Went out for a scout/hunt on Saturday at a new to me spot. Left the parking area and walked down the road to the boundary. This kept me from having to cross the fast moving and deep creek. To my surprise the foot traffic/hunter sign petered out after only a short distance as the brush became hard to traverse. The property border went to the right leading down a hill to a huge open field (private land). I immediately spotted a buck a couple hundred yards away. I brought up the binos and realized he was a mega giant, super wide, tall and with a huge body. I sat and watched him for 20 min as he worked across the field, up a hill and disappeared into the pines I assume he beds in. I was fairly confident he came out of the public, I’m just not sure why he was there, does, the only open water in the creek, or was he bedded there and moved because the wind switched 180*. (The wind switch was another factor in me entering this side of the property first). I stayed inside the field edge looking for a set of big tracks to determine where he was coming from but never found a distinctive set I could call his. Scouted all day, slowly, and found some good spots and returned to the field edge for the last couple of hours. I may have bumped some does about 30 yds from the field edge as I found some fresh beds (it snowed lightly all day). The buck never entered the field before dark, but 19 other deer appeared an hour before dark. I almost got a shot at 2 that came off the field straight at me but it was just too thick on the ground.
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