What about hunting a stand for the first time?
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Re: What about hunting a stand for the first time?
X2 what everyone else is saying. Most deer won't tolerate scent for a second time in, but during the rut anything can happen. I've hunted the same tree multiple days during the rut and seen different bucks each time. If it's hot during that period, I'll keep hunting it till something tells me to go elsewhere.
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I'd have to say the first sit is the best as well..
I have a pretty nice bedding area that might be 1-2 acres in size. In the early season, there always seems to be atleast 1-2 shooters bedding in that thicket. I had pictures of one deer in particular and my plan was to go in and kill him the first night from one of his primary beds. I actually set up three trees with tree steps, cleared small shooting lanes in the off season, etc. My plan was to hunt this deer on different winds and try to kill him as he exited this thicket in different places on different winds, food interests, etc. However, i did not want to educate him too much so my plan was to jump around as conditions dictated. The evening of September 17th came around and it was the first hunt of the year. The wind was from the SE and I had my entrance route planned to a T. This particular ambush point is challenging to get into, but if you take your time and be patient you can get really close to these bedded bucks because of the cover. The first bucks of the night started to stir about two hours before shooting time ended; he was maybe 120. The second buck that night was a beautiful 130 class eight that literally walked a trail almost under me; I'll never forget because he had all of these fresh rub shavings in the burrs of his antlers. I was excited by the early movement and knew this first sit might be a special one. Approximately 50 minutes before legal time ended, a giant 140 class eight stepped out of the cover and walked by my stand at 18 yards...I remember asking myself, "why aren't you shooting this giant buck!!" I watched him walk away in disbelief thinking I was crazy. However, when I looked back at the trail I knew why. The buck I had been targeting was standing there on a slightly different trail with his vitals covered by a tree. I came to full draw but a clear shot never presented itself from the old boy. I had to let down and realized how good a virgin sit can be.
Two weeks later, with the same wind I came back into that spot again, but I'm sure you can guess the results. Not as good as the first but not bad; I passed another 125 or so but it wasn't the deer I wanted. The whole season hunting in that area was a cat and mouse game with that buck. I hunted all three stands throughout the whole seasons maybe 5 hunts total from september to january. I seen him 5 times but never got as close as I did on opening night. He was always one step ahead of me and it was frustrating. However, i did key in on two other flaws in his travels during the off season. I will try and hunt him again this year with 5 total stand sites ready to hunt from.
I guess I try to keep the virgin hunt going by slightly adjusting my position to take advantage of his movements. Maybe I'm doing this all wrong, but I had more shots at mature bucks last season than I ever have before. Hopefully, I can outfox this buck in 2012-2013.
I have a pretty nice bedding area that might be 1-2 acres in size. In the early season, there always seems to be atleast 1-2 shooters bedding in that thicket. I had pictures of one deer in particular and my plan was to go in and kill him the first night from one of his primary beds. I actually set up three trees with tree steps, cleared small shooting lanes in the off season, etc. My plan was to hunt this deer on different winds and try to kill him as he exited this thicket in different places on different winds, food interests, etc. However, i did not want to educate him too much so my plan was to jump around as conditions dictated. The evening of September 17th came around and it was the first hunt of the year. The wind was from the SE and I had my entrance route planned to a T. This particular ambush point is challenging to get into, but if you take your time and be patient you can get really close to these bedded bucks because of the cover. The first bucks of the night started to stir about two hours before shooting time ended; he was maybe 120. The second buck that night was a beautiful 130 class eight that literally walked a trail almost under me; I'll never forget because he had all of these fresh rub shavings in the burrs of his antlers. I was excited by the early movement and knew this first sit might be a special one. Approximately 50 minutes before legal time ended, a giant 140 class eight stepped out of the cover and walked by my stand at 18 yards...I remember asking myself, "why aren't you shooting this giant buck!!" I watched him walk away in disbelief thinking I was crazy. However, when I looked back at the trail I knew why. The buck I had been targeting was standing there on a slightly different trail with his vitals covered by a tree. I came to full draw but a clear shot never presented itself from the old boy. I had to let down and realized how good a virgin sit can be.
Two weeks later, with the same wind I came back into that spot again, but I'm sure you can guess the results. Not as good as the first but not bad; I passed another 125 or so but it wasn't the deer I wanted. The whole season hunting in that area was a cat and mouse game with that buck. I hunted all three stands throughout the whole seasons maybe 5 hunts total from september to january. I seen him 5 times but never got as close as I did on opening night. He was always one step ahead of me and it was frustrating. However, i did key in on two other flaws in his travels during the off season. I will try and hunt him again this year with 5 total stand sites ready to hunt from.
I guess I try to keep the virgin hunt going by slightly adjusting my position to take advantage of his movements. Maybe I'm doing this all wrong, but I had more shots at mature bucks last season than I ever have before. Hopefully, I can outfox this buck in 2012-2013.
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Re: What about hunting a stand for the first time?
MOBIGBUCKS wrote:I'd have to say the first sit is the best as well..
I have a pretty nice bedding area that might be 1-2 acres in size. In the early season, there always seems to be atleast 1-2 shooters bedding in that thicket. I had pictures of one deer in particular and my plan was to go in and kill him the first night from one of his primary beds. I actually set up three trees with tree steps, cleared small shooting lanes in the off season, etc. My plan was to hunt this deer on different winds and try to kill him as he exited this thicket in different places on different winds, food interests, etc. However, i did not want to educate him too much so my plan was to jump around as conditions dictated. The evening of September 17th came around and it was the first hunt of the year. The wind was from the SE and I had my entrance route planned to a T. This particular ambush point is challenging to get into, but if you take your time and be patient you can get really close to these bedded bucks because of the cover. The first bucks of the night started to stir about two hours before shooting time ended; he was maybe 120. The second buck that night was a beautiful 130 class eight that literally walked a trail almost under me; I'll never forget because he had all of these fresh rub shavings in the burrs of his antlers. I was excited by the early movement and knew this first sit might be a special one. Approximately 50 minutes before legal time ended, a giant 140 class eight stepped out of the cover and walked by my stand at 18 yards...I remember asking myself, "why aren't you shooting this giant buck!!" I watched him walk away in disbelief thinking I was crazy. However, when I looked back at the trail I knew why. The buck I had been targeting was standing there on a slightly different trail with his vitals covered by a tree. I came to full draw but a clear shot never presented itself from the old boy. I had to let down and realized how good a virgin sit can be.
Two weeks later, with the same wind I came back into that spot again, but I'm sure you can guess the results. Not as good as the first but not bad; I passed another 125 or so but it wasn't the deer I wanted. The whole season hunting in that area was a cat and mouse game with that buck. I hunted all three stands throughout the whole seasons maybe 5 hunts total from september to january. I seen him 5 times but never got as close as I did on opening night. He was always one step ahead of me and it was frustrating. However, i did key in on two other flaws in his travels during the off season. I will try and hunt him again this year with 5 total stand sites ready to hunt from.
I guess I try to keep the virgin hunt going by slightly adjusting my position to take advantage of his movements. Maybe I'm doing this all wrong, but I had more shots at mature bucks last season than I ever have before. Hopefully, I can outfox this buck in 2012-2013.
Good luck with him Mogibucks! It sure would be sweet to kill him after playing cat and mouse with him for a season.
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Re: What about hunting a stand for the first time?
MOBIGBUCKS wrote:I'd have to say the first sit is the best as well..
I have a pretty nice bedding area that might be 1-2 acres in size. In the early season, there always seems to be atleast 1-2 shooters bedding in that thicket. I had pictures of one deer in particular and my plan was to go in and kill him the first night from one of his primary beds. I actually set up three trees with tree steps, cleared small shooting lanes in the off season, etc. My plan was to hunt this deer on different winds and try to kill him as he exited this thicket in different places on different winds, food interests, etc. However, i did not want to educate him too much so my plan was to jump around as conditions dictated. The evening of September 17th came around and it was the first hunt of the year. The wind was from the SE and I had my entrance route planned to a T. This particular ambush point is challenging to get into, but if you take your time and be patient you can get really close to these bedded bucks because of the cover. The first bucks of the night started to stir about two hours before shooting time ended; he was maybe 120. The second buck that night was a beautiful 130 class eight that literally walked a trail almost under me; I'll never forget because he had all of these fresh rub shavings in the burrs of his antlers. I was excited by the early movement and knew this first sit might be a special one. Approximately 50 minutes before legal time ended, a giant 140 class eight stepped out of the cover and walked by my stand at 18 yards...I remember asking myself, "why aren't you shooting this giant buck!!" I watched him walk away in disbelief thinking I was crazy. However, when I looked back at the trail I knew why. The buck I had been targeting was standing there on a slightly different trail with his vitals covered by a tree. I came to full draw but a clear shot never presented itself from the old boy. I had to let down and realized how good a virgin sit can be.
Two weeks later, with the same wind I came back into that spot again, but I'm sure you can guess the results. Not as good as the first but not bad; I passed another 125 or so but it wasn't the deer I wanted. The whole season hunting in that area was a cat and mouse game with that buck. I hunted all three stands throughout the whole seasons maybe 5 hunts total from september to january. I seen him 5 times but never got as close as I did on opening night. He was always one step ahead of me and it was frustrating. However, i did key in on two other flaws in his travels during the off season. I will try and hunt him again this year with 5 total stand sites ready to hunt from.
I guess I try to keep the virgin hunt going by slightly adjusting my position to take advantage of his movements. Maybe I'm doing this all wrong, but I had more shots at mature bucks last season than I ever have before. Hopefully, I can outfox this buck in 2012-2013.
Hope you get him this year.
You can fool some of the bucks, all of the time, and fool all of the bucks, some of the time, however you certainly can't fool all of the bucks, all of the time.
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