So whatcha think? Game over?
10-01-2008, 06:32 PM
#1
Dominant Buck
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So whatcha think? Game over?
ALL these deer down here.....and who do you think I bump going in, today? Yep....the only one I've got targeted.
Quite a dejected feeling.....walking to stand.....knowing you just blew out the one you were hunting for.
So here's the deal.......I've made a little map showing where I thought (OK....where Gri22 and I thought
) he was bedding......and my sightings of him. We thought he was bedding in the green dot area.....and he still may be. The blue dot is where I bumped him up, today. The white lines are just points of reference from sightings of him (red dots) and a straight line back to the bedding area(s). What's for certain is.....he's using that little woodlot a LOT. Time to regroup.
So what's your gameplan.....if you're me? I probably won't get to hunt, tomorrow. We leave for Mexico Friday.....so he's gonna get a nice break, by default.
Let's hear it!
Quite a dejected feeling.....walking to stand.....knowing you just blew out the one you were hunting for.
So here's the deal.......I've made a little map showing where I thought (OK....where Gri22 and I thought
) he was bedding......and my sightings of him. We thought he was bedding in the green dot area.....and he still may be. The blue dot is where I bumped him up, today. The white lines are just points of reference from sightings of him (red dots) and a straight line back to the bedding area(s). What's for certain is.....he's using that little woodlot a LOT. Time to regroup.So what's your gameplan.....if you're me? I probably won't get to hunt, tomorrow. We leave for Mexico Friday.....so he's gonna get a nice break, by default.
Let's hear it!
10-01-2008, 06:40 PM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Chatham, Ohio
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RE: So whatcha think? Game over?
Far from game over Jeff, the trip helps thing alot.
Not that its the same by any means, but i spooked a doe and fawns on Sunday night and then saw them again 1 hour later in a field not more then 200 yards away.
Not that its the same by any means, but i spooked a doe and fawns on Sunday night and then saw them again 1 hour later in a field not more then 200 yards away.
10-01-2008, 06:49 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast, Va
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RE: So whatcha think? Game over?
It is not over Jeff by any means... I have actually bumped deer while scouting with the bow and stand in hand, and threw the stand up where I bumped them and they came back within 11hr or so and I killed them... One thing I have learned from the WKP crew is the ol bump and dump method... I was doing it before , way before these guys told me about it, I just wasn't aware of what it was called, but they have had sucess doing it more than once...it's actually a strategy they use when they have a hard time getting that particular deer to walk under their stand...they slip into to his beding area or close to it and they actually bump him and they have had the buck come back after things settle in, accept this time they are waiting...
10-01-2008, 06:49 PM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: So whatcha think? Game over?
I'll be back in a week. The guy that's house sitting for us is gonna hunt a little.....but he will NOT be in that woodlot. Come to think of it.....he won't be on that side of the road.
Come to think of it.....he won't be on that side of the road.
