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re: Trying new hunting strategies this year
Posted on 7/12/20 at 8:59 am to Cowboyfan89
Posted on 7/12/20 at 8:59 am to Cowboyfan89
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The Joke Your Head
Whatever you need to tell yourself.
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Posted on 7/12/20 at 9:40 am to Cowboyfan89
Well you two hijacked what could have been a cool thread.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 9:53 am to bobdylan
well, you could just hunt at night or on the state park like they do around here to get away from the crowds. seems to be no downside as they never get caught.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 11:37 am to LSUA 75
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I’ve had really good luck between 10am-12 noon.
I went to a guy’s house,he had 5 really nice bucks mounted and he told me he killed them all between 10am-1:00 pm hunting on public land.
I'm telling ya, those deer are probably better at patterning us than we are them. The trick is just finding them. Neither of the two I killed in the last 2 years in that window were further than a half mile from a road, but both were in relatively thick stuff. One was a doe that was bedded down in some pretty thick brush right off a slough. The second was a buck that was up and feeding on a ridge of oaks. I had hunted deer in the same bottom before, and it has a lot of good bedding. In fact, a week after I had killed that doe, I was in this same bottom and had a different buck and coyote run within 5 yards of me. Couldn't get a shot on either because I was too surprised by it! Lol! I ended up killing my buck about 600 yards up the bottom from that spot.
That buck and coyote encounter happened in the middle of the day as well. I won't say I don't hunt mornings, but I've had many more encounters with deer in the midday and deer and hogs in the evening. Morning just seems to be the time when deer are trying to get back to bed under cover of darkness, and I've never felt confident in being able to get into a spot without bumping them.
Which actually reminds me of one strategy I would like to try once this year--the bump and dump. I've seen The Hunting Public guys do it (although I think it's a Hunting Beast tactic), and would like to try it myself, but need to find a new spot for that.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 11:46 am to SkintBack
that's how I hunt national forest. I never hunt the same spot twice.. i let the guys who hunt until 9 am push the deer to me when they leave..
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:27 pm to bobdylan
Coulda been good thread hijacked by two dudes who admittedly have killed less than 3 total deer amongst them in 2 seasons one on private and spattering back and forth about how much they know about bow hunting deer on public land 
Go watch some guys like Infalt, or DIY, or THP on YouTube then come back here hat I. Hand about how little you two actually know.
I’ll never argue about someone’s strategy after seeing what these guys do time in and again on public land. Unless I ever get to be that good, I’m a nobody in this arena
Go watch some guys like Infalt, or DIY, or THP on YouTube then come back here hat I. Hand about how little you two actually know.
I’ll never argue about someone’s strategy after seeing what these guys do time in and again on public land. Unless I ever get to be that good, I’m a nobody in this arena
Posted on 7/12/20 at 5:34 pm to SkintBack
This is the most confusing hunting strategies thread I've ever read.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 5:53 pm to windshieldman
Yea I know it went off the rails LOL.
That's why I hunt just me and my dad and only public land. This thread feels like I'm in a hunting club. Hunters despise other hunters success, or take satisfaction in their lack of success. I mean I'm laughing about "The Sun" but yes I had high hopes.
That's why I hunt just me and my dad and only public land. This thread feels like I'm in a hunting club. Hunters despise other hunters success, or take satisfaction in their lack of success. I mean I'm laughing about "The Sun" but yes I had high hopes.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 5:58 pm to windshieldman
I'll try to get it back on track. Another strategy I started last year and will do even more this year is NOT run trail cameras. For a while I was obsessed with getting pictures of big bucks. It gets your blood going to see a huge rack on your camera. And also a let down when there is the same scraggly doe and nothing else.
But I just dont want the deer or other hunters to see any trace of me being there. I dont want to walk into an area just to check a camera. I dont want to miss the first evening sit because I'm running around checking 5 cameras. So this year I will put a couple of cameras out on prospective places just to see what's there, but not in my main hunting spots.
But I just dont want the deer or other hunters to see any trace of me being there. I dont want to walk into an area just to check a camera. I dont want to miss the first evening sit because I'm running around checking 5 cameras. So this year I will put a couple of cameras out on prospective places just to see what's there, but not in my main hunting spots.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 6:00 pm to windshieldman
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This is the most confusing hunting strategies thread I've ever read.
Yeah, you have to say it’s a weird strategy to hunt ugly. It’s definitely out of the box. Hunt where no one else would hunt, cause the deer know where no one hunts...meh, deer are hard to figure out, esp those beastly loners, but I guess you are in the woods, so it’s better than staying home
Posted on 7/12/20 at 6:11 pm to SkintBack
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I'll try to get it back on track. Another strategy I started last year and will do even more this year is NOT run trail cameras. For a while I was obsessed with getting pictures of big bucks. It gets your blood going to see a huge rack on your camera. And also a let down when there is the same scraggly doe and nothing else.
But I just dont want the deer or other hunters to see any trace of me being there. I dont want to walk into an area just to check a camera. I dont want to miss the first evening sit because I'm running around checking 5 cameras. So this year I will put a couple of cameras out on prospective places just to see what's there, but not in my main hunting spots.
I've never used a trail camera, I just enjoy not knowing everything that's out there. But your reasons for not running them are very good also.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 6:17 pm to CamdenTiger
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Yeah, you have to say it’s a weird strategy to hunt ugly. It’s definitely out of the box. Hunt where no one else would hunt, cause the deer know where no one hunts...meh, deer are hard to figure out, esp those beastly loners, but I guess you are in the woods, so it’s better than staying home
I don't disagree at all. You can kill deer close to check in stations also and parking areas. I killed a nice public land 6 point 75 yards from one in the old Jackson/Bienville WMA. Saw an even bigger one the next year but never had a good shot. Typically hunters go past all those areas, and far into the woods. I do both, just depends on how I feel about a spot, how tired I am, or how much hunters are out and about.
I had a spot way back in the woods 2 years ago but wind wasn't in my favor that morning and I set up maybe 50 yards off a main trail, probably could have thrown a ball and hit my truck even though I couldn't see it. Saw 6 does and a 4 point.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 6:20 pm to windshieldman
Camden, I see what you mean now even moreso. You're correct, deer can be difficult, just enjoy the woods
Posted on 7/12/20 at 6:53 pm to SkintBack
The one way I heard of someone deploying cameras that I thought would be worth having some for was to track a buck back to his bedding. You set up along a trail and see when you get him on camera, and then keep moving it in the direction he came from until you get him on camera.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 8:15 pm to windshieldman
I wonder how much more crowded the woods will be if CFB is cancelled? That’s my main concern with the season in jeopardy.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 8:26 pm to bobdylan
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I wonder how much more crowded the woods will be if CFB is cancelled? That’s my main concern with the season in jeopardy.
If turkey season and fishing season were any indication there may not be a deer left in the woods next year
Posted on 7/12/20 at 8:29 pm to Ron Cheramie
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