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    Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    So what would you guys do if you're walking to your blind/stand/hunting spot first thing in the morning well before first light and you come across a relatively fresh (assuming it snowed the night before) big deer track in the snow perpendicular to the path to your on. Do you make a note of the track and maybe come back to it later in the day and continue to your blind? Or do you abandon your plan of hunting from your blind altogether and start following the fresh track instead even though its a couple of hours before daylight?
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    Re: Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    hit the stand and if nothing comes in a couple hours after light head back and see where the teacks go. If you follow in the dark you may just bump that deer and never see him again...

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    Re: Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    tinhorse is correct

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    Re: Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    Got it, that's what I thought. Thanks for the replies!
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    Re: Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    Bumping a big buck on the way to somewhere in the dark is the worst!

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    Re: Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    Quote Originally Posted by tinhorse View Post
    hit the stand and if nothing comes in a couple hours after light head back and see where the teacks go. If you follow in the dark you may just bump that deer and never see him again...
    X2. Also you will be breaking the law by following the track in the dark. Its a real grey area, but you are hunting 1hr before sunrise.

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    Are you M or F? Might get more takers with tits.

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    Re: Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    i scouted a big old mossey horned 5x5 muley in the okanagan kept checking on him he bed in the same spot for months.
    opening day i crept in there and walked to my same glassing point in the dark waiting for light...he winded me never to be seen again..to early tgat day

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    Re: Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    What do you guys carry on way to stand in the dark solo that you use for protection?....will be hunting with crossbow...just wondering what else....bear spray?....air horn?...just use your bow?

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    Re: Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    Quote Originally Posted by scotty30-06 View Post
    What do you guys carry on way to stand in the dark solo that you use for protection?....will be hunting with crossbow...just wondering what else....bear spray?....air horn?...just use your bow?
    Whatever you deem appropriate. It varies...

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    Re: Cutting a decent fresh track on your way to your blind

    following fresh tracks in the snow is one of my favorite things. Feels like real hunting
    "If you ever go into the bush, there are grizzly bears lurking behind just about every bush, waiting to pounce, so you need a powerful gun, with huge bullets" - Gatehouse ~ 2004

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