RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

sounds like courtesy to me.;)

RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

thanks, douge thinks i amsomeone that just got off bus.:)

the bucks that are left now in wmu2g are older and wiser.

they are also being hunted harder than in past because there are so few of them.

its tough, i have to change scents because if the buck is spooked at scent i have out, HE IS NOT COMING BACK ,AT LEAST NOT WITHOUT BE VERY CAUTIOUS.

so, i switch scents too, from code blue to tinks to whitetail inst etc.

i almost dont hunt the week before in-line and in-line week.

if i learn how to post pictures on here, i will show douge baby what hunting is like before that 2 week time and during the 2 week time on muzz thing in oct.

its like night and day and almost impossible to get a buck to show his colors in those 2 weeks.

RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

Hmm,I'm surrounded by hundreds of thousands of public land in the same WMU as you.I'm also within minutes of the largest population center in this part of the state.You would think that would mean people really stinkin up the woods and having the deer all run to Ohio.Not so Sproul baby.Years ago,especially back inthe 80's and early nineties,there were tons of small game hunters and turkey hunters in the fall woods.I used to have to adjust my tactics back in those days and take advantage of escape cover on the opening day of small game season.I can honestly say,In the last 10 years,I haven't run into one other hunter,inline or small game,during archery season.There is no doubt what so ever that we used to see far more pressure during small game season than we do now with inline hunters.On top of that,a deer does not recoginze whether someone was shooting at a deer or a grouse.Deer are being pressured much less today than in the past.Even during rifle season,it's rare to see someone in the woods after the second day.that didn't used to be the case.

RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

Why would you have to switch scents because of inlines?Surely you not trying to say that all those "doe" hunters are trying to lure in other does with doe in heat scent.

RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

you have your scent out.

the wiser buck gets wiff of a in-line hunter.:)

that buck is not coming back to that scent as easily as he did FIRST TIME.

so, you have to play with your scents.;)

why do you think someone will say,BOY SPROUL,THAT BUCK CAME RUNNING TO MY TINKS SCENT, I USED TO USE CODE BLUE ETC.

why, becasue he was not spooked on the tinks but was on code blue.;)

i won a few bass tournaments using things the REGULAR crowd was not using.

i would tell everyone what i used.

1 month later you could not catch a bass on that scent ,why, THE BASS ARE AS SMART AS OLD WISER BUCK BUT BOTH MAKE STUPID MISTAKES AT TIMES AND GET WACKED.

DOUGE, as you can see i know my deer hunting and what was and now what is.

i still learn a few things here from rsb,corny, bluebird,btb,rwj.

i even am going to DEER SCHOOL, yes, ole sproul is going to college:D:D:D.

april 4th at hyner,pa i will be learning why we have too many deer in wmu2g,isnt that a hoot.

RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

Personally, I don't use estrous svents any more. With so many using them, I firmly believe that the vast majority of mature bucks have learned to avoid them. That doesn't mean they wont work occasionally, butmy experience has been that it seems that most bucks older than 2.5 get very wary around most commercial scents.

RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

Why would you use doe estrous when youcan produceyour own a few days out of themonth btbuthunter?

Now your an expert on scents and alot of deer over 2.5 yrs.
How did you come up with this now? Now btbuthunter has expertise in the age of deer over 2.5yrs old. All this since the AR began how few a years ago? When did you notice the increase in the 2.5 and older bucks there btbuthunter? It couldn't of been more than what,3 years ago because from what you experts said there wasn't many 2.5 or older bucks around before AR? You became an expert in what,2 maybe2.5 years on 2.5+ bucks and scents they are use to smelling. What a joke some are on here. You must stay at the holiday inn quite a bit when your wife kicks you out for being a wanna be know it all. I am not surprised you would make up BS that you don't have a clue about.You been doing it for a while with the other pgc arse kissers on here for a while. Damage control squad is alive and well on this site.

RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

scorp,respectfully,btb is right on this.

we are just putting out too much scent in woods.;)

then when a hunter walks in or out and spook buck like the INLINE HUNTERS do:)that buck LEARNS to avoid that scent.

i seen it a lot LATELY do to all scents now used and hunters not staying downwind when moving thru woods to treestands etc.

if BTB is not correct, rest assured i will comment, but on this one, HE IS CORRECT.

i bet ole douge baby dont like btb comment also.

hehe:D

RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

Now if that was the case sproul. Wouldn't the AR program be a waiste of time and doe in heat etrous should be outlawed because the mature bucks wouldn't breed with the does and only the young and stupid ones would be visiting the does in heat? Think for a minute. No mature bucks coming to does ready to breed because they are scared of does in heat from scents? Only the young bucks will rush in and be the first to breed with the does while the older bucks seeds dies off from not breeding?

RE: Changes you would like for Hunting Season
 

Does your mommy know you're playing with her computer?

Yourposts are nothing short of imbecilic. You could indeed be the poster child for the USP.

You have no idea what you're talking about or who you're talking to. Although I have killed my share of bucks up to age 5.5 in PA, much of my experience with 3.5 and older bucks has been in states where bucks have a chance to get that old.

Why don't you go ahead and dazzle us with some of your knowledge of mature whitetails bucks LOL LOL!