#1708380 - 01/05/10 11:00 AM
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What's the latest info on the possible snow amount in the SE TN area according to your models?
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#1708465 - 01/05/10 11:44 AM
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#1708544 - 01/05/10 12:35 PM
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Looks like 1-3 inches in most areas on Thursday, perhaps more in higher elevations.
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#1708557 - 01/05/10 12:45 PM
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Tomorrow is old fo0lks day at Krogers-10% discount. I'm going to go take pictures of the blue-haried crowd. (that is not a typo).
I hope it snows a freakin foot.
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#1708561 - 01/05/10 12:45 PM
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Thanks Bryan. That's pretty much what I've been see/hearing, with the exception of about 6" NW of our area, in Grundy Co, near Monteagle mtn.
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#1708564 - 01/05/10 12:46 PM
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Tomorrow is old fo0lks day at Krogers-10% discount. I'm going to go take pictures of the blue-haried crowd. (that is not a typo).
I hope it snows a freakin foot. 
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#1708785 - 01/05/10 02:58 PM
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Tomorrow is old fo0lks day at Krogers-10% discount. I'm going to go take pictures of the blue-haried crowd. (that is not a typo).
I hope it snows a freakin foot. me too,it will put my wife in a good mood,shes a teacher
Mine too. She is probably doing a snow dance right now..lol.
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#1708799 - 01/05/10 03:06 PM
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The only time my wife watches the local news/weather is when they talk about snow. She's like rainman. If you change the channel while their talking about the forecast, you will get yelled at. lol.
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#1708801 - 01/05/10 03:06 PM
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yeah, she's a teacher.
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#1708804 - 01/05/10 03:07 PM
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1-4 inches in middle TN is what weather.com is saying with wind and snow drifts.
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#1708808 - 01/05/10 03:09 PM
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The only time my wife watches the local news/weather is when they talk about snow. She's like rainman. If you change the channel while their talking about the forecast, you will get yelled at. lol.
ahahahahaha....Rainman. Snow, yeah, snow. I know EXACTLY what you are talking about.
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#1709003 - 01/05/10 04:59 PM
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Talk about time to scout!
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1-6-10 Copyright 1-2010
The Value Of Post Season Scouting.
Three inches of snow would sure help.
There is no greater tool in post-season scouting than fresh snow. We use to get it. Then Al Gore invented global warming and we seldom, get snow today. But that sure doesn’t decrease the value of post season scouting.
Some years ago, in an article for a major magazine, I wrote this sentence. “Scout when the woods are naked.” The editor, kid of about 25, edited it out because he did not understand it. I have no idea what he is doing now. What I meant was, scout when you can see what is going on.
When I hunted hard and when I was a guide, I spent almost two months of every year, post season scouting. February and March were my main months. The minute we had a fresh snow, I hit the woods.
Now let me say this about post-season scouting. If you are hunting less than 200 acres or concentrate on hunting food plots, you probably don’t need to scout. But I was hunting big tracts of hardwood timber and hunting fresh places every year. I had to know what the deer did. To do that, I had to see the terrain. That meant scouting when the leaves were off the trees-the woods were naked.
Those leafless trees allowed me to see the terrain features. Here in TN, unless we are hunting flat farm ground, deer follow terrain features as they travel. Even on flat ground, deer follow some terrain features. All the big deer Sam Collora has killed proved that. Deer don’t like flat ground. And no matter where you hunt, there will be a terrain feature. That is where you start looking. In a place such as that, you can kneel down and see the terrain variation. You can’t do that when the leaves are on the trees. You can see trails that are not readily visible later in the year. And this is when you mark stand trees or move stands.
A few years ago, my friend Bob Shebaylo, took advantage of a late season snowfall to find an isolated trail of one deer coming into a Manitoba hay field. In the early spring, he hung a stand and cut shooting lanes. Just before dark, opening day of bow season, one his hunters from WI killed a 172-inch buck. The deer was on no visible trail. The key was post-season scouting.
Another friend, Sam Collora, spends over a month scouting when the snow blankets IA. He combines it with coyote hunting. He depends on snow to help but even when it is clean ground, he scouts. He hangs his stands or moves them and then stays out of the woods. Most of his ground is flat…not all of it.
One of the main aspects of post-season scouting is you can do anything you want. You are not going to spook deer. Take a chain saw and make a perfect stand site. If a tree is in the way, cut it down (providing you have permission.) Now is the time to trim your shooting lanes, cut down tree limbs.
Some years ago, I had about 3,000 acres upon which I was guiding. During February, I created 31 stand sites using saws and limb loppers. Every stand was based on what I saw in post-season scouting. My success that next year for my clients, bow hunting only, was 50 percent, and every buck made the Pope and Young record book. Every single one of them was the result of post-season scouting.
Too many hunters worry about rubs when scouting post season. And rubs can be important, But the mistake hunters make is they hit the the woods scouting for rubs in the spring. When you find a rub in the spring, you can’t see the terrain. Everything is green and thick. Half the time, you also can’t see the rub. Look for rubs when they are still white and shiny. Find those big, signpost rubs when you can see why the buck(s) were there, why they made the rub.
If you are going to go sit in a shooting house on the edge of a food plot, don’t bother scouting. You don’t need to. However, if you are going to hunt the hills and hollows. Right now is time to start scouting.
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#1- This hunter killed this fine Boone and Crockett buck the opening day of bow season in Manitoba. It was the result of post season scouting.
#2-Post season is when you move or hang new stands. You can cut whatever you want without spooking deer.
#3-Sam Collora takes advantage of a fresh snow to hunt coyotes and do some post season scouting. The land is flat but he will find some terrain featured to key in on.
#4 Even a rub this big is hard to understand once it gets green.
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#1709198 - 01/05/10 06:39 PM
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With this snow they have predicted I am going to take the chance and scout some but what my question is what in the way of terrain features and cover. Or food sources i could look for to find some bedding areas and then later determine if bucks are using them. Some suggest would be good would like to improve this aspect of my hunting being able to locate some older bucks early.
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#1709793 - 01/06/10 12:22 AM
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Forget bedding areas. Just look for the travel pattern. Follow the trails both ways. See where they come from and where they go. Look for funnels in between. In TN all this bedding area stuff is just myth. Deer here bed wherever they want and there is no way in he11 you can tell if a buck or doe is using them.
Terrain-wise, if you have snow, you'll know what terrain features to look for. Just follow the tracks. That's what the snow is for. It shows you the tinks you can't see in the leaves. Just get out there and walk and make lots of notes.
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#1709849 - 01/06/10 05:44 AM
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Good post BW, thanks!
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#1709854 - 01/06/10 05:57 AM
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Bring on the snow, but I won't be scouting this weekend. I think we will get plenty of snow though after season for some scouting. At least I hope so.
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