HuntingNet.com Forums - View Single Post - deer to far to shoot
View Single Post
Old 12-15-2004 | 10:57 AM
  #8  
Blodg
 
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 262
Likes: 0
From: Ohio
Default RE: deer to far to shoot

The above posts are good suggestions for trying to attract them to you. Have you tried a grunt call? I personally don't have much luck but I keep trying, and on TV they grunt them in all the time

I would also focus on some bowhunting basics, assuming you are using a tree stand:
- choose a stand location near an active trail, in a bottleneck, or in a transition area
- quiet entry to your stand and also during the climb, pulling bow up, etc.
- sit still and quiet the entire time
- pick a tree with cover
- scent control, scent control, scent control

Many of us serious hunters take these for granted but some people don't. I brought a buddy with me several times a few years ago and he couldn't get a deer close even in some of my best spots. One afternoon we sat only a few hundred yards apart, I saw 14 deer and had a 4 1/2 yr. old buck come withing 35 yards of me. After dark we met up and he saw nothing! This happened time after time so either his scent was all over the woods or maybe he was break dancing while on stand! I even wondered if his eye sight was poor because he never saw deer in an area that I see deer almost every day I hunt. He has lasik surgery and said his vision was fine, I still am baffled.
Blodg is offline  
Reply