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Hunting - Bad hunting spot.
Expert: Keith Patton - 11/6/2009
Question
Is there any way by using scent, calls, etc. that i can guarantee a deer will pass my stand when i am in it?
Answer
No. Thats like asking if I put my stand out on the sidewalk and put scent out will it attract a deer.
The first rule of hunting is you have to hunt where the deer are. The Indians followed the Buffalo because they couldn't kill them if there were none around.
You need to determine first if there are deer on your property. If there are, where are they?
Do they simply move through your property to get to water or food or cover? Are there areas they feed on your property? Water? Bedding areas?
Not all property is good deer habitat. They might only be moving through to somewhere that has these things.
Have you seen any scrapes or rubs? Scrapes are where they dig up the ground and piss. to mark their area. A rub is where a buck rubs the velvet off of his antlers. Both are signs that deer pass through and linger in the area.
You can try to make a scrape by using doe in estrus urine lure. But it needs to be done before you put out your blind. Look for deer trails or paths. Places they jump over fences.
Set up your blind (if you absolutely have to hunt from one) in a position that you can see the trail and see deer coming from both directions.
Deer move into the wind so they can smell what is ahead of them. Consider that too.
Hunting from a blind to me is like hunting from inside a cardboard box. It handicaps you and makes you do things that are bound to give you away. How much of the woods can you see from a blind by simply moving your eyes or turning your head slightly? Not much. So what to you do? You move your head up and down, and around and move your body and basically tell every deer that can see the blind that there is something going on in there to be avoided. They see you long before you see them and leave the area.
Also hunting from a blind makes people think they are invisible and they forget that deers primary senses are smell and hearing. They can smell you and hear you even if you are in a blind. But people forget that and come out into the woods smelling like perfume and moving around making noise and doing things they would not if they were just sitting by a tree. You can see and hear better yourself too. I have ever only hunted from a blind once and could not cock a butt cheek without the damn thing creeking and making noise. Never again. Why do you thing our forefathers didn't use them? They didn't have Cabella's and other equipment manufacturers telling us we HAD to have them to get that big buck. Who do you thing buys them year after year? The same guys who go home empty handed.
I told another guy asking a question, sitting in a blind is kind of like making a wager. You are betting that the deer is stupid enough to walk by and let you shoot him. He is betting that he isn't that dumb. The deer wins most of the time unless you get a really retarded deer or he is more afraid of something else and forgets for a moment that there might be some thing in that big smelly noisy old box that wants to hurt him too.
Try hunting instead of gambling.
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