nyantler

I think there is also an issue that this guy cut the tree without knowing the property boundaries... getting upset with somebody really for no reason... It is always better to confront another hunter respectfully face to face first... usually things can be worked out without getting stupid... people need to wait until there really is a problem instead of creating one before one exists.

Scent control is a good thing while hunting, but no matter what most hunters think you will never be totally scent free... hunting the wind is paramount when hunting whitetails... 99% of the hunters can be smelled by 99% of the deer in the woods no matter how careful you are unless you are downwind from the deer. How much of you they smell and how alarmed they get depends on how much you stink... gassing up prior to entering the woods isn't the best idea if you're going to be stationary, but even the stinkiest hunters in the woods have killed deer. If you're a stand hunter I wouldn't approach your stand upwind after gassing up... cuz you're probably not going to see much on that sit... other than that.. gassing up before going into the woods might be better than running out of gas before you get to the woods... that might ruin your day of hunting

There is a man that knows his stuff... very very nice work!! I'm impressed and I don't impress easy

I'm not a huge fan of the pan banging drive either... not that it isn't effective... I just don't like the idea of trying to kill a deer running full out for it's life... those kind of drives tend to move the deer completely out of the area for a long time... using the drivers scent as the motivator for moving deer does not get them crazy... they are use to human scent and will just move on to where they feel safe again... often even circling around and back in behind the drivers... that's part of the cat and mouse game sometimes. Sometimes if you leave a watcher on the peripheral behind the drivers he will be the one that sees the deer as they double back. That can be a good tactic.

Don't get pulled in Phade!!!

I agree

2 man drives work quite well if you're not into the whole group of guys thing... the key is just to get deer moving... once you have them up and about the chance of seeing one increases.

You don't read well at all... go back to the part where I said you are hijacking almost all the threads with your crap. Believe me I usually try to avoid responding to your posts and fall prey to your trolling ... but it's getting harder because you're everywhere with your nonsense

It makes sense that when the deer aren't going to come to you.. you need to go to them.. if you're sitting and waiting this time of year.. you might just be wasting a lot of time. If you're going to sit and wait... find a spot that overlooks a thicket, swamp, or any area that deer would feel safe... on gloomy mornings you may just catch deer coming back late from over night feeding...

As for "canned" or "planted" hunts or farming deer...I have the right not to like them and say so... you have the right to not like my opinion or me saying so... get over it. This whole using the deer farming issue to troll for an argument is getting ridiculous and seems to be entering into almost every thread on the forum. Then as soon as you aren't getting enough attention on someone else's thread you start another to keep the nonsense going.

I would have a little chat with the officer himself first... tell him that he's disturbing your hunting and you feel like you're being harassed... he can get upset if he likes about it but you have rights as a citizen and you should make sure he knows it... I would do it respectfully and tell him that you thought it would be better to speak to him directly first before going to his superiors... if he gives you attitude... then, go to his superiors. You may also offer to keep an eye out for him and notify him if you see anything suspicious.

To be fair that has been tried and tried in NY with pheasants... and for some reason it just isn't working like it did with the turkeys.

That's what I'm talkin' about... I forgot all about that part of the movie!! that's funny!!

My friends and I sometimes do a form of deer driving where we try not to get the deer running for their lives, but rather hunt into the wind to other hunters positioned quite a ways away... deer usually smell the pushers as they're hunting and slowly move out of the area toward the other awaiting hunters... 9 times out of 10 when a sitter sees a deer it is just walking... makes the shot opportunity much better and time to see what is beyond the target.

That buck has the body of a bull... man that's impressive! His body stunts his rack.

What? and you didn;t jump on the "ass of a rhino" part too... you're slippin' Wooly

LOL... I would expect nothing less from this crew!!

Usually it will depend on how far in I will be... and how much I am able to carry in with me... short trips allow for a better menu, while longer, deeper trips are probably going to be dried foods. What the food is sometimes doesn't matter as much as just having something to stuff in my mouth... after a long day of hunting I can be so hungry that I'd eat the ass of a Rhino!! Fortunately that meal doesn't come in the dried food packages

If you kill a deer... what difference does it make who eats it as long as it gets eaten? If you don't like venison but your family does, they don't get to eat venison because you don't eat it? How about if your mom and dad like venison? You can't give them any? If I have 100 tags and want to kill 100 deer and give it to charity that's what I'm doing... don't care how many deer the rest of you get.. that's your problem... just because I can hunt every day and you can't doesn't mean I have to leave deer in the woods for you... How am I suppose to know when, where or who is hunting on the state land I'm hunting... for some hunters it wouldn't matter if the woods were full of deer, they still couldn't kill one... it's not up to me to try and make your experience better... it's probably not ethical to expect the hunters that can kill deer... not to... and deprive hungry people a donated meal in hopes that you MIGHT be able to kill a deer. Not to mention I'm doing my part for population control regardless of whether I eat the meat or not myself. If you have trouble filling your tags maybe you can get some donated venison at your local soup kitchen that was donated by someone that could.

This can be more enjoyable watching from the sidelines... ... just me and my like button!

It is not possible... piebald and albinism happen because of a recessive gene... that gene however may or may not be passed on later by a piebald or albino... a fallow deer coloration is normal and doesn't involve that recessive gene.

If you think about it... Ethics isn't really what's accepted by you, but what is excepted by others.

Just to clarify though I haven't shot a deer sitting in over 20 years... if I was a sitter I think I'd prefer mornings...

That might be a small buck.. but it's hide is so pretty I'm not sure what I would do until the buck was right in front of me. I know for sure I wouldn't shoot it unless I was going to full mount it...

My last 5 bucks were taken between 11 am and 2 pm... I should say 5 of 6.. this years buck was taken around 8 am