Getting ready for a good season.
08-07-2011, 07:00 PM
#21
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
How is using a modern bullet primitive? Pennsylvania caved in to the pressure. Pretty sad.
08-07-2011, 07:01 PM
#22
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 5,605
Our ML season is in January too and after an auto accident, long walks in the cold don't workout well for me. When its nice i do walk the 1000+ acres we hunt, its about a 2 mile walk to the next stand and no real trail to follow.
The way i look at it....ive walked hundreds of miles hunting over the years and i deserve a break once in a while. Ive let many deer walk away because i was comfortable enough in a stand to wait for the one i wanted....Which isnt always a trophy buck either. Sometimes we intentionally thin out the does if we dont see much sign of bucks before the season.
The way i look at it....ive walked hundreds of miles hunting over the years and i deserve a break once in a while. Ive let many deer walk away because i was comfortable enough in a stand to wait for the one i wanted....Which isnt always a trophy buck either. Sometimes we intentionally thin out the does if we dont see much sign of bucks before the season.
08-07-2011, 07:08 PM
#24
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 5,605
I look at it like heard management and food on the table. Ive had my fair share of stalking hunts including using a ML during the last 10+ rifle seasons.
Looking down on someone for using a stand is as bad as the buttflappers ragging on inline shooters. I guess i could say the same thing about you using a fancy Thor and me using a 36 cent bullet.
Looking down on someone for using a stand is as bad as the buttflappers ragging on inline shooters. I guess i could say the same thing about you using a fancy Thor and me using a 36 cent bullet.
08-07-2011, 07:24 PM
#25
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
Posts: 10,918
i started building another one i'm going to put in the middle of a food plot.
08-07-2011, 07:31 PM
#26
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
I look at it like heard management and food on the table. Ive had my fair share of stalking hunts including using a ML during the last 10+ rifle seasons.
Looking down on someone for using a stand is as bad as the buttflappers ragging on inline shooters. I guess i could say the same thing about you using a fancy Thor and me using a 36 cent bullet.
Looking down on someone for using a stand is as bad as the buttflappers ragging on inline shooters. I guess i could say the same thing about you using a fancy Thor and me using a 36 cent bullet.
Especially, since i've made everything to go primitive. I don't need a primitive season to hunt that way. I took a wrong turn somewhere. I need to get back on track.
08-08-2011, 05:12 AM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: MN
Posts: 1,068
I hunt from a tree stand now. I hate it. I grew up hunting in Wyoming and we walked sunup to sundown. That said, I understand hunting from a stand or blind here. During rifle/shotgun season, there's too many people in the woods to be able to go walking. Somebody would probably shoot you. For muzzleloader season, I try to get down and walk some but I wouldn't consider it practical, at least not where I hunt. Last year the last time I went for a walk the snow was up to my knees, and walking through a swamp with snow that deep is pretty hard on the ankles and knees when you can't see where you're walking.
08-08-2011, 05:19 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Saxonburg Pa
Posts: 3,925
I would not recommend that Grouse. I have a lot of experience with box stands. The most successful ones are always ten or more yards off of the food plot, with some brush or trees between the plot and stand. Be sure to consider the normal prevailing wind during your hunting season and place the box down wind.
08-08-2011, 05:22 AM
#29
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Saxonburg Pa
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08-08-2011, 05:35 AM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Rapid City, South Dakota
Posts: 3,732
Myself, i only have to feed wife and i, but as simple as that may sound, it is quite important to us. I hunt to kill, and that is the way it is. However, sneaking around in the timber, for me, is one of life's greatest experience. I much prefer hunting to shooting. I much prefer shooting to chores.