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Poll - How often do you hunt the same tree more than one time in a season?

How often do you hunt the same tree more than once in a season

  • Never

  • 1-5 times

  • I get mail delivered to the base of the same tree from October - January

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kyler1945

kyler1945

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I was just looking back at my last four or five seasons. I can recall sitting in the same tree more than once only a couple of times in any of the places that I hunt.

I'm curious how you often you other folks are moving around in season.
 
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I do not like to sit the same tree. Same area? Sure. But I very rarely sit the same tree more than 2-3 times. Last year I did have one really great area that I sat maybe 4 times, because I kept seeing a stupid, black coyote that I couldn't get a shot at.
 
Public land, different tree every time.But on my own property I have a few that I can visit several times a season depending on conditions
 
Nutterbuster said:
I do not like to sit the same tree. Same area? Sure. But I very rarely sit the same tree more than 2-3 times. Last year I did have one really great area that I sat maybe 4 times, because I kept seeing a stupid, black coyote that I couldn't get a shot at.
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You will be back 5-6 times this year and you will have a better year ever year you don't get him, just knowing today is the day.
 
2-3x per season in the perfect spot, but not in the same week or even month usually. Otherwise 1x.

John H.
 
BCHunter said:
1-5 is a huge range, I would consider hunting a tree 2-3 times a year if I knew it was an amazing funnel that wasn't going to get any other pressure. 5 is overkill no matter how you slice it.
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I would generally agree, but here's a scenario for you.

I have a small, 120 acre lease. It's a natural funnel. Big bucks from all around just show up on that funnel during the rut phase. They may not swing by but once a week. I have sat the same tree for 4-5 days waiting for that buck to cruise by. Efficient? No. Effective. For me, yes.

But in general, I agree with you.
 
My good spots I usually hunt the same tree 3 to 4 times. Keep in mind that my season is from September 10 until January 1


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I hunt a fairly large public area. I may hunt a small area a handful of times. But since switching to a saddle, I've used a different tree each time.
 
BCHunter said:
1-5 is a huge range, I would consider hunting a tree 2-3 times a year if I knew it was an amazing funnel that wasn't going to get any other pressure. 5 is overkill no matter how you slice it.
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Not asking if you hunt a tree 1-5 times. I'm asking how many times, in a season, that you hunt the same tree, more than once. Can't think of a better way to word that.

Essentially I'm asking how often people hunt a tree more than one time in a season.
 
I have hunted the same tree maybe 20 times in a season and killed 3-4 deer from it a season, with more shot oppotunitys than that. It just depends a lot on the deer you are hunting, just a meat deer, a buck of any size, or a mature buck, or the mature doe. some people give deer way to much credit , they are just animals of habit, same routine day in and day out unless they are forced to do something different.
 
Past years I hunted from ladder stands so I would only have 2 or 3 stands set up. Made it limited, I looking forward to this fall with the saddle and alot more options to choose from.
 
hmmm not liking my options
I have one tree I can only hunt in perfect conditions I might hunt it once per year
BUT I may hunt in that same area 10 times depending on wind, rain, hunting pressure and other factors, I mean within 100 yd radius
AND I have a tree I can hunt or put someone in every DAY and see deer.
THEN I have an area deer seem to walk through every three days, if you hunt see deer on a hunt you can come back in three days and see deer the two days in the middle you have just wasted your time!

so my answer is: sure? i don't know, maybe?
 
ImThere said:
hmmm not liking my options
I have one tree I can only hunt in perfect conditions I might hunt it once per year
BUT I may hunt in that same area 10 times depending on wind, rain, hunting pressure and other factors, I mean within 100 yd radius
AND I have a tree I can hunt or put someone in every DAY and see deer.
THEN I have an area deer seem to walk through every three days, if you hunt see deer on a hunt you can come back in three days and see deer the two days in the middle you have just wasted your time!

so my answer is: sure? i don't know, maybe?
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Last season - Did you hunt out of the same tree more than once? If so, on how many different occasions did you hunt out of the same tree more than once?
 
dpierce72 said:
1-5 range for this question is too large IMO to get a valid data point...
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My line of thinking:

Some folks never hunt the same tree multiple times in a season.

Some folks hunt the same tree multiple times, on several different occasions, over the course of a season.

Some people will pick 2 or 3 (or 4 or 7)trees and hunt them every hunt for an entire season (by choice or by limitations of places to hunt).


I know you guys have very nuanced answers to the poll. I'm not necessarily asking the question in the way that gives YOU the information you're looking for. But I feel like it's fairly clear. Yes, I'm aware that folks hunt areas multiple times. Yes, I know people hunt a certain funnel or food source multiple times. That's not what I'm asking.

Very simply: Do you never hunt in the same tree more than once in a season? If so, never is a solid choice. If, in recent memory, you've hunted in the same tree more than once, more than a couple times in a season, but you more commonly move around and hunt a different tree each hunt, option two seems like a good one. If you hunt in the same trees all season long, I say option 3 covers that.
 
I had 4 trees prepped on my own property last year and about 8 different spots on the family farm. I kinda hope between spots depending on sign, weather, amount of time I have, and sightings...
 
kyler1945 said:
My line of thinking:

Some folks never hunt the same tree multiple times in a season.

Some folks hunt the same tree multiple times, on several different occasions, over the course of a season.

Some people will pick 2 or 3 (or 4 or 7)trees and hunt them every hunt for an entire season (by choice or by limitations of places to hunt).


I know you guys have very nuanced answers to the poll. I'm not necessarily asking the question in the way that gives YOU the information you're looking for. But I feel like it's fairly clear. Yes, I'm aware that folks hunt areas multiple times. Yes, I know people hunt a certain funnel or food source multiple times. That's not what I'm asking.

Very simply: Do you never hunt in the same tree more than once in a season? If so, never is a solid choice. If, in recent memory, you've hunted in the same tree more than once, more than a couple times in a season, but you more commonly move around and hunt a different tree each hunt, option two seems like a good one. If you hunt in the same trees all season long, I say option 3 covers that.
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Also, I want the nuanced answers in the thread, for sure! I like to hear folks thought process. But the poll should be pretty straightforward.
 
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