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Re: Nocturnal Deer Advice
[Re: RollTide2014]
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02/16/22 09:41 AM
02/16/22 09:41 AM
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MarksOutdoors
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Booner
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I just finished my 15th year of deer hunting and it was also my most successful. Deer just prefer to move more in the dark and there's not much you can change. Just be in the woods at the right time and in the right place.
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." -G. K. Chesterton
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Re: Nocturnal Deer Advice
[Re: RollTide2014]
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02/16/22 10:09 AM
02/16/22 10:09 AM
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booner
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Good luck and let me know if something works.
I lease almost 8x that much to just myself and mitigating pressure is my number one objective with providing quality habitat a VERY close number two in getting bucks to move throughout the property in daylight. It takes a lot of discipline and patience to leave a lease alone until the timing is perfect. Especially after you have so much time and money invested in it. It’s not for everyone but to me that one week or so in January has proven to be epic more times than not. I made 16 individual hunts and 6 property visits for planting/feeder maintenance, on 600+ acres this year starting in August. To me that was pushing the envelope towards being too much.
Last edited by booner; 02/16/22 10:20 AM.
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Re: Nocturnal Deer Advice
[Re: RollTide2014]
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02/16/22 11:16 AM
02/16/22 11:16 AM
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Stay out of the area till rut 80 acres isn't enough to be hunting weekly unless u can access it from any direction n just hunt the edges with good wind
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin
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Re: Nocturnal Deer Advice
[Re: RollTide2014]
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02/16/22 11:36 AM
02/16/22 11:36 AM
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Your main issue is 3 on 80 and hunting every weekend. If all I had to hunt was 80 acres and wanted to kill a mature, quality buck, I'd plant the best stuff I could, hunt it opening weekend, then not hunt it again until the rut. We hunt at 275 acres/gun and we might make 1-2 bow hunts, a gun hunt opening weekend, then we do not go back onto the property, at all, until around Jan 10-15th (depending on the weather) which is when our mature bucks typically start looking for does. After 40 yrs of hunting them and 25 yrs of actively managing for mature bucks, I've come to believe the following: Killing or having the opportunity to kill mature bucks, and hunting every weekend, even in high acreage situations, simply do not go together. You may luck out every once in a while and kill a good one, but if you want to be able to see and kill them consistently, you're limiting yourself to a very small number of hunts on any given property, and hunting only when the timing and conditions are perfect. This is especially true if you are surrounded by other high pressure hunting, which it sounds like you are.
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Re: Nocturnal Deer Advice
[Re: joshm28]
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02/17/22 06:29 AM
02/17/22 06:29 AM
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There’s plenty of land to lease. You just have to jump when something pops up and you have to look daily starting in may. There’s plenty of land to lease. You just have to jump when something pops up and you have to look daily starting in may. I’ll have to disagree on this .good Lease Land has gotten very hard to come by . When Most tracts come available they get leased sight unseen immediately.
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Re: Nocturnal Deer Advice
[Re: RollTide2014]
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02/17/22 09:03 AM
02/17/22 09:03 AM
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I did not read all the replies but JHL and Josh28 - good stuff
Reduce pressure as much as u can - try to find extra ground to split up pressure
The only bullet proof method and I only been able to do this few times - the land has to be set up for it - my current place does not allow me to do this the way the land lays - set up your hunt stand where u can leave it and never be detected - back your stand up 60-100 yards off your plot - it will make for longer shot. I hunted my nuts off in FL when I was able to set my stand up like this - and if u hunt the wind - they never smell they never detect - it like u never hunted - bingo - I killed the second largest buck on that clubs 40 year history doing that and watched one much bigger for about 10-15 minutes doing that. It ain’t the only state I done that in
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Nocturnal Deer Advice
[Re: hamma]
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02/17/22 01:20 PM
02/17/22 01:20 PM
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abolt300
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There’s plenty of land to lease. You just have to jump when something pops up and you have to look daily starting in may. There’s plenty of land to lease. You just have to jump when something pops up and you have to look daily starting in may. I’ll have to disagree on this .good Lease Land has gotten very hard to come by . When Most tracts come available they get leased sight unseen immediately. You just gotta know the right people. Lots of guys no longer want to go through the hassle of answering 100 phone calls and the time it takes to list and show property. Last three I've leased, never hit the market. Guys that I had dealt with before and had relationships with, simply called and asked if I was interested. There has been a very distinct shift in the leasing market in the past 10-15 yrs. It used to be that all but the very best of the available tracts, generally hit the open/advertised market. Now, I'd say that less than 10% stuff coming available is ever even advertised to the public. Local contacts are the key.
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