How to Hunt the Pre-Rut Oct 18-Nov 1: Access, Acorns & Scrapes

How do you hunt the pre-rut when bucks shift off early-season bedding?

Cody sits down with Steve Sherk Jr., John Prokop, and Greg Kazmierski to break down Oct 19-Nov 1 for deer hunting — access first, then acorns, then deer scrapes — and how to hunt morning vs evening through the shift into the whitetail rut .

If you bow hunt pressured whitetails on public ground with limited time, this is how to pick better access, hunt acorns without blowing bedding, and read scrapes by time of day.

In this episode:

• Access - how to get in clean for mornings vs evenings without bumping deer

• Acorns - how the crop shifts daylight movement and where to set up

• Scrapes - morning scrapes near buck bedding vs evening scrapes near does and food

• Look past the scrape: funnels and pinch points that kill more 64 big bucks

• Trail-cam history as context, not a guarantee

• When all-day sits are worth it in this window

• Prioritize rut phase over calendar dates

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