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Your 2020 Strategy Changes

Patriot

Patriot

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This is just my 6th season and it amazes me how every year I look back at the prior year and think of how clueless I was! Just a few years ago i honestly thought guys in my area were lying when they said they found rubs, but in time I learned to read the timber and find sign too. I also used to avoid edges bc I figured the dead center of the timber gave me the best odds at a buck lol. I would literally avoid habitat and terrain edges. Wow.

Last years big strategy development was to not set up until I found smoking hot sign, and I got that from watching THP public land challenge and it scored me my best buck yet. This year I have a few strategy changes I’m incorporating, what are your new tactics your using this year?

1. Tactic; Be way more aggressive. Inspiration; Andre D’quisto podcast the other day on Wired to Hunt. You won’t bump him out of his core area so attack it. Maybe he’s wrong but I’m going with it like it’s gospel this year. Besides on public someone else might be more aggressive than me so what the heck am I thinking if I’m playing it safe?

2. Tactic; Grid Hunting. Inspiration; Infalt says this all the time. If I get eyes on a buck I will stay on him and go from block to block of where I think he is until I’ve covered everything.

3. Tactic; Hunt more mornings. Inspiration; Cody D’quisto on Wired to Hunt podcast. Dude loves mornings in Oct. I rarely do this but this year I will.

4. Tactic; Magic Grunt call pictured below. Inspiration; @Kurt in a recent gear post said this is his hunting binky so it’s got to work for me too right?!

5. Tactic; kind of a combo of two tactics and this is what I am most fired up about applying this year... first sit best sit and hunting smoking hot sign. Inspiration - Probably THP. What I mean with this tactic is I believe first sit is best sit but I also have a new level of confidence that I can find fresh sign. So I’ll combine the two this year. I have a ton of properties listed that I’ve never hunted before and I’m going to attack them like I’m on my own THP Public Land challenge. Ill analyze the maps, enter brand new timber and scout my tail off and trust myself that I will find the best location. With the hottest sign in that timber. And I’ll keep doing it and doing it At new places every time. If I have a good encounter I will hunt him down Infalt grid style.

Cant wait!! What tactics are you guys adding to your arsenal this year?
 

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OspreyZB said:
Looking forward to using @WHW's "drop a leaf, kill a deer" tactic this year. I tryed it a couple weeks ago with a doe and her 2 fawns in fairly open hardwoods, and managed to sneak into bow range
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Thats a good one. Is @WHW Warren Womack who just did a THP oof a few weeks ago?

His UFO story was bonkers too! Who knows what it actually was, but one thing if for sure, every single word that old salt said was a fact. Not an ounce of bs in that man.
 
Patriot said:
Thats a good one. Is @WHW Warren Womack who just did a THP oof a few weeks ago?

His UFO story was bonkers too! Who knows what it actually was, but one thing if for sure, every single word that old salt said was a fact. Not an ounce of bs in that man.
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I'm happy to hear your positive opinion. Thank You, for taking the time to listen to that podcast with The Hunting Podcast.
 
1st year in a saddle and first year going mobile! My goal is to hunt some of the preset spots from years prior but in the saddle and climb atleast 20 new trees. And score 18 points in the newbie contest!

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#5 on your list is my bread and butter, sneak in and hunt fresh sign, repeat, anybody does that enough they are going to be successful.
 
Patriot said:
This is just my 6th season and it amazes me how every year I look back at the prior year and think of how clueless I was! Just a few years ago i honestly thought guys in my area were lying when they said they found rubs, but in time I learned to read the timber and find sign too. I also used to avoid edges bc I figured the dead center of the timber gave me the best odds at a buck lol. I would literally avoid habitat and terrain edges. Wow.

Last years big strategy development was to not set up until I found smoking hot sign, and I got that from watching THP public land challenge and it scored me my best buck yet. This year I have a few strategy changes I’m incorporating, what are your new tactics your using this year?

1. Tactic; Be way more aggressive. Inspiration; Andre D’quisto podcast the other day on Wired to Hunt. You won’t bump him out of his core area so attack it. Maybe he’s wrong but I’m going with it like it’s gospel this year. Besides on public someone else might be more aggressive than me so what the heck am I thinking if I’m playing it safe?

2. Tactic; Grid Hunting. Inspiration; Infalt says this all the time. If I get eyes on a buck I will stay on him and go from block to block of where I think he is until I’ve covered everything.

3. Tactic; Hunt more mornings. Inspiration; Cody D’quisto on Wired to Hunt podcast. Dude loves mornings in Oct. I rarely do this but this year I will.

4. Tactic; Magic Grunt call pictured below. Inspiration; @Kurt in a recent gear post said this is his hunting binky so it’s got to work for me too right?!

5. Tactic; kind of a combo of two tactics and this is what I am most fired up about applying this year... first sit best sit and hunting smoking hot sign. Inspiration - Probably THP. What I mean with this tactic is I believe first sit is best sit but I also have a new level of confidence that I can find fresh sign. So I’ll combine the two this year. I have a ton of properties listed that I’ve never hunted before and I’m going to attack them like I’m on my own THP Public Land challenge. Ill analyze the maps, enter brand new timber and scout my tail off and trust myself that I will find the best location. With the hottest sign in that timber. And I’ll keep doing it and doing it At new places every time. If I have a good encounter I will hunt him down Infalt grid style.

Cant wait!! What tactics are you guys adding to your arsenal this year?
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Your post is almost exactly what i plan on doing this year. It will be my first on public during bow since this is also my first in a saddle. We must listen to the same stuff,haha. I want to not sit in the same spot twice unless i have really good reason to.
Last year i went to hunt a friends property and i went in blind and set up when i found good sign. It paid off,with a doe not a buck,since i was not exactly where the action was. I saw some chasing but wasn't close enough.
I scouted some state land near me last spring but there is much more i haven't checked out.
This will be my fifth bow season and i feel i learn a ton every year. I have been listening to truth from the stand podcast at work for a couple of months now and my confidence in believing in my hunches is up. I cant wait to see if it is justified.
I want to sit more,last year i had ants in my pants and moved/still hunted a lot. I almost connected on a 2.5 year old buck i snort wheezed in.
I will not be afraid to try new things and learn from my mistakes.
 
Be more aggressive in the areas I know I will only be hunting once or twice this year. Can't wait for my muzzleloader hunt that I found out I drew today!

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I bought a fat tire bicycle. I plan on using it to access areas further off the beaten path by utilizing horse trails in some of the areas I hunt. The mountain bike just didn't cut it last year due to the amount of loose sand in the horse paths.
 
boyne bowhunter said:
I bought a fat tire bicycle. I plan on using it to access areas further off the beaten path by utilizing horse trails in some of the areas I hunt. The mountain bike just didn't cut it last year due to the amount of loose sand in the horse paths.
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You’ll luv the fat tire! I have a Quiet Kat and it has made a huge difference in how far I can go and access to areas I thought I would never be able to reach. After knee replacement last year it has pretty much given me my freedom to go back in where I thought I probably couldn’t walk that far anymore!
 
I have quite a few changes for this year..
First - I have been playing the long game on trail cameras. Leaving them in place untouched all season. This give me Intel in a couple ways, one being pressure and two being timeframes to focus on in specific areas. I plan to begin capitalizing on the intel from the past 2 years of data from 13 cameras.
Second - hunt smarter not harder. I realize that anyone can kill a deer at any point in the season. I want to improve the quality of the hunt, by hunting less but hunting because of conditions or intel. I would sorta burn myself out by the first week of november, this year I hope to be hitting my stride by that point. Third- learn more than I did last year.....
 
LtMoe66 said:
You’ll luv the fat tire! I have a Quiet Kat and it has made a huge difference in how far I can go and access to areas I thought I would never be able to reach. After knee replacement last year it has pretty much given me my freedom to go back in where I thought I probably couldn’t walk that far anymore!
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After 50 years of hockey my knees are shot, per the orthopedist I'm headed for replacement myself one day. I hunt remote from a camper and hate to move my truck from camp as I believe it keeps people from messing with it (they never know if someone's there or not) so I've been hiking everywhere from base camp. The bike gives me another option that is more knee friendly.
 
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