What challenges do you face in your area?
 

We all know not every location is created equal. So what challenges present themselves to you in your hunting areas?

Hunting area 1- This property is either field or thick bedding area. There are very little transitional areas, and it needs to be treaded on lightly to keep from always bumping deer. It’s got decent browse and some acorns. Crop fields aren’t very near to it. Pressure on this and surrounding area is HUGE in gun season, but not real bad in archery.

Hunting area 2- this property is set up with horrible access. The wind is almost always wrong to approach the better hunting spots. It is also impacted a little more often by non-hunter activity. There are little to no crops nearby, but it has a few acorns and some VERY thick bedding areas. Pressure on this property is odd. There are stands hanging every 50 yds, but rarely do I see others while archery hunting. Gun season it is hammered, but the stands are still rarely occupied.

In general, lands that I hunt are just small pieces of the puzzle as far as food/shelter and everything that a deer needs to live. They can be here today and 3 properties away tomorrow. Overall hunting pressure is high, but so are deer numbers. Older bucks are rarely seen and nocturnal, but can be found during the rut.

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In my area it would have to be other hunters[:@] I will leave it at that.

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Problem 1) having stand sites for all wind directions and time of day hunts.

Problem 2) overpopulation of deer (yes....this is a problem)

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Distance from my house........that's about it. My closest hunting spot is a 1.5 hour drive, and my own property is nearly 4 hours.I still get to hunt a LOT, but it is difficult to put in the amount of scouting that I would like to during preseason.

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Coyotes and trespassers.

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Spot 1- Not a lot of deer (very few and far between)
Spot 2- I'm 7 miles back off the dirt road, so about 12 miles from the nearest paved road. So if I get hurt, I'm skrewed[:o]

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I would have to say other hunters.

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Alot of the neighboring hunters hunt with the mantra "if its brown...its down". I am starting to get some success with trying to change them, or should I say they have said they will change. I guess we will see this gun hunting season. When I purchased my landone of theneighbors came to talk to me and said that they only shoot "good bucks", well opening morning of the gun season like 5yrs ago I was sitting pretty close the the line between our 2 properties. Here comes a 1.5yr 6pt I let it walk by and it jumps the fence into the neighbors, bout 5-10 secs later BOOM.[:'(] And judging by the last 5 years he was full of *h*t.

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Entry and Parking..Where my Farmer wants me to park, Iknow the deer pattern me by my truck. I can park in another spot, not on his property and walk a lot further, but the normal wind makes this risky as my scent would blow into the bedding area.

There are a few other options I can try this year..This is only a problem for 2 stand locations on this farm.

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I thought you were gonna say "wheelchair access", GR8.

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Deciding which state I am going to hunt:D

KY, OH, or MI

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Since I pretty much only hunt public land mine would also have to be other hunters. My favorite land usually gets quite a few hunters early in bow season but the closer that we get to gun season the less bow hunters that are out there. It gets hammered in gun season.

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The problems that bother me the most...

1. People that build their new houses and think they own the area and show no respect for us hunters that have been hunting there for years. One guy moved in with his wife and kids and they ride the quads all over the place making a bunch of noise. Theyve screwed up my hunts several times.

2. Hunters that shoot anything they see. Its a rarity seeing something bigger than an 8pt around where i hunt.

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[ol][*]Entry only from West working on permission from the North and North East[*]Entry ony from East [/ol]

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Huge woods!!!

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You should take care of that before you leave the house???;)

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:D:D:Dquit it!! [8D]

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Right now I would say the amount of standing corn. I think that may put a damper on a few of my stand locations for at least the early part of the season.

I don't have an issue with people coming in my woods as I do they drive down the dead end road my property is on to shine deer and run through the big mud holes at the end. They really have no reason to be on the road but not much I can do.

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Sorry, I couldnt help myself:D

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Area 1 we have 3/4 of a block but can not control the other 1/4 and if its brown its down with those guys.Area 2 is great but its a1 1/2hour drive.I spend most of my weekends in this area.

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bigjim that made me laugh audibly. Too funny.

My biggest problems are:
1. Dogs running wild.
2. Idiot people who should not be allowed in the woods.
3. Some really deep ravines that make retrieval tough as heck, even with a quad.
4. This year, the drought will make it tough too.

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My spots are all really small, so I have to be so picky when I hunt them. There are days when the wind is wrong for both, so I just head to the good 'ole public land. Also, one is about 2 hours away, so I don't get there too much.

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Dog hunters who deliberately disrupt others' hunting.

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I dont care who ya are, thats some funny stuff right there!

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1. Other hunters shooting spikes, 3points, 4 points ect. ect. consistently. (I had one guy actually tell me that doing this actaully helped the deer herd. yeah right.)

2. Constant logging. I know after a couple years this could actually be a benifit but hunting while this is going on is a pain in the butt.[:@]

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1. Patterning the deer. I've yet to see any type of pattern with deer in E. TX. They show up from different places heading different directions.
2. Pine plantations. Mostly young pines with super thick briars and other scrubfilling ALL gaps between, makes it nearly impossible to bowhunt areas like this. Visibilityand access is extremly limited.
3. High population of coyotes and stray dogs.
4. One side of the lease is next to a village of meth labs. This results in numerous amounts of "wanderers" that stumble aimlessly through the lease toward who knows where.
5. The north side is close to an Indian reservation and they don't want anybody hunting on their land.
6. Overpopulation of hogs, hogs, and little hogs that grow into more hogs!
7. The heat and humidity during most of the season. Common to most of the south.
8. Zero crops other than pine trees.
9. I'm sure I'll remember more

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tresspassers will be my biggest problem.
mostly they are kids. they are mostly teenagers and young adults. (nothing ment to are younger members here)

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1. people shooting 1.5 year bucks
2. wolves
3. And getting my butt out of bead in the morning :D

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Ditto

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I'm in a new lease this year, so I have quite a few obstacles:

1) Need to pattern the deer
2) Learn where other members hunt (I have found only a few stands)
3) Lots of hogs
4) Extremely thick (mostly pine thickets)
5) Roads in poor condition = lots of walking
6) Back part of lease is a swamp (lots of deer, but mosquitoes are a killer)

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1.Coyotes
2.corn on all sides
3.other people who just tramp through not even caring that you are in the stand there making as much noise as possible to scare away the deer.

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developers [:@]

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A lot of my bowhunting is on small tracts of private ground.The challenge with that is the ability to hunt a deers entire pattern.In most cases it is not even close to possible. I also do some some big woods/Mountain archery hunting,the challenge with that is lower deer numbers,coyotes and there is still in some instances private land issues.We have a lot of state land that is boxed in by private land.

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Here at home....
Excessive hunting pressure.
Small acreages.
Next to no terrain features.

Down at camp....
Excessive hunting pressure, mostly public land.
Over 2 hours away.

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On one of the properties i hunt, last year they had beans and seeing deer was no problem. This year they have corn on most of it which makes it hard to see the deer, but there is stilla small area of soy beans. I think i might try to hunt in between the two fields to see if i can catch them moving from one to the other.

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1. People trying to get everyone to hunt the way they do, like complaining about others shooting 1.5 year old bucks even though that makes some people perfectly happy:D:D

2. Picking which stand to sit in or which property to hunt at. I swear when ever I am in one stand, I get pictures of big bucks on my game cameras at the others. It can drive a guy crazy, in fact, I think it is a conspiracy.

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Hunting Area 1 (State Forest) [ul][*]The two (sometimes more) hour drive through a construction area.[*]The high amount of hunters and hunting pressure.[*]The forestry fences can become troublesome if you're not familiar with where they are. It's a long walk to go around them. [/ul]
Hunting Area 2 (State Game Lands) [ul][*]The two (sometimes more) hour drive through a construction area.[*]The high amount of hunters and hunting pressure.[*]Major logging and oil well installation work being done the past couple seasons changes the deer patterns often.[*]Large fields with sapplings all around them, no treestand abilities.[/ul]
Hunting Area 2 (Military Base) [ul][*]Inability to plan out a good bowhunting routine due to hunting areas opening and closing randomly all year due to their military training schedule.[*]Possibility that sometimes everyone chooses the same hunting area and it gets crowded or that only one area is open that day forcing everyone to hunt the same small area.[*]Finding unexploded ordinance while hunting is never fun. [&:][*]"Earn A Buck" being only enforced on the bowhunters and not the firearm hunters on their land.[*]Risk in some areas if your deer runs into the neighboring area they will tell you that you cannot retrieve it and they wont' retrieve it for you. [:@]
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Hunting Area 3 (State Game Lands) [ul][*]The high amount of hunters and hunting pressure.[*]Small area to hunt in, not very much land. [/ul]

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I know some of you saw these picture already but hereare my biggest challenges. These belong in the hunting world of "priceless" pictures IMO

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LMAO...you should send that in to whoever makes your camera. Its so funny, he is looking at you and taking a crap in your corn. hahaha...that is just to good

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1st area:Public land so there are always lots of hooligans out there which i hate. Trees are so thick hard to get a shot at an animal standing in the trees. Very mountainous so hard to go for a a hike without losing a lung or two.

2nd area: flat prairie so very challenging to sneak up or stalk game, but that just adds to the sense of accomplishment when i bag an animal.

3rd area: Well no problems really, private land got about 10 sections of land to hunt, lots of different areas to hunt, can almost find every type of big game animal in Alberta there Moose, Elk, Mule and Whitetail deer, Black bear, Grizz, Wolf, Coyote, Wolverine, Big Horn(very very rare though), Cougar. Most area accessible with quad if we down an animal, got a cabin back in there that the rancher lets us stay at. Has easy walkin areas and some hard waklin areas but all worth the hike. And its only 1hr from my door step. Oh and not to mention amazing creek to fish that runs right threw it.