vtbuck wrote:On the private I hunt it’s keeping the landowner from searching for all my stuff. He runs all over the property on foot and four wheeler looking for my cams or prehung sets. It’s irritating but it’s also his land. I do a lot of stuff for him like cutting wood as payment.
A couple years ago my bro shot a good buck. We drug it out to the truck, got lunch and while we were gone he set a ground blind directly under the tree my bro shot the buck out of.
On public it’s a lack of scouting which is my own fault.
This always amazed me about some hunters. Once upon a time I was in a hunting club and if you ever shot a nice buck the other members would bug the out of you to find out exactly where you shot it (like it matters, the deer is already dead). If they ever found out where, they would carve a path using chainsaws and machetes so they could ride their four-wheelers in there and hunt it.
As for a NC hunter, my biggest challenge is like many throughout the Southeast, and thats finding mature bucks. Not many bucks around here make it past 2-2.5+ years. NC is capable of creating some monsters if given the chance.