2020 Live from the Stand
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To a point...I read they can see shades of blue...good luck!
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I ended up seeing 3 bucks and 8 does this morning but the great news is I had a photo of my target just before the crack of dawn this morning...it appears I actually passed by him in the dark this morning along my raked trail without spooking him...getting close to being killable! Here is a couple photos of one of the small bucks that passed this morning...
Scrapes are opening up like crazy right now!
I am back on stand and since the wind has changed I had to stay up front at the south plot...here is a scrape I noticed when getting in this tree...
My forward views this evening...
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Scrapes are opening up like crazy right now!
I am back on stand and since the wind has changed I had to stay up front at the south plot...here is a scrape I noticed when getting in this tree...
My forward views this evening...
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weekender21
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Not so live but the first time I have enough cell service to upload. Shot this gal at 12 yards, another ridge scrape pays off. Headed back to the coast tonight.
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Not so live but the first time I have enough cell service to upload. Shot this gal at 12 yards, another ridge scrape pays off. Headed back to the coast tonight.
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Congratulations! Looks like a really big old nanny!
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Drycreek
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Not so live but the first time I have enough cell service to upload. Shot this gal at 12 yards, another ridge scrape pays off. Headed back to the coast tonight.
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She looks like a biggun !
I saw nothing this evening...my wife said she was trying to get on a buck in the backyard but couldn’t see it well enough to tell if it was a shooter.
This morning I missed him by just a couple of minutes. I sat a stand about 15 minutes past where he was...
He gained a lot of body over the last year...
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This morning I missed him by just a couple of minutes. I sat a stand about 15 minutes past where he was...
He gained a lot of body over the last year...
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Windy, windy S/SE 15-20 47 degrees. W end of S plot. 6:35 am one of the larger bucks on the place cruised from SE end to NW end. I quickly got on him and looked to see if he was a stranger but he wasn’t. He was very skittish and I never saw him eat a thing. In the plot perhaps 30 seconds total. No other activity...
Limpy 4 point and a spike just came in and eating clover.
Mennoniteman
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"Nocturnal" and "Hunting Pressure" are synonymous for whitetails, and he one way that many of us have found around this hurdle is to have a "Sanctuary". If it's of a reasonable size, deer won't go 100% nocturnal inside the boundaries of a sanctuary, and staking out the edges is the way a lot of hunting success can be had.
lakngolf
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I've done my best to place stands around the "edges". There is hunting pressure in our area as we have lot of small tracts. We will stay at it and try to stay out of cover areas.
Mennoniteman
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Another factor to give you incentive for patience is that, while some hunters, not understanding deer patterns, will hunt a stand once and if the big one they saw on camera doesn't show they assume that the stand is not going to be productive, it takes many sits to get a target buck. The First Nations hunting guides in Canada taught me that it takes anywhere's from several days to a week to shoot a specific buck at a specific stand, and that's hunting over a food source to boot. Another thing that they emphasized is that rolling the dice and switching stands every day rarely pays off. If you know you have a good spot and haven't been detected, stick with it, and eventually your ship (or ten pointer) will come in.
Drycreek
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That’s a good game plan MM, with the most important point in your last sentence. “if you know you have a good spot and haven’t been detected”
George
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Not so live but the first time I have enough cell service to upload. Shot this gal at 12 yards, another ridge scrape pays off. Headed back to the coast tonight.
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Good picture, The North Carolina boys come here to hunt and get skunked, go figure.
I saw nothing this evening...my wife said she was trying to get on a buck in the backyard but couldn’t see it well enough to tell if it was a shooter.
This morning I missed him by just a couple of minutes. I sat a stand about 15 minutes past where he was...
He gained a lot of body over the last year...
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I would call that a monster buck, Okie.
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George
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KSQ2
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Sorry, it was too wet for any pics, but I had my best hunt so far this evening. I’ve always been a big fan of hunting thanksgiving week here in KS. I’ve seen more big bucks on their feet during thanksgiving weeks than all the other weeks of November combined, over the years. Long story short. I saw upwards of 16 does and fawns, and at least 4 bucks, as light began to fade it was getting confusing trying to keep all the deer straight. The biggest buck and the only one I didn’t get a clear look at took his doe and left the party pretty early unfortunately. Still it was a great evening; bucks chasing and grunting like crazy. Hopefully there’s more of that to come!
