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Help! Newbie question!
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<<One option, that may or may not work, depending on the deer is to just walk through at a steady pace, ignoring the deer. They will no doubt get up and move. But if they think you’re just passing through they may come back. If you’re in the stand when they return, you should get a shot.>> Do you walk your property on a regular basis….throughout the year? Is your presence an expected part of their life? Or do you only head back to the south 40 during hunting season. I hunt mostly in an area that borders a friend’s cattle farm. The deer have come to expect people around in the fields and around the barb wire fences and don’t get spooked to the point where they won’t come back. My presence will send them off for a half hour — tops. After that, they go This may not help this season…..but make sure you are just another feature of the landscape for next year. God Hunting!
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>OK bowhunters, here’s my unusual problem..let’s see who can solve it! >Heres the problem: to get to my stand, regardless of where on the back >of my property I put it, I MUST cross almost ALL of the deer trails, the >bedding area on my property, and make a hell of a lot of noise from the >brances and twigs on the ground. With the leaves, twigs, and >branches, it’s almost impossible not to make a lot of noise in this >area. This just about blows my morning hunting, I think. What do I do? > Hunt evenings?
For the scent, I wear LL Bean Hunting boots with rubber bottoms, and only use them for hunting (so they are not polluted with other scents). And, even though it was a lot of work initially, I raked a path to my stand so I could approach it completely silently. After the initial clearing, yearly maintenance is easy. My wife takes our Homelite leaf blower in the woods the week before the season and clears the path to both her and my stands. Great wife, huh? Larry
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OK bowhunters, here’s my unusual problem..let’s see who can solve it! Visualize: My property is 8 acres. It’s approx. 1 acre wide, and 8 acres deep. It is heavily wooded with lots of brush. The same type of property (wooded/brush) is on both sides of my property, with a LARGE hay field to the rear of my property. If you count the acres, 1 through 8, from front to back, my treestand is on the 7th acre, to the right of the property (looking front to back). The major deer trails are on the back 7th and 8th acres, crossing the property. Some trails exit to the back of the property to the hay field. There is a major bedding area on the neightbors property to the left. There is a smaller bedding area on my property about 80 feet from my treestand. Heres the problem: to get to my stand, regardless of where on the back of my property I put it, I MUST cross almost ALL of the deer trails, the bedding area on my property, and make a hell of a lot of noise from the brances and twigs on the ground. With the leaves, twigs, and branches, it’s almost impossible not to make a lot of noise in this area. This just about blows my morning hunting, I think. What do I do? Hunt evenings? This place is FULL of deer, with a LOT of bucks being taken in this area every year. Being new to bow hunting, I just don’t know how to approach the stand successfully for the morning hunt. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike
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: OK bowhunters, here’s my unusual problem..let’s see who can solve it! : Visualize: My property is 8 acres. It’s approx. 1 acre wide, and 8 : acres deep. It is heavily wooded with lots of brush. The same type of : property (wooded/brush) is on both sides of my property, with a LARGE : hay field to the rear of my property. : If you count the acres, 1 through 8, from front to back, my treestand : is on the 7th acre, to the right of the property (looking front to : back). : The major deer trails are on the back 7th and 8th acres, crossing the : property. Some trails exit to the back of the property to the hay : field. There is a major bedding area on the neightbors property to the : left. There is a smaller bedding area on my property about 80 feet from : my treestand. : Heres the problem: to get to my stand, regardless of where on the back : of my property I put it, I MUST cross almost ALL of the deer trails, the : bedding area on my property, and make a hell of a lot of noise from the : brances and twigs on the ground. With the leaves, twigs, and : branches, it’s almost impossible not to make a lot of noise in this : area. This just about blows my morning hunting, I think. What do I do? : Hunt evenings? : This place is FULL of deer, with a LOT of bucks being taken in this area : every year. Being new to bow hunting, I just don’t know how to approach : the stand successfully for the morning hunt. : Any help would be appreciated. : Thanks, Mike One option, that may or may not work, depending on the deer is to just walk through at a steady pace, ignoring the deer. They will no doubt get up and move. But if they think you’re just passing through they may come back. If you’re in the stand when they return, you should get a shot. samg Hewlett Packard/Colorado Springs