headgear wrote:JoeRE wrote:Good stuff Bucky, completely agree. The way I look at it if you don't have good access you might as well not hunt some spots and if you don't have a good exit route you might as well not come back...which sometimes might be ok, you might not be coming back.
On the flip side this is why us public land guys hunt our sets one and done, there isn't always a perfect access so you have to slip in and burn up the whole area and shoot one or move on. I understand why you might not want to over hunt an because of access but I wouldn't rule it out completely if you know you can move in for a kill. We all know entrance and exit can make or break you but just wanted to post another perspective.
That's a good point, I sort of skimmed over that. Now that I rarely hunt a spot more than once I concentrate a lot on the entry but the exit I often don't worry much about if I know I am not coming back to the area. Sure, maybe that is a little short sighted but just being willing to keep moving gives a person a huge advantage all by itself.
Another point worth bringing up, a good entry to your setup does not necessarily mean spooking NO deer. It means not alerting the deer you are after. I often hear guys say they don't want to hunt a certain area because they can't get in there....if you can bump deer in a safe direction, go for it. When I hear that comment, I think - honey hole! Now that might be different on a small property where you want to hunt a bunch and minimize any disturbance, but when you are more mobile it pays to be aggressive....I bump deer on a lot of my walks in, just try when I come up on those areas its from an angle to send them off in a safe direction.
Then of course there is the tactic to "stack" deer into an area you want them but that is a topic for another day....
