#1741515 - 01/22/10 10:38 PM
Draw hunts luck or skill?
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gator-n-buck
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I go on draw hunts every year and I find myself trying to figure out what is the best tactic to see a nice one. I know normally you only have a day to scout an area that 300 to 800 hunters are about to invade the next day. With all the presure in the woods at one time is it just the luck of the draw? What do you guys think..
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#1741524 - 01/22/10 10:43 PM
Re: Draw hunts luck or skill?
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stik
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there are very few quota hunts that limit you to 1 scouting day and i don't hunt those areas. the areas i DO put in for, i have hunted for years and have learned where the others hunt. i hunted both days of the quota hunt this year and never saw another hunter in the woods.
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#1741756 - 01/23/10 08:16 AM
Re: Draw hunts luck or skill?
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BigWes50
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I'm to the point now that I actually prefer to hunt a wma that's open to statewide regs or open alot because I can hunt the hunters and find the areas the pressured deer go too. When you hunt a draw hunt and all those hunters hit the woods its really hard to find the deer cause all the sign you are looking at is non-pressure sign JMO
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#1742181 - 01/23/10 02:34 PM
Re: Draw hunts luck or skill?
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bowriter
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Gator it is 90% luck. But you make your own luck. Luck is nothing more than when preparation meets opportnity. Do the groundwork then it is luck.
When I was serious about hunting, I never gave a thought to puclic or private ground. I hunted the both the same. I didn't care where the road was or how far I needed to walk in. I hunted deer. Deer don't use helicopters to cross a road. They get from point A to point B on foot. That is all I needed to know.
Some of the biggest deer I have ever killed on public ground, were killed within 50 yards of a road. And over the years, I have killed a few.
Don't think yourself out of a great stand location. Just learn about deer movement and then apply that knowledge. That is all any deer hunting is.
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#1742344 - 01/23/10 04:55 PM
Re: Draw hunts luck or skill?
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megalomaniac
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There are a few hunters who can walk blind into an area, scout it, and can tell within an hour of where the best spot to hang a stand is.
I'm not one of them, but I've got a buddy who can do just that.
When I go with him, I get him to pick out a spot for me to hunt as well.
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#1742622 - 01/23/10 08:00 PM
Re: Draw hunts luck or skill?
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Twitch
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Ditto on that BW. I have "THINKED" myself out of a few stand locations.
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#1743251 - 01/24/10 09:44 AM
Re: Draw hunts luck or skill?
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DeerJay3
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Registered: 11/23/08
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Loc: Nashville TN
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I like the idea of hunting the hunters...I got a friend who killed 2 120+ bucks at catoosa in back to back years and both were rite by the road..
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#1743808 - 01/24/10 03:22 PM
Re: Draw hunts luck or skill?
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pcrc
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Loc: Knoxville
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It takes plenty of skill to be able to walk into an unknown area and pick the best place to hunt, but how could it be anything other than luck that you pick a place and somebody else is not there in the morning or busts you out of it?
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