essdub
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You got that right. My problem on my property is that there's year round good food. Between my garden, small orchard, berry bushes, at least an acre of native blackberries, the round of oaks, persimmon, paw paw, hickory, beech, and all kinds of edible native vegetation, plus the 9 month gardening season. .. you're right about it being tough. It was easy as pie with a rifle, but I have mostly given that up (at least until near the end of season if I need meat in freezer). But I do love it, I just need to find some more hunting property. What little property I hunt is awesome as far as number of deer, but the ones I want are really hard to catch within bow rangeIf a deer is bedding close to his food source in early season he will be tough to get in on day or night.... for those I would wait until prerut moves him more to interest in doe rather then filling his belly. That or wait until that food source dries up and hope he doesn't move bedding to a new location with new food source. Deer that bed immediately adjacent to their food are just tough.
So this year, I'm gonna try to use the creek more often and come in from upstream and hopefully that'll get me in undetected .
It's worked for me the few times I've tried it. Every time I make a new trail, the game starts using it, so I'm running out of options (other than sneaking through property I don't have permission to be on).
There was a hunting club on the other side of the creek which was heavily hunted. They lost their lease a year or two ago. Since then, I'm having more trouble because I'm no longer the"safe haven". Instead, the formerly heavily hunted (now noBody has permission there) property is now the safest place for deer to run to when spooked. So I will be choosing my hunts more carefully this year instead of hunting a few times per week.
Fortunately for me, I have two more local properties to hunt (although none are unrestricted access - usually have to drive quite a ways to get to them too so I haven't really hunted them much in last few years). Looks like this year is gonna be interesting for me. I still have a few out of state hunts I'm trying for , too, including my dad's place in the country outside of Charlotte. So hopefully I'll be able to put a season together in spite of the difficult year I'm having so far
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