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Hunting roads
#2586801
09/22/18 02:42 PM
09/22/18 02:42 PM
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Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 107 Lay Lake
firemanrob12
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3 point
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Posts: 107
Lay Lake
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With as much cover(bedding) as we have on our properties in Alabama and the only way being able to hunt them sometimes is on the road that goes through the thicket cover bedding areas. Are there anyways you determine about where they will cross. The obvious being tracks and food source. Maybe putting a camera on time lapse. Just curious if anyone had any other tips for hunting long stretches of road.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. Romans 1:20
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: firemanrob12]
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09/22/18 03:34 PM
09/22/18 03:34 PM
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Posts: 2,783 Owens Xrds
AUwrestler
10 point
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You may try piling up brush on the road side which limits deer crossing and leaving openings where you plan on putting stands. May the deer come to you.
I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn. Therefore I believe in work, hard work. -George Petrie (1945)
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: CAL]
#2587187
09/22/18 06:16 PM
09/22/18 06:16 PM
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Posts: 8,399
Atoler
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I usually will find a good spot and sit in a chair on the side of the road. Deer usually step out and stop to try and figure out what’s the big blob in the road. Same, except I sit in the middle of the road to make sure they stop and look.
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: firemanrob12]
#2587312
09/22/18 07:17 PM
09/22/18 07:17 PM
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 2,035 Mobile, AL
Mdees
8 point
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Mobile, AL
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Our roads tend to bend around terrain features and the busiest crossings are in those turns. Our deer, I’ve noticed over the 11 years I’ve been on the current property, will use the same trails wether they are through a fresh clear cut, sapling pines or maturing forest. Our roads are mostly dirt/clay so it’s easy to tell where the deer are crossing and where they aren’t. But again, these tend to be in turns where you won’t be much further than 50 yards, maybe less, from the crossing and see it. I’ll sit on a chair or bucket and watch it like a hawk but not until the rut usually. Let the does stay comfortable crossing there and see what follows later.
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: firemanrob12]
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09/22/18 08:22 PM
09/22/18 08:22 PM
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Posts: 6,241 somewhere around 112.
slippinlipjr
I make Calds fer a livin
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I make Calds fer a livin
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somewhere around 112.
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I have hunted roads a whole lot. I have found that mature bucks like to cross in the narrowest parts of the road, in a curve if they can. Don't worry if there is a trail there or not. Just be ready when he crosses. They will cross where edges meet. Like the edge of tall and short pines, edge of a field, following creek bottoms, etc. It won't take him 2 seconds to get across.
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: !shiloh!]
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09/22/18 08:38 PM
09/22/18 08:38 PM
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Posts: 107 Lay Lake
firemanrob12
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I like to put corn piles every 50 yards. Seems legit 🤷🏻♂️
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. Romans 1:20
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: firemanrob12]
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09/23/18 03:34 PM
09/23/18 03:34 PM
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681 Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Do it like Texas, put a feeder in the road.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: perchjerker]
#2588473
09/23/18 10:04 PM
09/23/18 10:04 PM
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Posts: 6,551 Sylacauga
CAL
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Sylacauga
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Do it like Texas, put a feeder in the road. Best was is to sprinkle it in a zigzag pattern so they’ll move around for a shot....so I’ve been told.
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: firemanrob12]
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09/24/18 12:19 AM
09/24/18 12:19 AM
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Posts: 15,356 Ourtown, AL
BCLC
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Ourtown, AL
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Fast truck, bright light, & a quiet rifle Any major terrain change is a great place to watch: curves, dips, humps, timber change, etc. Lots of good advice in this thread.
We’re not dead. We just smell that way. Dayum. - AC870
Yessir! I’m always gonna shoot what makes me happy and I want everyone else to do the same! If you shoot one be proud of it and don’t worry what anyone else thinks. - SJ22
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Re: Hunting roads
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09/28/18 02:17 PM
09/28/18 02:17 PM
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Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,702 Oregon, Land of Umpqua
Alagator
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Posts: 1,702
Oregon, Land of Umpqua
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Fast truck, bright light, & a quiet rifle Any major terrain change is a great place to watch: curves, dips, humps, timber change, etc. Lots of good advice in this thread.
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: firemanrob12]
#2593449
09/28/18 03:33 PM
09/28/18 03:33 PM
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Joined: Jul 2014
Posts: 1,386 South Alabama
bambam32
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50% of the deer killed at my camp are killed on roads, either in a chair or vehicle as described above. The problem is judging the distance quickly because you only get a few seconds. After Halloween a few years ago we bought plastic pumpkin baskets for trick-or-treating for 50 cents at Wal Mart. Drill a few holes in the bottom and put a scoop of dirt in them. Put them out every 200 yards on the side of road where you can see them from your set up. It is the quickest way to determine if they are in range. If you see them crossing near the third pumpkin you know they are out of range but you also know where to move your stand next time.
Last edited by bambam32; 09/28/18 03:35 PM.
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Re: Hunting roads
[Re: bambam32]
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09/28/18 06:46 PM
09/28/18 06:46 PM
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Posts: 9,375 Jasper, AL
joshm28
14 point
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14 point
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Jasper, AL
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50% of the deer killed at my camp are killed on roads, either in a chair or vehicle as described above. The problem is judging the distance quickly because you only get a few seconds. After Halloween a few years ago we bought plastic pumpkin baskets for trick-or-treating for 50 cents at Wal Mart. Drill a few holes in the bottom and put a scoop of dirt in them. Put them out every 200 yards on the side of road where you can see them from your set up. It is the quickest way to determine if they are in range. If you see them crossing near the third pumpkin you know they are out of range but you also know where to move your stand next time. Y’all need to practice shooting. With the 7mag I can hold on hair out past 300.
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