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Hunting advice/Should I hunt this area again?
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<blockquote data-quote="bkidd1187" data-source="post: 4979969" data-attributes="member: 20018"><p>Just FYI I'm pretty new to seriously deer hunting, I've taken does before but never a buck.</p><p></p><p>On the last Saturday of Muzzleloader I hunted a new spot on my lease I'd scouted but never hunted before. I remember there being a ground blind there, but when I walked in that morning it was gone. The sun was close to coming up so I decided just to sit with my back against a tree a little ways back of the field (a field on a point, thick pines to my back, hardwood creek Bottoms looking forward). As soon as I sat down I could hear walking in the hardwoods, sure enough a Spike walks into the field and gets within 10 yards in the dark. He can tell something is wrong but doesn't blow or bolt, but bounds a few steps then casually walks off. Once the sun comes up I start doing a doe bleat call, he comes back in the field. Since our club is 8 or better I snort/wheeze at him to scare him off so he doesn't eventually bust me. Then back behind me I hear walking in the leaves and two grunts. I look back and see the rack of a shooter buck as he crosses the logging road and into the thick pines behind me about 60 yards away. It's too thick to confidently shoot at him. He must have smelled me or something he didn't like because I never saw or heard him again. How spooked would a buck be from only smelling a person?</p><p></p><p>After looking around the area a little more I found a couple treestands about 100 yards off into the hardwoods. I'm wondering if it'd be worth it trying to come across him again Thanksgiving weekend, but this time with the advantage of being in a stand? I've not hunted since that last Muzzleloader weekend.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bkidd1187, post: 4979969, member: 20018"] Just FYI I'm pretty new to seriously deer hunting, I've taken does before but never a buck. On the last Saturday of Muzzleloader I hunted a new spot on my lease I'd scouted but never hunted before. I remember there being a ground blind there, but when I walked in that morning it was gone. The sun was close to coming up so I decided just to sit with my back against a tree a little ways back of the field (a field on a point, thick pines to my back, hardwood creek Bottoms looking forward). As soon as I sat down I could hear walking in the hardwoods, sure enough a Spike walks into the field and gets within 10 yards in the dark. He can tell something is wrong but doesn't blow or bolt, but bounds a few steps then casually walks off. Once the sun comes up I start doing a doe bleat call, he comes back in the field. Since our club is 8 or better I snort/wheeze at him to scare him off so he doesn't eventually bust me. Then back behind me I hear walking in the leaves and two grunts. I look back and see the rack of a shooter buck as he crosses the logging road and into the thick pines behind me about 60 yards away. It's too thick to confidently shoot at him. He must have smelled me or something he didn't like because I never saw or heard him again. How spooked would a buck be from only smelling a person? After looking around the area a little more I found a couple treestands about 100 yards off into the hardwoods. I'm wondering if it'd be worth it trying to come across him again Thanksgiving weekend, but this time with the advantage of being in a stand? I've not hunted since that last Muzzleloader weekend. [/QUOTE]
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