Va late season blues

[K9kodi]

What’s your trick to hunting and harvesting late in the season. I’m hunting south of richmond in the FarmVille area. Large single tract, no dogs, little hunting pressure. Pretty successful muzzle loader and early rifle season, once rut ended I’m not even seeing bucks on cams and about the same in the woods. Largr fsrm on huge lake. Am I wasting time stand hunting this time of year? This is a newer area to me, first year on it. I know it holds some monsters. Just trying to make the most of the last week I’ll have up there

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Get in the woods and out of the stand.

 

[K9kodi]

My stands are in the woods. I can walk around some of the hardwoods, some of the lines planted years ago are walkable, the younger pines you aren’t walking through w any amount of stealth.

 

[Billy Goat]

Find food.

It's pretty common for them to show back up where they were in September now. Happens for us first few weeks of December, where you are, should be right about now.

Cutovers make stuff difficult, they can find most of what they need and not need to move too much.

 

[K9kodi]

The cutover was fresh. Hasn’t been replanted. Was cut last summer, 3 hills, but hardwoods were left. It’s pretty

 

[163bc]

find the food and you'll find the bucks.

 

[K9kodi]

I’ve always wanted a lot of land to myself to hunt. I got it and it’s way more difficult than I expected. Sooo many options haha.

 

[Glendon Mullins]

Find food.

late season in virginia is all about food, find the acorns or whatever they eat on down there in farmville this time of year

 

[timekiller13]

Food close to bedding areas. Bucks are tired from chasing does and skittish from months of hunting pressure. They aren’t going to move far from cover.

 

[K9kodi]

Yea. I figured as much. Hoping for some magic trick I didn’t know about. Trying to figure all the food and bedding areas out. Not a ton of hunting pressure due to the way the farm is set up and me being the only one hunting. Ima push the lake edges that remind me of river bottoms, we’ll see what happens a