iowabob85

Been there done that but I do like mobow does and wait. Heck I did it one day and be4 I could even get my bow pulled up I had deer walking by me. But it is better than walking all over and disturbing the whole timber. Heck one day it was really foggy and I was going to sit in stand and much too my surprise when I got too the stand I look up and low and behold Antler Eater is sitting there laughing at me. I told him I was going to just go home and he talked me into sitting in a new stand we had set up, we both shot bucks that a.m. and mine was my biggest buck to date.

nodog

Sweet!

DaveH

I had it happen to me once early on in my hunting years and I learned to use reflective tacks and even counted steps in certain places. I also had a opening day hunt ruined by some other hunter that came in just before sunrise unable to find his stand who walked all over the place loudly and then yelled to me when I made my presence known asking me if I had seen his stand which he placed the night before! After sunrise, I did see his stand in a tree about 5 yards from mine -- and my stand had been in place for most of the week!

I will admit to losing my way in the dark earlier this week though. It was EXTREEMLY FOGGY and I was walking across my own yard in the dark. My headlamp did no good and I ended up temporarily trying to figure out where I was in my own yard!