Have any of you guys that hunt from the ground a lot had trouble telling where the deer are coming from? I don't mean just because it's hard to see very far, but the few times I've been on the ground I could hear deer coming but it was very difficult to pinpoint exactly where they were.
Between not being able to look exactly where they are (because I can't tell), and fear of moving too much to scan a 90% area, I had a very difficult time.
To be fair, it may have been the place I was set up had weird acoustics or something, but it just seemed so much more difficult to tell where the sound was coming from.
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Re: Hunting from the ground
LateRiser wrote:Have any of you guys that hunt from the ground a lot had trouble telling where the deer are coming from? I don't mean just because it's hard to see very far, but the few times I've been on the ground I could hear deer coming but it was very difficult to pinpoint exactly where they were.
Between not being able to look exactly where they are (because I can't tell), and fear of moving too much to scan a 90% area, I had a very difficult time.
To be fair, it may have been the place I was set up had weird acoustics or something, but it just seemed so much more difficult to tell where the sound was coming from.
Its a lot harder to hear deer coming, see deer coming, or tell where sound is coming from... Sound is blocked and bounced off vegetation, trees, terrain, etc.
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I shot my first deer from the ground last year. Walking in wearing a sleeveless t shirt with shorts covered with leafy pants. Less than ten yards. Right place right time. It was a wicked rush.
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Scratchman wrote:I shot my first deer from the ground last year. Walking in wearing a sleeveless t shirt with shorts covered with leafy pants. Less than ten yards. Right place right time. It was a wicked rush.
That is cool. The shirt sound like Infalt-like apparel.
Was the place you shot it somewhere you deliberately planned or did you just play it by ear until you found a spot and set up then?
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This is my West Virginia buck from last season. I found his bed and set up on the ground about 75 yards away with an hour before dark. I did some light grunts and about 10 minutes later he came grunting in. I missed the first shot and snort wheezed at him. He started busting brush with his horns and came back.
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Those are some dandys JW
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greenhorndave wrote:Scratchman wrote:I shot my first deer from the ground last year. Walking in wearing a sleeveless t shirt with shorts covered with leafy pants. Less than ten yards. Right place right time. It was a wicked rush.
That is cool. The shirt sound like Infalt-like apparel.
Was the place you shot it somewhere you deliberately planned or did you just play it by ear until you found a spot and set up then?
I had actually never been in those woods before. It was a piece that I had cyber scouted. It was a thin piece of public along a river. The map looked good and I could tell from the other side, about 3/4 mile away, that there was a good oak stand. I paddled the river and put my pack on my back. I did not put the leafy suit on because it was 85 degrees. I climbed the 40 foot bank and saw blow downs. I started creeping forward(maybe a little too quick) and I had a doe blow. She skipped about 30 yards and looked back at me. I just froze. At this point I started hearing a caravan of canoes behind me on the river. She heard them to. I figure she thought the sound was just from that party on the water. She walked over to the edge to check them out. I was in a ditch behind a tree and she gave me a broadside at 7 yards. It was opening day and I had her in the canoes 25 minutes after the hunt started. I was a pretty awesome way to start the season.
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