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The Piled-High Club

BTaylor said:
I havent ever noticed deer keying on any type of hickory. Seems like I have seen others mentioning them eating them some but not sure outside of hard times, they would key on them. Have always heard they will pound chestnuts but never hunted where there were any. Hazelnuts are supposed to be pretty good as well but again just what I have seen others mention where they have them.
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I have one chestnut tree and I do see deer around it some but we have a few hazelnuts as well. I should put a stand up near them.
 
khnc said:
Croft State Park im betting. LOL
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Yes. But….i don’t like giving place names, lol. I think that hunt has been done with for years though so no harm, no foul.

I tried to get my dad to go. He said no. My dad took me everywhere hunting. Many times I returned to school with a note after a week of being gone that said to excuse me because I was gone hunting. He never said no. It was driving me nuts so I finally asked him why he wouldn’t go 40 miles up the road to hunt with me…..

“I didn’t spend 13 month in Vietnam to get my ass blown off in Spartanburg”

What could I say to that???
 
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DelaWhere_Arrow said:
I notice the hickories seem to be drawing them this year. Have you seen similar draw from hickories to pecan? They’re dropping after the majority of the acorns, and we don’t have pecan in our woods. Pecan and hickory in the same genus of trees but I dunno how deer feel about the situation. What other unorthodox mast trees do you focus on?(walnut? Cherry? Chestnut? Something different?)
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Where I grew up we had very few oaks, hickory and beech nuts were the draw for deer and turkeys. I’ll hunt hickory over red oaks early to mid season any day. They’re easy to find with the bright green hulls. Squirrels devastate them too.
 
five said:
How much daytime movement have you seen during quarter - full moonphases? Do you pay a lot of attention to that?
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Full is the only phase I make note of on the calendar. The rest of the month I am purely watching moon position. But 3-4 days either side of the full moon I am going to be in a tree if I can.
 
I would have thought they'd be moving more at night during full moon, so that's interesting. I've never seen any deer during full moon or really heard any gunshots in the distance either.
 
five said:
How much daytime movement have you seen during quarter - full moonphases? Do you pay a lot of attention to that?
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I don't pay attention to the moon but I probably should. Mostly because if it's hunting season and I have the time to hunt then I'm in the woods regardless of what phase of the moon is in. . Another thing I don't pay attention to is the Lunar charts and the Major and Minor periods. I probably should though. A few years ago I looked into to the moon underfoot theory after the season. My Halloween buck was killed within a half hour of peak time and date. But I attributed it to being killed during the last "magic" hour. Later My partner killed a 15pt almost to the minute at 930 AM on peak date and time. Nov 21/22-ish. I attributed it to the date more than the phase of the moon. . Todays' the 21st. I should be in the woods. Too bad I have to work! I'm going tomorrow AM before work though.
 
1simplemann said:
I don't pay attention to the moon but I probably should. Mostly because if it's hunting season and I have the time to hunt then I'm in the woods regardless of what phase of the moon is in. . Another thing I don't pay attention to is the Lunar charts and the Major and Minor periods. I probably should though. A few years ago I looked into to the moon underfoot theory after the season. My Halloween buck was killed within a half hour of peak time and date. But I attributed it to being killed during the last "magic" hour. Later My partner killed a 15pt almost to the minute at 930 AM on peak date and time. Nov 21/22-ish. I attributed it to the date more than the phase of the moon. . Todays' the 21st. I should be in the woods. Too bad I have to work! I'm going tomorrow AM before work though.
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I look at moon position, moon phase and weather conditions like terrain features, the more they can be compounded the better. But I am with you, I am going when I can go.
 
dalton916 said:
Yes. But….i don’t like giving place names, lol. I think that hunt has been done with for years though so no harm, no foul.

I tried to get my dad to go. He said no. My dad took me everywhere hunting. Many times I returned to school with a note after a week of being gone that said to excuse me because I was gone hunting. He never said no. It was driving me nuts so I finally asked him why he wouldn’t go 40 miles up the road to hunt with me…..

“I didn’t spend 13 month in Vietnam to get my ass blown off in Spartanburg”

What could I say to that???
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Yeah i knew the hunting was over in that area. Or i wouldnt have mentioned it either. Lol. It was just a archery hunt every time i applied. I never got drawn. Did they have a gun hunt too?
 
Let me just add that Andy May killed yet another huge whitetail with a bow this week. Spot and stalk after he saw it in a dang field from his truck on a property he was going in to check a camera on. Even the top killers get lucky it seems. lol
 
@khnc No, it was always archery. The secret to getting drawn was max hunting hours and killing does. I sat all day the first day (also killed a doe) and when I filled out my card the biologist made a note.

The next year I knew folks that had put in both times and never got drawn. I asked the biologist if it was random draw and he said, “we pick and choose who we want to hunt based off harvest and time spent in the tree”. By the third year it was mostly folks that had killed does that were getting drawn.
 
khnc said:
Let me just add that Andy May killed yet another huge whitetail with a bow this week. Spot and stalk after he saw it in a dang field from his truck on a property he was going in to check a camera on. Even the top killers get lucky it seems. lol
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He is having a crazy good year.
 
dalton916 said:
Yes. But….i don’t like giving place names, lol. I think that hunt has been done with for years though so no harm, no foul.

I tried to get my dad to go. He said no. My dad took me everywhere hunting. Many times I returned to school with a note after a week of being gone that said to excuse me because I was gone hunting. He never said no. It was driving me nuts so I finally asked him why he wouldn’t go 40 miles up the road to hunt with me…..

“I didn’t spend 13 month in Vietnam to get my ass blown off in Spartanburg”

What could I say to that???
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When on the Croft hunt, never forgot the dnr guy telling us if you lose an arrow under the leaves .DO NOT DIG FOR IT
 
WHW said:
No, the reason that I started saddle hunting was due to the safety factor. I was very satisfied with my way of hunting from an elevated position before I went to a saddle. But, I do find the saddle more comfortable with a lock-on when bowhunting and with a platform when gun hunting.
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I have followed you and your stories for a number of years now. I was a proficient hunter and killer before but I can certainly say I have learned a good bit from you. Thank you for taking the time to share your stories and experiences. It doesn’t matter if I’m in the pine trees of the Florida Parishes, hills of the homochitta, or the palmetto flats of North La delta, I can think back and relate to how you find feed trees in those places. Thanks again.


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