Fishman007

Weill I finally am doing the state land shotgun , Wowo whata differance from Bow where there's no one around ! anyone have a valuable words of wisdom fro posable sucess or is it just all luck and staying put hopping one gets pushed past you?

MO_Bowhnter

Wear your orange!

gregholland

amen!!!

KodiakArcher

Wear the orange!!!!!
Hunt all day, sunrise to sunset.

RackLuster

I have shotgun hunted public land (most years) since I was 15 (that's 18 years now). The last few years I've had pretty good success. I've seen a lot of deer and most of them come within 15 yards. I'm about 400 yards from a parking lot where there will be upwards of 12-15 trucks on opening of gun hunting. my secret is (not really a secret) is to go to funnels that pressured deer would go to and beat everyone else to those spots! beaver dam crossings are awesome! narrow patches of woods where you can sit in the middle and shoot to both sides are great. anywhere astream, river, or pond narrows down and the deercross is ideal!

also, make sure to sit through the early afternoon period where people are done eating lunch and start pushing. I probably have shot as many deer early afternoon (1-3pm) as I have in the early morning. I've definitely shot more in the afternoon than in the evening towards sunset.

Fishman007

Thanks for the info, my stagtigy was to far away from others as posable but I like you take one the funnels and letting other hunters unkowing do a drive for you. Thaks I'll be regrouping and tying it a bit different today I know of 3 spots that describe what you said to the T.
Thanks