Strategy ?? # 4
10-02-2007, 07:21 PM
#11
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RE: Strategy ?? # 4
Back to the original question, I would try to hunt it a few times a week and keep your scent as low as possible. Hopefully you can catch them in their scattered pattern. I don't blame you for hunting it every day though, but since I'm not hunting there, it's alot easier for me to say to stay out.
10-02-2007, 07:27 PM
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RE: Strategy ?? # 4
Do you have stands set up for all wind directions? If so, and it's possible to sneak in there undetected, hunt the stand that's right for the given wind. If you only have 1 or 2 stands, only hunt them when the wind is right for them. I think you see my point. If the wind is rightfor a week, and you can get in and out undetected, go for it.
Side note. Unless you have a buck that you like patterned or spotted in the area, I'd wait until around Oct.17th before hunting the area that hard. I find that the bucks in my area (big bucks) usually don't start showing themselves during daylight hours until after the 17th or later.
Side note. Unless you have a buck that you like patterned or spotted in the area, I'd wait until around Oct.17th before hunting the area that hard. I find that the bucks in my area (big bucks) usually don't start showing themselves during daylight hours until after the 17th or later.
10-02-2007, 07:28 PM
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RE: Strategy ?? # 4
ORIGINAL: mobowhuntr
John, weren't some of the pics you sent me from that spot in mid morning? Maybe saturday or sunday this week (if you're not in Illinois [:@]) sit there from like 10-2......??? Just a thought.
John, weren't some of the pics you sent me from that spot in mid morning? Maybe saturday or sunday this week (if you're not in Illinois [:@]) sit there from like 10-2......??? Just a thought.
10-02-2007, 07:33 PM
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RE: Strategy ?? # 4
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Do you have stands set up for all wind directions? If so, and it's possible to sneak in there undetected, hunt the stand that's right for the given wind. If you only have 1 or 2 stands, only hunt them when the wind is right for them. I think you see my point. If the wind is rightfor a week, and you can get in and out undetected, go for it.
Side note. Unless you have a buck that you like patterned or spotted in the area, I'd wait until around Oct.17th before hunting the area that hard. I find that the bucks in my area (big bucks) usually don't start showing themselves during daylight hours until after the 17th or later.
Do you have stands set up for all wind directions? If so, and it's possible to sneak in there undetected, hunt the stand that's right for the given wind. If you only have 1 or 2 stands, only hunt them when the wind is right for them. I think you see my point. If the wind is rightfor a week, and you can get in and out undetected, go for it.
Side note. Unless you have a buck that you like patterned or spotted in the area, I'd wait until around Oct.17th before hunting the area that hard. I find that the bucks in my area (big bucks) usually don't start showing themselves during daylight hours until after the 17th or later.
10-02-2007, 07:43 PM
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RE: Strategy ?? # 4
Listening to guys like Rob, Greg/MO and GegH concerning just this subject in the last few weeks......I'd say you can't kill him if you aren't there. I've always been one to subscribe to not hunting the same area (tree) too many times. These guys say if the wind's right.....HUNT.
I'll do jus tthat.....when the time gets right.
I'll do jus tthat.....when the time gets right.
10-02-2007, 07:49 PM
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RE: Strategy ?? # 4
ORIGINAL: jmbuckhunter
I do have a couple of different trees to use. But scent probably isn't as big an issue here. These are suburban deer and houses are within 60 yards or so. There is human scent around. Just don't want to concentrate it too much.
ORIGINAL: GregH
Do you have stands set up for all wind directions? If so, and it's possible to sneak in there undetected, hunt the stand that's right for the given wind. If you only have 1 or 2 stands, only hunt them when the wind is right for them. I think you see my point. If the wind is rightfor a week, and you can get in and out undetected, go for it.
Side note. Unless you have a buck that you like patterned or spotted in the area, I'd wait until around Oct.17th before hunting the area that hard. I find that the bucks in my area (big bucks) usually don't start showing themselves during daylight hours until after the 17th or later.
Do you have stands set up for all wind directions? If so, and it's possible to sneak in there undetected, hunt the stand that's right for the given wind. If you only have 1 or 2 stands, only hunt them when the wind is right for them. I think you see my point. If the wind is rightfor a week, and you can get in and out undetected, go for it.
Side note. Unless you have a buck that you like patterned or spotted in the area, I'd wait until around Oct.17th before hunting the area that hard. I find that the bucks in my area (big bucks) usually don't start showing themselves during daylight hours until after the 17th or later.
Patents and sticking to my game plan will get me more mature bucks than hunting a spot because I think I will see him, even when it is not right.
I hunt a stand to kill a deer,a lotguys hunt a stand to see deer. These two things are very different. IMO
10-02-2007, 07:54 PM
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RE: Strategy ?? # 4
John this the one thing i have learned past 8 years.
Patents and sticking to my game plan will get me more mature bucks than hunting a spot because I think I will see him, even when it is not right.
I hunt a stand to kill a deer,a lotguys hunt a stand to see deer. These two things are very different. IMO
Patents and sticking to my game plan will get me more mature bucks than hunting a spot because I think I will see him, even when it is not right.
I hunt a stand to kill a deer,a lotguys hunt a stand to see deer. These two things are very different. IMO
10-02-2007, 08:06 PM
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RE: Strategy ?? # 4
ORIGINAL: jmbuckhunter
But scent probably isn't as big an issue here. These are suburban deer and houses are within 60 yards or so. There is human scent around. Just don't want to concentrate it too much.
But scent probably isn't as big an issue here. These are suburban deer and houses are within 60 yards or so. There is human scent around. Just don't want to concentrate it too much.