#2079622 - 09/21/10 07:44 AM
Making adjustments........?
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Bottom Hunter
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How many here normally go with the setups and strategies that they have to start the season and how many are quick to make adjustments ? Do you think that it may be TOO LATE to change or move and just sit it out even with little success?
Under normal conditions, if unsuccessful, I will hunt a stand setup less than ten times before moving it. Sometimes as few as three to five days in a row. Unsuccessful, being defined as few deer sightings and no shots. if I have a shot but choose not to take it for whatever reason, then I may stick around a few days more.
If I get busted more than once in a setup, then I definitely move. If I get busted just once I still try to move my stand just enough to work the wind a bit better.
I've seen that sometimes even great looking setups can need tweaking abit. Maybe the stand is a few yards too close or too far or maybe it should be hidden abit better or the wind just doesn't seem to cooperate for you, maybe you're in a bottom areas and the wind swirls more than you anticipated..
Being mobile and willing to adjust helps my success rate, without a doubt.
any thoughts or ideas....?
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#2079630 - 09/21/10 07:52 AM
Re: Making adjustments........?
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I like to Archery hunt deer where they are feeding, this allows for multiple shot opportunities at motionless deer with many angles. The only way to do this is to be very mobile, as their feeding patterns and places is changing constantly right now.
I like the higher % shots at relaxed feeding deer vs. hunting a strict travel corridor where the deer are on the move and your trying to get a good shot with a bow!
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#2079647 - 09/21/10 08:00 AM
Re: Making adjustments........?
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CZ284
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I'm pretty fexible about moving stands when necessary, but at the same time, it's not unusual to find an area I'd like to bow hunt, and set up a 'gun' stand farther away for a year or two before putting the bow set up in. This gives me the opportunity to observe deer from a distance before getting 'in their face'. I just set up two bow stands in a perfect 'funnel' area, a 30 yard wide oak flat between seven year old pines and a swamp. Last season, after watching from about 150 yards away how deer moved through there, I put one stand in. Hunted it six times last year, WHEN THE WIND WAS RIGHT, and never got busted. In fact, saw one four point almost every time and had him literally under the stand once, and within about 20 yards for an extended period another time while hunting off the ground.
Summary,
I don't believe moving a stand is that important, as long as the wind is right. I used to hunt a stand in NY with my father in law that he had up for over 20 years. Deer used to bed within 25 yards of it. Key was: never let them smell you.
You can fool their eyes sometimes, their ears sometimes, but never the nose!
Edited by CZ284 (09/21/10 08:01 AM)
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#2080002 - 09/21/10 11:20 AM
Re: Making adjustments........?
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I move all the time,with a climber,best time to kill a big one is the first sit IMO,......10 times?Id be gone long before that
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#2080020 - 09/21/10 11:35 AM
Re: Making adjustments........?
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Winchester
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10 times?Id be gone long before that
LOL, me and you both! If I sat a stand 10 times it would be because I was having great success in it!
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#2080042 - 09/21/10 11:42 AM
Re: Making adjustments........?
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smstone22
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Deer do the same thing pretty much every year in the mountains so I dont really do alot of moving unless Im hunting a new property and am trying to find the travel routes that will be the same year after year after year.
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#2080053 - 09/21/10 11:48 AM
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Bottom Hunter
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As i said in my post, less than ten time and most time 3-5 days in a row without sucess makes me move.
I do believe in giving an area adequate time to produce simply because I initially decided on that spot for a reason and deer may not come by your stand setup every day or every day at the time you are there.
Some areas are naturally good......saddles, funnels and field corners close to thick areas. Just because you find sign there, that does not necessarily let you know when the deer are using the area. not every food source gets visited every day. It could be every day or every three days. It could in the morning, midday or afternoons or even at night. It may take a few days to figure a spot out and I would hate to give up on a spot before I've given it ample time to produce. I take great pride in my pre-season scouting and my ability to be in the right spot. Sometimes it's difficult to tell myself that I was wrong....lol.
Once I have made the decision to move, I am gone.....
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#2080059 - 09/21/10 11:51 AM
Re: Making adjustments........?
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east10buck
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10 times?Id be gone long before that LOL, me and you both! If I sat a stand 10 times it would be because I was having great success in it!
x3...I bounce around like a pinball during bow season.
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#2080082 - 09/21/10 12:04 PM
Re: Making adjustments........?
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Under normal conditions, if unsuccessful, I will hunt a stand setup less than ten times before moving it.
I try never to hunt the same stand twice in an entire year.
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#2080083 - 09/21/10 12:05 PM
Re: Making adjustments........?
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mathews338
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to each his own and i know alot of people on here won't agree but i will hunt a stand until i kill a good buck from it, that may be the first morning or it could be 10 days or so
when i'm hunting a good buck i know that the more i sit in one spot, the better my odds are of seeing that buck. he may only come by that stand once every few days and i want to be there when he does
even if i do spook the big buck i was after, who's to say that another one won't come by me the next day that had no idea i was there
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