Nov. 8: The Scrape Tree, Bonus Terrain Hunting Tips | Bowhunting Whitetails w/ Bill Winke
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- We hunt the Scrape Tree looking for a nice 10 pointer that has been hitting the scrape under its branches. While in the stand, I discuss the best way to hunt the terrain that I am looking at (ridges and ravines). I need to be hunting more in the doe bedding areas, but I explain why I am reluctant to get really aggressive at this time. My best chance to kill the buck I am hunting will come at the tail end of the rut. Good luck.
Love the daily during the rut hunts. Keep us updated! Plus I can live through you while unable to hunt...
Bill I have followed you for years really enjoy your content. Please continue the daily updates. Today was a good day finally been really slow until today. Southeast Iowa
Thanks
You forgot to say “and always dream big”! 😂 Bill you’re exactly right about those points where deer bed. I have a lease in West Virginia and the buck I’m hunting lives on a point that is perfect for him to detect me. It’s a ridge that runs from North west to South East. The only time I get pictures of him is when there is a North West wind. The bedding area on that point is not on my lease and it has been really hard to set up on this deer. And yes I’m hunting the contour lines and dropping up or down according to wind. Good with your hunt and I could use some good luck for mine lol.
Keep them coming Bill! Love the daily vlogs. Time is right, weather seems good, only matter of time. GL!
I enjoyed the real life hunt. Thank you for lessons on ridge and valley hunting.
I agree, the daily content is super. My little brother lives in Calmar which is probably fairly close to you and I've hunted with him there many times in Nov. so it's fun to keep up with your endeavors, the weather etc. Great stuff, hope you keep it up and best of luck getting out of the rut your in this rut... :)
Great videos Bill!! I’m hunting wisconsin and finding your information very useful, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I enjoy daily updates, gives me few minutes to sit and chill in evening
Really appreciate you sharing all that knowledge in detail you acquired over the years. Helps the weekend hunter plan an effective strategy during the work week. Good luck and hope to see an arrow released soon!
It has to be so hard at times going from the property you built in Southern Iowa to now having multiple consecutive rut days with no deer sightings and no buck that really excites you! Hang in there Bill, it will happen!
I’ve been thinking that since the first card pulls on this place lol.
Haven’t been seeing any deer at all the weather has been warm here in Ohio
I am enjoying the daily journal style content. It seams to be more “real”. When that moment of truth is upon you it will make all previous entries that much better. Keep grinding in and out of stand. Thanks and happy hunting.
Bill, definitely prefer the daily updates, even though they are shorter. Keep them coming!! Good luck!
Really like the daily updates! It’s nice to compare what’s going on in Iowa, when I’m in Kansas or Wisconsin. Good luck Bill
Texting this 7:22 November 9 in a tree stand in Kansas!
I don't know why but THIS VIDEO finally made me understand topography and buck bedding! Thank you
Matthew, I am glad it did. Good luck.
Thanks Bill, I love the rut updates. I’ve hunted 3 separate farms here in Missouri and it’s been very slow on all of them too
Liking the daily content Bill.
Great explanation on hunting ridges. I don’t have big hills where I hunt but the same principle would apply on rolling timber I would think. Another interesting video. Thanks
Steven, yes it should. Had the same behavior on the southern Iowa farm where the hills were about 1/4 as high. Good luck.
Glad to see I'm not the only one only seeing bucks on camera, at night! About 10 days ago, we had mid-day buck movement for about 48 hours. Hoping things pick up soon. (Western PA). Front is coming through this morning. Temps dropping. Getting back out there this evening.
Same in Michigan. Last weekend in October was the craziest rutting activity I've ever seen. Extremely slow ever since.
Love the corn wat better in there then last year good luck bill hope all is well!
This has to be the slowest rut I've seen in a while.... Also seems like the big bucks I've been seeing have been replaced by spikes and 4 pointers. Will be back out Friday morning then staring next Thursday my 2 weeks vacation starts for Indiana firearms opener that weekend. Not sure how that's going to go. Still have standing corn on the farm. I don't know if that's helping or hurting at this point. I do have 2 foodplots they can use also.
Great information as always bill. Do you feel the same information applies in the south as of days
Well I am a bit more encouraged that you are experiencing similar situations. I have only harvested a doe early for management and freezer. But no shooter bucks in range. Only seen a couple from a distance but couldn't draw them in. It's been pretty quiet past few hunts.
Bill love the show very informative. Just had a good buck in my scrape at 11:45 AM would you recommend going after him this evening or waiting and hunting it all day tomorrow just looking for some help thanks
It comes down to where and when you can hunt him without being detected. If you have a good spot for this afternoon that you feel you can get to and from without the deer knowing, there is no reason to wait. Good luck.
Good luck to yall , id go a ridge a day 5 day rotation til encounters happen
Very slow in East Central IN since the warm up. My two shooters havent been on cam since 11/5. Pretty typical in my experience. Once it gets cold agin friday-sunday I'm hoping it picks back up. These two bucks are biiiiiiig.😊
Thanks, Bill! Is there a discount code or promo deal for Code of Silence gear?
DeerCast looks great to good next 3 days in western il. Then it tapers back to poor hunting through the 18th. Our first gun season will be very slow on movement unless pressured.
Curious if your areas having a hard ehd die off this year ? I base outta the alabama blackbelt. Home of the late january rut. Imagine having to keep your stands un pressured from oct 15 to January 15 , give or take, id put our jan 18th the same as november 7 for most of the country, season ends Feb 10 😂...for several reasons i elected to stay home this season, things are tough all over, ill hunt the blackbelt, and a buddies place on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi river, we dont get as much ehd it seems. Not the least of my reasons was everyone i know up thru the grainbelt was predicting a down year due to dieoff, im beginning to think we underestimated the severity of this one, good luck to all
It was warm in where I hunt November 7th but I had the most insane rut raging activity I have ever experienced. Three bucks were fighting over a doe off and on from an hour before shooting light till about 9:45. Most of it was within 60 yards of me. I kept waiting for a shot at the nicest buck but the only time he came through a slam dunk shooting lane he was running so hard after the doe that I couldn’t get him to stop even by yelling at him. Even then they all didn’t leave for another 45 minutes. If I had been 150 yards in any direction it would’ve been very easy to have no idea this was happening. I might have heard some blowing in the distance but that would’ve been it. It was 60 degrees an hour before daylight. That evening it was dead quiet. It’s just so hard to predict.
What are those buggies you guys were on, love the videos and info given keep on dreaming big
Thanks. Nick, those are Xidars. You can see them at: www.goxidar.com/
I like this format.
Here in southern Ohio the 12 cell cams are showing next to no movement. High 60’s low to mid 70’s. Sad. I don’t want to educate any deer. They’ve been very busy cutting LOTS of corn so I think it has them a little shy. Maybe just afternoon hunts only? Good job. Thank you
How do the deer not see you move in the valley? Is it that thick on those bedding points that they can’t see far? I have trouble with swirling winds also in my valleys.
It is pretty thick. That is one of the main reasons for thicker timber, in addition to more browse for the deer.
Why did the farmer not take a few rolls of corn out of those fields 👍✌🏻🇺🇸
What kind of vehicle is that on the hunt I heard of electric bikes but that's awesome
That is a scooter made by a company called Xidar. They are not sponsors but we are playing with them/testing them this year. Here is their website: www.goxidar.com/
Tough sledding around those parts this year! Where is all the heavy rutting activity!? Really wierd
Totally dead. I am going to try to figure out what went wrong. Maybe it will kick in later this week, but it has been really tough so far. Good luck.
@@bill-winkesame here in Western PA. Tons of buck sign in thick cover just nocturnal.
I shit mine on the Nov 1st at 2:00 in the afternoon in Pa they were going crazy that day it was cold had some light snow flurries that day. It was early but I hunted the morning and never left the stand cus the bucks were in the move the whole day
What brand camo are you guys wearing? Looks warm and blends to the bark of the tree well
It’s Code of Silence apparel.
Yes, Brian got it right. I think Scheels carries it and I am sure some others. Here is their website: codeofsilence.com/
Bill? Have you ever ran across a situation where it’s opposite of what you said about the beddin points I understand it’s the normal for them but the 5th I had a Buck come down a ridge point facin north headed straight north with a north east wind, I can’t understand how he would have been beded on the ridge wind to back, & no more than 200 yards back to south is a gravel road needless to say he started to cross threw the ridge after hittin a scrape & ended up 4 yards in front of me bounded back & I shot over his back at 30yrds would have been my biggest Buck ,do you believe i should throw another shot at that ridge I haven’t been back & he did not smell me but after the shot he crash threw the woods 50 to 60 yards until he hit the drainage & walked away from there (this is public but does not get hunted until fire arms which is the 18th for me here in Indiana thanks Bill!!
Dream Big brother 🙏
Do I see “big” on the shoulder of your jacket?
I wish. I think that is the Code of Silence Logo.
get out and hunt seems the theme
Hard to look at that much habitat/ food and not see any deer. Perhaps it could be the genetically modified corn with little nutritional value being grown for fuel. The animals know the difference and will eat the higher nutritional food first.
I don't think that is it. They aren't in any of my food plots - clover, brassicas, sorghum, corn. There are still millions of acorns and literally tons of apples on the ground and not a high deer density to mop them up. They will appear after the rut and will start on my plots. In some ways it is a good problem to have - produces very healthy deer, but without stress they are very hard to hunt. Good luck.
Bill what kind of binocular strap is that ?
Kevin, I just made that from a piece of stiff rope. I like that it is easy to throw around my neck because it never tangles on anything. Good luck.
@@bill-winke was wondering I thought it was thick parachord? Just got new binocular n was paying attention to yours.Thanks for the info Bill.
Totally dead here on 3 farms. Worse rut activity Ive ever seen.
First….yay for me
The rutting activity is happening on someone elses property. It may not happen on yours every year. Also, this myth of nocturnal bucks. The bucks are on someone elses property during daylight and making it to yours after dark. Its been scientifically proven.
It's happening doesn't mean it's during the day and most times it's in thick cover. Happens right under some guys noses when they think it's on the neighbors.