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Poll - How often do you hunt the same tree more than one time in a season?

How often do you hunt the same tree more than once in a season

  • Never

  • 1-5 times

  • I get mail delivered to the base of the same tree from October - January

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kyler1945 said:
Not asking if you hunt a tree 1-5 times. I'm asking how many times, in a season, that you hunt the same tree, more than once. Can't think of a better way to word that.

Essentially I'm asking how often people hunt a tree more than one time in a season.
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Haha, I'm tired, but the answer is the same when I read it correctly :) I hunted 2 trees twice last year, otherwise it was a new one every time.

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I wanted to say never, but their have been occasions where I have a good reason to get back in the same tree later in a season. I am in the same boat that I will hunt the same general area again but moving my stand location in that area. But if I had to guess I'd say 95% of my sits are first time in that tree for the season. maybe 1 in 20 I will go back to a tree I have used that season.
 
I shot 2 deer last year in the same funnel. I hunt this funnel several times a year but I am in different trees everytime. I never know what tree I will go up until I get to the area and check conditions for that day. Last year I only hunted this funnel 2 times though for a total of an hour. It was very productive.
 
ImThere said:
hmmm not liking my options
I have one tree I can only hunt in perfect conditions I might hunt it once per year
BUT I may hunt in that same area 10 times depending on wind, rain, hunting pressure and other factors, I mean within 100 yd radius
AND I have a tree I can hunt or put someone in every DAY and see deer.
THEN I have an area deer seem to walk through every three days, if you hunt see deer on a hunt you can come back in three days and see deer the two days in the middle you have just wasted your time!

so my answer is: sure? i don't know, maybe?
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Same for me.

In many a years past I was the last option. I think back and cringe to those days. I thought the more I hunt this spot the more likely I will be here when the deer walks by when in truth I was just conditioning the deer to not go there. I also took no thought to my entry route or the wind so it’s a miracle I saw or killed any deer in those days. I was going mostly off of some random deer sign and dumb luck. So much time wasted. But I had a ton of fun and am the hunter I am today because of that time.
 
I think that hunters generally think that if they hunt the same tree 2 times or more they have burned that spot out or it is just a bad spot. I couldn’t disagree more. Your access is way more important than how many times you hunt a spot. Sure you can burn out your best spot if you blow everything out on your way in the first time but if you are not noticing a difference in deer activity then I continue to hunt that spot. I have shot two P&Y bucks on public land with HEAVY hunting pressure after hunting the same tree 4 times in a week because I knew those bucks were close by and I wasn’t spooking anything with my entry or exit.
 
At least 12 times. I dont believe in over hunting a spot personally. I had a spot i knew a buck was gonna come through. I sat 7 days in a row before i got him.


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I sat the same tree twice last season total. Once in once Tree, and once in another.

The first, I only sat a second time because the winds weren’t what I expected once I got 2.8 miles back, and that tree was already prepped. I ended up having a decent 8 that had to of watched me get in the tree before circling 50 yards around me just after getting set up. He stared at me the whole way through.

The second tree, I used as staging for an afternoon set.




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I don't put a number on it. I jump around and have always only hunted mobile, but when you find a hot spot you dang well better give it a few tries while it's hot. Sign goes cold, I move on. I just don't get the one-and-done logic at all unless you are after a singular deer and you've tipped your pitches. Probably at most I've ever sat in one tree in a season is 4 or 5 times.
 
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Sziggy2.0 said:
Past years I hunted from ladder stands so I would only have 2 or 3 stands set up. Made it limited, I looking forward to this fall with the saddle and alot more options to choose from.
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Same... I got sick of the climber so me and some buddies threw-in and bought a mess of ladder stands. Last year those stands were hunted WAY too often so I went back to the climber in the late season.... my hatred of the climber led me to this site last year and now I'm looking forward to being much more mobile this year.
 
really all depends, but I normally don't hunt the same tree more than 3 times in a season....I got way more options than I typically get to in a given year.
 
I have a couple of presets that I position so I can get in and out quickly with little disruption to the hunting area. They are in fairly productive areas that I've identified over the last 28 years. I use them mainly for quick hunts before and after work. I figure it"s better than sitting in the house. I try to change up which I sit in, but mostly it's the wind that makes the selection for me.
 
It seems like the overwhelming majority of folks make multiple sits in the same tree in same season. It also sounds like those trees are chosen because they offer low impact access, ease of access, or a terrain feature/food source/etc. which would promote many deer using the area, increasing the odds that one comes through who doesn't realize or care that you were there recently.

Interesting info, keep it coming!
 
kyler1945 said:
My line of thinking:

Some folks never hunt the same tree multiple times in a season.

Some folks hunt the same tree multiple times, on several different occasions, over the course of a season.

Some people will pick 2 or 3 (or 4 or 7)trees and hunt them every hunt for an entire season (by choice or by limitations of places to hunt).


I know you guys have very nuanced answers to the poll. I'm not necessarily asking the question in the way that gives YOU the information you're looking for. But I feel like it's fairly clear. Yes, I'm aware that folks hunt areas multiple times. Yes, I know people hunt a certain funnel or food source multiple times. That's not what I'm asking.

Very simply: Do you never hunt in the same tree more than once in a season? If so, never is a solid choice. If, in recent memory, you've hunted in the same tree more than once, more than a couple times in a season, but you more commonly move around and hunt a different tree each hunt, option two seems like a good one. If you hunt in the same trees all season long, I say option 3 covers that.
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So for me, I had 43 sits last season
  • full day AM/PM counts as 2 sits
of those 43 sits, I sat in the same tree 2x (2 different trees / 2 sits each - so 1-5 seems like a a big range, when I feel I'm closer to 1 than 5)
  • Both of these times, I sat in the PM, left my gear, and returned the very next morning for an AM sit in the same tree, but moved mid day
  • So ~5% of the time I sat in the same tree
I certainly did not mean to criticize the poll, I simply meant that a scale of
  • Never, 1-2, 3-4, or 5+ might provide better insights
Another caveat, is how many sits do most people have? For people who sit 50 times a season, 3-4 might not be crazy. For people who sit less than 10 times, it could be.

Again, I didn't mean to disparage the poll and appreciate the though it's generating. Nice work!
 
dpierce72 said:
So for me, I had 43 sits last season
  • full day AM/PM counts as 2 sits
of those 43 sits, I sat in the same tree 2x (2 different trees / 2 sits each - so 1-5 seems like a a big range, when I feel I'm closer to 1 than 5)
  • Both of these times, I sat in the PM, left my gear, and returned the very next morning for an AM sit in the same tree, but moved mid day
  • So ~5% of the time I sat in the same tree
I certainly did not mean to criticize the poll, I simply meant that a scale of
  • Never, 1-2, 3-4, or 5+ might provide better insights
Another caveat, is how many sits do most people have? For people who sit 50 times a season, 3-4 might not be crazy. For people who sit less than 10 times, it could be.

Again, I didn't mean to disparage the poll and appreciate the though it's generating. Nice work!
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Thanks for the info. I actually tried to change the poll to split up the 1-5, but couldn't edit it. I agree it could've been a little more granular, but is still teasing out some interesting info.
 
I've hunted the same stand 15 times one season, the last day I hunted it I killed a decent 10 point. Out of the 15 times I may have not seen a deer once. I was new to my property and only had one stand and location to my disposal. Now I've got multiple locations and in the process of getting my saddle gear in line. May only hunt that stand 1-2 times this year. Depends on deer movement, how empty my freezer is, and if I can get away from school and office to do my hunting.
 
To many variables to answer. I've sat in the same tree many many times, had a season where I killed 6 different deer from the same tree and then there's times I never hunt the same tree in a whole season. Those seasons you find the only white oak in the county dropping acorns, I'm hunting it!
 
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