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hunting shooting houses
#2367444
01/11/18 08:34 AM
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globe
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We own a 40 in a pretty good hunting spot, mostly hardwoods and a few big pines and creek bottoms. My pawpaw and me use to kill several good deer hunting in the woods in ladder stands, climbers or just sitting on a hill. Several years ago I put up a shooting house that joins our property and a greenfield. So I started taking the kids there and even my pawpaw started sitting in it because it was easier and more comfortable. We still killed a few deer, but it was a huge mistake because all anybody wanted to do was sit in the house (human nature I guess). We don't kill near as many deer as we use to because of the way we're hunting. You can apply that to all my property for the most part. We still kill some good deer, but would all do better in the woods and off the greenfields! Imo
Everything woke turns to shucks
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/11/18 08:35 AM
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Shaneomac2
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places vary for sure,but 99% of our bucks come off greenfields and out of shooting houses.
Georgia Football..Acts like Bama but has a trophy case like South Carolina.
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/11/18 08:42 AM
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globe
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We/I have gotten lazy..... I'm transitioning back to two man ladder stands and getting back to creek bottoms, clear cuts, etc.
Everything woke turns to shucks
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/11/18 01:45 PM
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outdoorobsession
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Man, I have only ONE of my land total...and I havent hunted it in years. Noone has. But, it is still standing and functional.
I just like hearing and 360 degrees of vision. I have one pop up blind too. I have 20 other set ups, all treestands. Mostly ladders now as well (75%).
However, Im in a club in Marion cty and we only have 3 stands, all the rest are shooting houses as it is all 10 ft tall pines. So A LOT of shooting house hunting when Im there.
Ive been hunting there the last 3 weeks....very comfortable...even heated...but boy..I sure dont see the deer I do from stands.
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/11/18 02:50 PM
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centralala
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I like shooting houses in rainy weather and when it's frigid cold or wind blowing 15mph.
But even then I sit with all the windows open so I can hear. I absolutely hate hunting when I can't hear and I'm not necessarily talking about deer walking through the woods. Doves getting spooked out of a cutover, squirrel barking or jay bird raising cane has alerted me to deer long before I actually heard them. If hearing is that important to you then you would hate my life. Hunting or not, shooting house or stand. Its all the same.
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/11/18 03:38 PM
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Posts: 9,375 Jasper, AL
joshm28
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I like shooting houses in rainy weather and when it's frigid cold or wind blowing 15mph.
But even then I sit with all the windows open so I can hear. I absolutely hate hunting when I can't hear and I'm not necessarily talking about deer walking through the woods. Doves getting spooked out of a cutover, squirrel barking or jay bird raising cane has alerted me to deer long before I actually heard them. If hearing is that important to you then you would hate my life. Hunting or not, shooting house or stand. Its all the same. Mine is going. Actually had a hearing test not to long ago and the results were less than stellar. Still though when it's quiet or should I say still I can hear pretty well.
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/11/18 03:59 PM
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Posts: 1,316 Cherokee Co. Al.
bgarrett
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I'm 60 and it's so easy to sit and enjoy a long hunt with cover overlooking a lush green field sitting in a desk chair, playing with my phone. But, for the first time all year I got out the Summit Climber this afternoon. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed being connected to a pine tree, swaying with the breeze.
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/11/18 04:53 PM
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BhamFred
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in 52 years of deer hunting I have never killed a good deer out of a shooting house. Never killed one feeding in a greenfield. Killed a good one slipping up to a field, shot him 10 yards out of the field. Killed another following a doe into a small secluded field, I was on the ground, wind was wrong for the house.
I have sat afternoons in a house a lot, killed a lot of does off various greenfields from a house. No big bucks (5 and older).
tripods, lock-ons, climbers, slipping along, sitting on the ground have all ended in some big bucks dead.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
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muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/11/18 05:20 PM
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Remington270
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in 52 years of deer hunting I have never killed a good deer out of a shooting house. Never killed one feeding in a greenfield. Killed a good one slipping up to a field, shot him 10 yards out of the field. Killed another following a doe into a small secluded field, I was on the ground, wind was wrong for the house.
I have sat afternoons in a house a lot, killed a lot of does off various greenfields from a house. No big bucks (5 and older).
tripods, lock-ons, climbers, slipping along, sitting on the ground have all ended in some big bucks dead. That’s pretty amazing.
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/11/18 05:38 PM
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Powpow65
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places vary for sure,but 99% of our bucks come off greenfields and out of shooting houses. Do y'all hunt greenfields from a shooting house 99% of the time?
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/12/18 02:21 AM
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twaldrop4
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I don't worry about what type of stand or lack thereof I sit in. To me people that are anti shooting house (not saying anyone on this post is being that way) are just trying to be macho. I sit where I need to and in whatever type of stand I need to to kill a deer.
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Re: hunting shooting houses
[Re: Powpow65]
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01/12/18 03:45 AM
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joshm28
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places vary for sure,but 99% of our bucks come off greenfields and out of shooting houses. Do y'all hunt greenfields from a shooting house 99% of the time? I can tell you 3 guys hunting roughly 700 hundred acres. We split time hunting shooting houses vs stands in woods/cutover at probably 50/50. All buck shot have come off the fields. We see plenty of bucks in the woods too but for what ever reason all our kills have been from shooting houses. We have some fields that's never had a deer shot out of them in 5 years.
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Re: hunting shooting houses
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01/12/18 03:54 AM
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Posts: 3,829 Chilton CO. Alabama
bama1157
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We hardly ever see any bucks on our fields until the rut is over and they start eating regular again to get their strength back..
99% of the bucks we kill are in the woods or slipping along the edges of clear cuts..
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporation's Thomas Jefferson. 1812
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