#1957578 - 06/12/10 08:17 AM
Re: When to leave the stand?
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Beekeeper
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When I am no longer sure that I can make a clean kill. I hate looking for one after dark.
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#1957654 - 06/12/10 10:26 AM
Re: When to leave the stand?
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CopperHead77
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The only B&C buck I ever had within bow range was standing broadside at 11 yards for close to five minutes. He offered me a wide array of tempting shots and had no idea I was about 15 feet above him. He was a perfect 10-point, with a tiny sticker that might have made him an eleven. Anyhow, he was tall, wide, heavy, and perfectly symmetrical...by far the biggest buck I have ever laid my eyes on while hunting.
Why didn't I shoot him?
My bow was on the ground at the end of my haul line because my brother and I decided to leave the stands at 10:00 a.m... the darn thing arrived at 10:01 a.m. Still one of the greatest hunts I have ever been on.
Wow! That must have been one heck of an emotional roller coaster!
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#1957658 - 06/12/10 10:31 AM
Re: When to leave the stand?
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CopperHead77
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I'm gonna start bringing 2 weapons with me,lower the first one and after they walk up bring out the second..it might work!
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#1957684 - 06/12/10 11:00 AM
Re: When to leave the stand?
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gator-n-buck
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When I'm cold, hungry, wet, or when it's to dark to shoot... 
Edited by gator-n-buck (06/12/10 11:00 AM)
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#1957967 - 06/12/10 07:58 PM
Re: When to leave the stand?
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I stay till i want or feel the need to leave or on many days untill i have to go in to work.....
During the rut i hunt every day except sunday and so i have to get down around 1030 am to get ready to get to work at noon since i have to drive about 45 minutes to get there. i bring a change of clothes and this then dictates it. Last year i sat until 1 pm some days and saw nothing!!! I spent 13 days in the woods last year for extended hours and got skunked each time!!!
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#1958370 - 06/13/10 12:19 PM
Re: When to leave the stand?
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moondawg
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When I'm cold, hungry, wet, or when it's to dark to shoot...
What he said.
I can't hunt all day. I've tried, and I guess I just don't have the patience or maybe I've got some type of ADD or something. So I break it up...a few hours in the morning, and a few hours in the evening.
I remember one time when I was getting ready to climb down the stand, I turned around to climb down the ladder. I accidently hit the stock of my muzzleloader against the tree. Make a slight knocking sound that I did'nt think anything about. But I looked around and there were 3 or 4 deer that scattered off after hearing that! Or course, I had my muzzleloader slung over my shoulder and about to climb down, so I wasn't able to get a shot off. But it was neat to find out there was deer around that I didn't know about.
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#1958439 - 06/13/10 02:10 PM
Re: When to leave the stand?
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Wes Parrish
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One thing I've not seen mentioned in any of the above posts
is regarding WHAT exactly you do right BEFORE you leave your stand (if still light).
Right before leaving, one of my most important "habits" is using my binoculars to scan 360 degrees around my stand location. I usually do this twice, and often pick up bedded deer. If I don't see any deer, I quickly but QUIETLY get totally ready to descend. At the last possible moment, I use the binoculars again to scan the area before I begin the descent.
If I'm using a climber (which is usually the case), I'll even pull the binoculars back out and scan again after I've gone down a few feet. You'd be surprised how often bedded deer will hear a little something, then come closer to investigate. Many hunters never become aware of this because they make too much noise, move to fast, and simply aren't looking for a deer as they climb down --- not to mention the deer goes away instead of towards them. As long as you don't make any metallic noises and don't move too fast, what little noise you make can be more an attractant than a spooking noise to a deer. Also, by going down a few feet, you're often able to see bedded deer that weren't visible when you were higher.
Using your binoculars to LOCATE deer rather than simply VIEW deer you've already seen:
Lower magnification binoculars of the porro-prism design usually work much better, particularly if you're hunting woods or cover areas.
1) Lower magnification not only gives a wider field of view, but also a greater "depth of field" regarding how close and far images are "clear" instead of "blurry". If they were made in a decent glass, I'd love to have a pair of 4x binoculars for most of my scanning purposes. My opinion is that for scanning in woods & bedding areas, the clear "depth of field" is far more important than magnification (at least when we're talking about less than 200 yards).
2) The porro-prism design also provides a significantly better "depth of field" compared to the more common roof prism design. The only disadvantage I see with porro-prisms is they are a little larger, but this isn't much an issue when you use 6 x 30's or 8 x 30's. Surprisingly, for the money you spend, you actually get much higher quality glass with porros simply because they are much less costly to manufacture.
You'd be amazed at the low-light capabilities and crystal clear images that can be had with a $100 pair of Leupold Yosemite 6 x 30 porro-prism binoculars. Other great choices for this include any of the 8 x 30 porro-prism models from Steiner, my personal favorite being the Steiner NightHunter 8x30's. But with any of these, you should be able to clearly see bedded deer from 20 to 200 yards without having to adjust the focus ---- whereas even a very expensive pair of roof prisms might cause you to simply miss seeing that blurry bedded deer at 50 yards when you have it focused at more like 75.
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#1959612 - 06/14/10 08:41 PM
Re: When to leave the stand?
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DUCK37101
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It depends on the terrain. If I hunt up on ridges in the mornings I'll usually wait until it gets closer to 11am or noon in early season. I feel the deer have already made it off the bottoms and fields to get in their bedding areas. When I get back to the woods in the afternoon I will stay until dark just about every time. The only times I'll get down is if I feel I have enough light to stalk some deer on field edges that I know I won't get a chance to if I were to stay put.
During mid October to late November I like to stay put for all-dayers if possible or at least spend as much time afield as I can.
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