how do you like to hunt deer

[Mrs.30HART]

As I sat in my tree climber today I wondered what the rest of you hunted in. I hate to sit on the ground as I'm only 4' nothing and can't see anything. I feel like tri-pods no mater what you do can't be covered up enough. Ladders are so uncomfortable and lock ons make me nervous. Now put me in a climber and I'm as happy as can be I never go up less than 15' most of the time its 20' and this isn't so much because of scent but I like to be able to pick the perfect tree position the stand so you have the best view work my way up and sit with a birds eye view. How about yall?

[BigBoreDan]

As I sat in my tree climber today I wondered what the rest of you hunted in. I hate to sit on the ground as I'm only 4' nothing and can't see anything. I feel like tri-pods no mater what you do can't be covered up enough. Ladders are so uncomfortable and lock ons make me nervous. Now put me in a climber and I'm as happy as can be I never go up less than 15' most of the time its 20' and this isn't so much because of scent but I like to be able to pick the perfect tree position the stand so you have the best view work my way up and sit with a birds eye view. How about yall?

Successfully...LOL!!!


Seriously though I do a little bit of everything. We make some drives, I go out and sit and glass some and then a lot of covering the country and seeing what I scare up. I enjoy my time in the woods as much as anything and cover as much country as humanly possible just for the experience...we don't have an overabundace of deer but we sure do have some rarely beautiful country.

About the only thing I don't do is stand or blind hunt...just doesn't work here.

[cooncreekboy]

For me it depends on the location. I have spots that is great for putting stands in, spots that are great for tripods and spots that you have to hunt the ground. I like a good tree stand that you can put anywhere and be comfortable. Station stands are good but I move around alot. I like being close in with the deer but I am looking at this from bow hunting too. I have places that I can set on the ground and take a 300+ shot at deer, but like I said I like being close up.

Congrads on your kill tonight...

C.C.B.

[Mrs.30HART]

I knew I was forgeting one if I have one of the kids I sit in a blind with them.

[uwyo]

I like to change my method depending on where i'm at. I like to still hunt in the mountains of Wyoming for mule deer, find a good transition area draw in western Nebraska for mulies and sit there for hours on end, and then again it's hard to beat sitting in a tree stand along a well used riverbottom trail in central Nebraska about this time of year.

[Mrs.30HART]

For me it depends on the location. I have spots that is great for putting stands in, spots that are great for tripods and spots that you have to hunt the ground. I like a good tree stand that you can put anywhere and be comfortable. Station stands are good but I move around alot. I like being close in with the deer but I am looking at this from bow hunting too. I have places that I can set on the ground and take a 300+ shot at deer, but like I said I like being close up.

Congrads on your kill tonight...

C.C.B.


Me to my husband is the long ranger my eyes aren't good enough. I can do it if all odds are in my favor but if not I perfer 150 yards or less.

[tddeangelo]

With small property tracts and thick cover here (REAL thick), stand hunting is about the only way to go. We do some drives, too, but we're cuttingback on that. We see more deer when we don't drive them.

We use 15' ladder stands a lot. We can sit them for a few hours relatively comfortably, and if positioned in good cover, they work well.

I do enjoy sitting in my Summit climbing stand though. Talk about comfortable. I was up a tulip poplar this bow season....I tied a 30' rope to my 25' rope, and I climbed up high enough that the entire 30-footer was used and about 6-8 feet of the other. There was NO cover, so I got as high as I could and still see to shoot through the canopy.

We need to scout HARD. Deer numbers are getting lower each year, and pressure is high, even with plummeting numbers of hunters. The only good thing about our state's deer management plan is that we're getting less competition for deer! (I say that sarcastically...I'd rather the hunters were in the field, not hanging it up in droves).

[Perferator]

I like taking my portable blind into the swamp and setting up on a well worn trail and/or funnel area.....which is where it's sitting right now just 250yds out my back door :)

[Mrs.30HART]

I like taking my portable blind into the swamp and setting up on a well worn trail and/or funnel area.....which is where it's sitting right now just 250yds out my back door :)

Have you tryed the tent chair? they make a single and a double they are really nice if you like blinds. I have one in the event that the wether is bad its water proof I just pop it up and sit down.

[12Bravo20Bravo4]

I like to ladder stand hunt in the big timber that my dad owns I can see a good ways and I have a good stand that is comfortable. I put up a tower stand for my wife this year with a full blind on top so that she can stay warm. My dad hunts out of a crappy home built hang on stand in my woods but this is the last year of that thing rusting in that oak tree. If I don't see anything from my ladder I will still hunt the edges of the swamp. Next year is the big building year for tower stands with roofs and walls. With the lack of deer we need to stay out longer and be able to see more area and I think the towers will help that. I can put a heater in my wifes and dads so they stay put for a change.

[alpha]

Spot and stalk with a hard-hittin' 12 gauge single -shot with an extra long barrel, spittin' #1 buckshot!

[mstarbird2000]

Any and all legal methods. I have more luck stalking than sitting at seeing deer, When I do sit I have a better chance of taking a shot. It also depends on how cold it is up on that mountain.

[Agunner]

Chest freezer, basket of apples .... the door propped open with a stick, string attatched ...
Heck no! I love glassing glassing and ... well glassing is even good if you aren't hunting. So ... lucky I live where I do.

Mstarbird has a good point ....

[nogods]

We need to scout HARD. Deer numbers are getting lower each year, and pressure is high, even with plummeting numbers of hunters. The only good thing about our state's deer management plan is that we're getting less competition for deer! (I say that sarcastically...I'd rather the hunters were in the field, not hanging it up in droves).


Come to NY - we can't kill them fast enough to save them from the nightly road slaughter. We take about 220,000 each year by hunting, but we still run over about another 75,000 every year.

Some anti-hunting advocates are claiming that the more we take by hunting the more will be born, so that hunting increases the number being killed by cars.

but if their claim is true then it just proves we have one a renewable resource and we need more hunters, or longer seasons, or both to take advantage of that resource.

[jackG]

I hunt open country. Coulees and prairie. Close shots, that is under say 100 yards, are rare. It's ambush type hunting and ranges are routinely 150 to 250 yards. Mostly we'll set up on the edge of a coulee or a large pasture area and wait for something to come in. That means morning and evening are the productive times.

Sometimes we'll see some deer on a ridge or a field some distance away and stalk them, but it's hard to get close in that open country. It's easier if we can get them when they walk into range. It takes a lot of hiking and if we're successful, it requires a lot of dragging.

[danjp6]

I like to still hunt diring the day and have found lots of new stand locations and spots to sit by walking real slow and looking for beded up deer. When the sun light starts to fad i find on of the most popular runs and find a nice down tree to sit behind and wait for thing to walk by. with a bow i get in stand near food and wiat to see what happens.

Jumped a bull moose for the first time over the weekend and just about needed a new set of pants! the moose was in a spruce swamp, i was walking right for him when he jumped up from behind a tree and ran off he was about 15 yards away.

[Mrs.30HART]

I believe that what you feel the most comfortable doing you will have the most success at. The day after I shot that buck I sat another spot on the property that the corn had been hit really hard. I didn't have time to move my climber so I sat on the ground. I had I bad hunt I was uncomfortable I couldn't see well so needles to say I moved way more than I should have. I didn't see a thing. I know that could have happened in the climber but my odds sure would have been better. because I am confident in that climber and I think thats what it boils down to.

[ARduxnbux]

I prefer hunting when there's snow falling and the temperatures are in the teens and 20's. Don't mind ground level hunting too much, but box stands are preferrable with me.

[steller]

Our normal method of hunting is to sit in the early morning and late afternoon, but during the day we push bush all day long. This year, however, our usual area wasn't available (which is farmland dotted with small-to-medium bluffs). So, we went to another part of the province which is fairly dense forest. No pushing bush here - just walking around, or waiting. I didn't like it! Far fewer opportunities, and less of a feeling of control (ie - unless the deer happen to walk by you, you're not going to get anything).

[oldpilot]

I do a lot of sitting; on the ground and in a tree stand. We use both ladders (14-20') and climbers, the Grand Slam is my favorite for comfort. Occassionally I will stillhunt some, but our tracts of land are not overly large and it's tough if other hunters are there with me.

I try to scout and select good spots for our ladders and climbers, but also have come to realize that just about as many of my deer over the last 11 yrs have been shot from the ground, as from a tree stand. I was actually surprised when I counted up. Of the ones I've chosen to mount, more were shot from the ground than tree stands and the largest bodied deer was shot while stillhunting.

[marlinman3030]

What me and my dad do for firearms season is go in at 430 am when its still dark and we set up a camo tarp on a fence to hide us from the woods that face the property we hunt on. (we hunt on fields edge). We set up in a cow corral with deer urine usually set up about 20 yards away from us and set there till light and hope for the best!

Next year im gonna start bowhunting, My dad isnt tho, and im gonna set up in a tree in a treestand parallel to a persimmon tree and pond so hopefully deer will come in for some fruit and a drink!

[mainedeersniper]

Our normal method of hunting is to sit in the early morning and late afternoon, but during the day we push bush all day long. This year, however, our usual area wasn't available (which is farmland dotted with small-to-medium bluffs). So, we went to another part of the province which is fairly dense forest. No pushing bush here - just walking around, or waiting. I didn't like it! Far fewer opportunities, and less of a feeling of control (ie - unless the deer happen to walk by you, you're not going to get anything).

i do the same thing....

[.30 HART]

What me and my dad do for firearms season is go in at 430 am when its still dark and we set up a camo tarp on a fence to hide us from the woods that face the property we hunt on. (we hunt on fields edge). We set up in a cow corral with deer urine usually set up about 20 yards away from us and set there till light and hope for the best!

Next year im gonna start bowhunting, My dad isnt tho, and im gonna set up in a tree in a treestand parallel to a persimmon tree and pond so hopefully deer will come in for some fruit and a drink!

Marlin.........watch out for me as I love a good persimmon after a hard frost...mmmm mmmm.....if you see a fat kid in camo sneaking up to your tree just let him get a few and he will be gone ........LOL

[iduckhunt]

Walk, wait, bleat, grunt, wait, wait wait, bleat, grunt, wait wait wait,
Walk, wait, bleat, grunt, wait, wait wait, bleat, grunt, wait wait wait,

rattle wait

shoot or start over

note that shoot, gut, drag can be inserted anywhere in the sequence

[hardisk]

I scout an area a week before i hunt it. see if there is anything. Then i drive up on hunting days, get out, and walk for miles. usually between 5-8 miles of hiking and watching. I cant stand sitting still in a tree stand. Much funner walking and hiking. see a lot more that way too.

[Tequila Jake]

Most deer hunting here in the Hill Country of Texas is done from elevated stands or ground blinds. Almost all of the land is privately owned and the owners don't like people walking around while there are other hunters there--some folks shoot at noise or movement without waiting to see what is moving or making the noise.


I shot a Fallow doe two weeks ago Sunday while sitting on the ground. I was wearing an old Army BDU shirt and a pair of dark green Dockers and had my back up against a dirt bank that was higher than my head, so I was sort of camouflaged. The other four deer I've shot were either from a ground blind or elevated stand.

Tequila Jake

[boondocker]

anyway i can lol