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Episode # 258 Part 2 Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works. Welcome to part two of Dr. Ken Nordberg and we talked about whitetail tracks his new book coming out 2016 Pocket Guide to Whitetail Tracks Fall and Winter in the first segment. Now this is the second segment where we're gonna continue talking about blinds for whitetails and then were gonna finish up this segment with hunting for mature whitetails. So Dr. Nordberg welcome to the show again.
Dr. Nordberg: Okay, thank you, I'm glad to be here.
Bruce: Let's just recap folks we ended the last segment with the openers there you're sitting in your blind or your tree stand but once day three begins something else changes over and you change sites if you're not seeing a deer in the morning then at noontime or so you make a decision and you move to a new spot. Now how do you decide where that new spot's gonna be?
Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
Dr. Nordberg: Well the way we do it is look for their fresh tracks, freshly made tracks and we do that midday usually between 11:00 and 12:00 when we end up in camp and have lunch and then we go out to places where we found those fresh tracks of big bucks.
And so we have about 13 guys in our camp nowadays I got lots of grandkids in camp nowadays it probably won't be long I'll have great grandkids out there as well. But we hunt an area now a wilderness area that's up to six square miles in size and out of the square miles we have certain trails they're actually connecting deer trails that move widely through each of these areas and my sons and I, we cruise those between 11:00 and noon every day unless we're bringing in a big buck but we cruise those every day. Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
And we learned to do that from wolves. Wolves use this same technique of cruising on certain trails to find fresh scents of likely prey and we have a lot of wolves.
Wolves use this same technique of cruising on certain trails to find fresh scents of likely prey and we have a lot of wolves
I've been studying wolves now since 1990 and we have way too many wolves in our country but they've taught us a lot about deer hunting. And I call their trails that they use, and their hunting areas are up 100 square miles in size so it's pretty large but they follow these specific trails and we thought, "Well gee wouldn't it be nice if we could do that and smell where the bucks were?" Well, we don't need to do that, we can tell where they are by their tracks. And by the sizes of their tracks. And how fresh they are. And so every day usually between 11:00 and 12:00 we leave our stand sites and head back to camp but on the way we'll hike as much as we need to. Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
Usually, we don't have to go through a whole mile to find fresh tracks of a buck, one that's been there this morning and therefore likely to be there toward sundown today and probably tomorrow morning as well as long as they don't alarm that buck. So that's where we go. Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
We can do this because we use tree stands, I even used one last year, and we use tree stands during those first three days of the season but after that and we use at least one tree stand for only one day and then we'll go to the second tree stand, and the third tree stand and those locations were determined by scouting. Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
But after that, that scouting information isn't worth much because these older bucks, especially and a lot of older does as well, once they realize you're in the woods and they smell you or see you or hear you they know, "Hey, he's here he's back in the woods we gotta watch out." And so they know, at least they act like they know, that before you mess around out in the woods there you young deer you better find out where that hunter is first so you don't get too close to him and t...
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By Whitetail hunting podcasting expert, consultant & author throughout North AmericaDr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works. Welcome to part two of Dr. Ken Nordberg and we talked about whitetail tracks his new book coming out 2016 Pocket Guide to Whitetail Tracks Fall and Winter in the first segment. Now this is the second segment where we're gonna continue talking about blinds for whitetails and then were gonna finish up this segment with hunting for mature whitetails. So Dr. Nordberg welcome to the show again.
Dr. Nordberg: Okay, thank you, I'm glad to be here.
Bruce: Let's just recap folks we ended the last segment with the openers there you're sitting in your blind or your tree stand but once day three begins something else changes over and you change sites if you're not seeing a deer in the morning then at noontime or so you make a decision and you move to a new spot. Now how do you decide where that new spot's gonna be?
Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
Dr. Nordberg: Well the way we do it is look for their fresh tracks, freshly made tracks and we do that midday usually between 11:00 and 12:00 when we end up in camp and have lunch and then we go out to places where we found those fresh tracks of big bucks.
And so we have about 13 guys in our camp nowadays I got lots of grandkids in camp nowadays it probably won't be long I'll have great grandkids out there as well. But we hunt an area now a wilderness area that's up to six square miles in size and out of the square miles we have certain trails they're actually connecting deer trails that move widely through each of these areas and my sons and I, we cruise those between 11:00 and noon every day unless we're bringing in a big buck but we cruise those every day. Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
And we learned to do that from wolves. Wolves use this same technique of cruising on certain trails to find fresh scents of likely prey and we have a lot of wolves.
Wolves use this same technique of cruising on certain trails to find fresh scents of likely prey and we have a lot of wolves
I've been studying wolves now since 1990 and we have way too many wolves in our country but they've taught us a lot about deer hunting. And I call their trails that they use, and their hunting areas are up 100 square miles in size so it's pretty large but they follow these specific trails and we thought, "Well gee wouldn't it be nice if we could do that and smell where the bucks were?" Well, we don't need to do that, we can tell where they are by their tracks. And by the sizes of their tracks. And how fresh they are. And so every day usually between 11:00 and 12:00 we leave our stand sites and head back to camp but on the way we'll hike as much as we need to. Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
Usually, we don't have to go through a whole mile to find fresh tracks of a buck, one that's been there this morning and therefore likely to be there toward sundown today and probably tomorrow morning as well as long as they don't alarm that buck. So that's where we go. Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
We can do this because we use tree stands, I even used one last year, and we use tree stands during those first three days of the season but after that and we use at least one tree stand for only one day and then we'll go to the second tree stand, and the third tree stand and those locations were determined by scouting. Dr. Ken Nordberg Blind Works
But after that, that scouting information isn't worth much because these older bucks, especially and a lot of older does as well, once they realize you're in the woods and they smell you or see you or hear you they know, "Hey, he's here he's back in the woods we gotta watch out." And so they know, at least they act like they know, that before you mess around out in the woods there you young deer you better find out where that hunter is first so you don't get too close to him and t...