does that mean?
If you are seeing tracks, and they are freshly made you are in a place they are traveling during some part of the day or night. The only way to pattern those deer is to either sit in a stand close to the trail or area you are describing, or get a trail camera. But if they are not dropping a deuce right there I would not worry. It almost does not make sense, why would a deer crap where it lives. Your whole life is spent evading predators, why would you give them more scent to find you. Just a thought. I would focus on natural funnels and food sources. Especially those points of topography that are narrow with protection that happen to be close to bedding and feeding areas. Good luck, I leave this Friday for opening day of bow in GA.
Like my dad used to say to me when we was hunting deer and I was looking for tracks......';track soup makes for piss poor eating!';
I would wait until you had found tracks and droppings. But, that's may just be my opinion.

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