Is anybody?

[Matt722mx]

I was thinking about going down to my hunting spot to see if I see any deer. I plan on going down there atleast one more time before september. I try to stay out of my spot because I don't want to bump any deer. I'm itching real bad to get down there. Is anybody else doing the same thing as I?

[rcb216]

I hunt on our farm and can easily walk to our barn and watch over our hay fields and glass them, and not really disturb the area, and yes this time of year you can really put the pattern on some of the bachlor groups at dusk.

[buckfever]

I was thinking about going down to my hunting spot to see if I see any deer. I plan on going down there atleast one more time before september. I try to stay out of my spot because I don't want to bump any deer. I'm itching real bad to get down there. Is anybody else doing the same thing as I?

How do you know where to hunt if you don't scout? :confused:

[DearDoctor]

How do you know where to hunt if you don't scout? :confused:

Some hunters don't have the luxury of having multiple stands or have enough land. I know guys that have one stand and hunt the same place each year.

[shaman]

I was thinking about going down to my hunting spot to see if I see any deer. I plan on going down there atleast one more time before september. I try to stay out of my spot because I don't want to bump any deer. I'm itching real bad to get down there. Is anybody else doing the same thing as I?

I'm out every weekend I can almost year round. Don't be too scared. My best stand is less than 150 yards from the family campground, and I hunted a place for 6 years that was a private campground with people walking through the woods from May to October.

In this latter place, the local Neo-Pagan church used to rent it out for their conclaves. These weren't baby-burning Satanists, just tree-hugging Druid wannabees. Overall, a little weird, but nice. Anyhow, I was out bowhunting one afternoon, and the group came by and started a drumming workshop about 100 yards from my stand-- 30 over-aged hippies and their kids and every imaginable percussion instrument. I gave up and walked over to see what was going on. I appeared in the midst of the group in full camo, carrying the bow, and some of the group hailed me as a manifestation of Hern the Hunter. Oh Boy!

Anyhow, after hanging with the pagans for a little while I could see this was going to be going on for hours, so I went back to my stand to pull it off and go home. I kid you not: there was a herd of deer just inside the treeline standing there like kids at a rock concert. If I had stayed in my stand, I'd have had one for sure.

My point is this: human contact is not all that bad, and a little non-threatening human contact is probably a good thing.

[Rackophrenic Rick]

Some hunters don't have the luxury of having multiple stands or have enough land. I know guys that have one stand and hunt the same place each year.

Not to worry,maybe Obama has a plan for re-distribution of hunting property to the less fortunate hunters and soon every one will have the same amount.:eek: BF, be warned change is coming and you best get you new child enrolled in a Spanish class.:D

If I only had a small lot to hunt I'd still be scouting. Not to mention how can one stand be good in all conditions? I have never hunted anywhere in KY where the wind blows from only one direction. But then again, if a guy is hunting one stand, I doubt he ever even considered the wind as a success factor. I digress back to Matt's question, now.

Matt,
Personally I spend lots of time on the property I hunt during July and August prior to the season opening. With a good set of optics and the practice of low impact scouting you can gain a wealth of information about the deer herd at this time of year. I wouldn't suggest trying to set up in the bedding area or anything risky but without scouting your just gambling. Like rcb said, bucks are more patternable during the summer than any other time of the year but that doesn't mean that they are dumb. They may come to a bean field every afternoon like clock work but they aren't going to enter or leave the field the same way each day. They will use the wind direction and cover to their advantage and the only way you will know how they do this is by observation. Also, I can't tell you how many times I have thought I had patterned a particular buck or group of bucks, only to find that the week before the season opened they had disappeared. Luckily I was there to discover this, did some scouting elsewhere I found them again. However if I'd have bet the bank on that initial bean field in one trip, the first week of season would have been unfruitful.

IMHO, scouting should never stop unless you have tagged out but that is not to say you shouldn't be cautious about doing so, manage your scent, and not educate the deer.

[Matt722mx]

Thanks for the feedback guys

[rcb216]

I'm out every weekend I can almost year round. Don't be too scared. My best stand is less than 150 yards from the family campground, and I hunted a place for 6 years that was a private campground with people walking through the woods from May to October.

In this latter place, the local Neo-Pagan church used to rent it out for their conclaves. These weren't baby-burning Satanists, just tree-hugging Druid wannabees. Overall, a little weird, but nice. Anyhow, I was out bowhunting one afternoon, and the group came by and started a drumming workshop about 100 yards from my stand-- 30 over-aged hippies and their kids and every imaginable percussion instrument. I gave up and walked over to see what was going on. I appeared in the midst of the group in full camo, carrying the bow, and some of the group hailed me as a manifestation of Hern the Hunter. Oh Boy!

Anyhow, after hanging with the pagans for a little while I could see this was going to be going on for hours, so I went back to my stand to pull it off and go home. I kid you not: there was a herd of deer just inside the treeline standing there like kids at a rock concert. If I had stayed in my stand, I'd have had one for sure.

My point is this: human contact is not all that bad, and a little non-threatening human contact is probably a good thing.


That was funny, coming from a cervid serial killer like yourself and with a screen name of shaman, WOW! that had to be a sight! I am still lmao!