bedroom hunters
12-05-2008 | 01:36 PM
#12
Typical Buck
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From: Central Illinois
RE: bedroom hunters
ORIGINAL: stikbow26
Roll the dice what is there to lose with a week and half left!!! We move right on top of them but remember that wind it will kill you faster than noise any day by a bedding area!!Walt
Roll the dice what is there to lose with a week and half left!!! We move right on top of them but remember that wind it will kill you faster than noise any day by a bedding area!!Walt
12-05-2008 | 01:40 PM
#13
Banned
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From: IOWA/25' UP
RE: bedroom hunters
ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
I've never been one for screwing with a big bucks bedroom. However there are a few different areas where I KNOW there are some quality bucks bedding. I've been hunting staging areas just off food sources lately in the PM hoping to get them showing themselves just before dark. Last night I saw a shooter the last 10 minutes of light on the other side of an alfalfa field I was hunting. Week and a half left. Do you take the chance of creeping in deeper to where he is and risk bumping him out of there? Or do you ride it out and hope he slips up and comes out earlier?
I've never been one for screwing with a big bucks bedroom. However there are a few different areas where I KNOW there are some quality bucks bedding. I've been hunting staging areas just off food sources lately in the PM hoping to get them showing themselves just before dark. Last night I saw a shooter the last 10 minutes of light on the other side of an alfalfa field I was hunting. Week and a half left. Do you take the chance of creeping in deeper to where he is and risk bumping him out of there? Or do you ride it out and hope he slips up and comes out earlier?
12-05-2008 | 01:43 PM
#14
Dominant Buck
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From: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
RE: bedroom hunters
ORIGINAL: hardcorehunter
Man...you got a one track mind. This is a family site.
ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
I've never been one for screwing with a big bucks bedroom. However there are a few different areas where I KNOW there are some quality bucks bedding. I've been hunting staging areas just off food sources lately in the PM hoping to get them showing themselves just before dark. Last night I saw a shooter the last 10 minutes of light on the other side of an alfalfa field I was hunting. Week and a half left. Do you take the chance of creeping in deeper to where he is and risk bumping him out of there? Or do you ride it out and hope he slips up and comes out earlier?
I've never been one for screwing with a big bucks bedroom. However there are a few different areas where I KNOW there are some quality bucks bedding. I've been hunting staging areas just off food sources lately in the PM hoping to get them showing themselves just before dark. Last night I saw a shooter the last 10 minutes of light on the other side of an alfalfa field I was hunting. Week and a half left. Do you take the chance of creeping in deeper to where he is and risk bumping him out of there? Or do you ride it out and hope he slips up and comes out earlier?
12-05-2008 | 03:15 PM
#15
Typical Buck
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RE: bedroom hunters
ORIGINAL: MN/Kyle
This makes perfect sense to me.
I have a question. How do you know where a big buck is bedding? Seeing him? Trail Camera? I've NEVER been able to find a place where I think a buck is bedding? I don't think?
ORIGINAL: IAhuntr
If you are going to invade his core and risk it all, then I'd go for broke and go in and set-upduring the pitch black early a.m. and wait for him to return from his nightly rounds. If he comes back before sun-up, which is quite likely post-rut, you can stir him from his bed once daylight comeswith some extra-light grunting to make him think another buck has crossed the line and has entered his domain.
If you are going to invade his core and risk it all, then I'd go for broke and go in and set-upduring the pitch black early a.m. and wait for him to return from his nightly rounds. If he comes back before sun-up, which is quite likely post-rut, you can stir him from his bed once daylight comeswith some extra-light grunting to make him think another buck has crossed the line and has entered his domain.
I have a question. How do you know where a big buck is bedding? Seeing him? Trail Camera? I've NEVER been able to find a place where I think a buck is bedding? I don't think?
As has been highlighted already, use extreme caution and wait for the ideal conditions to pull of thistype ofhunt as once he identifies a human has invaded the area, the gig is usually up.
12-05-2008 | 03:47 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
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From: Milwaukee WI
RE: bedroom hunters
ORIGINAL: burniegoeasily
Lol. Now thats some reading between the lines. Shame on you NY for putting in all those subliminal messages.
ORIGINAL: hardcorehunter
Man...you got a one track mind. This is a family site.
ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
I've never been one for screwing with a big bucks bedroom. However there are a few different areas where I KNOW there are some quality bucks bedding. I've been hunting staging areas just off food sources lately in the PM hoping to get them showing themselves just before dark. Last night I saw a shooter the last 10 minutes of light on the other side of an alfalfa field I was hunting. Week and a half left. Do you take the chance of creeping in deeper to where he is and risk bumping him out of there? Or do you ride it out and hope he slips up and comes out earlier?
I've never been one for screwing with a big bucks bedroom. However there are a few different areas where I KNOW there are some quality bucks bedding. I've been hunting staging areas just off food sources lately in the PM hoping to get them showing themselves just before dark. Last night I saw a shooter the last 10 minutes of light on the other side of an alfalfa field I was hunting. Week and a half left. Do you take the chance of creeping in deeper to where he is and risk bumping him out of there? Or do you ride it out and hope he slips up and comes out earlier?
ORIGINAL: GregH
I like to start out slow and work my way in slowly. I may have to move 3-4 times before I get into position for a shot.
I like to start out slow and work my way in slowly. I may have to move 3-4 times before I get into position for a shot.
12-05-2008 | 04:51 PM
#17
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Southeast, Va
RE: bedroom hunters
I often hunt dangerously close to bedrooms...last year it paid off twice with two fine bucks...I mean close....as in 20-40 yds from the outer edge...never have really had success going into the bedroom, Im ooking at trails as they disappear into the thicket..it sometimes causes me not to see them and never see them again..
12-05-2008 | 08:58 PM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Minnesota
RE: bedroom hunters
ORIGINAL: IAhuntr
Scouting. When you see the general area he is coming from at nightand returning to in the morning, find his bed not by trails, but by rubs. Rub lines can help discover his travel route, but big bucks tend to surround their bed with rubs. Not rubs in a line, but the perimeter of the thicket or saplings they are bedding in. You can usually see the spot they've been laying in. They tend to bed in the same exact spot more sothan does, who will have multiple beds within a wider general bedding area. Once you find that spot, hang a stand about 20-30yards down wind, yet off to the opposite side of where you expect them to return from and you'll be set. You can get an indication of which way they are coming and going from based which sidethe tree their rubs are on. It can be difficult to find their bed, but with careful scouting early season, they follow a pretty strict routine.
As has been highlighted already, use extreme caution and wait for the ideal conditions to pull of thistype ofhunt as once he identifies a human has invaded the area, the gig is usually up.
ORIGINAL: MN/Kyle
This makes perfect sense to me.
I have a question. How do you know where a big buck is bedding? Seeing him? Trail Camera? I've NEVER been able to find a place where I think a buck is bedding? I don't think?
ORIGINAL: IAhuntr
If you are going to invade his core and risk it all, then I'd go for broke and go in and set-upduring the pitch black early a.m. and wait for him to return from his nightly rounds. If he comes back before sun-up, which is quite likely post-rut, you can stir him from his bed once daylight comeswith some extra-light grunting to make him think another buck has crossed the line and has entered his domain.
If you are going to invade his core and risk it all, then I'd go for broke and go in and set-upduring the pitch black early a.m. and wait for him to return from his nightly rounds. If he comes back before sun-up, which is quite likely post-rut, you can stir him from his bed once daylight comeswith some extra-light grunting to make him think another buck has crossed the line and has entered his domain.
I have a question. How do you know where a big buck is bedding? Seeing him? Trail Camera? I've NEVER been able to find a place where I think a buck is bedding? I don't think?
As has been highlighted already, use extreme caution and wait for the ideal conditions to pull of thistype ofhunt as once he identifies a human has invaded the area, the gig is usually up.
Thanks for that!
12-05-2008 | 09:03 PM
#19
Dominant Buck
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Blossvale, New York
RE: bedroom hunters
I've always stayed out of such areas. I prefer to creep in if I can but really don't like to mess it up. When the end of the season is near and I really don't care, I'll try to find a day with the right winds, weather and time to go for broke. I consider it that because if you get busted, the gig is up for that year.
12-06-2008 | 08:37 AM
#20
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Boone & Crockett
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RE: bedroom hunters
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ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
I've never been one for screwing with a big bucks bedroom. However there are a few different areas where I KNOW there are some quality bucks bedding. I've been hunting staging areas just off food sources lately in the PM hoping to get them showing themselves just before dark. Last night I saw a shooter the last 10 minutes of light on the other side of an alfalfa field I was hunting. Week and a half left. Do you take the chance of creeping in deeper to where he is and risk bumping him out of there? Or do you ride it out and hope he slips up and comes out earlier?
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Man...you got a one track mind. This is a family site.
ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
I've never been one for screwing with a big bucks bedroom. However there are a few different areas where I KNOW there are some quality bucks bedding. I've been hunting staging areas just off food sources lately in the PM hoping to get them showing themselves just before dark. Last night I saw a shooter the last 10 minutes of light on the other side of an alfalfa field I was hunting. Week and a half left. Do you take the chance of creeping in deeper to where he is and risk bumping him out of there? Or do you ride it out and hope he slips up and comes out earlier?
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Man...you got a one track mind. This is a family site.
LOL HCHwhat can I say? A lot of time spent on stand and away from home this time of year. Deer arent' the only thing on my mind these days.[8D]
Bad wind for the bedroom tactic today. I'm waiting for a light NW wind and going for it. I'm just trying to figure out a way to teleport to a tree.