kenn1320 wrote:. Im finding what Im looking for now, but sneaking in and setting up shop with a buck 50yds away seems like an impossible challenge to me. However I will give it my best and as Dan has said in the videos and even in this thread, you will fail until you do this enough to learn the limits.
This is the part I struggled with the most my first beast season, was I quiet enough? Did I get close enough to the bed? Did they bust me in on the way in? Am I hunting the right bed?
It's one of those things you just have to practice and keep working on, you will make mistakes so don't worry about them, just try and learn from them.
I am pretty confident I bumped the deer I was after out of there beds the first handful of times I went deep into the bedding areas. Other times my entry routes needed work because they saw me coming long before I even got close enough to setup on them.
Heck one time I even hiked way back to this remote swamp to hunt an island, well my scouting skills were a little green then. The buck wasn't bedding on or near the island yet, he was just off the transition line maybe 75 yards in. I stepped on his bed on the way to the island and kept on going like an idiot. Here I had the right wind just off to the side of his bed, fresh nice sized tracks heading to the bedding area and a very easy access to the transition line but I go dive into the swamp to hunt to wrong bed and chased the buck away. I didn't even realized I messed up until the end of the season.