mxsmitz201

All my hunting has been done around prime time in the morning and evening or any given hr after the sun has set. The best set up for me this year has been scanning the corners of fields along thick brushy overgrown fields and thick woods. For example say you have a 90 degree corner in a field I’ll set up somehwere along the 45 out in the field/cut corn. Depending on the wind I’ll skew off that 45 a bit placing the lucky duck revolt accordingly with the wind, anticipating the coyotes or fox to come down wind of the call. I’ve had consistent success calling dogs with set ups like this. One thing I’ve learned is they will always come down wind of the call if possible. I’ve had some pretty cool experiences this winter. Once I sat in a field edge with a cross wind blowing into the edge I was in. I had the call 30-40 yds out and away in the field and had a double come bursting out of the field edge I was in 20 yds away and attacked the call. I also had a set up where the wind was in my face blowing perpendicular to a ravine, a river, and a cul de sac of houses right behind me. I set up where the ravine and edge of the woods met a golden rod/brushy field. I thought it was a great choice, and it was if only I shot right handed or had a partner. I set my call up in the golden rod patch directly upwind of me 50 yds away while I sat on the ravine edge scanning the golden rod and as much of the area in front of me and to the sides as possible. Well I had a coyote about a half hr into the set come along the ravine edge and sit next to me 10 yds away in open woods intently looking at my call. Sat there for almost a full minute until he caught my movement as I tried to confirm what my peripheral vision was seeing. In this particular case I had the right idea, I thought I had enough distance between the call and enough cover in the general area around the call that I would catch the coyotes putting themselves between my position and the call, however it’s hard to top the cover, and the ease of access a ravine affords. I typically hunt with a partner and this set up would have worked perfect in that scenario. Solo, not so much. Calling wise, I started out this winter staying away from rabbit in distress because I felt like they are educated with it pretty good around here, BUT, every time I use it no matter where in a set I have dogs that make there presence known usually within seconds if it’s late in a set and within minutes if I start off a set with it. I’ve had some good success with howls and breeding howls as well. The instance above where they attacked my call was nothing but female breeding howls and answer howls. A pretty good strategy ive found is to get them in the area with howls etc. and then prey on their hunger and follow up with distress whether it’s rabbit, mouse, rat, vole, or lip squeaks. My experience has been that’s when they make themselves vulnerable to a 55grain vmax.

Having size 13 boots trying to sneak through the woods like a deer.... you just can’t. And I want to really really bad.

One question I have is what technology does the camera work off of? GSM, 2G, 3G, 4G? Reason I ask is because ATT is phasing out gsm and 2g by some point in 2016.

I don't wear orange, I carry a vest with me though incase I decide to walk through a wooded area but my stands are in trees overlooking 360 deg of fields. Plus I'm figuring on seeing a human before a deer anyway so I don't want to alert the local trespasser population.

VAR's, AR's..... Y'all need to think about that one, is it really a good idea? The vast majority of yearling bucks around my neck of the woods qualify if you go by 3 points on a side greater than an inch. And some surpass it by a large margin.. Idk bout you but I'd like to see those genetics shine a few yrs down the road. I would think long term on AR's, and think long and hard about it. Hopefully you'll come to the same conclusion that it won't benefit the true potential of the herd, instead over time it will have a negative effect. Personally I look for age in a deer, and right now that means I let most 2.5s walk unless it's a real slammer, and look for 3.5s or older regardless of what they are sporting on top. I do realize that basically all the bucks I pass will be shot at one point during the season, but they don't stand a chance if I shoot them.

The buck in my avatar yielded 82 lbs in meat as well. 42 of it was his neck and fronts, made 20 lbs of jerky with it mmmmmmm

I bleat canned a scrub 2.5 from over 400yds away in a cut bean field at 5:05 to 10yds broadside. First time a can has worked for me. But he Wasn't the buck I was after. He was the only deer I saw. Awesome hunt anyway

I do. Obviously.

I have a brain. I use it. Just because our scrubby governor doesn't use his like when he pulled the safe act out if his ass doesn't mean I'm gonna follow it, because again I have a brain and use it. Oh and I have a spine too. The same goes with this sunset sunrise bs.

Yup!

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That's interesting. I've never heard that sound before. Except in the movie signs. My bone collector grunt tube doesn't even sound remotely close to that. On a side note Today i heard what I considered to be a snort wheeze for the first time. I was able imitate it with my grunt tube it has the snort wheeze on it. And the sound this buck made reminds me of an air compressor when you pull the let off valve on the tank for a split second. Not what I was expecting

I had a fisher climb partway up my tree this am as I was watchin some deer. That was cool.

A deer will make quick work of 8 acres when he's gotta go

Here is a sample of my daikon radishes from a few weeks ago. planted them in the parts of my corn that didn't do so well. The deer have been hitting the tops of them and the rape lately.

Sometimes I get trapped. Been numerous times a group has bedded under me or very close by. I'll put my flashlight right on them to see where they are if I can sneak out or not, the light doesn't bother them. If not I'll bark like a dog, seems to work, as they'll be right in the same beds the following night.

You don't walk out after dark?

About cats.... Don't use dog shampoo on them. cat lost like 3 lives on that one once when she got skunked. Poor pootytat

I highly recommend the app "hunt stand". Great for checkin wind at your stand locations and stuff like that. It's a pretty thorough hunting app but I primarily use it to check wind and pinpoint spots on state land that id like to hunt again.

This year I have some early born fawns that are almost the size of the yearling doe that's last years fawn from the same mother, and lost there spots end of august I'd say. But the male has boney nubs instead of fury ones like all the other button bucks I've ever seen. Curious if this last winter being so hard played a role in the fawns being born early this year. I'll dig up pictures of him and post them. But his nubs aren't as pointy/pronounced as the op's "buck", which after deductions wouldn't he score a zero!?? Haha

I have a doe that I see often that has a bunch of those all over her body, and the other day I saw a nice 2.5 yr old buck that was absolutely covered with those growths. Ranged in size from really small to softball sized. That was pretty gross to see

The first two pics a month a part of the same deer i don't think Hollywood could stage to get the same shot. That's a cool sequence to really see what a month does to his rack. And what camera you using? May till now is quite some time. My moultrie 990i has been out since April 19 on same set of batteries and is still going strong while the moultrie pan 150s get changed 2-3 times a summer.

Sounds just like my opening day in some state lands yesterday except I didn't draw on any of the deer i came across. My experience has told me that judging distance on the ground vs a tree stand is very difficult. Especially in open ground like a field edge

I used to climb cell towers for a living, I've seen loaded grunt bags over 60lbs fully loaded on a handline catch the wind on a windy day and fly out to the point you'd think the bag was gonna empty because it was almost flying parallel to the ground, at least that's what it looked like. Hard to put in perspective behind a keyboard but my vote is the wind.

I'm gonna be that guy. It's hard to tell if that's the same buck, IMO I think it's two and a half different deer. Sorry.... I mean two different deer.