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Hunting old spots
- Thread starter catman
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I would hunt the old spots first. I have places I have hunted for years that I do not scout I just know that at certain times of the season I need to hunt this area. I will try my new spots after those. Now if I have places I have found say on a map that just looks like a great funnel or some place I found last season that had a lot of sign curiosity will usually get the best of me and I will have to go try it out.
Scout your way in. Walk until you find fresh sign.
For me hunting is scouting with a weapon, so yeah go in blind. The only difference is expectations.
I have spots that I hunt year after year. Because there is something in that location that I like. Weather it be a terrain feature, annual scrap location, water hole, ext…. So much so that I have two permanent blinds in locations that always pay off. I'm my opinion you have to be cautious not to over hunt these locations in a given year.
If your in middle Tennessee it will work . I hardly ever got to scout when I hunted there. Go for it brother ...good to hear from you stranger.
Some stands may not produce like normal but certain stands never disappoint.
This is definitely true, especially if it's over a food such as bad acorn years.
This is what makes hunting so much fun to me is trying to strategize which place to go to. Once I have found a place that I have noticed is better say early season or only during rut I try to leave those places till that time they have produced the best in the past. I have found that the first few sits in a place are usually your best bet on seeing deer or that buck you are after especially if no one else has been hunting that area. This can be hard if you are just hunting public. Also just go with your gut feeling if something just feels right just go with it.
Had a saddle I hunted on a lease in Giles for many years at certain times it may not be real great but most times it never failed.
backyardtndeer
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I have been hunting my small farm for over 30 years, so pretty well all my spots are old spots with the exception of the occasional new spots I sometimes try.
Swampster
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Me too. I only have only 50 acres of woodlands overlooking another 100 of agricultural, and I have about five "spots" I might hunt there. Luckily, the parcels that connect to me are another 400 acres of woodlands, with several thousand more that connect to them. I've never hunted anywhere else except my father's farm when I was a kid.
fairchaser
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Depends what kind of deer you're after. If we are talking any legal deer, I would still hunt or creep into the spot at daylight into the wind. Once you see enough sign or activity to give you that feeling, sit or climb and hunt. If the conditions are better for sitting, then sit. Otherwise, continue to creep. If you are only hunting for a mature buck, camp outside a known bedding area or a runway between bedding areas. If the ground is totally new, use the time to scout hunt instead of just sitting and watching.
kaizen leader
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Study maps. Look for saddles, pinch points, etc. then go scout. Still hunt while scouting. Take your time.
