Did you ever have a spot that went completely cold?
 

One spot over on the other side of the farm was excellent. On the firstday of archery season, I saw 14 deer the first morning and evening. Every 30-60 minutes I had activity. There was a house being built (only footing dug) about 150 yards from my stand. Once the framing started the spot shut down, no deer. I figured they would just come at different times so I put a trail cam in again and no deer for weeks, constant hammering and noise must have caused this. At the same time about 200 yards away a neighbor put up a fence and got some yappy dogs, they bark when everI get 100 yards from the fence.After 2 months and no pictures on the cam I pulled the stand all together. I had high hopes for that spot.

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Some of my BEST spots at certain times of the season will be completely cold at other times throughout the season. Where I hunt in Sept. is completely different from where I hunt, now.....and I hunt relatively small parcels.

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Had two go cold,one I cut bunch of limbs out of a Cedar Tree,I think that run them out of the area.Then put Fertilizer on fields didn't work it in,think they didn't like getting it in their nose.

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Yea I had a house go up in one of my spots this year. Went from 25-30 deer in the field every evening to maybe seeing 1-2 deep in the woods. Nothing in the fields during daylight hours. They were still there as evidenced from the fresh tracks & droppings, just not moving during light.

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Many times!!

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I have spots that most people would give up on because you hardly ever see anything, but they kind of dothe opposite and "warm up". So my spots, like the ones you are talking about that go cold do go cold, I move to the spots that I usually dont see anything because I believe deer have seasonal patterns that are freaking hard to figure out.

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Every year, my best spot goes dead by the end of the second day of shotgun season. It was awesome during bow season, but they are all nocturnal now. I still see them in the field at night, but nothing during daylight.

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Yes and no. My good spots will go cold but then heat up again. It depends on way to many factors for me to try to figure out.

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Yes, especially after I've been busted a couple of times!

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They opened one gate on the military base I hunt and a hotspot went dead in less than 4 weeks. I used to ride my bike in with my buddy for over 1 mile, then hike in a 1/2 mile to a remote bedding area...he actually saw bucks, 13 straight sits in the woods..it was unreal. This year, the sign is there, but both of us have really seen only 1 nice buck...not sure when those deer are moving b/c the huge rubs are there but they are nowhere to be seen.

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Well my little honey hole is pretty dead minus a few nice does, thier fawns, and a few small bucks and does until the end of october. Then last year, toward the end of november it seemed like it was frigid. This year was cold compared to last year too.

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YUP, had the same type of deal happen. We called the place the petting zoo. You were always going to see deer. It was a monestary. Well they decided to build a barn/utility/store the tractors shed in this one strip of woods that saw lots of traffic. Mind you this was only a small percentage of the woods but it led to all sections. The day they poured the floors the woods went dead. They had crews in there doing stuff and all that, but the woods several hundred yards away went dead over night. Hunting became harder. We figured it would get back to normal the next year. NOT A strange deal for sure. The deer started traveling the open field we couldn't hunt right up against a neighborhood of yuppie houses. For years they had traveled the corridor.

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As soon as the orange army shows up with their dogs all my spots go frigid.

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yep, had a spot on a buddy's farm that i had picked out and said we shouldn't hunt it until the pre-rut and rut period, well he hunted it failry recklessly in the early season. I decided, seeing how it wasa natural funnel anyway, to see if it would produce during the prerut and rut and noticed upon 3 sits that they were avoiding me by about 75 yards! so i set in a treestand that we had near the point of this funnelling draw and on the 14th of november shot a monster 11 pointer that is my best buck yet!! if a spot goes cold.....the best bet is to find out, by scouting, where/how they are avoiding that area and set up there, might be a great tactic for ya!