Are YOU set in your ways?????

[dartonman]

This is a question of new and old archers in this great sport. Are you a creature of habit.....do you still, because you are catching sightings of deer, a follower of the norm, or would you change your ways if need be. Here is a case in point, a new archer to the sport, in my opinion has a honey hole of a property. A land owner with a large herd that really has done really good QDM management has A TON of archers on "bordering" properties basically "hogging" the fencelines of his crops...knowing full well that if they shoot one on the landowners land, then they have to get permission to track. I informed my buddy, who has been a "fence" hunter, that I would give him 20 ft of climbing sticks, and a new treestand, if he just actually scouted the property, as he walks three or four hundred yards to hunt the "fence", well I was right, the deer that actually head to to fence that he needed to be hunting are staging 150 yards from the crops till dark, and there are fresh scrapes, and rublines all over the place, my buddy can't believe how much he truly is missing, actually setting up in the woods to really hunt. SO, answer me, are you a fence hunter, or do you work for it. al

[Ravin R10 man]

I never did acquire a taste for barb wire...LOL

[bloodtrails]

:angel1:

[ruttinbuc]

the grass is not always greener on the other side, but it never ceases to amaze me how many people think it is. Then they think it is perfectly OK to hunt and shoot across the fence. Putting the hunt into hunting has always been my way.

[pointing_dogs_rule]

I DO NOT fence hunt (almost). Just doesn't seem right.

I do not "pressure" anyone elses property that is being hunted and hope that do not "pressure" my hunting areas. Just a matter of respect to stay, say 75 yards or more away.

With that stated, I do have one stand within 25 yards of a fence where the owner practices deer management. I bow hunt and he later gun hunts his property. Both of us only shoot mature deer. I would not have this stand there if he hunted in the same season as me.

Last I have one guy that has put a stnd on a fence line of one of my best areas and hunts without checking the wind direction. Imagine what that has done to the area.

good luck to all

the dog

[Straight Shooter]

I dig and look around, give me the thickest spot to hunt. I don't like hunting the boundries of other properties, I'd much rather hunt 150 yards from line and have the deer still fall on my property, than fall 150 yards over on someone else.

[arrow32]

I dig around.

I've got one stand the honey hole and its in the middle of a brush pile on the back side of the farm and it is awesome. You can get into it and not jump a thing great spot.

Anyway no I ain't much for fence huntin.

[jcot2773]

would much rather dig in deep for a good spot. hike farther and deeper into the thick stuff and thats where the big boys tend to stay

[robinhood]

same here i dont fence hunt. and should always scout out your whole property to know whats going on in the woods all time. the mature deer no everything about it and most will not show up in the open under dark in less crossing a road bedding area to bedding area. i always hunt deep

[hutchies]

Nope.............I try to get between bed and food. Normally food they are in right before daylight and right after dark. If you can get between food and bed you can catch them moving to and from food..............See alot more deer that way. Locate a pinch point and cut them off.