Balloons IN the actual bed

[gcr0003]

I remembered there was a balloon thread but I don’t remember what it means or what you’re suppose to do with it. Haha

 

[Jammintree]

I have been paying a lot of attention to ballon’s over the past few years. I think I could put the same comment in every deer thread on the forum: deer behavior and their relationship to the landscape varies across the country. While there are behaviors and qualities common to whitetails anywhere, there is also huge variability. This can make conversations on a forum like this cumbersome.

No matter where you hunt, ballon’s are often a great indicator of dropping thermals and eddys in wind currents. In the hills and small mountains where I do most of my hunting ballon’s are sometimes found near bedding, and more often balloons are associated with evening and nighttime staging areas for all deer, cruise routes just off wind on leeward slopes, and also low spots where bucks scent check leeward basins. On many ocassions I’ve seen a bumped deer run to basins where ballon’s collect to take stock, presumably as a way of reading the landscape - to determine where there is pressure and where there are safe escape routes, etc etc. So at least in my region balloons provide all kinds of information but rarely are a one to one correlation, they have to be put in context.

 

[hokiehunter373]

I remembered there was a balloon thread but I don’t remember what it means or what you’re suppose to do with it. Haha View attachment 72830

Thermals marking where wind likes to fall and lots of people thinking due to Dan Infalt that that's where big bucks will want to bed.

 

[gcr0003]

Thermals marking where wind likes to fall and lots of people thinking due to Dan Infalt that that's where big bucks will want to bed.

I don’t know about all that but there was a scrape and rub 10 yards from the balloon I found.

 

[tailgunner]

Texbook bedding area.in a place where i went in blind. Or never been befor

 

[gcr0003]

Found another balloon. Now what?

 

[NMSbowhunter]

Found another balloon. Now what? View attachment 74646

Hunt! Mostly kidding but not entirely. I got this guy's picture from a camera I let soak in that spot I found the buck bed and balloon in back in July.

 

[Tapeworm]

Yesterday afternoon, balloon in palmetto flat between 3 swamp heads. It about 20yds behind my tree

This morning I snuck in to the tree at daylight and there was a bed between the balloon and my tree. Bed was 10yds from tree.

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[Empostarr]

Damn! I found a Ballon too today. 1.5 miles deep, on the side of a hill just above a stand of thick cedar. It was blue too

 

[NMSbowhunter]

Damn! I found a Ballon too today. 1.5 miles deep, on the side of a hill just above a stand of thick cedar. It was blue too

Did you find any corresponding sign like a bed, rubs, etc.?

 

[Empostarr]

Did you find any corresponding sign like a bed, rubs, etc.?

Unfortunately, no. But I would be lying if I said I didn't get a little excited whenever I see a balloon out in the woods now! I have found some balloons with sign around them, which I've never experienced or noticed until being on this site,

 

[NMSbowhunter]

Unfortunately, no. But I would be lying if I said I didn't get a little excited whenever I see a balloon out in the woods now! I have found some balloons with sign around them, which I've never experienced or noticed until being on this site,

I found one the other day and it had nothing near it. No deer sign at all. I will say that it stood out as odd since usually around here when I find a balloon there is good sign nearby. But I'm only finding 8 to 10 balloons a year. I pay attention when I find one for sure.

 

[gcr0003]

I got a twofer in a pine patch (3 acres) that is about 20 ft higher than surrounding swamp/marsh. What do I do now to kill a buck? Lol

 

[Tr33_n1nj@]

I got a twofer in a pine patch (3 acres) that is about 20 ft higher than surrounding swamp/marsh. What do I do now to kill a buck? LolView attachment 78297

You skin the balloon and get the heart out. You take the heart and zip tie it to the northern most pine tree in the patch and then wait. The buck will bed right there the night after an new moon.

 

[tailgunner]

I will drink to that

 

[tailgunner]

Today .View attachment 78383 textbook bedding area

 

[overspined]

I’ve found that most balloons in deer beds are a result of deer over imbibing at a party and forget to untie it from their leg until they awaken.

so yes, hunt that drunken buck

 

[colin.704]

Y'all got me seeing balloons everywhere. I see deer in those locations more often than not

 

[tailgunner]

Bird said this was a good spot.and sent me this pic.

 

[NMSbowhunter]

Ok, so I followed a deer trail back across a marsh today to find a lot of buck sign right at the tip of a little peninsula of land where the water met the woods. Low and behold, there were 2, not one but two balloons laying right at the tip of that peninsula. This was the only spot in that whole area where the marsh bushes had both historical and fresh rubs. Another weird bit of circumstantial evidence.

Note the rub right above the balloons.