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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5770726" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>Both for me. There's a time & place for everything, IMO. Much depends on where I'm hunting, what time of season, and the vibe I'm getting while there. </p><p></p><p>Both early and late seasons I sit still & quiet as a mouse and just watch. If late season with gun I sit where I've got a clear view of bedding or food that I can shoot into. If early archery & I have to be within bow range, then I'll move my stand every day or every sit until I've tightened the noose around the buck's movements that I am close enough for a shot. But it's still just a waiting game.</p><p></p><p>For rut I'm generally pretty noisy. I set up inside doe bedding pretty often, or in an area so thick the deer has to get close to see what's making all the noise. The beautiful thing about small thickets or brier patches is that I can climb a tree inside it and see outside of it for cruising bucks, but they can't see me. When I grunt or rattle they have to come in close if they want to investigate. Calling to deer in the wide open hurts more often than it helps because they can look & see there's no deer where the sound is coming from. Often times if nothing is going on around me for a long stretch of time I will climb down & still hunt my way to & through some other spots and it works out pretty well pretty often. If there are no deer near my stand then I won't kill a deer no matter how quietly I sit because there are no deer to kill. But if I find the area where the deer are active I have a chance even if I'm on ground level with them. For me it's all about putting myself in the deer. If I'm not in them I can't kill them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5770726, member: 20583"] Both for me. There's a time & place for everything, IMO. Much depends on where I'm hunting, what time of season, and the vibe I'm getting while there. Both early and late seasons I sit still & quiet as a mouse and just watch. If late season with gun I sit where I've got a clear view of bedding or food that I can shoot into. If early archery & I have to be within bow range, then I'll move my stand every day or every sit until I've tightened the noose around the buck's movements that I am close enough for a shot. But it's still just a waiting game. For rut I'm generally pretty noisy. I set up inside doe bedding pretty often, or in an area so thick the deer has to get close to see what's making all the noise. The beautiful thing about small thickets or brier patches is that I can climb a tree inside it and see outside of it for cruising bucks, but they can't see me. When I grunt or rattle they have to come in close if they want to investigate. Calling to deer in the wide open hurts more often than it helps because they can look & see there's no deer where the sound is coming from. Often times if nothing is going on around me for a long stretch of time I will climb down & still hunt my way to & through some other spots and it works out pretty well pretty often. If there are no deer near my stand then I won't kill a deer no matter how quietly I sit because there are no deer to kill. But if I find the area where the deer are active I have a chance even if I'm on ground level with them. For me it's all about putting myself in the deer. If I'm not in them I can't kill them. [/QUOTE]
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