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Give one tip on deer hunting

Mengle said:
Congrats on the deer first and foremost.
Not trying to bust your chops, but I am curious as I hear this as an excuse at work regularly and frustrates the heck out of me. Not once have I ever set an alarm that “didn’t go off”. I have set the alarm wrong, snoozed it without knowing it, and anything else you can think of.
Did it actually not go off, or was it a user error?
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Power went out ;)
 
Sbrammer said:
Not speaking for @Tylerhorner33. From my experience, there are days when the world is just going to have to wait for me today. :)
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Look, I completely get it and have done the same thing. But very rarely is someone this honest about it, especially in a work setting. “It just didn’t go off” is hard for me to wrap my head around unless it is followed up with something like the response below.


BTaylor said:
Power went out ;)
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Makes sense. I think it is safe to say that isn’t user error!
 
Mengle said:
Congrats on the deer first and foremost.
Not trying to bust your chops, but I am curious as I hear this as an excuse at work regularly and frustrates the heck out of me. Not once have I ever set an alarm that “didn’t go off”. I have set the alarm wrong, snoozed it without knowing it, and anything else you can think of.
Did it actually not go off, or was it a user error?
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It was my mistake, I had it set for pm and not am. After that switched to Military time and haven’t ever switched back.
 
Mengle said:
Congrats on the deer first and foremost.
Not trying to bust your chops, but I am curious as I hear this as an excuse at work regularly and frustrates the heck out of me. Not once have I ever set an alarm that “didn’t go off”. I have set the alarm wrong, snoozed it without knowing it, and anything else you can think of.
Did it actually not go off, or was it a user error?
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I also have had them not got off when I had an old phone going on the fritz. Things do happen
 
Tylerhorner33 said:
I also have had them not got off when I had an old phone going on the fritz. Things do happen
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Indeed they do. Had a 5 am alarm set yesterday. Not staying at my house so I didn’t plug my phone in. It died. Woke up at 6:30am by luck and barely made it to a 7am meeting. I’m chalking this one up as a user error and a little bit of karma
 
Wait until you have a clean, easy shot at their lungs that you KNOW you can make. Don't take shots that you THINK you can make.

Letting one walk is easier than tracking one on your hands and knees via headlamp in the dark looking for tiny specs of blood on red and orange leaves.
 
Topdog said:
I don’t even attempt to get in somewhere before daylight in the morning, I go in at first light or usually later, I go slow the whole way in and usually hunt from lunch time until dark, sometimes 10 am until dark, I have zero presets, 100% mobile, I think we just had a thread about this but I will say it again, it’s my opinion more good spots are ruined by people trying to push the issue of hunting them first thing in the morning, where if they would just wait until later when everything is already bedded, and there is more daytime noise to hide you while your sneaking in, versus somebody trying to climb a tree in the dark before sunrise with not a lick of wind blowing and the entire woods is dead silent with game moving all over the place and here some hunter is who sounds like a bear climbing a tree waving a flashlight around trying to beat the clock and be in the tree before sunrise while not bumping deer and everything else, that’s not for me, it takes a special place for me to hunt mornings, good, with easy access.
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This is a fantastic notion and a much more modernistic approach. I’ve only been hunting 4 years and everything I’ve been told is “an hour before daylight”. I am in the same boat (kids, work, obligations, etc.) so sometimes I don’t start my trip to my spots until 8:30am.
 
Layercakesss29 said:
This is a fantastic notion and a much more modernistic approach. I’ve only been hunting 4 years and everything I’ve been told is “an hour before daylight”. I am in the same boat (kids, work, obligations, etc.) so sometimes I don’t start my trip to my spots until 8:30am.
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You know the more I think about it. All my big deer are coming through an hour before daylight or moving in bedding area mid day. It also has me thinking of times if day I’ve seen deer. It’s been more mid morning to later afternoon in my areas.
 
Lowg08 said:
You know the more I think about it. All my big deer are coming through an hour before daylight or moving in bedding area mid day. It also has me thinking of times if day I’ve seen deer. It’s been more mid morning to later afternoon in my areas.
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I have seen more deer from, say, 5:30pm and on than I have early morning. If anything, I’m thinking about skipping early morning hunting and aiming for a mid morning setup and sit until dusk. Worth a shot!
 
Layercakesss29 said:
I have seen more deer from, say, 5:30pm and on than I have early morning. If anything, I’m thinking about skipping early morning hunting and aiming for a mid morning setup and sit until dusk. Worth a shot!
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I think it was on this thread. Walking out with still enough light to not use your headlight or be fumbling around either. I like that idea allot.
 
Layercakesss29 said:
I have seen more deer from, say, 5:30pm and on than I have early morning. If anything, I’m thinking about skipping early morning hunting and aiming for a mid morning setup and sit until dusk. Worth a shot!
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I've had the opposite experience. In a couple places I hunt, 10am is magic hour. I've hunted the same ground blind 3 days straight and seen at least 4 deer at that time, every day. Sometimes within shooting range, sometimes not. But I'm seeing them! A different area I hunt closer to home, I only saw movement in the early evening.

I think it has to do with your area and the other factors that might be influencing when they move.
 
Empostarr said:
I've had the opposite experience. In a couple places I hunt, 10am is magic hour. I've hunted the same ground blind 3 days straight and seen at least 4 deer at that time, every day. Sometimes within shooting range, sometimes not. But I'm seeing them! A different area I hunt closer to home, I only saw movement in the early evening.

I think it has to do with your area and the other factors that might be influencing when they move.
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For me, at least, the takeaway is to eat your lunch in the field. The hunters headed to and from the bar for 'lunch' can push deer around.
 
Empostarr said:
I've had the opposite experience. In a couple places I hunt, 10am is magic hour. I've hunted the same ground blind 3 days straight and seen at least 4 deer at that time, every day. Sometimes within shooting range, sometimes not. But I'm seeing them! A different area I hunt closer to home, I only saw movement in the early evening.

I think it has to do with your area and the other factors that might be influencing when they move.
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I hunt Michigan, which is a highly pressured state and the specific areas I hunt are probably the highest of those. So, taking advantage of other hunters faults/flaws and impatience is key
 
I went back and looked through my pictures both I’ve taken and game cameras. 80% of my pictures are between 9:30 and 5:30. With pictures if mature large bucks an hour before daylight being the difference
 
Just remember it’s hunting, not work. Do what you can to make it enjoyable, whatever that is to you.

last year I archery hunted the first 25 straight days of the season with 6 all day sits. By the time the rut hit I was burned out and didn’t want to go. (I did, but I was dragging myself out of bed) also, all my good spots were burned out because I have been sitting them so much…. Lesson 2, save your good spots for the rut or at least don’t over hunt them if it’s a hot spot during the rut.

ps… you can’t beat a deers nose
 
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