Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
04-11-2008, 10:00 AM
#31
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
Since I am home for another few minutes I must elaborate on why the chess analogy is stupid.
Playing the game smart v. dumb is the key. The key to being successful is him never knowing he's in the game.
04-11-2008, 10:01 AM
#32
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast, Va
Posts: 3,965
RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
Duke, Duke Duke, you are so very right!! It is not a game to them for sure, I think most on here know that though, but still, like I said many times before, deer are the masters of woods I hunt, every so often on lets his guard down for whatever reason and I may be the lucky one there to capitalize on it or I may not.
04-11-2008, 10:07 AM
#33
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Northwest suburbs, Illinois
Posts: 2,075
RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
The key to being successful is him never knowing he's in the game.
A sound strategy fo sho.
04-11-2008, 10:27 AM
#34
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: NY
Posts: 366
RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
Most ambushes.. are just waiting games. Thats NOT outsmarting them at all.
When it comes todeer hunting, most kills are ambush kills. To outsmart a deer it has to know that you are after him. Sitting in a tree and shooting an unsuspecting deer is not out smarting it at all. Its just called sitting in the right spot.
04-11-2008, 10:49 AM
#35
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
I'm having a tough time figuring out some of these responses with the people who don't think your out smarting the deer. For example, The buck I shot this last year I rattled in. I was trying to imitate 2 bucks fighting with each other, 20 minutes later he came to the exact tree I was rattling from. To me I outsmarted his butt, I fooled him into thinking there was 2 bucks fighting in his territory! That to me is out doing him. How can it not be??
04-11-2008, 10:53 AM
#36
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Northwest suburbs, Illinois
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RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
Schultzy.. you answered your own Q. You fooled him.. he thought you were 2 bucks fighting.. he didn't think "hey that noise is either 2 bucks fighting or a freakin' human setting up to take me".
He didn't even know you were there. That's not out-witting him at all. You duped him Schultzy.. nothing wrong with that.. duper..
He didn't even know you were there. That's not out-witting him at all. You duped him Schultzy.. nothing wrong with that.. duper..
04-11-2008, 11:14 AM
#37
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: East Central Illinois
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RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
ORIGINAL: dukemichaels
Outsmarted a deer? Thats a bold statement to say.. for anyone. I've only ever truly outsmarted 1 whitetail my whole life thus far. And I did that with a combination of deer blows.. a few grunts.. a back-pack.. and a knowledge of whitetail. (a great story and one I will never forget).
Usually hunters dupe a deer.. or lure a deer.. and even surprise a deer (ambush most common).. and many just get lucky at times. But to truly outsmart them on a regular basis. I think not.
Outsmarted a deer? Thats a bold statement to say.. for anyone. I've only ever truly outsmarted 1 whitetail my whole life thus far. And I did that with a combination of deer blows.. a few grunts.. a back-pack.. and a knowledge of whitetail. (a great story and one I will never forget).
Usually hunters dupe a deer.. or lure a deer.. and even surprise a deer (ambush most common).. and many just get lucky at times. But to truly outsmart them on a regular basis. I think not.
04-11-2008, 12:08 PM
#38
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 1,772
RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
ORIGINAL: GregH
However, it is like playing a game of chess, you win some and you lose some.
However, it is like playing a game of chess, you win some and you lose some.
04-11-2008, 12:09 PM
#39
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Southeast, VA
Posts: 2,119
RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
Schultzy I agree. How ever it is worded ultimately the deer is dead.Let's ask the millions of deer put into freezers this year if they were outsmarted, duped, lured, tricked, ambushed, etc.
I'm sure they don't care what termwe use to describe their demise it's really all semantics. I agree with you,your buckwas tricked, outsmarted, fooled and he paid. Other than home court advantage and an amazing survival instinct centered around great senseswe have every advantage, the most important one being intelligence. I mean let's face it they are deer they have pear sized brains and this isn't rocket science as much as some would like to make it out to be.
I'm sure they don't care what termwe use to describe their demise it's really all semantics. I agree with you,your buckwas tricked, outsmarted, fooled and he paid. Other than home court advantage and an amazing survival instinct centered around great senseswe have every advantage, the most important one being intelligence. I mean let's face it they are deer they have pear sized brains and this isn't rocket science as much as some would like to make it out to be.
04-11-2008, 12:15 PM
#40
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 7,208
RE: Do you think you're out-smarting your whitetails??
I don't view it as outsmarting a deer. I look at it as using thier behavioral strengths & weaknesses in such a manner that allows you to kill them. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.