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Jan 1 public land

Weldabeast

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@JAYBO .... You may appreciate this.... That's C block...

Made the drive to some public I scouted last weekend. I got set up on the red dot early. Some kind of animal walked by while still too dark to see. Sun came up and it was pretty slow. I was only planning a morning hunt so around 10 I started packing up. Just about to lower the bow when I see a deer running on the yellow line. It goes into a thick ’’field'' of waist high grass mixed with palmetto and gal berry and 5-10ft tall baby long leaf pine. I keep watching the fire break to see if it comes out and it doesn't. So I break everything down as quiet and quick as possible and start stalking over that way. Once over to the area close to last visual I started grid search real slow. It was so thick being quiet was impossible so I pulled out the grunt tube and started making my way throu grunting every once in a while. I finally heard the deer get up and move 5-10yds. I grunt and move toward last sound of movement. We do this for maybe 30 minutes but I never get a shot and I run out of cover and the deer bolted outta there. I was down wind the whole time and I really think that doe thought I was a buck and she was just playing hard to get. It was a awesome experience and a great hunt to start 2020

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Thats an exciting new take on Spot and stalk! i wouldve never tried that kind of tactic but i guess its something to keep in your back pocket just in case. Thanks for sharing!
 
I was on my way toward leaving anyway so I figured, what the heck... Might as well give it a shot. I didn't think I'd be able to get as close as I did.
 
Still, good on you for giving it a go. I probably wouldve snuck out planning on hunting the spot later on but who knows how that would have gone. Instead you got much closer and probably learned way more than i ever would have. Kudos!
 
There has been a handful of times I've seen deer close by and I waited for them to come to me...... Everyone of those times nothing ever came of it. I have the mindset now, if the situation allows, I'm going to be proactive instead of reactive. I got a shot at a buck last season using this tactic and almost again this past hunt. I hunt different areas pretty much very hunt so I really don't care if I'm blowing the deer out of there....I don't get enough hunting time to be watching things happen....I feel I need to make things happen.
 
FL deer love the small pines, i've had good success (along with equal failure) setting up on the ground near a trail that comes into the small pines from a field, they seem to bed there. Last year I shot a doe at 7 yds while sitting near a small pine in a ghillie suit top which is suicidal in FL in October.
 
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