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Old 11-30-2013 | 07:25 AM
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Mojotex
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Well ... a few things. All of them already more or less mentioned.

You have to find a way to mitigate the cold. Layers of quality under wear, wind breaker outer, better insulated boots, hand warmers and toasty-toes chem packs ... whatever it takes.

Coming out at 09:00 ??? .... gotta stay longer. I would bet over the 50 or so years that I have hunted white tailed deer, I have killed better than 50% between 10:00 and 11:30 a.m. So my advise based upon what you are saying is try getting settled in around 7:00 and stay until 10:00-11:00, or hunting midday say from 9:00 until 2:00 p.m.

And playing the wind to "an extent" is not good enough, especially on small acreage ... in my book. The room for error in being winded is hjust too great. Looka t it this way ... if there are say an average of 30-40 deer/square mile ratio up that way (and that is a rateher high number) that would equate to about 3-4 hanging on that 80 on a consistent basis. Blowing out half of them leaves you not much of a chance. Getting in and out undetected in my opinion is a must.

As far as where to set up? Got to figure out where they are feeding or bedding ... or traveling about between the two areas ... and put in the butt time waiting them out. Down my way the deer use the food plots almost esclusively at night and feed on acorns or forbs in the mid morning. So I hunt near plots in the afternoon, and around acorns or on trails starting daybreak. I can go days not seeing squat, as I did 2 weeks ago. Then in two days put 3 fat does and a nice 8 pt. in the cooler. Sort of works out that way sometimes. For me figuring out their patterns is the fun part of "hunting".

Good luck the rest of the season and hang in there. It'll happen.
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