Originally Posted by
Dakota79
I am going to have to respectively disagree with your statement about fence crossings. I outfit in northwest South Dakota and every year we take Antelope on fence crossings. You can't just use any crossing but once you find one that is heavily used they can be a gold mine. One example would be a fence line that is all sheep wire except for one gate and that is the only place on that entire fence that the Antelope are able to go under. It works every year for us. The best advice I can give is to never give up. If you bust a stalk pick your head up and go find another one because you never know when the next one is going to work
And that may be true with a fence, such as sheep wire, that the goats simply can't pass through anyway or anywhere else. Where I hunt, it's all barbed wire and the fences are old, not tight, not too tall. Even though we spent the time to walk the entire fence line and lower and or block any and all lesser used crossings, the goats still were able to get through, get under, and several even jumped the fence to avoid getting near our blinds. I tried blind sit on crossing two years in a row. The first year I set up our blinds a week before season started and left them set up for the entire season. The 2nd year, I set the blinds up a month before season, and they still avoided the crossing. I did have two small bucks use a crossing near my blind one time, and it was only because the larger dominant buck hazed them to the crossing and bascially forced them to cross, and then the big buck went back to his herim.
SO, I guess a good point has been raised, IF the fences are tight, tall enough, and no other crossing options are available, then crossing sitting can be effective. Just wasn't on the ranch that I hunt.
Good luck!