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Question for deer hunters.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 10:11 am
Posted on 11/27/24 at 10:11 am
I have never been deer hunting, only hunting I ever did was for ducks and squirrels, and that was many years ago. I moved up to N. Illinois about 20 years ago. My in laws are from MN. Every time we drive through Wisconsin from home to MN (which by the way is a very nice drive), I am amazed, not by the number of deer blinds I see, but how close so many are to the interstate. They are set up along the tree line overlooking usually a plowed field of some sort, but they are so close to the interstate. My question is, is this normal to be so close to the highway using rifles? I don't recall seeing that in other places.
Also yesterday on the drive, I saw no less that 20 dead deer, just on the NB side. Close to sunset, I saw about 4 does in the wide open in one of the fields, and a whole mess of wild turkeys in another.
Also yesterday on the drive, I saw no less that 20 dead deer, just on the NB side. Close to sunset, I saw about 4 does in the wide open in one of the fields, and a whole mess of wild turkeys in another.
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Posted on 11/27/24 at 10:28 am to tgrfan87
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My question is, is this normal to be so close to the highway using rifles?
Yes. Put your back to the road and shoot across the field. You don't shoot across the highway.
My buddy has a place on I-20 that has a stand like that. I hunted it and the road noise was annoying, but then I realized, the road noise gives you a lot of cover for making noise in the blind. (Accidently kicking a wall, opening a honey bun, etc.)
Posted on 11/27/24 at 10:55 am to Clyde Tipton
We don't have a stand or land on a highway, but to this point
Easily our best stand on the property sits 5 feet off the most used part of our camp road. Deer are just used to the traffic and noise around that area so I'm guessing they don't think any different when a truck or 4 wheeler stop in that area.
Hunting near the highway is the same general idea though.
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the road noise gives you a lot of cover for making noise in the blind
Easily our best stand on the property sits 5 feet off the most used part of our camp road. Deer are just used to the traffic and noise around that area so I'm guessing they don't think any different when a truck or 4 wheeler stop in that area.
Hunting near the highway is the same general idea though.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 11:28 am to tgrfan87
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how close so many are to the interstate.
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I saw no less that 20 dead deer, just on the NB side
Sounds like them baws are in the right spot.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 2:22 pm to tgrfan87
[quote] Also yesterday on the drive, I saw no less that 20 dead deer, just on the NB side.
When it snows and the road crews put out salt on the roads, the deer love to lick up the salt.
We don’t have that here in Louisiana.
When it snows and the road crews put out salt on the roads, the deer love to lick up the salt.
We don’t have that here in Louisiana.
This post was edited on 11/27/24 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 11/27/24 at 3:47 pm to tgrfan87
I recall a magazine article decades ago about the estimated # of Boone and Crockett deer liviving out their daytime lives in the protected recesses of interstate medians.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 4:24 pm to chrome1007
The road kills right now are due to the rut causing increased movement.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 4:26 pm to tgrfan87
And you’ve just wasted the last twenty falls of your life by not archery hunting record class whitetails in Illinois.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 4:31 pm to 257WBY
I guess I should take that up shouldn’t I?
Posted on 11/27/24 at 4:36 pm to tgrfan87
For sure.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 5:21 pm to 257WBY
I've killed 8 from a tree that's half a mile of woods from I65. The noise cover helps sometimes and not others.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 9:52 pm to tgrfan87
We had a guy kill a deer from a stand literally less than 50 yards from the east bound lane of I 64 here in Illinois last week.
It’s a great funnel area.
It’s a great funnel area.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 10:56 pm to geauxbrown
Awesome funnel. It’s a high fence on one side.
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