Originally Posted by
DeerandbearhoG
Couple things Ive learned about deer hunting on public land.
1st, sleep late and drive around at 1st light and see where guys ARENT parking, thats where you wanna go if you dont wanna bump or get bumped, I dont worry much about getting in early these days cause I almost never see deer at 1st light, its always an hour or 2 after 1st light, heck I see as many deer mid day as I do early.
2nd, other hunters get the deer up and moving, I love the guys who walk back to the truck in squads with their rifles slung over their shoulders, as if theyre convinced no deer could possible be hiding in the woods they picked to sit in that day
, alot of times deer are bedded close by and those guys kick them right to me, I love it
You dont have to hike a mile or even more than a few hundered yrds from your car to find deer, in fact I find deer like hanging out closer than farther to the road, its the hunters that seem to like treking deep in the woods.
Got to agree with you on this. Due to a change in my wife's work schedule, I had to put my son on the bus a few days before I went hunting the last couple years. I was worried about how this would affect my deer hunting. Since I was going in late, I figured I would just stay in late as well. As it turns out, I saw as many deer as ever and was shocked at the #'s I saw in the middle of the day.
So as someone else stated, it may not be laziness or sleeping in, it may just be the earliest he can get in.