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    Culls In The Rut

    Sep 07, 2020 6 minutes

    SINCE moving to the country, deer hunting is now a lot easier. I am now able to spend more time in the bush, looking over plenty of deer in the process and do some proper scouting. Scouting never used to be an option as any spare time I used to have was spent hunting, not pre-season scouting.

    My 2014 fallow deer season scouting started 3 days before Christmas in 2013. Armed with my new camera, I hunted along the boundary of a crop on daylight and spied a mob of bucks topping out of the basin heading towards a creek. Even from some distance, I saw some good antlers, but needed to get way closer to really check them out. Following the bucks route, I found the dried out pad they had travelled along down to the creek and followed it along, always glassing ahead of me as I went. Two black ducks exploded from an isolated pond as I wound me way along

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