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Relative newbie deerhunting questions
sailordad:
i do use scent "attractants" but not cover scents
i like oak and apple attractants
i hunt out of a double bull ground blinds
once inside no need for camo,and if you set it up right not much need if any for cover scent either.
not to mention i can move around in it and not worry about being busted
i have a bad lower back so sitting completly still for more than a minute or three is alomst impossible most days
but when i do go out scouting or stalk and spot hunting i use the wind and stay in the shadows as much as possible
wood:
Sorry but it's story time. Many years ago I was deer hunting. I was wearing brown pants and a light blue t-shirt. I was sitting very still on a tree stump with the end of my recurve perched on the stump beside me sticking up in the air. The chipmunks were crawling over my white tennis shoes while I watched five does followed by a buck. It was a very long haul out and there were no young (small) and tender ones in the group I didn't shoot. I watched the buck chase the does around and saw one doe run into a tree. I still made no sound but came close to rupturing something with the strain. All of a sudden, their heads turned in unison at a sound coming from the ridge. They ran away and I turned my head to see what had made them run. Down the hill came a walking shrub. The guillie suit had to put the guy in the hole along with the fancy compound with all the gadgets sticking out like tree limbs. He rustled within three feet of me and never saw me. He paused about ten feet away wearly leaned up against a tree and farted. I couldn't help myself, I burst out laughing and watched him claw his way three feet up the tree. When he finally spotted me, he apologized for walking through where I was hunting and if he had seen me would have gone a different way. He ask if anyone was further around the hill and I replied I hadn't "heard" anyone else. He turned and rustled on his way. The moral to the story? Sound and movement will give you away no matter what you are wearing or how you smell (within reason). If any of you were that young hunter twenty years or so ago, I hope you have learned better by now.
profsaffel:
--- Quote from: wood on August 16, 2010, 08:02:25 pm --- If any of you were that young hunter twenty years or so ago, I hope you have learned better by now.
--- End quote ---
That was me!!! :o
:P Jussssst kidddddding. Really, that was a great illustration story.
JW_Halverson:
'Nother story. Picture a tall skinny redheaded guy in the woods packing a flintlock rifle with a barrel so long it crosses time zones. He is dressed in 1770's period clothes: Claret wine red knee breeches with kelly green kneestockings over buckle shoes, a billiant white shirt with lace and ruffles at the neck and wrists, red silk neck cloth closing the shirt, and a kelly green wool weskit (vest) with thirteen ship-shape-and-Bristol-fashion shiny brass buttons down the front of the weskit, and a black tricorn hat with snow white cockade and piping around the edge of the brim.
At this lad's side is a long haired red dog sitting "at heel", they are right next to a pine tree on a forest fire trail, no more than 10 ft from the edge of the trail. Along comes a U.S. Forest Service employee walking and making observations. He stops from time to time to make notes on a clipboard. The redhaired lad smiles and makes eye contact with the Forest Circus biologist who fails to acknowledge the funnily dressed traveler. About this time the dog breaks command and runs up to the biologist and puts her cold nose in his hand, proceeding to launch him something like what Cape Canaveral does. When the feller lands, he finally spots me next to the tree and shouts, "Don't sneak up on people like that!!!"
Per wood and sailordad, stay in the shadows, move little. When you stop, stand next to something to break up your outline. (Indian fighters in Kaintuck called it "treein' up".)
Pat B:
JW, you nailed it! Tree up, stand still and stay in the shadows. Just like deer and other game animals do. How many times have you had a deer disappear and you not know where it went. Then a few minutes later it wiggles an ear and there it is. Right where it was all along. :o
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