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Balloons IN the actual bed

So here is the science experiment... Get your kids a few of those foil balloons..wait for them to start loosing their helium. Then turn them loose in a few hunting areas and see where they like to float to.
Then as a follow up pop the balloon, then place it some where you haven't seen bucks bedded and see if they are attracted to the balloon. Maybe we got it all wrong. Do bucks just like shiny reflective things?
 
Why not just buy 1000 of them. Number the balloons 1 to 1000. Buy a disposable cell phone and write the phone number on the balloons and a brief message asking anyone who finds the balloon to text the GPS coordinates to the cell number. Keep track of where you release each balloon and then match it to where it lands. Pay the massive littering fines for science, lol.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
Why not just buy 1000 of them. Number the balloons 1 to 1000. Buy a disposable cell phone and write the phone number on the balloons and a brief message asking anyone who finds the balloon to text the GPS coordinates to the cell number. Keep track of where you release each balloon and then match it to where it lands. Pay the massive littering fines for science, lol.
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Quick and easy way to get some buck bending Intel.... Wonder how far they fly? If they get two high they might get shot down.....
 
For what it's worth I found this balloon on the crest of a ridge in a narrow pinch point formed by a dense pine thicket to the north and a riverbank cliff edge to the south. The pinch was about 20 yards wide and there was a scrape tree in the middle of the ridge with a red oak about 10 yards to the east. The balloon, red oak and scrape were all within 15 yards of one another. This area had very little deer sign overall and this was one of three areas in about 400 acres of river bottoms and hills I tromped out on Sunday that had what I would consider huntable sign. I walked 4.1 miles in all.
 

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NMSbowhunter said:
Why not just buy 1000 of them. Number the balloons 1 to 1000. Buy a disposable cell phone and write the phone number on the balloons and a brief message asking anyone who finds the balloon to text the GPS coordinates to the cell number. Keep track of where you release each balloon and then match it to where it lands. Pay the massive littering fines for science, lol.
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The pile of trash I collected and disposed of on Sunday. Maybe we need to get a "woods trash" thread going.
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Buck is going to die of exhaustion because he cant find his bed and 2 hunters will die next to him because they are lost and most likely dont know about possum compasses. Barney did the dew and is out of bullets.
 
My little brother is bow hunting this year for the first time. I got him set up with my old climber and some hang ons and every bit of knowledge I can give (I’m far from a professional) this Sunday we did a good 6.5 miles through hill country scouting and picking trees. Definitely one of the best bonding days we’ve ever had but I started explaining balloons to him. We found 4 balloons 3 were in bedding areas! And one was burried in the bed!!!!! He thought I was crazy explaining the balloon thing to him but I’ll tell ya right now he’ll never walk past one without thought again!!!
 
I know it sounds crazy. I’ve been working a job in the same location for 16 working days. I have watched a family of 3 come out of two different pine thickets nearly every day. So happens there was a party of some kinda and i literally watched three balloons fly right into the trees they come out if. 2 balloons to one and 1 to the other.
 
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