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Re: How close?
[Re: Smells]
#2615394
10/22/18 06:48 AM
10/22/18 06:48 AM
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 6,248 somewhere around 112.
slippinlipjr
I make Calds fer a livin
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I make Calds fer a livin
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 6,248
somewhere around 112.
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Just walk in early in the afternoon and don't worry about it. If it makes you feel better, get a stick and hit the ground right after you step to make you sound like ya got 4 legs. Lol. Unless you are like some folks I know, if you're going to get close enough, they will see you before they hear you usually.
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Re: How close?
[Re: Smells]
#2615465
10/22/18 09:11 AM
10/22/18 09:11 AM
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Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 16,837 Banana Republic
jb20
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 16,837
Banana Republic
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I wait till grounds wet or raining to hunt sum places
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: How close?
[Re: Smells]
#2615551
10/22/18 10:49 AM
10/22/18 10:49 AM
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Joined: Mar 2017
Posts: 906 upatree
rulebreaker
My head is in my ass.
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My head is in my ass.
Joined: Mar 2017
Posts: 906
upatree
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Still a WHOLE lotta leafs yet to fall........
Don't go looking for TROUBLE, it'll find you soon enough!
There are old, wise men and then there are just old fools. The sooner you learn this, the wiser you will be.
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Re: How close?
[Re: Smells]
#2615661
10/22/18 12:57 PM
10/22/18 12:57 PM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,229 alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,229
alabama
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turkeys don't make climbing stand noise as he goes up the tree....
climbers make too much noise to get real close.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: How close?
[Re: Smells]
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10/23/18 09:34 AM
10/23/18 09:34 AM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,153 Leeds
Smells
OP
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,153
Leeds
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I'm thinking I need to rethink my strategy. There is NO acorn crop this year where I am hunting and it would seem therefore, little reason for any deer to get too far from the thick stuff. I've seen 3 deer so far in 5 hunts. 2 of them I jumped either coming into or leaving my spot. All were either on the edge of or within 50 yds of the thick stuff, which may not be that unusual, a lot of bottoms may barely be 50 yds across, but none of my usual trails I sit over seem to have especially fresh wear on them. My limited experience suggests that a deer will bed down wherever it feels like at the moment, but very often they want to be on or near the end of a point or knob overlooking a bottom with thick and nasty behind them, bucks especially. If they're not traveling very far through the bottoms then you have to get in their hip pocket to have a chance or call them in which I'm not any good at. It seems like maybe my best chance is to park on the bedding before they come in and wait for them, but again, if they're not cruising for acorns this time of year why would they stray too far at all from the thick and nasty unless they just want to stretch their legs and check out the fall foliage and how can you possibly predict something like that? Help me sort this out.
I'm wondering if I should just ditch the stand and stalk from the ground. That leaves me with the same problem though, they'll see and hear me moving long before I see them.
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Re: How close?
[Re: Smells]
#2617393
10/23/18 10:03 PM
10/23/18 10:03 PM
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Posts: 193 North Alabama
Archery_Fanatic
3 point
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3 point
Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 193
North Alabama
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I don’t know what kind of land you’re hunting, but if you have thinned pines with new undergrowth I’d try that. We don’t have any acorns either in Colbert County. My only thought is to hunt fields in the evening and green growth (vines, briars, honey suckle, etc) in the morning. I haven’t seen any deer in the bottoms as I normally would when we have acorns. Most of our deer are being seen on fields the last 20 minutes....typical
Any day in the woods is a good day
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