Need hunting advice

Thanks Scott . The land is very level though there is a dip or shallow ditch between the feed and me at one location .(Not much I can do about that . I,ll only hunt there when a good breeze is coming my way . . I,ll compass out my spots and use binoculars as much as I can to pattern any deer .
 
Sounds like a great area. Just make a plan and be patient. One note about lures. They can be effective also. Just use the appropriate lure for the time of the season. Don't use doe-in-heat until the rut is on. Pre-rut I use basic doe urine and dominate buck urine in scapes. Coon or fox piss is a good cover scent as long as you have these animals in your area. I also use boot pads with doe urine on them to cover my tracks walking to my stand. Have fun. ;)
Scott
 
What a treat to have the property all to yourself!

I would look for game trails leading from bedding into the bean fields. It is way too late to seriously alter deer behavior for this year. You'll be much better off finding out where they are rather than trying to pull them in now.

You may want to read this review of a new instructional whitetail video.


Good hunting.

--FLIX
 
I would just spend some time with your binoculars and watch for deer. Scout and look for tracks and trails. If there are no deer, you are going to have a hard time getting one. Sounds stupid, I know, but I hunted day after day along fields from an old railroad bed to only see a couple of deer. Saw more coyotes. It was one of those deals where it was the only place I had to hunt that year.
 
It gets worse . I started feeding around an old water hole and another hunter came along saying I was on private property and that was where he was hunting .

The good thing is its a guy I know a little bit and had actually helped out in a small way . It turns out that we both have permission that particular location . The fact that I helped him in the past may swing things in my favor .
 
Kevin the grey said:
For the moment I have put some feed out which is mostly oats with some molasses in it . Smells nice . I have placed it in the corner of the two fields near the woods so I can set up a blind in the woods .

Can you guys think of some way to attract them other than what I am doing ? I would want it to be discreet and able to attract them from a fair distance away .
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Where I grew up we used salt licks to attract deer to a particular area. You can probably find them at a local feed store. As I understand it, many wild animals have some trouble getting enough salt in their diets. Which is why it can sometimes be a bad idea to leave an axe out where an animal can chew on the handle - they love the salt left from sweating.

I think leaving corn or any other type of feed was illegal where I grew up - which is probably why we used salt licks. Best of luck to you! :)
 
Is it really that difficult to find deer where you're from? Where I'm from they're everywhere. I spent the summer in the adirondacks and was able to get within ten yards of them without them noticing. Every morning there'd be 2-6 females and occasional buck outside my tent when I got up. I was in a reletively secluded spot, would that make them less likely to be afraid of me?

I dont hunt(yet), but I like to track things. I'd suggest walking through the areas where they might be feeding and drinking and looking for scat/trails, preferably trails with fresh scat. It might take you a few days to find some, but if you do, you'll know where to look when hunting so you dont waste days in areas with no deer. If you spend a few days looking and still cant find anything, you may need to try to come up with other places they could be going for food. As for the other hunter, bring a few beers out with you next time, I've never met a hunter who didnt like beer. Good luck.
 
saturnine138 said:
Is it really that difficult to find deer where you're from? Where I'm from they're everywhere. I spent the summer in the adirondacks and was able to get within ten yards of them without them noticing. Every morning there'd be 2-6 females and occasional buck outside my tent when I got up. I was in a reletively secluded spot, would that make them less likely to be afraid of me?
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I'm going to hazard three guesses as to why Kevin the Grey isn't being overrun by deer:

1)There are more natural predators in his area keeping the population in check.

2)Canada may not have had a historical game management practice of only harvesting bucks. I believe the deer overpopulation problem in the US is largely due to prohibiting the taking of does. Doe tags are allowed nowadays but when I was growing up they were non-existent. Allowing the maximum number of possible females to breed created the deer population boom that we are dealing with today.

3)Kevin's area is experiencing hunting pressure. There was no hunting pressure during your summer camping in the Adirondacks. Those deer that were ten yards from you undoubtedly did notice you - they just didn't care or were curious about your presence. It's pretty amazing how the deer disappear after opening day of hunting season. They haven't all been shot - they just bed down during the day and move around at night the way animals do when they know their survival is at stake.
 
Have you ever thought that there just aren't many deer in the area? I hunted Eastern KY years ago and the whitetail population was very localized. It still is, but populations have improved dramatically in recent years. Same thing in Tennessee where I am now. IF you hunt the Blue Ridge area, you will have to hunt hard for a deer for the most part.

If you hunted outside the area where most of the deer are, you would be lucky to see one. Sometimes, it is hard enough when you know there are deer around.... you just keep telling yourself that they are here as you read paperbacks while hunting.

Maybe you should consider locating another property to hunt?
 
I'll try to relate this hunting "trick" as delicately as possible and I sincerely hope I don't offend anyone. So here goes. Back in my younger days when I was really into hunting, I had two daughters in their teens and my wife was in her late thirties. To be blunt, I had all three save their sanitary napkins in plastic bags which I froze in the freezer. Later, hunting in the mountains of western Colorado, I'd find a nice clearing with the prevailing breeze blowing across it. Then go along the tree line on the upwind side and hang up a used sanitary napkin every 50 yards or so. Then back to one side of the clearing where I could lay up with my rifle and wait.

This does work. Apparently pheremones are pheremones. Farmers and ranchers know that because women during their time of the month have to be real careful around the male livestock, i.e., stallions, bulls, goats, rams, and even dogs.

I've seen virtually everything come to "investigate" in the mountains. Elk, deer, sheep, coyote, bobcat, lion, badger, even marmots (chucks) and rabbits. Kind of a bad thing to do I guess but it did put meat on the table.

Again, my apologies if this offends anyone but it is a fact of nature.
 
Old cw4 thanks for the entertainment and the advice . Maybe its not for the delicate . Its amazing how undelicate they get when the freezer has been empty for a while .
 
Old CW4 said:
I'll try to relate this hunting "trick" as delicately as possible and I sincerely hope I don't offend anyone. So here goes. Back in my younger days when I was really into hunting, I had two daughters in their teens and my wife was in her late thirties. To be blunt, I had all three save their sanitary napkins in plastic bags which I froze in the freezer. Later, hunting in the mountains of western Colorado, I'd find a nice clearing with the prevailing breeze blowing across it. Then go along the tree line on the upwind side and hang up a used sanitary napkin every 50 yards or so. Then back to one side of the clearing where I could lay up with my rifle and wait.

This does work. Apparently pheremones are pheremones. Farmers and ranchers know that because women during their time of the month have to be real careful around the male livestock, i.e., stallions, bulls, goats, rams, and even dogs.

I've seen virtually everything come to "investigate" in the mountains. Elk, deer, sheep, coyote, bobcat, lion, badger, even marmots (chucks) and rabbits. Kind of a bad thing to do I guess but it did put meat on the table.

Again, my apologies if this offends anyone but it is a fact of nature.
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Wow, that's great advice! You're right - apparently pheremones are pheremones. I've read of experiments performed in the reverse. Men were sent into bars to attempt to get women's phone numbers. Some of the men had small amounts of male pig urine applied to them, and others didn't. The men with pig urine applied to them had a higher success rate gathering women's phone numbers!
 
Gents I am hunting about 45 minutes from a major city . About 2 1/2 hours out is deer central . The closer you get the spottier it gets . Sometimes some of us have no choice where we hunt .

There is deer activity much later in the season . It is large farms without that much woods .
 
DOC-CANADA said:
Gee, can't wait to try that out. :(

Doc
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Yep who the heck would want those phone numbers ? L:O:L

Heck , according to scientits we,s just a bunch of butt scratching pit sniffing pig dogs .

What the heck happened to a box of chocolates and some flowers ? L:O:L

I wonder what the heck the record is for saying heck in one paragraph ?
 
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