How to hunt pressured Whitetail's?
11-27-2007, 02:39 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,101
RE: How to hunt pressured Whitetail's?
These things come to mind:
1. Be the first to get there and last to leave. Don't use that last few minutes of daylight to head back to your truck. Use a flashlight for that. Hunt!
2. Utilize the other hunters. Try to set up where they'll move deer to you. That might mean getting in much earlier and going in a different way so all of those hunters that stopped in the parking lot drive deer to you.
3. Try to find a place that deer can escape pressure like a patch of cover that everyone ignores or a food source that's overlooked. Maybe there's a patch of land that nobody hunts, a swamp with a bit of dry land, an island, etc. Maybe you could create one yourself by not hunting a part of the land for a week--then setting up to nail deer that have taken refuge.
1. Be the first to get there and last to leave. Don't use that last few minutes of daylight to head back to your truck. Use a flashlight for that. Hunt!
2. Utilize the other hunters. Try to set up where they'll move deer to you. That might mean getting in much earlier and going in a different way so all of those hunters that stopped in the parking lot drive deer to you.
3. Try to find a place that deer can escape pressure like a patch of cover that everyone ignores or a food source that's overlooked. Maybe there's a patch of land that nobody hunts, a swamp with a bit of dry land, an island, etc. Maybe you could create one yourself by not hunting a part of the land for a week--then setting up to nail deer that have taken refuge.
11-28-2007, 06:54 AM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: MN USA
Posts: 1,489
RE: How to hunt pressured Whitetail's?
ORIGINAL: Father Forkhorn
Try to find a place that deer can escape pressure like a patch of cover that everyone ignores or a food source that's overlooked. Maybe there's a patch of land that nobody hunts, a swamp with a bit of dry land, an island, etc. Maybe you could create one yourself by not hunting a part of the land for a week--then setting up to nail deer that have taken refuge.
Try to find a place that deer can escape pressure like a patch of cover that everyone ignores or a food source that's overlooked. Maybe there's a patch of land that nobody hunts, a swamp with a bit of dry land, an island, etc. Maybe you could create one yourself by not hunting a part of the land for a week--then setting up to nail deer that have taken refuge.
11-28-2007, 08:24 AM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Finger Lakes, NY
Posts: 1,613
RE: How to hunt pressured Whitetail's?
20 acres is a mighty small patch of woods. I have a similar patch next to the house and I can tell you that some days there are a bunch of deer in there and the next day there is nothing. They must be going someplace else, as well. Find out where they are going and how they are getting there.
11-28-2007, 11:54 AM
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 362
RE: How to hunt pressured Whitetail's?
My buddy and I are having the same trouble. Great spots that normally have quite a bit of deer have dried up. But while driving out we must have seen 15-20 of them..all of course in non-huntable land. They are going SOMEWHERE. Like everyone has said. Go where you think WOULDN'T. The deer are feeling the pressure. It wouldn't hurt to scout down into those 20 acres and look for trails in and around. If no one is hunting there it shouldn't push them anywhere. Wait a few days then set up there. I did that in my back yard...I have about 3 acres and there is a long strip of state land..pretty much a valley. The deer are pushing into there. My wife saw an 8 point (at least) INSIDE our fence around 9 pm.What could hurt to try something different? If you are not seeing deer now in the normal areas you hunt...then what would change?