What are you?
 

OK well we seem to like these threads this time of year..

Are you a hunter or a waiter?

My definitions:

Hunter:
Hunt multiple areas, do the scouting and stand placement yourself, try and figure out the details yourself. Move to different areas when the details indicate it's your best move. Use interception, travel tactics primarily.

Waiter:
Pretty much going to the same area, and see what shows up. It could be a planted field or food plot, afeeder, an outfitted hunt. Use destination food source tactics primarily.

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I've always been a hunter. I'm always looking for new spots and when I see the deer in a field I'm pouring over maps trying to figure out where they are coming from, what terrain features are directing them, and so on. I like that part of it more than the waiting part.

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This weekend I'm a waiter. My younger cousin is coming to NC from SC to hunt with me. I'm going to try and get him on his first deer ever...gun or bow...and he'll be using his bow!

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I hunt a new spot every year. Don't have the luxury of waiting around.

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It depends on what time of year it is. I get aggressive (hunter)when I think I can. Other times....I think this tactic can hurt my hunting.

So.....I can't answer it one way. I am both.

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This year I am not any of them:D

I have waited and not got anything
I have hunted and not got anything

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Cant aswer that one, you need a both catagory. Sometimes I set in a tree, others I still hunt. This year I took a buck setting in a blind and another still hunting along the river.

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Fellas The poll says primarily....I'm not cornering you. Your saying both so your exactly 50/50 ??

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I love hunting new land, hunt three counties with alot of different properties.

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I would have to agree with Burnie. I would be a mix depending on the time of the season.

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All depends on what the opportunity gives me. Im an opportunist. If the weather is right for stalking, im moving. If its not, im setting. Sometimes both. Setting and glassing, and if I see a deer moving in the distance, ill flank it.

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Trick question GR8!! Im a hunter when it comes to killing Deer.

I am however a "waiter" while shopping with my wife lol

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Depends. I'm definitely 50/50. If I'm hunting does I'm a waiter. Come the 3rd week of October I'm a hunter from there on out and I'm looking for horns till my tags full, or the fat lady sings.......which ever comes first.

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You're right, GR8....it does say "primarily". I agree with Matt......but I actually have no destination spots to hunt.....unless it's the short window we have here when they're on the acorns HARD.

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100% hunter no dought, what else is there[8D]

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I'm a waiter. I like to wait around and have good bucks fall in my lap!;)

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Rarely hunt the same tree. Maybe hunt a good one next year a time or two.... but I move alot.

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OK I can see I should have called them option 1 and option 2..

I'm not implying that only 1 is a hunter.. Per-say

I was more interested in tactic!

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What to you call hunting funnels and staging areas?

Hell I don't mind admitting I'm a "waiter" if that's what you wanna call hunting those spots!:D

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The funny thing is they always seem to find your lap.;)

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I'm a hunter if you want to call it that. I go where the action is. I put 8 to 9 stands up on my 160 acres and what doesn't work in one spot i'll then go to the next and give that a try, depends on wind and sign obviously when picking my spots.

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Both.

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I'm a little bit of both I guess. I don't fit your definition of a "hunter" in that I don't move locations a lot because I simply don't have that many options. That doesn't mean that I don't scout and do my homework for the limited places I can hunt though.

If you were going to classify hunters into categories I would say that any of us that use tree stands or blinds are are "waiters" in the sense that we set up and wait to ambush deer. Where as a true "hunter" would spot and stalk them, sneaking up on the ground to see how close they can get before taking the shot.

In that sense I am for sure a waiter, I have no problem admitting I am no where near a good enough hunter to spot and stalk deer, especially with a bow. I did shoot one off the ground before, but it was a chance thing and I think it was a VERY stupid doe.

Paul

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Like many, I do what ever looks like it has the best chance of success. Have probably spent more hours in the woods as a "waiter"; but the times I have made the spot/stalk thing work were more rewarding personally.

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By your definitions - neither.

I'm a stillhunter / tracker / stalker / drive hunter. I almost never use stands. To me hunting is an active rather than a passive sport.

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cant stand just sitting around have to move makes me feel like i tried if i didnt get anything

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Ain't that weird!!??

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what am I? I am going hunting ........SEEE YAAAAAAAA !

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Don't forget , I own you and you will "wait" if I say so. BAM!

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Used to be a hunter but now myailments have turned me into a waiter.

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i also need a both choice i stalked the area scouted it out hung my own stand but it was my only site i just sit there and waited but if i had a blind or multible stands i would have moved aroudi did not get a deer there but took two shots and missed

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I'm kind of both, but more of a waiter due to only having one 500 acre public plot to hunt. I try to preselect 3 spots based on wind direction, food/water source, and human pressure. I have to place my own stand due to regulations and I scout on often. So, I guess I'm more on the hunter side. However, when there are 12+ people hunting the same area, then I become a waiter for them to push the deer to me.


Chris

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I hunt more than wait! I hunt all kinds of areas, the bigger the woods the better!

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This year more than before , I was a hunter. In years prior , I usually put stands up before the season. Say 4 or 5 and hunt them in rotation and if the wind dictates.
This year, possibly because the primary area I hunted was new , I put up 4 hang-ons AND used my climber asI scouted during the season. I jumped to the freshest sign I could find. As a result I saw 10x's the deer I usually do in a season. I was always told NOT to scout during the season for fear of educating the deer. I found this to be false. All the in-season scouting was done at midday hours and as scent-free as possible.
I'll use this type of hunting for the 2nd archery season starting Dec. 26th and I think it will work much better w/ the snow that's on the ground.

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Great reply. I voted hunter, but mainly because you need to be a hunter in order to be a waiter sometimes.

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Hunter because whenI go out im not gonna pay someone to take me and show me what to do, I also try till i succeed so.

Ryan.

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Hunter..........;)

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I’m a hunter now. I was taught to be a waiter when I first started. “If you sit in the same spot long enough, eventually one will come by” is what my dad would say. I’ve spent entire seasons hunting out of one single tree. Thank fully I was WAY too impatient for that reasoning to last very long.