tailgunner
Well-Known Member
gotta 2tc.this year.
I’m getting a hunt in with you next year. Just a meet at the trailhead deal, but my offer stands to hang in the same tree with go pros and share snacks.
Wait until you have it on your equipment in the tree and it is rolling up and around like no ones business, then the sticky mess starts to transfer to your ropes, etc.
Done with it, it's junk.
I'm jumping into SRT with presets, maybe. I don't know why. I have my 3 stick system dialed in and my weight savings is immaterial. Just gives me something shiny and new to fiddle with and spend money on I guess. And I guess I'm not immune to the cool tree ninja factor. Sigh.
Hope to do a lot of scouting to be efficient. I expect my hunting time next fall to be significantly cut back due to building up my business and kid #3 arriving.
Tactics wise, I went full into the mobile-all-the-time, find fresh sign ethos the past several years and I'm starting to have doubts about my strategy. Hunting these low density mountain deer, I am starting to think sometimes I am better off picking a great spot and sitting the heck out of it until the buck I want passes through. Or maybe it was just my stupid cameras playing with me. It was like whack a mole this year, I would hunt a spot one day and not see anything, boom next day have a shooter walk by a camera there. That happened like 3 times and I didn't have a shot at a decent buck this year so it was a pretty frustrating season. It's just like they don't really have daily patterns here it's more like weekly or monthly it seems, you gotta wait them out on a different timescale before one passes through. Two seasons in a row now I just haven't really caught up with the deer until the last week of the season and just ran out of time. More scouting earlier too at the cost of time in the tree is something I need to embrace.
I’m going to pre drilling a handful of locations to use bolts. Lugging around sticks gets old. I’ll still have to use them on public however.
Tactics wise, I went full into the mobile-all-the-time, find fresh sign ethos the past several years and I'm starting to have doubts about my strategy. Hunting these low density mountain deer, I am starting to think sometimes I am better off picking a great spot and sitting the heck out of it until the buck I want passes through. Or maybe it was just my stupid cameras playing with me. It was like whack a mole this year, I would hunt a spot one day and not see anything, boom next day have a shooter walk by a camera there. That happened like 3 times and I didn't have a shot at a decent buck this year so it was a pretty frustrating season. It's just like they don't really have daily patterns here it's more like weekly or monthly it seems, you gotta wait them out on a different timescale before one passes through. Two seasons in a row now I just haven't really caught up with the deer until the last week of the season and just ran out of time. More scouting earlier too at the cost of time in the tree is something I need to embrace.
This is an impossible paradox. I face the same exact issue in the big woods hunting I do up north. I have tried both approaches. If you get this figured out, please let me know...
this is blacktail hunting in a nutshell rite there.not only do they change food sourcess,spots, daily but they use a different trail to each one as a religion.only have a 3 week season to catch up to them.and still havnt got out infront of a targetted mature buck.in time.seems imposible some times.they are on there way to bed as you are walking in.and it seems imposible to get near there bedding when they are in it.steep bluff on one side heavy loud brush over the topside with the wind coming through it.and he can see below where the thermals settle.and if i know hes there .i dont know wich trail he will leave on. or even how he got out of there.i always find myself looking at a bed thinking there is no way to get infront of this buggerThis is an impossible paradox. I face the same exact issue in the big woods hunting I do up north. I have tried both approaches. If you get this figured out, please let me know...
I started this season with ditching everything but scent free deodorant and spraying my boots. 90% of the time I forgot to spray my boots. I didn’t notice getting busted anymore than normal. I have a slight suspicion that deer can smell scent free sprays and what not. Stick your nose in a bottle and I smell it, why couldn’t a deer? Idk maybe I’m crazy. Hunt the wind and hunt thats about it in my opinionI kinda said screw it this year with my scent control. I noticed. Not that I considered my self invisible before. But I felt I got a way with more in years before.
Gonna try scrubbing a little weight off my arrows. Drop the feathers and go back to vanes.
Might try regular step on top of my one stick. Then use a platform.
I started this season with ditching everything but scent free deodorant and spraying my boots. 90% of the time I forgot to spray my boots. I didn’t notice getting busted anymore than normal. I have a slight suspicion that deer can smell scent free sprays and what not. Stick your nose in a bottle and I smell it, why couldn’t a deer? Idk maybe I’m crazy. Hunt the wind and hunt thats about it in my opinion