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Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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06/29/20 11:58 AM
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If you’re new to hunting public land often times you’ll come to aldeer asking for help and people will tell you to go deep to get away from the pressure. Most of the public land I hunt has so much access that it’s nearly impossible to get away from folks so I just hunt where the deer sign is and try to use the pressure to my advantage. A great example was last December. It was Saturday December 21st and a good friend came out to hunt with me. I showed him on the map where to go and dropped him off. We were hunting the same cutover 600 yards apart. Just after daylight he had a spike feeding in front of him and around 9am he shot a 7 point. I even had to shine a guy off us in the dark that parked between us and was walking in. On December 27th I went back for a morning hunt to the same spot. I walked in and climbed a tree in the dark where I had sent my buddy. When it go daylight I could see the tree he climbed less then 10 yards away from me. At 8am I killed a 6 point. The cool thing about these hunts is that we were 200 yards away from an access road that we both watched people drive up and down on before we shot our bucks. For the most part, hunters drove past this cutover to get to other spots and they weren’t walking through and leaving scent. This spot was the classic overlooked place. So I guess the 2 main takeaways from these hunts is.... 1) Don't be afraid to hunt close to access if the deer sign is there 2) vehicle traffic doesn’t necessarily equate to hunting pressure 3) you do not have to hike a mile in to see and kill bucks Now neither one of these bucks are old mature deer, but that’s not what we were after on these hunts 😀 December 21st buck December 27th buck I also want to say thank you to all of y’all who watched the videos and subscribed to Southwood outdoors last season. I didn’t take my video camera turkey hunting but I plan on uploading some new content real soon. If you haven’t checked out the channel, click the Southwood outdoors link at the top of the page and check it out.
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4
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Re: Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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06/29/20 01:03 PM
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Good stuff alclearcut and I agree. When hunting pressured hunting land, public or private, you just have to stay on the buck sign.
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4
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Re: Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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06/29/20 01:37 PM
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Good stuff alclearcut and I agree. When hunting pressured hunting land, public or private, you just have to stay on the buck sign.
And stop telling people how to and where.
My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.
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Re: Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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06/29/20 03:33 PM
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Good stuff alclearcut and I agree. When hunting pressured hunting land, public or private, you just have to stay on the buck sign.
And stop telling people how to and where. I don’t mind helping new hunters, but I’m adamant that people need to do there own leg work and stop looking for handouts. A few years ago I named a wma that I hunted. I was naive and didn’t think it mattered. Unfortunately I had to learn the hard way the lengths people will go to kill a pine goat.
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4
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Re: Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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06/29/20 04:38 PM
06/29/20 04:38 PM
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Good stuff alclearcut and I agree. When hunting pressured hunting land, public or private, you just have to stay on the buck sign.
And stop telling people how to and where. Sure does limit what we can talk about on here
Last edited by CNC; 06/29/20 04:39 PM.
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Re: Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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07/08/20 07:40 AM
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Good stuff alclearcut and I agree. When hunting pressured hunting land, public or private, you just have to stay on the buck sign.
And stop telling people how to and where. I don’t mind helping new hunters, but I’m adamant that people need to do there own leg work and stop looking for handouts. A few years ago I named a wma that I hunted. I was naive and didn’t think it mattered. Unfortunately I had to learn the hard way the lengths people will go to kill a pine goat. Agreed
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Re: Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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07/08/20 08:59 AM
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I live near and primarly hunt Choccolocco WMA....it's extremely large (like 50K+ acres) and almost all rugged steep. For years and years it was just about 100% mature open hardwoods, and I would complain that we needed some cutovers. Well the last 10 years I've gotten what I wished for, but it has had "unintended consequences" in regards to hunting pressure....the openness and new roads have given "easier" access to those deep/hard places. So we've also learned recently to not overlook "right by the main road" spots. It has sorta reversed the process....you used to go deep and let the other hunters push the deer from the road to you, now it's stay close and let the deep hunters push the deer back to the roads.
Side note: What happened to me was several of the places I used to walk WAAAYYY into were now accessible from the "back side" due to the new clearcutting, so I'd get up ignorantly early and walk ignorantly far, be up my tree an hour before it even thought about getting daylight, only to have someone walk in on me right at daylight from the back side. It surprised me because folks had never done that before, but the new access "ruined" my old spots.
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Re: Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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07/08/20 09:56 AM
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Good stuff alclearcut and I agree. When hunting pressured hunting land, public or private, you just have to stay on the buck sign.
And stop telling people how to and where. Sure does limit what we can talk about on here Not at all. We got lots of politics and religion to discuss. I don't tell anybody anything about hunting. I always encourage new hunters to take up golf instead.
My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.
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Re: Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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07/08/20 06:52 PM
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I've seen a picture of a big buck hiding in a storm shelter on a vacant lot, I think the house got blown away or something....Southwood is right tho hunt sign and keep wind and pressure in check..deer know if they being hunted or being passed by a truck or atv...big difference
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin
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Re: Public land bucks and hunting pressure
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07/09/20 12:17 PM
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I've seen a picture of a big buck hiding in a storm shelter on a vacant lot, I think the house got blown away or something....Southwood is right tho hunt sign and keep wind and pressure in check..deer know if they being hunted or being passed by a truck or atv...big difference I grew up hunting the Anniston Army Depot. If you can picture it, it's a grid of roads with "igloos" lining each road about 200 yards apart. Those igloos are large concrete bunkers covered in earth, and over the years they've grown up with brush/weeds on top. Many of those igloos had fairly routine human activity in them (it's where they stored the chemical weapon heads). The deer used them for bedding, and it was just the norm to see a buck's head/rack sticking up from the weeds when you drove by.
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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