EARLY SEASON Buck Sign!!! - (Should YOU Hunt It???) 

This is one of THP's best instructional videos. I like the round table discussion where everyone shares and discusses what they see. Having the videos to demonstrate puts it over the top. Keep these coming! Some of us need all the info we can get!

This is my first year saddle hunting, and my first year im public land hunting. Thanks to yall, ive opened up my hunting opportunities. Love the content yall. Been here a while, and I'll be here as long as I can hunt.

I’ll be hunting in 24 days on an Urban Hunt. It’s awesome every year we get to start a month before every else in our state. Plus it gives us 6 extra tags😂🔥

YES!! More of this right here. More info thrown down in 20 minuets than you can shake a stick at.

Grew up around a deer farm my whole life although they’re pen raised deer the bucks no matter the age always rub smaller trees early to get the velvet off because of the flexibility to get in the pockets an creases of their antlers an usually ones with small limbs on them that I have noticed over the past 15 years of really payin attention to them

A good round table discussion. But here is some more food for thought. All my deer hunting life, I'm 62 now, I have heard people argue over when is the rut, regardless as to the time within the deer season. As one man will say "Man, the rut is surely on. I have had bucks chasing after doe for the past 3 days all over me!". While another hunter, a half mile to a mile away is like "Are you kidding. I haven't seen anything all week". So here's the deal. Bucks are ready to breed by the time the velvet falls from their horns to, according to eye witness accounts as early as September to as late as January, even February in many cases. In most cases, multiple doe herds exist throughout any particular block of land, and each doe herd, like a close nit group of ladies, their menstrual cycles will become closely intertwined. When one comes into heat, the others doe will as well. Whereas the ladies in another room of the house may peak at another time of the month. This would be a good time to note that a doe herd on your selected hunting property is like your house. There exist a doe herd in your livingroom and a doe herd living in every other bedroom of your house. For this reason, the rut is always on. Not just the first or last two weeks of November, as I have heard many hunters state. So the trick is in finding out which doe group are in heat now and which ones will be soon. Remember that each estrus cycles is typically on a 28 day rotation. Typically, if you are monitoring a particular rub "intersection" and suddenly that intersection blows up with rubs, mark that date! As it typically denotes the beginning of that herds' estrus cycle. Time to hunt! The place to hunt! Good luck to all this coming season. I'll be watching.

Awesome video! Thanks providing examples on film to illustrate what y'all are talking about!

I’ve learn so much from listening to y’all’s podcast!

Always valuable information from THP..can't wait till part 2...

Diggin' the content. I think that the sign I find is very likely NOT the only sign around...it is just what I am finding, especially in thick brush.

Two days ago I lost both the properties I have hunted for the past 5 years. I went and found a place today that the gentleman said I can hunt plus they have crop damage permits available! Really excited to start this season with dove starting September 1st

You guys have great points. Because sometimes what might seem to be a bust cause there isn't an abundance of sign could end up being a good hunt. Or it could even end up the other way around. Cause I was always told from a little kid if it was easy to do everyone would do it. Also if you didn't get them let down days it wouldn't be called hunting it would be called killing.

Great information. Looking forward to the rut sign video!

When you hunt a lot of places over many years you notice and experience deer and sign . I call this hunting historically. Another big tool in your hunting chest for upcoming hunts. Also keep a log or journal.

How about making a video of the teams favorite hunts. Turkey deer elk it doesn't matter just each guy and their favorite hunt so far.

I hunt ND and labor day weekend is typically the last weekend you will find vulvate. My first Buck bow hunting was full velvet. and other deer have shed by labor day.

I’m really going to hit early season hard this year. Going to set some cameras out and try to find some buck core areas. Our region is in a major drought so I’m going to have to find secluded water sources as well.

I have found 2 spots that have all the magic, food, cover, and water year round. Take one buck out another moves right in.

You are so right about staying in the killing deer mindset!

Love the podcast style videos fellas!

Aging a rub can be a tricky thing. Something to consider is, where the rub is located. If it is in open woods with some sunshine reaching that rub, it will dry up and age much more quickly than a rub located in a heavily shaded area which can "preserve" the rub and make it look fresher than it actually is. Before trail cams, scouting for rubs, especially larger rubs, was a definite consideration. Little rubs don't mean much, could be small buck or large, but large rubs definitely mean more mature buck., Having said that, I have killed good bucks where there were zero rubs. I am much more keyed in on large tracks, feeding sources, bedding areas, and active scrapes.

Here early for once. Hello to THP guys. Ready for some cooler weather and a long deer season.

Season opens here in SC on 8/15 and I've had pics of bucks shedding velvet for the past week or so. Found several rubs on the edge of a peanut field I'll be hunting. I'll be there opening day with the rifle 😉

It might not be as exciting but I’d love to see the guys try their luck in the northeast. Anywhere in New England

Here in Texas there’s no early bow season. Generally October 1st. I can’t ever remember seeing a velvet buck here in season. But, I will hunt the rub lines which are generally along the same route year after year. Very seldom are there true scraps until at least mid October and they are nearly always along the same path area as the rubs. Favorite ancient travel routes the deer have established before I started hunting this place 16 years ago.

I hunt Michigan public land and I don’t really find a ton of sign early season, not nearly like in Iowa so when i do find fresh sign I set up on because it’s rare to even fresh buck sign early October.

Thanks for the great video!

So excited for September opener. Good luck everyone

So what do you guys consider when dealing with a lot of ATV traffic and trails? I hunt state land that is chalk filled with atv trails that get used all summer long and into the season. There are plenty of deer and we have pulled some decent bucks out, and they seem to be used to all the traffic. I'm wondering if I can somehow use these trails to my advantage. Awesome content, guys...keep it up! Good luck this year.

Man, I can’t wait for bow season. I’m shooting an old Hoyt Katera, so it aint a laser beam, but hopefully I’ll be able to knock a bruiser down.

Thanks guy's for another great video

You guys find that cameras in the woods with beans up in the ags the bucks aren’t on your cameras till velvet peel? Are the beans a manor pull outta the woods?

I’m here in central Michigan and I’ve found rubs in the past weeks and I’m curious bc I’ve never seen it this early before

Bad ass videos keep ‘em coming

I sure wish yall would come hunt in louisiana

I have a good buck on camera at 10 am 2 pm on the back of corn fields here in September..idk if he'll disappear but I think he'll stay. I will hunt him first 3 days

Very valuable vid!!! A+++!!!

Hope you all have a good week, cant wait for bow season in oklahoma

If you all was to choose a single bevel and a double bevel broadheads under 100 bucks which would it be?

Can't wait for fall weather

Should I focus on beans or corn around southern Illinois in early October?

What head phone/microphone combos are you guys using in these podcasts? Thanks!

This is my first year trying cellular cameras and I put one out but my signal is weak just one bar. Will that be a problem relying photos? Like there is pretty much no signal in the area.

“Are you rolling?” “Pshhhh… “ 🤣🤣

Put illinois on the deer tour got a good spot for yall to try.

Holler!

When are you all coming back to PA to hunt?

Anything on Scraps during September? Thanks guys! 👊🏻🏹

I had a dream I was playing hockey with them and then we went pheasant hunting 😂

Cool STUFF THANKS FOR SHARING ✌OUT LATER

I've seen 6 and 8 inch diameter cedar rubs, does that necessarily mean a big buck? I always thought so

You guys elk hunting this year?

So what’s the best acorns to hunt???

My question when it comes to scouting is when to do it - if I scout in August, is the sign I'm finding made by deer that are going to relocate to their fall range? Should I wait until the season starts and scout as I am hunting? Crazy how complicated it can be - especially on public land.

Arron knows everything , count the acorns in the tree . Come on man

How do I know it’s you guys

Are you doing a bow giveaway I received a text saying I made a shortlist for a giveaway.

Drinkin coffee and spittin straight science!!

Early gun in cwd county's in tenn gives you a chance to kill velvet buck good job on the pod 🦃🦃🇱🇷

The Hunting public should just have a tv show already!

Do you guys have some scammers working on the comments. Telling people they are shortlisted for prize's???

Nick done took a dump in the woods and used the wrong leaves lol....

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That one guy in the group always making not so humorous voice impressions Cringe 😬 Not sure 🤔 why he started this about a year ago but it’s getting real hard to watch these videos when I’m trying to take something away from the videos Bro it was kind of funny at 1st last year but man it’s getting old already I’m sure it’s hard to listen to for other THP fans as well Thanks Mindy for filling my merch order this month my son loved the olive green hoodie with the guys paddling out a buck 👍

That new guy ain’t much of a man, after that clip of him trying to pull a nail out, done it for me. If you can’t pull a nail, get him out of here.

Y’all either need a studio or get some small mics and a deck of cards and some beer and act like you’re at deer camp when you’re telling these stories.

Wearing those over all’s and camo and that stashe and ole dude don’t even know how to pull a nail. My 6 year old sister can pull a nail.

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