Poll: What percentage of the time do you hunt predetermined trees?

[skyjacker]

Predetermined trees are trees that you have visibly seen and preset/marked as going to being hunted before or during the season. If you can come up with a rough percentage post it in a comment please. About 90% of the time I'm hunting predetermined trees.

 

[bigmike23]

Afternoon sits almost never. I follow the sign and setup. Mornings are about 90%. If I go in blind morning hunting I always somehow end up in the wrong tree. Drives me crazy

 

[elk yinzer]

I'm going with about 50% on the dot.

Morning sits, usually. If not, I have a GPS mark, I just need to find a tree as close as possible to that. Around these parts, that's usually doable. Some areas you just have to pick a tree in advance. The area determines that, not me.

Evening sits, much more rarely. Usually some degree of scouting into an area.

I'm a big proponent of stage hunting if I have a buck checkmated. Start on the edges, work my way in for the kill. That strategy doesn't allow for a ton of advance planning.

 

[BTaylor]

Over the course of a season I would guess easily under 20% of the time.

 

[kyler1945]

Predetermined trees are trees that you have visibly seen and preset/marked as going to being hunted before or during the season. If you can come up with a rough percentage post it in a comment please. About 90% of the time I'm hunting predetermined trees.

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

I was just looking back at my last four or five seasons. I can recall sitting in the same tree more than once only a couple of times in any of the places that I hunt. I'm curious how you often you other folks are moving around in season.

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[kyler1945]

It’s 1 in 10 or so for me. I’m almost exclusively new dirt new tree hunter, but I have built up some spots that the same tree works every year. I usually hunt them once or twice a season

 

[Crawdaddy4]

100% for morning hunts.
~50% for evening hunts.

 

[HuskerInIowa]

70% predetermined.

 

[Red Beard]

Can we add ground spots to this poll as well?

 

[fbwguy]

For me, on my own land, it’s predetermined trees, depending on wind and weather. My property is not big so I’m very careful as to how much and when I hunt it.
Public land, it’s new tree every hunt

 

[Exhumis]

Can we add ground spots to this poll as well?

Bucket hunting doesn’t count

 

[Exhumis]

I hunt private parcels in which the deerz are pretty much patterned so I don’t have to change much. I have a couple favorite trees but I do hunt from other trees about 50% of the time so as to not let them pattern me.

 

[GeoFish]

Can we add ground spots to this poll as well?

I kinda took the question, if you hunt elevated do you have a predetermined tree. I chose 100%. If I am roaming, pack seat is my choice.

 

[Skunkworkx]

80%+

 

[Still Kicking]

For some reason over the years I've developed a sense of comfort regarding the trees I choose ahead of time. I have a lot of presets and can decide based on sign and wind direction and food sources which one to sit. For that reason alone I voted 100%.

 

[John RB]

It's a good question. 95% of the time i am climbing a tree with a paracord preset, some of which are a dozen years old. Maybe one in 20 sits are random trees i had never climbed before. This would happen if found myself in another part of the state or a new property in the middle of hunting season. Or maybe just because i noticed deer on a different travel route.

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[Cajunyankee]

I don’t always hunt a predetermined tree,but when I do - I know exactly where I am going.