#1710541 - 01/06/10 12:37 PM
Re: Biggest lesson learned this season??
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jb3
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Loc: Burns, TN
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Don't leave deer to find deer and don't leave home without your rifle (lucky it was only a 15 minute drive back home).
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#1710542 - 01/06/10 12:38 PM
Re: Biggest lesson learned this season??
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CCAU
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Registered: 12/08/09
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Loc: Alabama
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I learned that people love to pull the trigger on the farms around me
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#1710557 - 01/06/10 12:45 PM
Re: Biggest lesson learned this season??
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SAR Swimmer
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Registered: 12/08/08
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I know this sounds crazy but i saw a pattern on deer movement that i never noticed before.
If i hunt my large farm one day and see lots of deer,don't hunt it the next day because i wont see anything.
If i hunt the same farm one day and see nothing,go the next day and see lots of deer.
Sounds crazy but it was like this all year.And i hunted 50-60 days this year and could see this pattern every time out.
Funny because I had a farm to hunt one time and I swear that they were on a 3 day rotation. I would see deer one day and then not see deer for 2 days. This was before trail cameras though, so it could have just been coincidence.
I believe that my learning lesson was just how effective rattling can be in the right spot, at the right time. I bought the "Pack Rack" by Knight and Hale. I believe this is the dest invention since toilet paper!
I also witnessed something that I had read about many times. Though I have always believed it, I got to see different bucks cruising on downwind sides of thickets. When the wind changed, the bucks changed sides too. I was hunting on the North end of a thicket. I could mmonitor trails that ran North/South. There was one on the East side of the thicket. There was one on the West side of the thicket.
I had several bucks that I considered regulars in the area. When the wind would blow from the East, these bucks would always cruise the West trail. When the wind switched from the West, the bucks would use the Eastern trail.
I even watched a buck cruising one day. As he was coming down the trail, he abruptly stopped, made a 90 degree turn and eased up into the thicket to a bedded doe which I never knew was laying there......Crazy!
Edited by SAR Swimmer (01/06/10 12:46 PM)
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#1710745 - 01/06/10 03:17 PM
Re: Biggest lesson learned this season??
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passthrough76
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Registered: 01/06/09
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Loc: Middle, TN
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No matter how confident you are, how much you prepared, or how much you scouted, a mature buck will only show his face when he wants to. I have been blessed for the last 8 years straight to see a mature deer. This year, although I know they are there, did not see one mature deer(4.5 or older). And that is why I continue to go, you just never know.
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#1710806 - 01/06/10 03:52 PM
Re: Biggest lesson learned this season??
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Double-D-Team
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Wouldn't say I learned it more like just remembered that a trophy buck is just icing on the cake. Good times with good friends is where I truly find my enjoyment in the outdoors...........Yeah, I had my cake without icing this season but enjoyed every bite of it.
DITTO, well said but I had my icing...I still have one tag... 
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#1710835 - 01/06/10 04:09 PM
Re: Biggest lesson learned this season??
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Devin2009
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Registered: 10/05/09
Posts: 442
Loc: Mt.Pleasant Tn.
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...always reload your muzzleloader after you shoot a deer....even if you think they are dead.....he wasn't well until a couple of weeks later when my cousin killed him....
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#1710851 - 01/06/10 04:20 PM
Re: Biggest lesson learned this season??
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skynimrod
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Registered: 11/10/06
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Loc: Bellevue Tn
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270 grain gold dots in my 444 are a little to much for deer.
The rebuilt 338-06 is a dead on/killing machine.
Hunting from the ground is still A OK.
Need a bigger freezer.
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#1711148 - 01/06/10 06:51 PM
Re: Biggest lesson learned this season??
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BSK
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No matter how confident you are, how much you prepared, or how much you scouted, a mature buck will only show his face when he wants to.
I hear that!
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#1711202 - 01/06/10 07:06 PM
Re: Biggest lesson learned this season??
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DeerJay3
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Registered: 11/23/08
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Loc: Nashville TN
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Great thread...I learned that no matter how good we think we can hunt the deer are always 1 step ahead..lol...and i still love hunting em...I also learned that it not gonna be long before its time to start getting ready fer the bow opener...Got some work to do on the home place...
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