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Favorite Hunting spots
Oakie
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I have hunted the same stand now for 43 years. My dad let me pick out a spot in the Pines when I was 10. I have killed roughly 50 to 60 deer out of that stand over the years. This is for shotgun, muzzle loader and bow. I occasionally hunt different stands during bow , but usually within 100 yards of my original stand. To get to my stand, you need hip waders and then have to crawl though briers. I never cut a path in fear people would know where I am at and I wouldn't disturb the deer path. I hunt between a great bedding and feeding area. There is only one way into both of these places and I am right there.I can actually tell you within 15 minutes of when the deer come through that island.I have got their pattern down flat. I have never seen another hunter back there. People always ask where I hunt, and I just tell them in the woods. I do my homework during the summer to see what is there and then hunt a specific buck. I will only take another buck if, he has messed up horns or a genetic defect, to cull the heard from him. I only ever killed one doe, and she had three legs. She didn't look like she was going to make it through the winter. Must have been hit by a car and her leg was gone. The area around her shoulder looked infected. Do you have a certain area or stand that you hunt year in and out?????? Do you scout or just know their patterns??? Oakie
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Peace
Jesus
This ment caring for the gift of the woods. The game as well. Love my hunting grounds and respect everything around them. Its hallowed ground.
...Oh wait wrong hunting areas around me I could not be so choosey had a few farmer friends who would invite me along so that was my favorite hunting spots for the year .. I have not been in years the farmers all have too many family members hunting now to allow friends and the public areas are "take your chance" of being shot so I pass them up
They have antlers...there's a difference.
Horns stay on the animal & continue to grow with age.
Antlers are discarded each winter, and when they come back the next spring they will have usually grown in mass.
Trinity +++
For mule deer I like to glass open ridges or hunt along above rimrock, peeking over the edge for bedded bucks. It is easier to be picky about big mulies because I'm likely to see more of them in a week than I would see of white tail bucks of all sizes in a seven week season.