So I decided I don't see enough deer. I don't think its the fried chicken I eat by the bucket from my treestand or the cheap cigars I smoke on my way to the stand, while in the stand and on my way out,( I mean I use scent killer?) I think it's my camo. I just think the deer see me as I delicately break and every twig in a 10 yard path between me and my stand. Yeah...they must see me! Does anyone else have this problem????

I have the solution! Take an old deer hide( I prefer roadkill cause it's "more Natural&quot and drape it over your entire body! Find some shed antlers or even mock antlers for rattling and strap them to your head! Now walk to and from your stand (the farther the better, this gives that Monster buck plenty of time to find you)on all fours a few times grunting with your grunt tube.This is a great way to atrract attention!

Feel free to try this if the cigar-bourbon-chickenand -noise payin attention to deer are eluding you this year! Let me know how it goes!

P.S. I've found this most effective on public land during gun season. It's a real &quot;high pressure bucks&quot; technique.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Trushot }}------>

HA! HA! HA! HA! ROFLMAO!!!! great post!

Did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed?? Or did we have a run in, with such a hunter in the field???

I,ll have to pass that tip on to my ex-wife<img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>

thats funny.~Ben

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I usually find that this approach works best during gun season. It seems to calm the deer down after hearing all of the loud bangs. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Not really a &quot;run in&quot; Brirute.

On Sat. morning I hunted a small woodlot that's just outside of town. I know there's a guy ( we get(GOT) along pretty well, met in the field for bow) that hunts the small plot next to me. Well Friday was opening gun season( I still hunt with a bow but in every piece of orange I own)and this guy starts blasting at about 8am. I hear 5 shots in 8 seconds and I hear the guy reloading?? 3 more shots and 30 seconds or so...2 more...reload! I'm like &quot;Wow...you suck!&quot;. So I get down and make my way toward his stand after I holler a little to let him know I'm not one of the 4(FOUR!) deer he was shooting at(over 125 yards, 20 gauge slug with a bb gun scope on it.Grrrrr)

It's just frustrating to share the woods with people who don't really take it seriously. The guy hit a nice 8 point ( the one I've been chasing all year)TWICE! I'm guessing once in the back leg and once in the front somewhere??? All he found was a 2&quot; piece of bone covered in blood.He looked a total of 45 minutes (I helped)before he reloaded and went to a different stand. I went back Sun afternoon with my beagles to try a track job...no luck.

I know some will say I should have said or done something, but I assure you...I was so on angry I could not get started without blowing up. And I never break my own rule number 2 of &quot;never punch a guy with a loaded gun&quot;.I helped track as long as I dared while he still had a loaded gun and tried again later.


I'm going to go vomit and cry now...




Trushot }}------>

It is definitely something that makes you angry. I hate hearing about people with guns that throw lead around like crazy. I read an article about midwestern telemtry studies that are showing the number of deer that die from wounds are evident. I think it is easier for these people to blow it off because they do not spend the same amount of time in a stand that a person with a bow does on the average. I don't want to start a big debate, but I think overall the mindset of a bowhunter is a little different than a gunhunter. I have done both and I like &quot;hanging&quot; out with people that bowhunt more than the people that gunhunt.

bow hunters as a rule are probably a more dedicated group than the gun gun hunters, because i dont know how many bowhunters sling arrows out passed the range they should at deer that are running at full speed. i cant tell you the number of times opening weekend that i heard multiple rapid shots. honestly some people are dumber than a box of rox


propmahn
save the world, reload your brass

I hunt leased club land. One of our properties borders a little patch where two guys hunt each year. They drive up from Kansas City, and shoot the first bucks they can. Usually dinks.

This year, they both gut shot little bucks opening morning, and then ran around looking for them, ruining one of my partners hunts. We found one of the bucks the next day, just a few hundred yards from where it was shot. The coyotes were eating pretty good.

MOCraig

Edited by - MOCraig on 11/20/2002 09:52:47