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How long would you wait ?
Fri I got signed permission to hunt the next farm over from one I already hunt. ( land changed hands Fri AM)
Sat and Sun I scouted , hung a7 stands , cut some mininal shooting lanes , installed 3 electric line poles for stands over looking some over grown CPR feilds . No stand sights offered any clear shots without some trimming The CPR feilds are grown up with 8 -15' brush with lanes cut thru for loging ( deer trails every where ) I know I pushed the deer around . How long would wait till you started hunting the new stands I put up ? Johnch |
RE: How long would you wait ?
If I put a new stand up during the season, even with minimal trimming, I like to wait at least a week before going back into the area again. I know a lot of guys would go back the next day, but I like to make sure things are settled down before being in there again.
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RE: How long would you wait ?
Give it a few days I think it would help.
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RE: How long would you wait ?
I think I'd give it a few day's to a week as well ,deer seem to notice change's very easily ,and with all the scent left around after being there a few day's should be good.
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RE: How long would you wait ?
At least around where I hunt, if there's food, the deer will be there within days.
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RE: How long would you wait ?
I would wait until next weekend at the earliest.
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RE: How long would you wait ?
Wow! You put ALOT of work into your hunting land and you deserve to harvest a great deer. If the land you currently hunt joins this land, you have probably moved alot of them to your original spot, so sit back in your stand and enjoy the show! Then, in a week or so, they will have moved back to their comfort zone.
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RE: How long would you wait ?
Give it at least 2 days...but a week is a little much i'd say
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RE: How long would you wait ?
Why do some of you guys say to "wait a few days"or"let things settle down"before hunting these stands? Because you think the deer are spooked becausethey have never heard unusual noises or smelled human scent and he's wasting his time hunting there because NO deer will move through any of these now scented up areas for a week/2 weeks(heck, I didnt even know deer could keep track of time, very intersting stuff), and if he waits a few days he will have a better chance at seeing deer? Or, will they just forgot they smelled him after a week or 2 and then its okay to hunt?
Maybe, if he goes back and sits in one of his 7 stands he will ruin the hunting in the entire areafor the rest of the season because the deer will not return if they smell his scent one more time? Or is there another good reason I havent thought of? If the deer that live there smelled his scent already, do they leave the area for a few days and come back when the "coast is clear" sign is given? Or do they bed down and move only at nights for 1 week or 2 weeks or something that I havent read studies on when they get a whiff of human scent?? I wouldconsider most good huntersuse scent control the best he/she can whenever entering hunting areas and if this gentelman put up 7 stands he obviously is somewhat dedicated, right? So, if he hunts there the next day using scent control, rubber boots etc, he wont see any deer correct, or he will further ruin his hunting location?? Fill me in, I'm curious to hear your answers. |
RE: How long would you wait ?
ORIGINAL: Diesel77 Why do some of you guys say to "wait a few days"or"let things settle down"before hunting these stands? Because you think the deer are spooked becausethey have never heard unusual noises or smelled human scent and he's wasting his time hunting there because NO deer will move through any of these now scented up areas for a week/2 weeks(heck, I didnt even know deer could keep track of time, very intersting stuff), and if he waits a few days he will have a better chance at seeing deer? Or, will they just forgot they smelled him after a week or 2 and then its okay to hunt? Maybe, if he goes back and sits in one of his 7 stands he will ruin the hunting in the entire areafor the rest of the season because the deer will not return if they smell his scent one more time? Or is there another good reason I havent thought of? If the deer that live there smelled his scent already, do they leave the area for a few days and come back when the "coast is clear" sign is given? Or do they bed down and move only at nights for 1 week or 2 weeks or something that I havent read studies on when they get a whiff of human scent?? I wouldconsider most good huntersuse scent control the best he/she can whenever entering hunting areas and if this gentelman put up 7 stands he obviously is somewhat dedicated, right? So, if he hunts there the next day using scent control, rubber boots etc, he wont see any deer correct, or he will further ruin his hunting location?? Fill me in, I'm curious to hear your answers. |
RE: How long would you wait ?
I like to wait around a week for various reasons. I HAVE been in stands the day after setting them, and even though the wind was in my favor, the deer still seemed to be on edge when getting close to my new location. I don't know why because I'm always keeping scent control in mind even when putting up stands.
I might wait a week and sometimes even more to be in some stand locations, and I may only sit them once in a season waiting for just the conditions I'm looking for as far as wind, weather, and rut phase. It's up to each hunter how they want to approach their hunting situation as every situation is different enough to bring in variables. The question that johnch asked was how long we would wait before going back into the area, and as you can see almost everybody has different opinions on what he should do based on what THEY would do; so whatever johnch decides to do is up to him. |
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I am willing to bet that 90% of deer have smelled a human at least once in there life, is that going to change the way they live? I doubt it very much. It may scare the bejesus out of them at that precise moment but they are going to forget about it almost as fast. Unless of course they have a close encounter of the human kind then they may not be so apt to forget about it. Smells are smells. I know that when I am walking thru a timber and come across the odor of a skunk that is is a skunk. But give me a half hour and I couldn't take you back to the exact location that I smelled it. Deer are animals and they do have keen senses, but they are animals. I wouldn't think just because they smelled you somewhere once that they are going to know that there is something unsafe about a certain place. Now if you shoot at a deer and miss that is a different story than just setting a few stands. But again that is just my opinion.
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RE: How long would you wait ?
Well I just found out today that work will make me wait till Thur evening till I can hunt .
I Know the deer are used to people and farm equipment And the corn will be cut this week so all the deer will move into the woods and CPR feilds to bed . I just wondered what you guys thought Johnch |
RE: How long would you wait ?
Just last week I set up a new stand site and did some minimal triming and hunted it the next day and had deer as close as 15 yrds from me. This area also has its share of human activity!
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