jerdanmagic Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 I always like to hear different opinions and different techniques about bow hunting, so... What's your early season plan of attack? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunting_boy Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? im going to try hunting in a treestand i an going to use some salt licks and thats about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillbilly Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? I'm gonna trick him and invite the buck over for dinner, he just doesn't know it yet, but he's the dinner lol.... Joking aside I'm gonna ambusch some deer this year, they usually travel up and down the ridge in the thick stuff. So I plan on hunting it and sitting near some trails, gonna try and take a deer from the ground this year. I have a bunch of trees that fell down and made a great natural blind. Gonna blend in so well with my new realtree hardwoods grey... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unioncountyslayer Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? Simply hunting as much as possible in there early season before the deer have a lot of pressure is the best way to score on a mature buck is what I've always heard. I've been fortunate enough to do so and killed my first buck last week. He came walking in with not much caution. Also, get into the thickest part of the woods as possible, that's where the big boys roam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? Going to ease into it..... And check the memory cards on my 2 cams..that is one of the best tools I've ever employed!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdvantageTimberLou Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? first is checking my camera this weekend, trimming any branches in any lanes, not too many but just enough to make the shot and then when the season starts, seeing what the bucks look like this season. Last season I seen a ton of spikes, I hope they got more points this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? Like Martin I've come to realize the potential of using my 2 trail cams. I've gotten pics in 14 different spots so far with 2 more spots coming this weekend and more on the way. I've located 3 nice mature bucks so far. I'm going to focus my early season efforts on the biggest one. The pics I've got of him (2 afternoons during a week) were in the last 45 minutes before dark. Since I didn't get any pics of him in the morning, I'll just hunt him in the afternoon at that location when the wind is right. My stand was set up there and ready to go before the end of July and I've left the area alone since then. The location has 3 honey locust trees that produced mast this year that have been great early season food sources in the past. I've also narrowed down my choices for areas to hunt for bucks and does so if I want to wack a doe early in the season (preferably in the morning), I'll hunt areas where I haven't gotten any pics of older bucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMSD5 Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? just hunt and hunt hard and let the cards fall where they may....just going to try to enjoy the time i have outdoors....if a deer comes by then cool, if i bag him or her then just a bonus... have fun and enjoy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atthewall Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? Hitting the stand on Sept 30th, bow opener. Working 5 popups, 4 tripods, 2 ladder stands and 3 cling on stands. The stands deep in the oaks and mixed with persimmon will get hunted first. Acorns are dropping and the deer here in Texas are going to town on them. Persimmons started dropping 2 weeks ago and everyone of them have circles of tracks around them. Setups are either along game trails, pre-staging areas to food plots (70 acres of oats) or on vegetation transition areas (mesquite flats to oaks) where typically the more mature whitetail bucks travel (just along the edges of the oaks). As the season cools down, things go into winter mode, game trails working into the oats with setups a couple hundred yards in the brush out to 1/2 mile on corridors along fence line intersections, vegetation transition areas and low draws that feed through the flats to the oat field are hunted hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sskybnd Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? kinda depends on which feeder looks the emptyest, have and old logging road thats pretty well worn out between an oak flat and a beddind area, i think thats going to be my first place sunday morning, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? same as the last 3 years. im hunting with my recurve for the first 14 days of the season to try and fill my county doe tag. if that doesnt happen, i bring out the compound and hunt for a doe or a trophy buck. which ever comes first. if i fill the doe tag, i then hunt for a trophy. Shoot Strong Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slughunter Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? [ QUOTE ] I always like to hear different opinions and different techniques about bow hunting, so... What's your early season plan of attack? [/ QUOTE ] I got a nice pop-up blind as a present and I have been using that a lot in many different places. I set it up in a great place this morning, I hope it pays off this evening. -shane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ILclimber Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? Hunt Low Pressure area's as well as the ag fields early, once it's starts getting colder, start setting up for those funnels and well used trails in the timber! It's almost time here in IL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyBucks Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? I'm hunting in the acorns pretty hard right now, the place I'm hunting has no pressure at all and I'm just hunting the main food source........as the season rolls on I'll shift my attention more towards where the does are hanging out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbucks Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? im going to find a deer and hope for the best lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Re: Whats your plan of attack? I am going to sit in my treestand that overlooks where two trails intersect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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