Joegle
11-14-2018, 07:23 AM
I just started hunting a year or two ago and did my first tent camping type of hunt in the Thompson Nicola region this past weekend. Camp wasn’t far off the path, but would hike around all day... ended up finding some tracks eventually (a little old but it was all there was), there was a lot of hunting pressure from the roads. We followed them, because well, we hadn’t seen anything else and thought why not? After a couple hours we ended up in a bedding area, probably came across several beds just following the tracks. They were clear of snow but the vegetation in the bed was frozen so I don’t think anything had been there the previous night... basically followed the tracks until dusk, and then went to another area to sit and glass to see if anything came out at the end of shooting time. The next morning, we picked up where we left off after following the tracks, and basically there was a decent set of tracks over top the ones we made the night earlier. They ran parallel to ours, about 30 yards off through the forest until they hit a ridge, then the tracks were right on top for quite a distance (couple hundred meters?) until they veered off back into the forest. The deer pissed on our tracks where they merged on that ridge. Is that typical behaviour? I feel like because we busted through the bedding area, the deer was checking to see where we went to make sure it was safe? Or...? Thoughts?