Deer per hour--your rate so far this season?
10-12-2008, 05:14 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pulaskiville
Posts: 3,529
RE: Deer per hour--your rate so far this season?
I am hunting in a situation that is new to me. In my 30+yrs of bowhunting I've always been a big farm/woods hunter. Now I am hunting a residential area with about 25 acres of woods in back of it.
My first morning hunting I was 21 deer before 8am and shot a doe.
2nd morning there was much the same...with me killing a doe.
3rd morning there I saw 3 bucks a herd of does and shot one of the bucks.
I haven't kept real close tabs on numbers...but I think that I've hunted there a total of 4 hours and I've seen somewhere around 60 deer. That's 15 per hour. Not too shabby. LOL
If you can get one of these residential gigs...jump on it. LOL
My first morning hunting I was 21 deer before 8am and shot a doe.
2nd morning there was much the same...with me killing a doe.
3rd morning there I saw 3 bucks a herd of does and shot one of the bucks.
I haven't kept real close tabs on numbers...but I think that I've hunted there a total of 4 hours and I've seen somewhere around 60 deer. That's 15 per hour. Not too shabby. LOL
If you can get one of these residential gigs...jump on it. LOL
10-12-2008, 05:24 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,606
RE: Deer per hour--your rate so far this season?
been out 24 hours total , 7 times , seen deer twice , shot 2 does the first hunt 15 min into it. last hunt i finaly seen deer again but way out of range
10-12-2008, 06:22 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: Deer per hour--your rate so far this season?
So some of you guys are in the same boat as me....seeing low deer numbers. Man I tell you, it can make for a long hard season to see deer only every 7-8 hours, and most of the time I see 3-4 deer, then nothing for the next 20+ hours.
10-12-2008, 06:45 AM
#17
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Posts: 21,043
RE: Deer per hour--your rate so far this season?
Brett:
I suppose I "average" about 4 hour sits......and I've hunted 22 times, now. I've seen 53 deer from stand. So I'm not quite sure where that math lies within your poll (Actually I am.....but it's between No. 1 and No. 2). Anyways....you see what I'm saying.
I'm not worried about it, HERE (not making light of your situation). I'm always hoping for less sightings, annually.....and most of the places I'm now hunting....I'm hoping to see a buck or nothing.
I suppose I "average" about 4 hour sits......and I've hunted 22 times, now. I've seen 53 deer from stand. So I'm not quite sure where that math lies within your poll (Actually I am.....but it's between No. 1 and No. 2). Anyways....you see what I'm saying.
I'm not worried about it, HERE (not making light of your situation). I'm always hoping for less sightings, annually.....and most of the places I'm now hunting....I'm hoping to see a buck or nothing.
10-12-2008, 07:42 AM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Virginia
Posts: 3,882
RE: Deer per hour--your rate so far this season?
Ive sit a total of 16 hours killed two deer and including them and the ones Ive glassed out in the field "after" killing those two, Ive seen 11 deer. But while actually sitting in my stand Ive seen 5.
10-12-2008, 08:03 AM
#20
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 7,208
RE: Deer per hour--your rate so far this season?
I went the first 25-26 hrs this season with out seeing a deer. 6 sits I believe.
THen Isaw 6 deer and killed one in the first 45minutes of the next hunt.
THen Isaw 6 deer and killed one in the first 45minutes of the next hunt.