Move location after shooting (gun)

[NikoTheBowHunter]

With gun season opening up this weekend, got me wondering. If I’m lucky enough to get a shot off, successful or not, should I pack up and move location afterwards or is the spot/tree I’ve choose to hunt from still good for the rest of the day. Thought?

 

[Bigterp]

It’s fine, I’ve killed more than one deer from the same tree w/in minutes of one another. That’s if your not hunting a specific deer, if your shooting up the woods he’s likely to skirt that area...

 

[Homebrew454]

I've killed deer next to gut piles as well but it had been frozen, which may limit the scent of the guts a bit. Season 8 of meat eater they shoot a doubler of Sitka deer... Video proof.

I agree with the above though if you're hunting a specific buck it may not work.

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[EricS]

I’ve had 2.5 year old bucks come in and nudge does and push them around trying to get them to stand up after I killed them. If you drop them in their tracks many deer may not even run off.

 

[GCTerpfan]

When I was a kid I hunted the same spot every morning of opening rifle that came to be known as "Brian's Rock". One year, I shot a buck at daylight, gutted it and drug it back to atv. My dad moved down to my rock with my younger sister, who shot a buck before I was out of ear shot. My uncle them took my younger cousin there and he shot a buck at 11:00 am. All three gut piles were within 50 yards of each other.

 

[NikoTheBowHunter]

Thanks for the input everyone. No success yet myself but my buddy did manage to kill two does from his stand within seconds of each other. So guess that answers my question haha. Best of luck out there everyone & stay safe!

 

[wmahunterfl]

If it is a hotspot stay put. one time I harvested two bucks in 2 days straight from the same tree. Just do not over use it. Use it 2 - 3 days if no success than move. Come back a week or 2 later and try again.

 

[philsanchez76]

I was wondering this myself until a few days ago. Shot a huge doe with my muzzleloader under a hot red oak tree. While I was waiting to get down had 3-4 more deer come in to feed and all hung around till I got down and spooked them off. Could’ve easily taken another one for sure but was too lazy to reload my muzzleloader. However this was in a bow only unit that just does a 2 week muzzleloader season and then goes back to bow only. So these deer are only hearing gunshots once a year for just 2 weeks. That may have bearing on why they were not spooked.

 

[catman529]

I’ve shot multiple does in the same sit with a rifle. Depends on the spot. If the deer are in there thick then you better sit it out.


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[catman529]

I've killed deer next to gut piles as well but it had been frozen, which may limit the scent of the guts a bit. Season 8 of meat eater they shoot a doubler of Sitka deer... Video proof.

I agree with the above though if you're hunting a specific buck it may not work.

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Gut piles don’t spook deer. Think about it, they don’t know what their own guts smell like, don’t have any reason to. Guarantee a deer could still smell a gut pile perfectly fine even if it was frozen solid.


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[Murph4028]

With gun season opening up this weekend, got me wondering. If I’m lucky enough to get a shot off, successful or not, should I pack up and move location afterwards or is the spot/tree I’ve choose to hunt from still good for the rest of the day. Thought?

When I was still hunting last weekend I shot at a doe and missed and she ran off over a ridge. I started in her direction and she walked directly back towards my direction and I killed her at 15 yards. In my experience, deer don't usually know what to think about a gun going off. I've seen them hear a gun go off, jump up in the air and spook then go right back to browsing.

 

[catman529]

When I was still hunting last weekend I shot at a doe and missed and she ran off over a ridge. I started in her direction and she walked directly back towards my direction and I killed her at 15 yards. In my experience, deer don't usually know what to think about a gun going off. I've seen them hear a gun go off, jump up in the air and spook then go right back to browsing.

That’s a great point. In heavy pressured areas, deer can be conditioned to be afraid of gunshots, but most of the time they don’t know what happened. If you shoot a deer and it takes off running, any other deer around will spook because the deer you shot took off running full speed. I’ve seen deer dropped in their tracks where the other deer didn’t know what happened and stayed around.


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[kyleschonert]

Last weekend when hunting a 120 are property, my brother in law shot a doe and a buck within 20 minutes of one another. Rode the 4 wheeler out there to get both of them to drag them out. I came back later that afternoon and shot my second biggest buck to date about 8 hours later, out of the same stand. I send to worry about it but not any more, if the wind and weather is right I’ll hunt it.