Post by jkd on Oct 29, 2005 20:07:04 GMT -5
Hunting a 10 acre pocket woods this evening (bordered by picked bean fields on all sides with fence rows/tree lines intersecting at all four corners of the woods), wind out of the SSE, I set up in the SW corner in a ground blind, placing scent wicks along the south fence line east of my position inside the woods corner. About 5:50pm, thought I heard something north of me, but didn't see anything.
By 6:15 getting dark
, it was time to pack up and head back, and wind had shifted to the E, so I walked west of the woods about 40 yards into the field before turning north to the truck.
As I came to the NW corner of the woods (where I have a 2-man tree stand 25 yards inside the woods), I was nearly knocked over by the smell of deer urine
, as apparently a buck had just freshened a scrape a few yards south of my treestand location.
I continued north to the intersecting fence/tree line and crossed into the next field (32 acres - truck parked on the end), and when I was about 50 yards north of the line, I stopped to adjust a strap on my seat pack (which made noise on my coat), and back at the fenceline I had just crossed ... SNORT.... WHHEEEZZZEEEE....
there had been a deer (likely the buck) standing in the fenceline just west of where I crossed (remember wind is now out of due east) the fence moments before... he headed west snorting... then seemed to stop...
I got my grunt call out and made some grunts hoping he would think I was another buck... sure enough, after about five minutes, he had come back east along the fence line and was returning my grunts... ;D at that point I continued walking north (i.e. making my escape) back to my truck...
QUESTION:
Do you:
(1) Hit the spot in the morning from the tree stand?
(2) Hit the spot in the evening from the tree stand?
(3) Stay out of the area for a day or so to let things settle down?
Give me your sagely advice!
KD
By 6:15 getting dark
, it was time to pack up and head back, and wind had shifted to the E, so I walked west of the woods about 40 yards into the field before turning north to the truck.As I came to the NW corner of the woods (where I have a 2-man tree stand 25 yards inside the woods), I was nearly knocked over by the smell of deer urine
, as apparently a buck had just freshened a scrape a few yards south of my treestand location.I continued north to the intersecting fence/tree line and crossed into the next field (32 acres - truck parked on the end), and when I was about 50 yards north of the line, I stopped to adjust a strap on my seat pack (which made noise on my coat), and back at the fenceline I had just crossed ... SNORT.... WHHEEEZZZEEEE....
there had been a deer (likely the buck) standing in the fenceline just west of where I crossed (remember wind is now out of due east) the fence moments before... he headed west snorting... then seemed to stop...I got my grunt call out and made some grunts hoping he would think I was another buck... sure enough, after about five minutes, he had come back east along the fence line and was returning my grunts... ;D at that point I continued walking north (i.e. making my escape) back to my truck...
QUESTION:
Do you:
(1) Hit the spot in the morning from the tree stand?
(2) Hit the spot in the evening from the tree stand?
(3) Stay out of the area for a day or so to let things settle down?
Give me your sagely advice!
KD
