deer to far to shoot
 

I hunt in ohio in early bow season for whitetail and i cant quite get them in bow range and i dont want to more for disturbence reasons. any suggestion on how to draw them closer???

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Say hear deer hear deer come here come here

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So that's where they got the name for that new product Come-Mere-Deer.

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Food plots.
I have used Imperial No-Plow clover at some of my stands and it works well. All you need is a rake, some miracle grow and water every so often until it gets going. You can start planting about a month before season and it should be ready about the time you're ready to hunt. If you can get a tiller to your spot in the Summer, Mossy Oak Biologic works great.

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I would try and move my stand a few yards closer to the trails their using! Just a thought!:)

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I agree that if your able to move closer than do it .I also agree that if you put in a small food plot it's another great way to get the deer to come to you ,but I guess you'll have to wait till next season to get any result's with it .But again if you move too close you might just scare them off ,so i'd move half way from where the deer are entering and go from there .


nubo

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Decoy and scent might help. May want to try some baiting at this time of the year too since a food plot is out of the question till 2005.

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The above posts are good suggestions for trying to attract them to you. Have you tried a grunt call? I personally don't have much luck but I keep trying, and on TV they grunt them in all the time;)

I would also focus on some bowhunting basics, assuming you are using a tree stand:
- choose a stand location near an active trail, in a bottleneck, or in a transition area
- quiet entry to your stand and also during the climb, pulling bow up, etc.
- sit still and quiet the entire time
- pick a tree with cover
- scent control, scent control, scent control

Many of us serious hunters take these for granted but some people don't. I brought a buddy with me several times a few years ago and he couldn't get a deer close even in some of my best spots. One afternoon we sat only a few hundred yards apart, I saw 14 deer and had a 4 1/2 yr. old buck come withing 35 yards of me. After dark we met up and he saw nothing! This happened time after time so either his scent was all over the woods or maybe he was break dancing while on stand! I even wondered if his eye sight was poor because he never saw deer in an area that I see deer almost every day I hunt. He has lasik surgery and said his vision was fine, I still am baffled.