Hunting a Stand Multiple Days in a Row

[UTGrad]

Here's one: are you folks comfortable hunting the same stand multiple days in a row or do you avoid putting too much pressure in a prime spot.


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[Ski]

Loaded question. Depends on if I get busted in there or notice anything sniffing around my access trail. Also depends on wind & weather.

If I have a lead on a specific deer I want to hunt and am confident he'll be coming through at some point within a several day stretch, then yeah I'll hunt that one stand day after day until I get him or notice a drop in activity due to my presence.

Otherwise I like alternating not only stands but properties. I have lots of "hot spots" in public I rotate through, plus fairly regular scouting/hunting trips looking for new spots. Then I have private properties I monitor with trail cams and hunt when conditions are right. I'm a big believer in not burning a spot out. I try to be as unpredictable as I can be because deer pattern us way better than we pattern them.

 

[TJS209]

I'll refer back to one thing BSK said on here several years ago that has always stuck with me. Typically, you get 3 good sits in a stand to kill a mature buck and if I remember correctly for where they hunt it was a 3+ year old buck. I think this applies more to big timber hunting than slipping into a box blind in a big field.

 

[mr.big]

A few years ago in Ky I hunted the same stand daylight till dark 7 days in a row and killed the deer I was after about 715 the 8th morning


What ya supposed to do when you ain't got but a week to hunt


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[JCDEERMAN]

I rarely do. Most of my stands don't get hunted more than 3 times a year. I will on certain occasions though. Conditions have to be right, not knowingly spooked any deer, a hot doe hanging around, etc.....

I have seen a hot doe with multiple bucks (7) checking her out 3 days in a row. I know it was her because she had both of her ears split. I was not leaving that area. Unfortunately, nothing quite big enough or old enough I wanted to shoot.

 

[CrossVolle]

I have one stand that is 100% bulletproof and i honestly have no reason at all why. You could sit it 15 days in a row and have a deer in bow range probably 10 of those 15. Just a matter of if you need the meat. All my other sets i usually let lay for 10 days before i will go back. Just bounce around. Most all the rest are pretty tight to bedding so i try not to stink the place up too awful bad.

 

[PossumSlayer]

A few years ago in Ky I hunted the same stand daylight till dark 7 days in a row and killed the deer I was after about 715 the 8th morning


What ya supposed to do when you ain't got but a week to hunt


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Perseverance

 

[philsanchez76]

I have one stand that is 100% bulletproof and i honestly have no reason at all why. You could sit it 15 days in a row and have a deer in bow range probably 10 of those 15. Just a matter of if you need the meat. All my other sets i usually let lay for 10 days before i will go back. Just bounce around. Most all the rest are pretty tight to bedding so i try not to stink the place up too awful bad.

Im with crossvolle on this. generally about 10-14 days in between sits. I've run cameras in the areas just so I can see when the deer get back to their normal pattern. wish I had a bulletproof one!

 

[megalomaniac]

I'll refer back to one thing BSK said on here several years ago that has always stuck with me. Typically, you get 3 good sits in a stand to kill a mature buck and if I remember correctly for where they hunt it was a 3+ year old buck. I think this applies more to big timber hunting than slipping into a box blind in a big field.

Bsk was ahead of his time. Multiple studies of GPS collared bucks since then have shown EXTREME avoidance of a particular stand after just ONE hunt!

It takes around 7 days for the deer to frequent the area just as much as they did before that first hunt.

I know this is true, have lived it dozens of times... yet I will still go back into the same stand day after day if ive seen a deer I want to kill from that stand earlier in the trip. (almost always unsuccessfully, I might add)



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[catman529]

Depends entirely on the situation...I kinda go by feel. If I slipped in quietly with a good wind and didn't get busted, I might be back in the next day or two. But I like to stay moving just because. Got a ton of land to hunt and don't want to wear out one particular spot unless it's like a really hot oak tree or something.


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[MUP]

I'm of the mind that a certain buck does not pass a certain stand every morning and evening, so I will hunt the stand that I feel is the best for that day, considering all the factors I can, such as wind and time of season. So I'll hunt a travel corridor as much as I can, keeping the wind in my favor, until I get a chance at the buck I'm hoping for.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

I tend to hop around a lot. The first sit is the highest odds. That being said, I do have certain spots that I will spend days in during the rut, major terrain funnels that "roamers" will come through from miles around.

 

[KPH]

A good friend of mine killed his biggest deer and it is big in LBL he said where he chose to hunt there was 3 gut piles where others had killed the days before. If it is a good spot they will come through.

 

[TN RDG RNR]

Like the first day best. Every day after that I begin to lose confidence in my chances of seeing anything.

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[Lost Lake]

I'll hunt an area a couple times in a row before I'll move on. The exception is if I am seeing lots of buck activity during cruising.

 

[FLTENNHUNTER1]

If the wind is in my favor yes I will sit multiple times in the same stand. Most of the time the wind changes daily, sometimes multiple times a day. I might sit in one stand in the morning and a different stand in the evening.

 

[BlasterPits]

2 many factors go into this question. If i have other stand locations i usually don't try to hunt the same stand multiple days in a row

 

[WTM]

I'll refer back to one thing BSK said on here several years ago that has always stuck with me. Typically, you get 3 good sits in a stand to kill a mature buck and if I remember correctly for where they hunt it was a 3+ year old buck. I think this applies more to big timber hunting than slipping into a box blind in a big field.

Bsk was ahead of his time. Multiple studies of GPS collared bucks since then have shown EXTREME avoidance of a particular stand after just ONE hunt!

It takes around 7 days for the deer to frequent the area just as much as they did before that first hunt.

I know this is true, have lived it dozens of times... yet I will still go back into the same stand day after day if ive seen a deer I want to kill from that stand earlier in the trip. (almost always unsuccessfully, I might add)



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yeah i believe BSK validated this particular study and commented on it. 12 hours1 day of hunting a stand and bucks will avoid it for the next 3 days regardless of buck age. i read the entire study and the distance they avoided pressured stands was 55 yards average and extremely pressured stands and deer would go nocturnal. also in the study was deer movement and home range size, his study found that range size and movement distance was integral to a particular deer's personality, not how the maturity of the deer.

https://www.qdma.com/fast-can-stand-rec ... -pressure/

https://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/big-g ... h-for-deer

 

[catman529]

I'll refer back to one thing BSK said on here several years ago that has always stuck with me. Typically, you get 3 good sits in a stand to kill a mature buck and if I remember correctly for where they hunt it was a 3+ year old buck. I think this applies more to big timber hunting than slipping into a box blind in a big field.

Bsk was ahead of his time. Multiple studies of GPS collared bucks since then have shown EXTREME avoidance of a particular stand after just ONE hunt!

It takes around 7 days for the deer to frequent the area just as much as they did before that first hunt.

I know this is true, have lived it dozens of times... yet I will still go back into the same stand day after day if ive seen a deer I want to kill from that stand earlier in the trip. (almost always unsuccessfully, I might add)



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yeah i believe BSK validated this particular study and commented on it. 12 hours1 day of hunting a stand and bucks will avoid it for the next 3 days regardless of buck age. i read the entire study and the distance they avoided pressured stands was 55 yards average and extremely pressured stands and deer would go nocturnal. also in the study was deer movement and home range size, his study found that range size and movement distance was integral to a particular deer's personality, not how the maturity of the deer.

https://www.qdma.com/fast-can-stand-rec ... -pressure/

https://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/big-g ... h-for-deer

personality of the individual deer is often overlooked. We like to group all deer together and assume they all act the same for their age.


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[TRK]

A couple years ago I had permission to hunt a small 18 acre property about 12 of it was field, the rest was a patch of woods. The first year I got to hunt it, I hunted there way too much and hardly saw deer. The next year I hunted there opening day of bow season and saw about 5 deer pass through I hunted public land the rest of bow season. The opening muzzleloader weekend I went back and killed a nice 10. Take that for what it's worth. I'm mostly on here to learn anyway [emoji23]


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[Deer Assassin]

ML 2008 first year you could kill 3 buck one weapon

sat eve 123 inch 10 pointer dress 177 2.5 yo
sunday morn 121 inch 8 dress 175 3.5 yo

next sunday morn 131 in 11 point dressed 177 3.5 yo

all same tree

later that year i saw 2-3 120 plus inch deer same tree

if it is hot hunt it

 

[eightpointoutdoors]

I was discussing this with my cousin last night. I do not think it hurts to hunt a stand multiple days in a row when the time is right. If there is a hot doe in the area and you have a good wind, go for it.

It is a little bit different story though in September and early October when the weather is 90 degrees, but regardless if there is a hot tree that is dropping go for it.

Many bucks during the rut will travel miles a day, so you could theoretically hunt a stand three days in a row and never see the same buck.

 

[MUP]

^^^ Good points for sure. I will hunt the rut with a good wind from the same stand multiple times when I have a good understanding of where they're traveling to and from. I have one of those places on my property, and deer from a good ways away cross thru there. I know b/c I've gotten trail cam pics from neighboring properties and leases of bucks that I've killed that came from a good ways away. I've also seen some on my property that got killed by someone else a good ways away, works both ways.

 

[rukiddin]

I gotta buddy that hunted a stand probably 35 days in a row. He was after a big deer. He had suspicions of where he was bedded and there was no way to get close. The stand was a box stand on the upper end of a 20 acre wheat field. The way the land laid, he could park his truck and it was hidden from the box blind 75 yards away. He kept getting pics of the big deer right after dark in the field. He Hunted through the rut letting numerous nice deer go and he saw does every sit. He could get in and out without the deer ever seeing him. He finally killed the deer a week before Christmas when he came out in the field with a cowhorn at 200 yds about 3:30 in the afternoon. We taped him in the bed of the truck. 149" nine point.

 

[tree_ghost]

It's a completely situational question depending on time of year, weapon used, and where you want to kill the deer in his realm of existence.


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[fairchaser]

This is a little different than the question but I will hunt a buck multiple times by moving around with a climber sometimes only 50 yards depending on wind, available trees, foliage, sign and other factors. The theory is to be unpredictable but it might be disadvantageous since it spreads my scent around a larger area.