Scouting: Deer Droppings

I have a love/hate relationship with deer hunting.  I enjoy it while the weather is nice, but as the season drags on, I begin to hate it.  The only thing that really keeps me deer hunting is the allure of lots of "free" meat.  You can only hunt deer that exist, and one way to see where deer are is by reading sign. Today's sign is all about deer poop.

This is a picture of deer scat.  Rabbit scat is very similar, but is much smaller, and usually closer together.  We could tell these were very fresh from how much moisture there was in them.  Older scat will be drier, and more crumbly.