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Post by alduflux on Nov 25, 2019 20:27:45 GMT -5
How often can one hunt an area without "overhunting" it?
The land is as follows: Two stands on a 40 acre plot of woods that is part of a 200 acre woods. Surrounding area is 80% agriculture and woods. Fence rows and creeks through out. No food plots anywhere. Low hunting pressure in most of the surrounding areas. The 40 acres was only walked once in September and once in November to check three cameras. Not hunted until November.
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Post by swilk on Nov 25, 2019 21:13:05 GMT -5
Depends...one time done the wrong way or many times if done the right way.
Getting into and out of spots is sooooo important.
Doesn't really answer your question but it's really impossible to say.
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Post by harmonist34 on Nov 25, 2019 21:16:19 GMT -5
In terms of wary mature bucks, probably doesn't take much ground scent to affect their behavior. But there are plenty of people who sit the same stands week in and week out and see deer every time, so it's all relative.
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Post by js2397 on Nov 25, 2019 22:31:41 GMT -5
I've hunted 9 times during gun season and only sat in the same spot once.
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Post by chewbacca on Nov 26, 2019 8:34:10 GMT -5
Depends...one time done the wrong way or many times if done the right way. Getting into and out of spots is sooooo important. Doesn't really answer your question but it's really impossible to say. This is the right answer. I sat one particular stand nearly 15-20 times this season. I saw deer nearly every sit. I harvested 2 deer out of it. I was able to hunt it that much because I only hunted it when the wind was blowing my scent out into an open field and not flooding the woods with my scent. To put it into perspective we have 5 stands, a pallet blind and a popup blind all on just a 28 acre woods. After hunting the woods all season my buddy harvested a real nice 3-1/2 year old 8 point. You just never know. The smarter you play it, the longer you can make a stand work. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 8:53:33 GMT -5
If the stands are 20 ft high the scent is dispersed most of the times. On the ground hunt less often since scent is at their nose level. As Swik said. Getting in and out is very important. My backyard stand I can hunt everyday. Getting in and out is extremely easy and quiet. It all depends on your scent and where it goes each time. Hunt is the same winds will keep your scent in one general area. This helps a little.
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Post by swilk on Nov 26, 2019 14:52:49 GMT -5
Im going to start using the river to enter and exit certain stands next year .... I can hop out of a boat and be in a stand 10 steps later. With the right wind nothing will know I was there. Ever.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 26, 2019 18:14:37 GMT -5
Im going to start using the river to enter and exit certain stands next year .... I can hop out of a boat and be in a stand 10 steps later. With the right wind nothing will know I was there. Ever. Were doing the same in a spot I hunted this year. Between the two of us, my buddy and I encountered 5 different mature bucks. Boat in and boat out everytime next year. We will probably hunt that spot non stop. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 18:32:10 GMT -5
Unfortunately, not many people have the luxury of hunting huge tracts of land, and can have scores of stands or even stand locations. You try to stay as scent-free as possible, make your entry and exit as unobtrusive as you can, and hope for the best.
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Post by treetop on Nov 26, 2019 19:29:22 GMT -5
I think some of it depends on we’re your at the deer around me are use to people I’ve been mowing my yard and had deer come in on the far end of the pond and drink like I wasn’t around I’ve hunted urban had people on there deck talking 75 yards away and still killed deer hunted state ground on a park hunt right off the horse trails and had them look at me and walk by me like nothing now if you’re on a big track we’re they don’t see people its completely different or at least I’d say so
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Post by chewbacca on Nov 27, 2019 9:02:24 GMT -5
Im going to start using the river to enter and exit certain stands next year .... I can hop out of a boat and be in a stand 10 steps later. With the right wind nothing will know I was there. Ever. I actually have a stand and the only way we access it is by walking down a creek because the only other way to get to it is to cut right through a major bedding area. The stand hardly gets hunted because you either have to have a easterly or due north wind and the water can't be very deep. The water was too high all season this year so that stand never got touched. |
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Post by firstwd on Nov 28, 2019 10:58:21 GMT -5
The woods I hunt has a working cattle farm on one side, hog farm on one side, a gold camp on the other, and all the woods is used for coondogtrial trainingand competition. There are people and human scent constantly.
I have literally put the running chainsaw down to get the muzzleloader out of the truck to try to shoot the deer that were watching me cut a tree up.
Basically, like everything with deer, there isn't one answer.
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Post by coaldust on Nov 28, 2019 11:47:58 GMT -5
First time is the best time..decreases after that. Its not always the deer you see..its the deer you dont see that was alerted.
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Post by boonechaser on Nov 28, 2019 12:07:20 GMT -5
Personally IF you practice good scent control and use wind and thermals to your favor when selecting stands sites. It is not as big of problem as some make it. Biggest mistake I see guys making is hunting best stands before time is right. My best stands that produce year after year are not hunted until after Halloween and only if wind is right.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2019 12:30:34 GMT -5
Personally IF you practice good scent control and use wind and thermals to your favor when selecting stands sites. It is not as big of problem as some make it. Biggest mistake I see guys making is hunting best stands before time is right. My best stands that produce year after year are not hunted until after Halloween and only if wind is right. For guys like me, if I waited until a certain date, and only hunted certain winds, I`d not get to hunt very much. I have 3 ladder stands I can hunt on 2 very small farms. I control my scent as much as possible, and just hunt as hard as I can. I still kill deer a lot of years, but it`s tough hunting to be sure. |
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Post by firstwd on Nov 28, 2019 13:13:03 GMT -5
There is always the easy solution...... big gun and long range. :-)
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