how do you hunt
 

the thread that albertianhuntress posted got me wonderin what its like and how do you do it where you live. some ppl hunt food plots or over bait some are stump setters and then there are the trackers. here in maine we have the setters and the trackers. im a tracker when we have snow or rain. if its dry or bare ground we hunt a little differently. i guess you could call it drivin deer but its a little dif. up to camp its wild country w/ big mounts and even bigger swamps that have swallowed ppl before now. basically my family has hunted up there since the 1920's so we kinda know what saddles the bucks head for when you get them started. just me and my ol man go up now cuz the other boys dont like the big woods. usually he huntshis way up intoone of the saddles and gets set down and i (cuz im younger) go on a walkabout. might take three or four times around the mountain but usually ill jump somethin and either stop him on his way out or make some noise and not hit nothin:Dthese bucks seem to head for thee saddles when they cross from one mountain to another. it has paid off on bare ground for us quit a bit. my father has won the deer pool up there 3 out of the last five years this way. the country is wild. ledge broken rock poplar whips from old clear cuts then into the nastiest cedar swamp. those suckers are a little creepy. a scoped rifle does no good really. its alot like onterio from what i understand.

anyways i thought it would be cool to see how wide spread the tactic and terrainin this room were

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food plots, funnels, and heavily used trails here in mo for us

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bait sites, food sources, some trails, and drives

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For bow- travel routes

for rifle- still hunting, food sources, drives

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where in pa are ya? i shot my first 7 deer w/ a bow in honesdale penn. ihad never seen so many deer in a day inmy life. it was nothin to see 60/70 deer a day. it was really cool

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I find a comfy tree near an area where they walk through or are naturally funneled and i sit up against the tree till about noon. Go grab a sammich, and back out by 1:30 and sit till legal shooting hours are over.

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i try to sit sometimes but i cant. my sister likes too though. there just somethin about tracking that i love. you dont know where you might end up, theres a buck in front of you all day and its fun never knowing when or how the shot is going to happen

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sittin all day over funnels,bottlenecks,food plots,saddles,converging hubs, and points on ridges.we also do drives and track from time to time

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those are all funnels:D

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(shhhh ...i know, but using big words makes me sound smart lol)

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Who you trying to impress? We already know the truth about you, theres no fooling us[8D]

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i sit in a tree all day! i got a set up that intersects 2 game trails. sit and wait! i like the not knowing if im going to see anything or if i will see a dozen! where they will come from and if they can smell me. but i only really track after i hit one! if they run out of sight.

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I swing both aways I'd say, I've never used lures, decoysor anything, But just sitting a waiting is good some days other it's nice to search for it.
I also never reolized how little I knew tillI camehere, therefore if anyone ever wants to give me some tid bits feel free.
Can't wait to learn.

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best advise i can give, is to read these boards! for whatever it is you are interested in hunting! you will pick up tons of advise and strategies and ask questions when you got them! these are all knowlegable ppl on here!

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Yeah, i mean before i joined this board, i never shot a deer, but the first year i'm on here i brought one down. Apparently pointing the gun at them and yelling bang real loud doesn't work, you apparently have to pull the trigger:D

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Yea he probably finds a tree sits down falls asleep till noon then goes back out 1:30 finds a tree and falls back to sleep till dark.

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We hunt food sources, funnels, sit, drive, and I hunt in my tree stand.

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huntress i dont think your the only one that swings both ways. AH does too hahaha

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for deer
down south at my house(niagara falls) i hunt from a stand, bait with corn, apples, quinces, etc. with my crossbow.
up north i use a .44mag rifle no baiting, i have a big rock that i sit on, the rock is probably the sizeof a decent house, and i have a few good shooting lanes and i just hunt that.

turkey
sit on the ground near my house, use a jake and hen decoy, set up a blind, and use my crossbow

-CC

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im disapointed in you. i figured you laced up you hunting boots and grabbed a staeak knife and chased a buck through the bushes only to tackle him by the horns andslit his throat hahaha

whats your 44 mag? ruger?

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lol thats how i got my deer a couple years ago lol j/k

yuppers

-CC

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is it the old style w/ a tube fed magazine or the new style w/ a clip sry lol dont get me talkin about guns

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no clips, there is a magazine, but you feed it from the chamber. its a semi-auto if thats helps,

-CC

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yep thats what im talkin about. the first models they are way better in my opinion. the only thing i didnt like about it but i deal w/ it is unloading them you have to jack each bullet individually. oh yea i have one of dem der rugers too:D

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what do you mean after unloading you have to jack each bullet individually?

-CC

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well when you load it you push one shell at a time into a magzine just ahead of the trigger gaurd on the under side of the gun w/ correct?! then when you unload it you dont just pop a clip out you have to eject each individual shell make sense to ya now frenchie?!!:D

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Shh your the only one that is supposed to know that[:@][:'(][:@]:D

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She's just being modest I've seen her take a machete to the bush and go hog wild ;)lol

Isn't that right Leah lol

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I wish i could be like Leah [&o]

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Lmao!!
Don't we all.

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Its not fair at ALL!!! Some people get all the breaks!!! :(

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ha ha ha true enough

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You need to post more, you only have 14 posts....

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AH some of us have lives that dont revolve around HNI so give the kid a break

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Ya AH, give her a break! ...... wait im more like AH! get them posts up girl! your fitting right in with us!:D

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*conforms* oh wow im a shooter buck now! i remember trying for forked horn lol

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that mean we can shoots ya now?;)

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We could shoot him before that, but he wasn't worth wasting a bullet over, ammo is expensive;):D:)[8D][8D][8D]:D

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Yay my avatar works!!!!!!!!!!!

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depends on what we are shooting! plus one bullet isnt to bad is it?