can i ever win!

Rory/MO · 12-30-2007, 05:13 PM

day 1:
leave the house around noon, arrive to the farms about 2:30. get in the stand about 3, totally scent free, shooting great, and a great wind. but instead of the deer using the intersection of trails 15 yards in front of the stand, they use the 60 yard ones.
4 does, 5 possums

day 2:
morning
get up, and its pouring. oh ya and my dad had to pick up some pay duck hunters that he was guiding so i forgot my scent-free spray bottle, facemask, and gloves in his truck. i was soaking by 9 and decided to still hunt my way up a heavily used trail to warm up. had 2 does that just wouldnt stop, couldve shot, but not too ethical.

evening
great deer hunting conditions, clear skies, high pressure. deer should be moving, right?.. WRONG!
1 possum

day 3:
morning
great conditions,too bad i had duck hunters in a field 70 yards from my stand that got out into the field about an hour after shooting light(public area with a drawing at 3 in the morning just so the hunters get to the fields on time) and start screaming at each other, and horrible callers, and horrible duck hunters. no sightings

evening: hang a new stand on a heavily used trail on a major funnel, no sightings

day 4:
morning
my dad couldnt bother waking me up a couple minutes early and driving me to the road that leads to the new stand while picking up some pay hunters, so the owner of the farm does, and we get in the truck at 6:35. great, 10 minutes before shooting light, and ive got to walk a mile with my bowcase and backpack. i got in the stand about 30 minutes after shooting light. no sightings

will i ever win! these stands when i hunted them last earlier this year i would see at least 4 deer every sit
i didnt think late season would be this big of a change down there, since there is almost zero pressure on the deer

childers · 12-30-2007, 05:17 PM

the key this time of year is hunt near the most heavily used food source. that is the number one thing to do this time of year

Rory/MO · 12-30-2007, 05:25 PM

i know! thats exactly what i did. i hunted fresh trails coming from and leading to the food

i have no clue why i had no deer come by them while i was sitting there
very strange for this farm

childers · 12-30-2007, 05:30 PM

one other thing that could probably help you is hunt heavy cover or hunt the sides of hills or what not that blocks the winds from hitting the deer. these three things are key to hunting late-season whitetails

Rory/MO · 12-30-2007, 05:35 PM

well where the farm is, its flat as can be
but there is very thick cover in two of the spots that i hunted
but one wasnt

nodog · 12-30-2007, 08:20 PM

Sounds like your figuring things out pretty good. Just a matter of time.

BOWHUNTER818 · 12-31-2007, 06:14 PM

I can sum it up in one sentence. "No one is seeing the deer that they have usally been seeing"!!! I think that you could talk to any person in the same neck of the woods and are not shooting nore seeing the deer. It is slow all around the states. We have killed 3 huge bucks of our prop. last year and have not shot any thing bigger then a 6 this year. I think it is the warm temps. Big deer dont like it hot...think about it would you... there moving at night.

BH818