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Post by Sandbur on Nov 10, 2021 18:49:01 GMT -6
My dad sat 9.5 days dark to dark and never saw a mature deer to shoot. Up by Bena. Biggest buck was a spike. I am not getting any good reports from about 50 miles sw of there. SW corner of 172. Tribal hunts might be a factor in some areas by Bena.
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 10, 2021 19:02:25 GMT -6
I have seen 1 fork otherwise no bucks. 1 all day sit on opening day and never saw 1 deer. I am at around 20 hrs on stand. I saw 5 baldies this evening. The fork and 4 baldies monday eve. Is your dad out cutting wood again in the woods or what? What gives? Not this fall. I honestly dont know what to do. Neighbors were on the slaughter. Son watched a doe go by him. Cross the fence and life ended there for it.
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Post by caveman on Nov 10, 2021 19:14:41 GMT -6
Is your dad out cutting wood again in the woods or what? What gives? Not this fall. I honestly dont know what to do. Neighbors were on the slaughter. Son watched a doe go by him. Cross the fence and life ended there for it. Do you still park to hunt at the same place as you park to do everything else? A long time back you had asked for suggestions and I had thought that the deer had you patterned perfectly by monitoring your parking spot.
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Post by kooch on Nov 10, 2021 19:16:09 GMT -6
Aside from the kid across the street we are all of one mind in our neighborhood. No does even if we get a lottery tag. And lay off the dinks.
Hopefully that’ll help things around here. There are plenty of small bucks right now.
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Post by smsmith on Nov 10, 2021 19:19:08 GMT -6
Aside from the kid across the street we are all of one mind in our neighborhood. No does even if we get a lottery tag. And lay off the dinks. Hopefully that’ll help things around here. There are plenty of small bucks right now. If everybody stays committed things will change for sure. Of course up there wolves play a role and maybe the tribe does too? Even still, if folks aren't whacking does and dinks things are going to improve.
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Post by daydreamer on Nov 10, 2021 20:44:13 GMT -6
Is your dad out cutting wood again in the woods or what? What gives? Not this fall. I honestly dont know what to do. Neighbors were on the slaughter. Son watched a doe go by him. Cross the fence and life ended there for it. That’s tough to swallow man.
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Post by smsmith on Nov 10, 2021 20:47:08 GMT -6
Is your dad out cutting wood again in the woods or what? What gives? Not this fall. I honestly dont know what to do. Neighbors were on the slaughter. Son watched a doe go by him. Cross the fence and life ended there for it. You gotta ask yourself, why would a doe cross the fence to a setting where the neighbors have been actively whacking deer...
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 10, 2021 20:50:35 GMT -6
Not this fall. I honestly dont know what to do. Neighbors were on the slaughter. Son watched a doe go by him. Cross the fence and life ended there for it. Do you still park to hunt at the same place as you park to do everything else? A long time back you had asked for suggestions and I had thought that the deer had you patterned perfectly by monitoring your parking spot. We park next to the old Farmhouse, but we have no box blinds for rifle there in the area. We do have a ladderstand near on clover. The other parking spot is by the cemetery, and dad and nephew walk up the road from there. So we arent parking any cars into the property at all. I should edit my words of " I honestly dont know what to do." I should say, the road that splits our one 40 acre chunk in half is a killer I think. Traffic through it is what I would call light for the majority of the year. But gun season I am certain the deer are freaking out with all the traffic going in. Its a dead end Minimum Maint road. There are grand total of 9 hunting properties on that road, and multiple vehicles that traverse the road per property. Meaning a lot of vehicles coming in and making a lot of noise and lots of headlights. Nothing we can do for the influx of traffic, thats for sure. I am sure the traffic has an impact to deer that disperse off the general area of the road, but they dont leave the township. Other than that, the brown its down slaughter is our other issue caging us in. A guy on our NW corner shot 3 deer coming across an open cut cornfield Sat morning. My son watched it from his stand.
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 10, 2021 20:51:31 GMT -6
Not this fall. I honestly dont know what to do. Neighbors were on the slaughter. Son watched a doe go by him. Cross the fence and life ended there for it. You gotta ask yourself, why would a doe cross the fence to a setting where the neighbors have been actively whacking deer... Combined corn field. Going for a dinner.
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 10, 2021 20:54:10 GMT -6
Oh the best part was the guy went and got his truck 45 minutes before end of shooting to gut it and load it right below my sons stand and fucked his entire prime time hunt. headlights on and all.
Classy. Ya just gotta try and laugh. its insanity.
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 11, 2021 4:16:28 GMT -6
Do you still park to hunt at the same place as you park to do everything else? A long time back you had asked for suggestions and I had thought that the deer had you patterned perfectly by monitoring your parking spot. We park next to the old Farmhouse, but we have no box blinds for rifle there in the area. We do have a ladderstand near on clover. The other parking spot is by the cemetery, and dad and nephew walk up the road from there. So we arent parking any cars into the property at all. I should edit my words of " I honestly dont know what to do." I should say, the road that splits our one 40 acre chunk in half is a killer I think. Traffic through it is what I would call light for the majority of the year. But gun season I am certain the deer are freaking out with all the traffic going in. Its a dead end Minimum Maint road. There are grand total of 9 hunting properties on that road, and multiple vehicles that traverse the road per property. Meaning a lot of vehicles coming in and making a lot of noise and lots of headlights. Nothing we can do for the influx of traffic, thats for sure. I am sure the traffic has an impact to deer that disperse off the general area of the road, but they dont leave the township. Other than that, the brown its down slaughter is our other issue caging us in. A guy on our NW corner shot 3 deer coming across an open cut cornfield Sat morning. My son watched it from his stand. . I would make those two twenty acre parcels as thick as possible. I would not set a foot in there from about mid August on. I would only hunt the edge or a pinch point with the proper wind. Mark, I know you aren’t in charge of the property.
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 11, 2021 4:19:49 GMT -6
We park next to the old Farmhouse, but we have no box blinds for rifle there in the area. We do have a ladderstand near on clover. The other parking spot is by the cemetery, and dad and nephew walk up the road from there. So we arent parking any cars into the property at all. I should edit my words of " I honestly dont know what to do." I should say, the road that splits our one 40 acre chunk in half is a killer I think. Traffic through it is what I would call light for the majority of the year. But gun season I am certain the deer are freaking out with all the traffic going in. Its a dead end Minimum Maint road. There are grand total of 9 hunting properties on that road, and multiple vehicles that traverse the road per property. Meaning a lot of vehicles coming in and making a lot of noise and lots of headlights. Nothing we can do for the influx of traffic, thats for sure. I am sure the traffic has an impact to deer that disperse off the general area of the road, but they dont leave the township. Other than that, the brown its down slaughter is our other issue caging us in. A guy on our NW corner shot 3 deer coming across an open cut cornfield Sat morning. My son watched it from his stand. . I would make those two twenty acre parcels as thick as possible. I would not set a foot in there from about mid August on. I would only hunt the edge or a pinch point with the proper wind. Mark, I know you aren’t in charge of the property. On the place where I live, I intentionally sit in the box blind with my wife and she has the gun. My daughter gets the best stand. I sit with my wife to reduce opening day pressure.
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 11, 2021 5:35:46 GMT -6
Not this fall. I honestly dont know what to do. Neighbors were on the slaughter. Son watched a doe go by him. Cross the fence and life ended there for it. You gotta ask yourself, why would a doe cross the fence to a setting where the neighbors have been actively whacking deer... I was just thinking about the time needed for deer to feel secure in an area. Could it take a few generations of deer to learn that a piece of property is secure at certain times of the year? Maybe ten years is a realistic time period. Ten years for those doe groups to know that this is a secure area, once the pressure starts. A similar time period might be needed for a wintering area where food and cover is available.
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Post by Freeborn on Nov 11, 2021 7:05:04 GMT -6
You gotta ask yourself, why would a doe cross the fence to a setting where the neighbors have been actively whacking deer... I was just thinking about the time needed for deer to feel secure in an area. Could it take a few generations of deer to learn that a piece of property is secure at certain times of the year? Maybe ten years is a realistic time period. Ten years for those doe groups to know that this is a secure area, once the pressure starts. A similar time period might be needed for a wintering area where food and cover is available. I don't think it would take nearly that long. A new generation is born every year and they will seek out secure locations. During periods of high deer numbers I would think deer would move into a secure area fairly quickly.
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Post by Freeborn on Nov 11, 2021 7:12:13 GMT -6
Do you still park to hunt at the same place as you park to do everything else? A long time back you had asked for suggestions and I had thought that the deer had you patterned perfectly by monitoring your parking spot. We park next to the old Farmhouse, but we have no box blinds for rifle there in the area. We do have a ladderstand near on clover. The other parking spot is by the cemetery, and dad and nephew walk up the road from there. So we arent parking any cars into the property at all. I should edit my words of " I honestly dont know what to do." I should say, the road that splits our one 40 acre chunk in half is a killer I think. Traffic through it is what I would call light for the majority of the year. But gun season I am certain the deer are freaking out with all the traffic going in. Its a dead end Minimum Maint road. There are grand total of 9 hunting properties on that road, and multiple vehicles that traverse the road per property. Meaning a lot of vehicles coming in and making a lot of noise and lots of headlights. Nothing we can do for the influx of traffic, thats for sure. I am sure the traffic has an impact to deer that disperse off the general area of the road, but they dont leave the township. Other than that, the brown its down slaughter is our other issue caging us in. A guy on our NW corner shot 3 deer coming across an open cut cornfield Sat morning. My son watched it from his stand. The best you can do is to talk to your neighbors and see if there can be some rules established. With that minimum maintenance road and so many owners that's a tough deal particularly if they are strictly meat hunters. Maybe you can get some of them on board, it can't help to talk to them. Unfortunately you won't get any help with the current regulations, there is no room in the tent for hunters who want an older age class of deer.
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