POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
07-23-2004 | 01:15 PM
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RE: POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
#6 cuz If your not in the tree you think is so damn good, it won't help you a bit.
LOL..........good point..................lol..............
07-23-2004 | 01:17 PM
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RE: POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
I doubt anyone is willing to pay very much for any of these
2. 10+ years of experience
3. Scent Control, including the wind
4. Knowledge of Hunting Area
5. Time spent scouting
2. 10+ years of experience
3. Scent Control, including the wind
4. Knowledge of Hunting Area
5. Time spent scouting
Take an average hunter..........not Chuck Adams but not a clueless tard either. Put him in the heavily driven, over hunted, beat down public lands and he will win the lottery before taking a mature buck.
Put that same hunter on a privately owned farm that gets minimal if any hunting pressure and has abundant food sources and good deer numbers and all he has to do is not miss. He will have a wall full of nice bucks.
Put that same hunter on a privately owned farm that gets minimal if any hunting pressure and has abundant food sources and good deer numbers and all he has to do is not miss. He will have a wall full of nice bucks.
07-23-2004 | 01:25 PM
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RE: POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
Who the hell is dumb enough to hunt the wrong area every day for 10 years!?
I don't mean one tree for ten years
And 100 days in the rong spots is not batting a good average!
And I'm all for the handfull of days in the right spot but come on! Isn't all of our stands in the right spot, otherwize why would we have hung them
STAND LOCATION
07-23-2004 | 01:33 PM
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RE: POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
What % of stands out there right now have a real solid chance of seing a good buck during light? - I bet very low.
07-23-2004 | 01:37 PM
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RE: POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
All the more reason to be in your stands as much as possible until you either put the pieces together and or score.
When I was a kid I fished in a puddle in the road infront of my house for years - sometimes all day............
never cought a thing because I think I had the wrong color lure on...........
07-23-2004 | 01:49 PM
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RE: POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
ORIGINAL: Rack-attack
knowledge of the woods alone is of no help IMO. I can know where every tree, trail, rub and scrape are - still doesn't mean I will set up in the right spot. The reason we as hunters want knowledge of the woods is so WE CAN SETUP in the RIGHT LOCATION....thats why Stand Location is #1 for me.
knowledge of the woods alone is of no help IMO. I can know where every tree, trail, rub and scrape are - still doesn't mean I will set up in the right spot. The reason we as hunters want knowledge of the woods is so WE CAN SETUP in the RIGHT LOCATION....thats why Stand Location is #1 for me.
Same thing with scouting - its important but...you can spend everyday scouting and still not set up correct. And again the reason we scout is so we CAN SETUP in the RIGHT LOCATION.
Scent and wind? - You could hunt and be completely scent free - and if a big buck aint comming under you - he still won't come under you - If your stand is in the wrong spot. But you can stink like a horses A[
][] and still have a good chance IF your stand is in a tree that a big buck is walking under that day. Got a better than 50% chance he will be upwind of you.
][] and still have a good chance IF your stand is in a tree that a big buck is walking under that day. Got a better than 50% chance he will be upwind of you.
Time in the stand......If it aint in the right area you can hunt every day for 10 yrs and it wont help. Give me a handfull of days in the right spot over 100 days in the wrong spot - any day of the week.
To sum it up - you can do every other thing 100% correct - and if you have not stuck yourself in a tree that a mature deer is going to walk under - you will not get him.
I just see all the other categories as cyclical. They are all dependant on each other in some way, shape or form. None does you much good without the others.........none stand out to me as a difference maker on their own.
Put me (and only me) in a sweet ol' food plot where big boys like to nibble and chase does and I'll take my chances with all the other stuff
07-23-2004 | 01:49 PM
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RE: POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
ORIGINAL: Rack-attack
When I was a kid I fished in a puddle in the road infront of my house for years - sometimes all day............
never cought a thing because I think I had the wrong color lure on...........
When I was a kid I fished in a puddle in the road infront of my house for years - sometimes all day............
never cought a thing because I think I had the wrong color lure on...........
07-23-2004 | 01:52 PM
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RE: POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
When I was a kid I fished........
I guess we shale agree to disagree.
07-23-2004 | 01:52 PM
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RE: POLL: Key factor to consistent success on MATURE bucks
All the more reason to be in your stands as much as possible until you either put the pieces together and or score.