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We move stands almost every year during the season. We see that they are using a certain area and make an adjustment. Heck a couple of years ago we moved one at noon and my dad hunted it that night and had a deer walk right under it. He never even paid attention to it.
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I have to walk through fields also to get in. I found the best thing to do is just walk at your normal pace. Light, no light doesn't matter, they can see you anyways. I get in my stand about 15 minutes before daylight.
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Apples and something to drink, usually Mountain Dew. If I bring anything chocolate I will just sit there and eat every piece in a few minutes. Especially them dang peanut butter cups.
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7J just found a fresh scrape this morning.
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Pictures have really slowed down here the last 2 weeks. I know they are there because I found a nice fresh scrape this morning 40 yards from one of our stands.
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I wouldn't want to poison him. If he dies behind the wall he is gonna stink.
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I don't pay a dollar. I used to take it somewhere but then I realized not only was it getting expensive, but I wasn't even getting close to all the meat I should get back. I tried 4 different guys and they where all pretty light bags I got back. Now I get twice as much meat and I know it's all mine, and it's all there.
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7 hours ago, wolc123 said:
Standing and non-alert is best, but I will take a slow steady walk over stopped and alert. The problem with the blat or whistle is that it puts them in an alert state. That is no big deal with a gun (supersonic), but is a problem with archery (subsonic) because the alert deer will not be in the same place when the arrow releases as it is when it hits and that motion is not as predictable as a steady walk.
A fast walk or a run is a no go for me with archery, but no issue with a gun, especially at close range. If faced with that situation during archery season, I might just try that blat. If it did stop the deer, I would aim for the very bottom of the heart to compensate for for the inevitable string jump. That way you have a dead deer wether it ducks or not. It does make a lot more sense to make a noise like a deer rather than an obviously human whistle.
The blat doesn't put them on alert really. Like I said, if you don't shoot they will just walk away and go about their business. Sure they will look, but they will stand there well long enough for you to shoot.
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4 hours ago, wolc123 said:
I have heard folks talk about "stopping" a moving deer with a whistle. That might be ok with a gun, but I would never do it with archery tackle.
I can't whistle that good so I just blat at them. They stop in their tracks and even if you don't shoot they will just walk away. Heck I stopped 3 does running across the field once, it was great. Soon as they heard me they stopped in their tracks and just stood there. Why shoot at a walking deer, especially during bow season when you don't have too?
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It amazes me how many people don't know that. I've seen that several times now.
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11 hours ago, wolc123 said:
What would you estimate your chances of success would have been on those two shots ? The first one does not sound so good. The second one may have been doable, depending on how thick the weeds were and how far behind them he was. I killed a heavy buck last fall, with an arrow, in the late afternoon. The lighting was not so good in the woods at the time. I saw an opening between branches, and my aim was true. The next time I hunted that stand at mid-day, I found my arrow (that had "passed thru" the buck's boiler room) sticking out of the ground. I was surprised to see all the smaller twigs that had not been visible in the low-light conditions. Based on that single "brush-busting" experience, I would say your odds may have been ok. That said, I probably would not have taken that shot, had all those little branches been visible at the time.
I am reluctant to take "iffy" shots because there is nothing that bothers me more about hunting than hitting and not being able to recover a deer. I am extremely thankful that it has been almost 15 years since I have gone thru my last such unpleasant experience. That one was with my muzzleloader. It was only due to by my own poor tracking and a couple bad assumptions (that fresh snow would show blood if the shot had hit), that I did not find that "single lunged" buck until after the coyotes had. My shot struck right on the mark, but was up high and there was no exit wound. I no longer trust fresh snow (small drops of hot blood cuts right thru it leaving no trace on top), and I assume every shot is a hit until PROVEN otherwise. Those lessons, learned the hard way, have helped put at least one young buck, and one mature 8-point in our freezer in the years since.
Chances of me making the first shot, extremely low, and I was right not to take it. The second shot I think about and have know idea. He was 30 yards away and I actually drew back on him, but when I put the pin on him I couldn't even see his body through the weeds, so he walked again. He was like 5 or 6 feet on the other side of the weeds. Had he been right next to them or in them it would have been a different story.
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1 hour ago, wolc123 said:
100% seems too high. In 35 years of hunting, I can't remember any shot that I was 100 % sure of making. There were two that I was 99.5 % or so. I only hit one of those. My gun failed to fire on the other due to a froze up firing pin. The 90 % rule has served me very well lately. Over the last 14 years, even the 10 % I should have lost have ended up in our freezer. You must either not care much for venison or get a heck of a lot of chances.
The first chance I would have had to shoot under a branch from a tree in front of me, wasn't sure it would make it under. I would rather pass on the shot then hit that one branch and scare the deer off. So he walked away not knowing I was there. The next time he came in he stopped behind some weeds. I wasn't sure I could punch a hole through with an arrow. So yeah I passed on him twice rather then take a dumb shot.
I don't take questionable shots with the bow, that's just dumb if you do.
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I passed twice on the same buck last year because I just wasn't 100% sure. The first time I know I made the right decision. The second time I am still kicking myself a little for, but I would rather see him walk then wound him and not find him.
A couple people said you will be rewarded for the choice, I sure wasn't. I never got another chance all season, including gun season. That's why I never pass on a buck to wait for a bigger one, because I know I won't get another chance.
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2 hours ago, turkeyfeathers said:
So you think ! as they (trespassers) are also probably thinking the same thing.
Trespassers aren't a concern where we are. We are surrounded by a farm which is leased by a state trooper and everybody in the area knows who is and stays away from there.
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I would never wear orange during bow season. Where I hunt now I would never wear orange in any season, but I hunt private land with nobody else around. If I hunted state land during bow season I still wouldn't wear orange, but during gun season I would.
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The proper way to get bigger bucks is NOT AR's. It's a process that takes several years. In the end though no matter what you decide to do it won't matter if your neighbors aren't practicing the same thing as you because 85 acres isn't big enough for you to control the deer.
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Bow hunting in a drizzle or like it is today around hear (just a sprinkle on and off) yes I am hunting. If it's a hard rain I will watch the radar and try to get out before it stops because the deer start moving after the rain ends. Gun season I don't care how hard it rains, I'm hunting. That's why I have ground blinds.
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On 9/29/2018 at 11:34 PM, nybuckboy said:
Cory and Miller - get some hearing aids... you're probably missing more than just deer in life.
Can't afford them and the health insurance doesn't cover them. I know I am missing a lot. I'm always asking people to repeat themselves.
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On 9/29/2018 at 1:18 PM, Otto said:
I just downloaded it this week. I am looking forward to using it this year.
I listened to Mark Drury on the WIRED TO HUNT podcast this week and learned a lot. If you have the app, you should listen to the podcast to help understand all the information it is showing you. There are 2 episodes.
I watched a couple of videos on it so I am pretty familiar with it. I compared last week with trail cam pictures and they matched up pretty good. Days and times they said there would be great or good movement I had a lot of pictures. So we will see as the season goes on I guess.
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People have been hunting with glasses on forever now.
Somebody mentioned the non-glare coating you can put on glasses, and I personally would stay away from that. My dad got that on a pair of glasses a couple years ago and he hated it. He was always complaining that they were dirty and when he would try to clean them they would get streaks and he could never get them out. This coming from a guy who has been wearing glasses for 40 years now and has OCD when it comes to keeping them clean.
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I was just wondering if anybody has tried using this app before. I found it a couple of weeks ago and have been keeping tabs on it this last week and I am going to compare it with trail cams pictures this weekend and see if they match up at all. I don't really buy into all these things that try to predict movement and the rut or anything but you never know.
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On 9/27/2018 at 8:30 AM, steve863 said:
There have been literally scores of deer that I heard well before I ever caught a glimpse of them.
Man I wish I could hear them coming. I haven't heard one in 5 or 6 years now. I'm almost totally deaf in my left ear and I can't hear out of my right very well.
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I'm not sure why anybody would care about a 10/1 opener. I've seen people say because it's to warm, and I respond don't hunt then. My dad says there are to many leaves, I tell him so don't hunt then. Me I love it! I see more deer in those 2 weeks then the rest of the season combined.
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I try not to shoot yearlings, although I have a couple of times. Other then that I don't care. I have a hard time passing on a deer to wait for another deer that might never show up. Example, last year my dad passed on a button buck that gave him an easy shot with his crossbow, he never had another shot all year.
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potrtable blind recommendation for bow hunting.
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I've got something better then a blind. Camo burlap!
Get some of that, Walmart maybe $15. Get 3 or 4 electric fence holders at Tractor Supply. They are about 4 feet long and just stick in the ground. Some zip ties to hold the burlap on, and a 5 gallon bucket to sit on.
Put the poles in the ground, tie the burlap to the poles and wait. I would set it up at home and then just roll it all together so when you get there you can just unroll it and push the polls in the ground. Try to make high enough so you just can shoot over it while sitting down on the bucket. Try to back up to some kind of cover to break things up a little.
Quick, easy, quiet, and most importantly cheap. I have shot several deer doing this.