What's the best advice u can give for hills in early season?
If acorns are up high do u go up high? Whats the best access, drop down into acorns or come up a draw? Food plots all failed this year and the acorns are in locations I've never hunted due to my hunts always revolving around november.
My second property is large hill system with beans and greens in 12 acre bottom. Would u focus on hills hunting up high on acorns or hunt down low on way to food in a transition, on the actual food? I'm going in blind and only have a few days to hunt. Would u scout in mornings? Scout at all or rely on topos?
Hills early season
-
- Posts: 80
- Joined: Sun May 12, 2019 4:04 am
- Status: Offline
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 7865
- Joined: Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:54 pm
- Location: Medon Tn
- Status: Offline
Re: Hills early season
I hunt mornings down low.
Transition lines near oaks in afternoons.
Bucks often get up and go down low to get water in the afternoon they have been laying their for hours. Afternoons down low in extreme heat is good. The hard part to beat is the rising thermal and getting close enough to bedding.
I do scout some on my way in.
Most of my spots are already chosen.
Sometimes I scout areas midday that aren't on my hunting list. To attempt to locate something fresh.
Transition lines near oaks in afternoons.
Bucks often get up and go down low to get water in the afternoon they have been laying their for hours. Afternoons down low in extreme heat is good. The hard part to beat is the rising thermal and getting close enough to bedding.
I do scout some on my way in.
Most of my spots are already chosen.
Sometimes I scout areas midday that aren't on my hunting list. To attempt to locate something fresh.
Never give up Freedom for imagined safety.
-
- Posts: 32
- Joined: Wed Aug 28, 2019 10:16 am
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steven.spaulding.42
- Location: N GA
- Contact:
- Status: Offline
Re: Hills early season
Thoughts on attacking high acorns -) One best entry and exit route, hunt morning and evening to see which works. You can bust them on the way up and have others come in from another part of the mountain. If the food is there, the deer will be too. In season in hill country I would give it three sits and move on. That is in low deer density.
- Stingray713
- 500 Club
- Posts: 956
- Joined: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:14 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Hills early season
[quote="Tennhunter3"]I hunt mornings down low.
Transition lines near oaks in afternoons.
Bucks often get up and go down low to get water in the afternoon they have been laying their for hours. Afternoons down low in extreme heat is good. The hard part to beat is the rising thermal and getting close enough to bedding.
I do scout some on my way in.
Most of my spots are already chosen.
Sometimes I scout areas midday that aren't on my hunting list. To attempt to locate something fresh.[/quote
He said it, going to be unusually hot for the eastern US next couple weeks
I love getting on hot sign near acorns, but water is going to be more important coming up
Transition lines near oaks in afternoons.
Bucks often get up and go down low to get water in the afternoon they have been laying their for hours. Afternoons down low in extreme heat is good. The hard part to beat is the rising thermal and getting close enough to bedding.
I do scout some on my way in.
Most of my spots are already chosen.
Sometimes I scout areas midday that aren't on my hunting list. To attempt to locate something fresh.[/quote
He said it, going to be unusually hot for the eastern US next couple weeks
I love getting on hot sign near acorns, but water is going to be more important coming up
Strategically Inefficient
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 601
- Joined: Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:53 am
- Location: New York
- Status: Offline
Re: Hills early season
Tennhunter3 wrote:
Bucks often get up and go down low to get water in the afternoon they have been laying their for hours. Afternoons down low in extreme heat is good. The hard part to beat is the rising thermal and getting close enough to bedding.
.
Curious what you think about this, it's a new spot for me and I don't know the air currents yet. Picture a stream directly at the bottom of the hill running parallel to the ridge top. If I am on the opposite side of the stream will the stream's current, and the air flowing with it, keep my scent out of those thermals? Thinking of staying low on the hot day and catching them when they come for water. That's my only access to this piece anyway. Thanks
-
- Posts: 80
- Joined: Sun May 12, 2019 4:04 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Hills early season
So u guys hunt some mornings too? Anyone go to suspected bedding and setup well b4 crack of daylight?
-
- Posts: 80
- Joined: Sun May 12, 2019 4:04 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Hills early season
Anyone ever kill a target buck in the morning early ocrober in hills? What was the strategy involved is the question I'm getting at
-
- Advertisement
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: Jonny, TrendictionBot and 86 guests