Public land help,what would YOU do

[overspined]

Man, sounds like I need some e-scouting tips from you.


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lol. Well it seems to pay off. Basically if I’m hunting terrain and cover, I look for many features all coming together. So for example where I sit tomorrow I sat once last week. Found it e scouting. 2 draws come up, autumn olive on top, pines straddling, and it’s a 50 yd corridor that all these things come together to make for a spot that produced last year and this year too, but the weather sucked. So we will see what tomorrow brings. I hunt these places a lot and move around a lot. But they’ve All paid off

I use a couple apps to try and see with and without canopy cover, and pick out how far the draws actually go, and topo maps.

 

[pesqimon]

Listen to THP episode 227. I don’t really listen to much of their stuff but the topic was related.

Listen to minute 13:00 - minute 15:30 or so.

You hear the one guy say exactly why it makes sense to scout until you have a good amount of information. Then the other guy says “yeh but it’s so weird to tell some people to do that”.

What he’s really saying is “everyone posts videos from trees, and all the old timers sit in stands. It would be uncomfortable to not do the same as everyone else.”

Other guy is much more agreeable than me, and takes a long way around to reinforcing the point. I’m jealous of his communication skills.


I like Lopers advice above on first eve. Most of my hunting buddies “hang a set” first day and hunt it next morning and then start scouting. I typically don’t hang it if I don’t find what I want. I can make breakfast, sleep in, or strike out early to scout. At worst I’m even with them.

Scouting is hunting. Sitting in a tree on blind faith is squirrel watching.

listened to THP 227. Quite good!

 

[raisins]

I have a trip next week on some public land that ive only been to once and that was 2 years ago (shot a doe). Ill be heading out Sunday morning so i can get there and setup camp with hopefully enough time to scout\hunt that evening. Here's where im curious as to how you guys do it...so lets say i find something good sunday evening and setup on it but it ends not producing by nightfall....do you guys come back to that spot in the morning (like 4:00am and what i would do) and then get down and scout around noon for the evening spot?..or do you wait until day light and scout something else to setup on? I ask because i always hear these guys say they never hunt a spot twice and when you see guys on YT hunting new areas it seems like they dont bother with the ealry morning hunts and just scout through until they find what they like. Just wanna make sure im making the best of my time and not just sitting in a tree for no reason as i tend to do...

The folks on youtube are usually in high density, big buck states.

For the rest of us, mornings are usually more productive and what I focus on to have a good chance.

If something looks good in the afternoon, then I would not hesitate to hunt it the next morning. It is hard to blow out a spot in one sit (unless maybe your wind or approach to the site was really bad).

If you hunt the evening and aren't happy with the look of the spot, I'd go somewhere else the next morning during gray light. But if you like the spot and it has promise for the next morning, then I'd set up in the same area. The second time in, after seeing it during full light, you'll probably be better able to tweak your tree choice, etc.

 

[Tembo]

It’s November, if there is ever a time to burn down your best stands, it’s now. If you want to look at something else do it mid day. If you find something better hunt it.

 

[Ambushd]

It’s all strategic luck. Some spots are better in the mornings than they are in the evenings. Some areas are so friggin pressured that if you ain’t hunting in an area where your longest shot is ten yards you ain’t seeing jack. Will it suck if you hunt the same spot twice and don’t see anything? Absolutely, but it could work out for you. If I hunted the evening without seeing/hearing a deer id probably hunt a different area Id already picked out using satellite imagery. Pinch point, thick transition, natural corridor. Then scout after the morning hunt.