ORIGINAL: jackflap
Really.....any of you guys who have gone down this path....I'd like to know how much time you spend on your hunting land (I could see me doing something there about every weekend, next Winter/Spring).....at least part of one weekend day. When do you start scouting in the Summer? Our season comes in, here, around the 10th of Sept., each year.
Well.....I'm not talking about walking the property willy-nilly. I'm talking about clearing land......planting food plots......working mineral sites.....etc...
No offense taken silly-willy. I didn't know that scouting required clearing land or planting food plots while you were doing it, but what do I know.
Everytime you go on your hunting grounds, you are disrupting the normal activity of the deer that live there. If you need to clear and plant food plots, by all means do it, but do it quickly, then get and stay out as much as possible.
IMO, too many people find too many convenient excuses to go to their hunting properties and work their butt off, but what they do us ultimately more detrimental than positive.
Does what you do as far as intrusion in June or July affect your hunting sucess in September? I don't know but I know it can't help.
I do know that daytime activity of all deer captured on my trail cam, and especially mature deer, goes down SIGNIFICANTLY about 6 weeks prior to the opening of gun season due to all my neighbors doing all their preparation activity before the actual season.
LESS is MORE in most instances, at least that is my opinion. As said in business, work smarter not harder.