Places Overlooked
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Places Overlooked
I've read at least 4 or 5 threads on here recently where someone mentions hunting overlooked spots. I'd like to hear some examples and explanations of places that you found that were overlooked. Thanks
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Re: Places Overlooked
A 12 point buck was bedding in a little sliver of woods near where we would park to go hunting in the main woods on the property. Probably would just watch us go hunting and then go back to sleep.
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Really any place nobody is hunting, is worth a look.
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Across a river or lake easy way to remote area nobody else goes. This has been brought up before but with spring scouting coming soon, something to think about for public land hunting.
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A place where they can monitor(sight , sound or scent) the main hunter access without being seen or bothered almost always produces a bed for me.
I think that is the most blanket way to describe what I look for when I think of 'overlooked', as in, other hunters walking right by it.
I think that is the most blanket way to describe what I look for when I think of 'overlooked', as in, other hunters walking right by it.
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A lot of the time there will be a patch of brush away from the rest of what people consider deer habitat. Often along a road or off to the side, or the patch right behind the barn... Big bucks go and live where they rarely smell human scent. Find the spots where no one goes. The over looked spots.
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dan wrote:A lot of the time there will be a patch of brush away from the rest of what people consider deer habitat. Often along a road or off to the side, or the patch right behind the barn... Big bucks go and live where they rarely smell human scent. Find the spots where no one goes. The over looked spots.
I remember how Andre described it in one of the videos. The buffer thats just too far away from the barn for anyone to need to go in there and just too close to the barn for anyone to hunt there. Kind of a dead zone. By far the biggest bucks on the farms we have hunted have used a pattern such as this, often they are never killed, by hunters.
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People are easier to pattern than deer... Figure out where everyone hunts and eliminate those areas from your hunting areas and focus on the 10% where hunters rarely go...
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You always hear get as far off the road as possible....sometimes that can be true. However, I have killed many deer within bowshot of the road....roads sometimes equal quality.
Scent isn't necessarily bad either. If deer are use to scent from humans coming from a certain spot frequently they accept it.
Having to cross water next to a road has provided me many good spots. Two no no's.
Scent isn't necessarily bad either. If deer are use to scent from humans coming from a certain spot frequently they accept it.
Having to cross water next to a road has provided me many good spots. Two no no's.
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Dor wrote:You always hear get as far off the road as possible....sometimes that can be true. However, I have killed many deer within bowshot of the road....roads sometimes equal quality.
Scent isn't necessarily bad either. If deer are use to scent from humans coming from a certain spot frequently they accept it.
Having to cross water next to a road has provided me many good spots. Two no no's.
In a lot of the public areas I hunt the private land with crops and food is across the road and thats where the bucks that are bedding near the road are feeding. With a spot light an hour after dark its easy to see who is using the bed... I have also found they are used to people walking down the road so you can check the crossings for fresh tracks and never go in and get your scent in there till the target buck is there.
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These ideas bring a few new places to mind. What do you guys think about a small triangle of thick stuff that is the corner of a "Y" intersection of two logging roads. I've walked by it so many times I wouldn't even begin to keep a count.....
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VA5326 wrote:These ideas bring a few new places to mind. What do you guys think about a small triangle of thick stuff that is the corner of a "Y" intersection of two logging roads. I've walked by it so many times I wouldn't even begin to keep a count.....
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A friend of mine has a large group that goes on private farms and does deer drives with gun every year... I went with them one day, a few years ago.
There was one guy in the group that my friend said always got the biggest buck... I found this interesting because there was an old farmer that just randomly told each person where to stand or push... It soon became apparent as to why this guy killed most of the big bucks. After every drive there would be a period of time waiting for stander to get to the drivers to prepare for the next drive...
This guy would use that time frame to walk thru all the thick little patches the drive did not cover up near the road or behind the barn...
I mentioned this to my friend and he said, "You know you might be right. He never gets the big buck on the drive itself, he usually just gets "lucky" and jumps a big buck after the drive where it shouldn't be... I winked at my friend and said "Luck has nothing to do with his success"
There was one guy in the group that my friend said always got the biggest buck... I found this interesting because there was an old farmer that just randomly told each person where to stand or push... It soon became apparent as to why this guy killed most of the big bucks. After every drive there would be a period of time waiting for stander to get to the drivers to prepare for the next drive...
This guy would use that time frame to walk thru all the thick little patches the drive did not cover up near the road or behind the barn...
I mentioned this to my friend and he said, "You know you might be right. He never gets the big buck on the drive itself, he usually just gets "lucky" and jumps a big buck after the drive where it shouldn't be... I winked at my friend and said "Luck has nothing to do with his success"
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dan wrote:A friend of mine has a large group that goes on private farms and does deer drives with gun every year... I went with them one day, a few years ago.
There was one guy in the group that my friend said always got the biggest buck... I found this interesting because there was an old farmer that just randomly told each person where to stand or push... It soon became apparent as to why this guy killed most of the big bucks. After every drive there would be a period of time waiting for stander to get to the drivers to prepare for the next drive...
This guy would use that time frame to walk thru all the thick little patches the drive did not cover up near the road or behind the barn...
I mentioned this to my friend and he said, "You know you might be right. He never gets the big buck on the drive itself, he usually just gets "lucky" and jumps a big buck after the drive where it shouldn't be... I winked at my friend and said "Luck has nothing to do with his success"
I agree. That is not luck. He knows exactly what he's doing. That sneaky guy.....
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