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sweet old bill Newbie

sweet old bill

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I have several ground blinds that I have to take a off raod way to get there so I do not push out deer as I go to the stand. I also have a stand that it seems that as dark falls if I go out the way I came in I also will jump deer in the dark. I had to change my ways so I do not alert that I am hunting these stands. How about you and how do you handle bedding areas etc...

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CNYlungbuster Newbie

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I generally cut an access trail into my stand ....... then the following year I find that the deer are using my new trail .... lol. I keep waiting for the thank-you note.

Doc

Yup had this happen plenty of times just gotta make sure your trails lead to a 20 yard broadside shot before circling back to your stand  :)

CNY

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growalot Newbie

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If you think that's tough...I have what Mr B refers to as the"cabin" brush blind...it is 90 yrds from the house and in clear view of the PC room....I just watched three fawn walk down the Sucraseed trail...turn step over the downd log and walk up to the blind...two went out front of it and one circled around the back side entrance...and is bedded IN IT!thank heavens they waited untill day light...the school bus spooked them and their moms out of the field...and Oh the button buck tried mounting one of the doe fawns...Coffee and a show...got to check out the new range finder too :D

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CNYlungbuster Newbie

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If you think that's tough...I have what Mr B refers to as the"cabin" brush blind...it is 90 yrds from the house and in clear view of the PC room....I just watched three fawn walk down the Sucraseed trail...turn step over the downd log and walk up to the blind...two went out front of it and one circled around the back side entrance...and is bedded IN IT!thank heavens they waited untill day light...the school bus spooked them and their moms out of the field...and Oh the button buck tried mounting one of the doe fawns...Coffee and a show...got to check out the new range finder too :(

Look on the bright side at least thier comfortable with the blind  ;)

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VenaticOutdoors Newbie

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If I have a spot that I cannot get out of in the dark without spooking deer, such as a food plot, I will wait until it's super dark or make plans with someone to pick me up in an ATV.  We do a lot of food plot work so we're regularly traveling the property in utility vehicles - the deer understand it's not a threat so they'll just hop in the woods and wait until you leave.

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Nomad Grand Master

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Right now i have 5 stands up. I hunt farm land small woods and thick brush and 100's of acres of crops.

Of the 3 in the hard woods they range from 3 to maybe 10 yards into the woods. The one in the brush is 40 yards in.The other is in a hedgerow.

So I walk in through open crop fields. Its quite, I can often see pretty good and I avoid walking along the edge of wood/field . Prefering to leave my scent out in the middle of the field and not along the edge of the woods I want them to enter or walk along.

Much of the corn is down now, and there is a lot of clover and hay so walking is easy . I gave up deep woods stands long ago, to noisy to get to  from. Plus in the evening I can see the fields good to know if the deer are out there or not.

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20ftupatree Newbie

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I have this problem and still have yet to figure out how to avoid it! I have two stands in my southern zone property that I can't go in to or leave without spooking something along the way. It's a 48 acre hardwood stand, the deer play the ridge lines they like that they can sit there up high and see EVERYTHINGGGGG. I unfortunately HAVE to take the valley in and out. Last two years I played the valleys and set up stands at the bottom of a funnel where two ridges dumped off together......Idk if that was a good strategy or not, The first year was a bust on that particular property but last year I got a NICE Big Mama and a 4. This year I moved the tougher stand to access to the top of a ridge they day bed in. Problem is only way I saw fit to go in and out of is WAY out of the way but my stand is 100 yards from this bed so I have to come in from the back door. The other problem I'm having with this is I know how they're getting to and fro NOW but in the later months they switch, so I may not be in such good of position for gun season I'll have to see how it goes. Wind is my biggest problem there. Which way it's blowing dictates which way I have to walk, It swirls a lot of time. I hunted a property a couple years ago with a buddy on the same mountain side, the previous owners had built a wooden stand that completely wrapped this huge oak like a pressure treated deck in the sky but I knew why! Which brings me to a new topic which I'm going to post now.

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Doc Experienced

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How about getting in there extra early in the morning?  We hunted this weekend and we were in our stands by 5:40 because we knew deer were active in our food plots in the mornings.  Also, what about leaving a little later after it's been dark for 30 minutes?

I have encountered situations where the darn things bed down in the fields toward morning. You really can't approach any stands that use the field edges because they are there already no matter how early you get there. About the only thing you can do in the AM around such places is to try to guess an intercept spot that you think they will pass when they finally leave the field at day-break. Big gamble because there are so many places they could go. But when they are camped out in the field for hours just before daylight, there really aren't a whole lot of options.

Doc

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I've skirted around to enter my stand & have bumped deer that may have been heading for the stand.

Gone direct to stand and have bumped them as they were already there.

No choice but to make a bee-line, in early, stay late, be as unnoticed as possible and hope for the best.

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