#2004704 - 07/23/10 12:27 PM
Re: Undisturbed pockets?
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It's hard to hunt places you find....unattractive.......
Most times hunters look for places that LOOK GOOD....or DEERY!!!!
Funny thing is....to my knowledge, deer don't have decorators nor do they seem to care as much as hunters do about what their area LOOKS LIKE!!
At this very moment, I am trying to get permission to hunt a fenceline that runs between two HUGE fields.....nothing there but one very small cane thicket and a ditch....BUT, I have this funny feeling that HE is there.......
wish me luck....
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#2005158 - 07/23/10 08:24 PM
e: Undisturbed pockets?
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The story goes both at eagle creek and at Laurel hill that some or at least a couple of the biggest bucks taken were behind both WMA Check stations on each place. I have had the GW's tell me this at both places!
The deer do indeed pattern the humans before they themsleves are patterned. LMBO!
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#2005495 - 07/24/10 09:43 AM
Re: Undisturbed pockets?
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Mike Belt
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BSK---a couple questions....
Is the map shown here a 3 year grid map?
Do you look at that map prior to opening of hunting season and "aim" for those areas or do you hunt them on into the hunting season when your favorite spots aren't producing?
You ought to add kill pins to your map denoting when those little hunted areas produce.
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#2005645 - 07/24/10 01:25 PM
Re: Undisturbed pockets?
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BSK
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BSK---a couple questions....
Is the map shown here a 3 year grid map?
Do you look at that map prior to opening of hunting season and "aim" for those areas or do you hunt them on into the hunting season when your favorite spots aren't producing?
You ought to add kill pins to your map denoting when those little hunted areas produce.
Mike,
I run a new analysis every year just after the season is over. I use the last 3 years' of hunting pressure each time I run the analysis. We then target the unhunted areas for moving stands to before the next hunting season (usually moving these stands in the winter, so deer get used to seeing them there).
I can't put "spots" where deer were killed because the unhunted areas change over time. However, I can graph the mature buck sighting rates by the past three years' hunting time in that grid. With just one exception, EVERY mature buck we've killed was killed from a grid with less than 15 total hours of hunting time spent in that grid over the last 3 years. The one exception was a mature buck killed the week before peak breeding as he scent-checked the downwind side of a heavily hunted small food plot.
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#2006131 - 07/24/10 10:29 PM
Re: Undisturbed pockets?
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RKenney
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BSK,
Those maps are very interesting. When I think back over the
years, I wish I knew then, what I know now.
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