Trick or Treat: Halloween can be a magical time of year in the whitetail woods

It was four days before Halloween, and I still hadn’t located anything that alerted me to the presence of bucks beginning to show themselves with any regularity. I would use the day to cover as much ground as possible to see if I could locate any annual scrapes that had been opened, as I knew that would be the secret to filling my tag on one of the magical days around Halloween.
After parking my truck, I headed toward the back of the mountain to check an oak flat where a finger that was inundated with saplings tapered off into a beaver meadow. Filling a tag on or around Halloween can be made much easier if you concentrate on the three things I planned on searching for throughout the day.