How do you rifle hunt?
 

Do you sit on stand?
Do you stalk around?
Do you stomp around and try to kick up deer?
Do you do drives?
Is it some sort of combo of the above?
I am going this weekend to an area I have never set foot in to rifle hunt this weekend. Not sure on the approach I will take.

Jim

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

I sit in a climber...sometimes I will sometimes stalk around. If I were you, I would just stalk around.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

I sit the first couple hours, then I still hunt/stalk till dark! By the time rifle season comes around I've spent too many hours bow hunting out of stand!! I get way more thrill out of stalking them than I do waiting for them!!! I've even started stalking with my bow!!! Now that's a challenge!!!

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

I guess I "still hunt". I walk to a spot where I havea decent view, call/rattle for an hour or so, then move on to the next spot. This works well for the main spot we hunt, because if we leave the van at legal time, then we get back around noonish. Then we usually just sit in the evenings.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

I will sit for 3-5 hours in the morning, push out a bedding areato some family members, and sit for 3-4 hours at night

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

During Rifle season I usually sit in a stand all day. Sometimes if conditions are right I will start on stand and then still hunt to 1 or 2 other stands.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

In the mornings I sit in the 30 foot high "tower stand" and usually in the evenings I'll sit either in one of my bow stands or at the water faucet which is a helluva spot.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

I sit in a stand almost 100% of the time, with the occasional walk down the logging roads, to me its all about the experience at camp, and gettin a deer is a bonus, so i sit in comfort in my deer stand and if im blessed enough to see some deer, then so be it, but if not, i dont let it bug me too much, i just like hangin with the guys and sometimes hangin some meat.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

I do it all except the sitting part i just find a nice tree or ridge line to sit on and just sit there and wait.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

I generally rifle hunt out of a shooting house.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

Some days i hunt from a stand till about 11 am than i still hunt till 2ish and work my way to another stand and stay there till dark.
Other days i'll spend all day in the stand.
And other days i'll grab a black or brown bucket and just sit somewhere where I can see over a creek bottom or some sort of clearing.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

down here we like to hunt from a pick up :D

dd

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

Sit along the edge of fields where the deer come and go at feeding time.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

I would say 90% of the time i still hunt, I think its most effective if you have a general idea of what your deer are doing, plus, where i hunt here in KY its pretty thick so its a very challenging situation, during the peak of the rut though i always still hunt, i like to try to stalk either the last week of gun season or during the late MZ season, alls fair and what works for one man doesnt always work for another, good luck,

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

My dad and i sit all opening weekend. I've shot way more deer this way without disturbing them than i do if i walk around.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

Way down here we hunt different for different species and different ground cover.We never use tree stands but will sit and glass more open faces in the mornings and evenings and stalk the thick stuff during the day.But then there is deffinately no shortage of venison in the hills.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

when we go to deer camp in WV we hunt in the stands til 10 or 11 then come down for lunch, and get back up arounf 1. or sit all day. then if we all still have tags left near the end of the week we start doing mid day drives thru the thickets and such.

when we hunt in MD on our friends property we sit in the stand pretty much all day because the guys all around us keep the deer moving all day. late in the week when not many guys hunt, then we start doing some drives again and push some deer out to those who havent filled a tag yet.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

We usually sit for the first and last 3-4 hours of the day. Then, between those times, it's lunch time and when we do deer drives in the thick shelterbelts, etc. Like this weekend, during the slwo times, we are actually taking a break to watch the Huskers play at A&M.

RE: How do you rifle hunt?
 

I do everything excypt Drives I dont find them fun takes no skill excypt to have a good shot when there running by