Swamp_bucks

Anyone interested to make it a get together? All are welcome I know we tried last year maybe we can get it together this year I know a couple mentioned it before hand. @Robhuntandfish, @BowmanMike, @Otto

Congrats

Just got back from my nephews game at the dream park in Cooperstown. Watched him score 1 run, rbi double next inning through a kid out at 1st from right field and then bottom of the inning cracked a 3 run home run for his first of the year. They still lost but put up a huge comeback at the end.

I was watching a clip from exodus on youtube that just talked about this from a couple of their guests on the show. Whats the best hunting advice you’ve received? Whether it’s something that’s helped you harvest more deer or just enjoy hunting more. I have one for each. First is helping me hunt better is just trusting my instincts. I’ve always second guessed myself and over the last couple years I go into the season telling myself to trust my instincts ands it’s starting to pay off for me. The other would be everyone’s idea of a “trophy” buck is different and be happy for the hunter and their harvest whether it’s a 3”spike or a world record.

That the buck you kept having encounters with last year?

Yea I agree I use HuntStand, google earth and the DEC website to get info on the pieces I plan to hunt. My favorite feature is the topo/aerial on HuntStand especially in the hills helps me narrow down bedding points and for me to see what is the leeward side depending on wind.

How many people take advantage of cyber scouting to help narrow down places to hunt? I’ve really started using cyber scouting more to help me narrow spots down better before I waste gas driving to or around the desired area. Granted you can’t see trails in hardwoods but it is great for CRP fields and swamps to really figure out their travel patterns. The pictures are a spot I found last year doing this method. It’s a swamp that’s maybe 25acres but had 5 bucks to my knowledge living in and around from hunting the area and visually seeing them. maybe this will help a new hunter with scouting or add another way to scout for a seasoned hunter.

Looks like you have a couple nice ones growing

Do you give tours? Be cool to see how an operation like that works.

How much emphasis is put on the correct doe for breeding? Clearly the bucks potential genes helps with the good growth of the offspring but clearly the doe has to play some affect into it? Just wondering is there a certain doe you breed with a certain buck each year because you know the outcome of great genetics?

My brother I think is going this route since he’s not a big fan of hang ons and sticks

This will be my 2nd year with this setup. The beginning of last year was a little rough just having a new setup but by mid October I was getting up and down trees in 5-10 mins and a couple times within 100 yards of deer. absolutely love it winds wrong someone comes in on me. Just get down pack up and move. Just had to get it in my head I need to leave earlier just because setup time is involved. Just stick to a system ropes in the same pockets, putting sticks on the same way, packing it up the same,etc. Practice at home or in the woods somewhere and different trees to get used to it.

I have the XOP vanish and customized the mini sticks to make them double steps and removed the locking mechanisms and am using the j hooks this year to keep them secure.

Beautiful as usual

Double post

Have a local thrift store that takes donations and sells stuff for next to nothing and cleans and donates a good portion of it they work with a bunch of churches and organizations in the area.

Nice pics love the bobcats. How old is that spike he looks older then 1.5yr

I have a friend all he uses is the lacrosse boots. He doesn’t do straight up spot and stalk but he’s killed 90% of his deer walking through the woods. He likes how light they are and he can feel the sticks and everything underneath him. It keeps him pretty quite in the woods he also one of those guys with his stride that just floats through the woods.

I just started seeing poults there’s a couple hens down the road that had 10 poults and another group has at least 6 little ones.

Could always rent a compact tractor and tiller for a weekend from someone for a couple hundred bucks.

Yote

Yep the males are bigger than people think.

Fisher

All I do is watch wind and thermals and use a bunch of milk weed. You can sometimes fool a younger deers nose but unless your in a vacuum sealed suit a mature buck and doe will pick you out 90% of the time. The very little I try to do is wash my clothes in scent free laundry soap air dry and spray with the tick stuff and that’s it otherwise I’m in and out of my truck,gas stations, ext. get a deer that’s all rutted up you could set off fireworks some days and they wouldn’t care what’s going on in the area. I also feel that if my grandpa could consistently kill mature bucks from the 50s-80s smelling like a barn and tractor grease and wearing flannel clothes while smoking his cigarettes I don’t need to spend my money on scent away stuff.