Anyone have an area like this?

[MUP]

I've hunted an area of hardwoods for years now that seem to draw hot does that bring the bucks with them to breed. I've witnessed 4 such occasions when a hot doe brought a big mature buck into this area that was just about to breed. I've also seen regular chases thru there as well, but have only seen the does with a buck that was tending them in this general area. I guess my question is do does have these places that they return to annually to actually do the deed, or have I just been fortunate to be able to witness these instances on a random pattern? BSK?

 

[hunter drew]

Yeah I do in Ohio. Sometimes you will have 6 to 7 bucks going after one doe. Fun hunting forsure

 

[HogHvn]

I had a place like this on Meigs Co. lease.

 

[muddyboots]

I wish I could find one of those spots.

 

[DMAG]

I have a spot like this, but what is interesting is all the years that I have hunted it, Ive always had scrapes and rubs. This year nothing was different, except the number of mature bucks that I have on camera has at least quadrupled. I have put countless hours in my other spots with food plots and sets and the one place that has been an off the wall hotspot, I have not touched. I have cameras on main trails and check them when I hunt a stand close. I pulled one today and found that last monday I had 7 or so 3.5+ bucks in broad daylight. This area didn't have that many all last year combined. I killed one last week and it turns up that I never had a picture of him. I wish I could figure out what changed. Maybe the does in the area are getting older. Also I had a pic of one of my bigger bucks and a loan doe walking down this trail yesterday. This spot is just a really thick pinch point, so naturally it has potential, but it aint never been like this.

 

[WORM82]

I wish!!! I have hunted almost 25 years now and still not seen any actual rutting activity like chasing or grunting but where I'm at it's a really good day just to see a deer.

 

[travle]

I have a spot like that on a new lease this year. Since November 3 the amount of does coming through has increased and I have had at least one buck if not more come in with them. Some weren't mature bucks but the does wouldn't let the younger ones close to them. Oddly enough the older bucks could stay right behind them and the does acted like they weren't there.

 

[gobluefan]

I would fave to hunt said spot for my opinion maybe twice

 

[Backstrapcrazy]

Would love to have a spot like that. Never witnessed in person rut activities, fighting and breeding or even grunting and chasing.

 

[MUP]

The first encounter I had in this area was a monstrously massive 10 pt tending a doe, while a spike would circle them both, coming closer with each pass. When he got "too" close, the ten would up and stomp both front hooves at him and he would fly back out about 20-30 yds, then start back in again. I've wished for years that I had taken the shot I was presented with on him, just a little brush, fine stuff, right close to him between me and him. The doe turned away down the ridge with him right on her heels, never saw them again.

 

[BSK]

I'm not sure if deer have "breeding areas"--spots they go to to "do the deed," but I have often found particular locations on a property that ONLY see deer activity during the peak of the rut. And they can be real hot spots for that time period. But they're virtually dead at other times of the season.

 

[MUP]

Sounds a lot like this place Bryan. I sat there from 12 till dark yesterday eve wo seeing a single deer.

 

[Mike Belt]

I have a stand site where in the past I've only hunted it during the rut. I've always seen numbers of deer in this spot. This year I ran a camera over a couple of scrapes in the area and all I had pics of were a couple of does with fawns and a small 6 pointer. I hunted it prior to the rut as did a friend and saw zip. Once the rut had started I hunted it again and saw the only chasing I've seen all year from multiple bucks. It appears that this is the same type area you describe. When being chased the does tend to lead the bucks through this area. It's not a bottleneck and the surrounding cover is similar for great distances but for an unknown reason they run through there.

 

[redhunterZ71]

Yep I have several spots like this. I try to hunt a different one each day. But it seams these places are hot ever year for seeing them chasing. I killed my biggest buck ever this year in one of these spots. Not a rub or scrape no where in area but I knew they would be cruising or chasing does in there.


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[MUP]

That's another point I didn't mention red, that there aren't any rubs or scrapes in this immediate area either. Now I do see does and some yearling bucks sometimes in there during a couple of bow/recon hunts tho.

 

[TNGRIZZLY_]

I wish I could find one of those spots.

x2

 

[GreyGoose]

i have been fortunate to have stumbled upon a little honey hole.i was still hunting about five years ago and came across a doe being pursued by a buck in a little funnel area that i had never hunted before.ive hunted there with a blind set up since and shot atleast one good buck a year there,three this year.ive passed on many .this place turned out to be a deer highway.its not a feeding area ,more less a travel corridor