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Old 12-10-2008 | 01:16 PM
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Default RE: Hunting the same spots.....

I am more of the mind of not changing stands too much unless there is a reason, at least for the style hunting you are talking about.

One extreme for me is a very small little corner of woods I get to hunt. It is funnel, and a good one. Irrigated alfalfa on one side, bedding on the other, neither of which I have access to. Just the couple of acres of woods between. Pure travle corridor and staging area. The deers movement patterns through the woods are basically the same year to year, but there is some variation. I have four stands up in there, for various winds/situations. One has not been moved in four years but it doesn't get hunted often. It is a good spot but conditions must be just right for it, only three sits in the last two years. Another one has been in the same spot for three years and I will move it about 5yards this year just to tweak it a little bit. It is a workhorse, has probably had 15 or 20 sits in the last two years. Shot this years and last years bucks out of it. Two more have been floating. One of them found a permanent home this year, got 8-10 sits, it's going to work out well I believe. The other is okay but will move next year due to some habitat modifications that will go on. I will also set up a few trees this spring for my Ambush Saddle, for some of those "Special Situations" that arise on occasion. The fact is, there are only so many ways the deer can move through there, and even fewer ways I can get in and out. "Changing it up" doesn't help me too much unless I get flat busted in a stand and need to give it a break.

Now when I hunted the 300 acres of brush that I used to be on, that was different. No trees for treestands, I would just walk in with a stool and some clippers and cut a hole back in the brush whereverI wanted. Depended on time of day, wind direction, current travel patterns, light intensity and directionand such. Rarely did I sit the same place twice, but it was a radically different sitution. More similarities to spot and stalk than to stand hunting.
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