How many hours in the stand with no deer (this year)??
#12
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Schenectady, NY
Posts: 249
RE: How many hours in the stand with no deer (this year)??
only about 40 hours...its hard i can only hunt when i get home from college on break. i have seen lots of does, only 1 4" spikey. have not seen anything i wanted to shoot.
#13
RE: How many hours in the stand with no deer (this year)??
I spent six days in the trees without seeing anything. Then I saw a few does and finally a nice buck presented itself and I got him. Spent alot more time in the woods trying to find a nice doe. I logged a lot of time this year but didn't keep track of hours. Saw lots of little deer, and a few small bucks but didn't shoot.
I always tell my son...try to enjoy the experience, if you do it because you want to shoot, well try the 3D target in the yard.
I always tell my son...try to enjoy the experience, if you do it because you want to shoot, well try the 3D target in the yard.
#15
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Posts: 68
RE: How many hours in the stand with no deer (this year)??
Bout 200 hrs.Saw my buck 3 times ,not a clear shot .Did not shoot the few yrlings I saw and let a big,big doe walk because I new my buck was behind her.Today I did 3 hrs.,driving snow 20 degrees got out of my blind cause I felt it was gonna blow over with me in it and not a track! That's hunting!
tonight's the night,
lizzzard
tonight's the night,
lizzzard
#16
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 716
RE: How many hours in the stand with no deer (this year)??
ORIGINAL: Jack Ryan
Just the fact this thread even exists speak monumentous volumes on just how much deer hunting has impoved over the last 20 years.
HOURS!
ROTFLMAO!
LOLOLOLOL!
Just the fact this thread even exists speak monumentous volumes on just how much deer hunting has impoved over the last 20 years.
HOURS!
ROTFLMAO!
LOLOLOLOL!
Seems to me that since our hour measurements are all the way up into the 3 digits that it's not so different. You act tho we'd said we'd gone 4 hours or something...
#17
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 276
RE: How many hours in the stand with no deer (this year)??
ORIGINAL: JoshKeller
Longest I've gone this year without seeing a deer has been 4 hours. But it has been a good year with all the mast.
Longest I've gone this year without seeing a deer has been 4 hours. But it has been a good year with all the mast.
Me? I've clocked in about 60 hours since November without a single arrow flying. I did see a 120ish class buck and a group of does but that was it. Since then it has been 50 hrs.
#18
RE: How many hours in the stand with no deer (this year)??
About 50 hours and I have seen three does, all out of bow range. I moved to Texas this summer and the hunting is a lot different that what I'm used to so I haven't figured it out yet. The area I'm in does not have a lot of deer by Texas standards and they seem to be concentrated in certain areas. Unfortuneately the places I have permission don't seem to be those areas. Hoping to do better next year.
#20
RE: How many hours in the stand with no deer (this year)??
Well !I've gone over 70 hrs and no deer either for bowhunting,I've had lot's of chance's at smaller buck's early in the season but was holding out for the right one .I continue to have lot's of doe's and fawn's close ,but I'm not interested in them since, I've already got 2 deer in the freezer from the rifle hunt .Even if a smaller buck show's now I guess I'll have to take him since the season is almost over .
nubo
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