Ground hunting pressured whitetails

[fwafwow]

I switched to a saddle this year

How do you like it, and what’s your climbing method?

 

[ResearchinStuff]

How do you like it, and what’s your climbing method?

It's effective. Sort of comfy, sort of light weight, definitely low bulk. I have a 1 stick and double jrb cinch rope climbing system. It's safe, but very slow and harder than it seems like. I did a half dozen or so practice climbs, had my first hunt yesterday, and filled my buck tag with a nice one. Since I also got an elk, I was informed when I got home that my hunting season is now over. At this pace, it's gonna take years to make a real opinion on the saddle.

 

[fwafwow]

It's effective. Sort of comfy, sort of light weight, definitely low bulk. I have a 1 stick and double jrb cinch rope climbing system. It's safe, but very slow and harder than it seems like. I did a half dozen or so practice climbs, had my first hunt yesterday, and filled my buck tag with a nice one. Since I also got an elk, I was informed when I got home that my hunting season is now over. At this pace, it's gonna take years to make a real opinion on the saddle.

Nice! I got the Dryad and use it currently only instead of a "normal" safety harness. I had gone pretty far down the JRB system path, including buying all of the gear and practicing the knots, but I never went any further - so my climbing method remains on the shelf.

I've not killed anything yet, and I'm starting to get the side eye about my hunting season....

 

[KyleR1985]

20+ deer with bow from ground on public land.

There’s no secret sauce.


General rule that applies to stalking - if you think you’re moving slow, move slower. You have to stop and scan often. Trick is to see deer before they see you.

Tweak this slightly, because of my next piece of advice. The tweak is burn rubber in areas where there aren’t deer. How do you know areas that don’t have deer? Next piece of advice:

don’t get in trees unless you have a near certainty deer you want to shoot will be under you. Only way to do that is to walk so much you rule out all the places deer WONT be under your tree. And in doing so, you’ll learn the relative value of places that hold deer(you see them) and places that don’t.

And you’ll get better and stalking, drawing, anticipation etc, because you’ll have a ton of practice.


I didn’t do any of this on purpose. I just hate sitting in trees staring at squirrels it’s dumb. So I walk until I find sign I can’t pass up, or deer.


In the process of that I have had lots of chances to kill deer with my bow, when I wasn’t exactly “trying”.

 

[Dos Perros]

Headed out for my first poke this weekend. Bringing the boy to hold the Heads Up Decoy for me. Usually this time of the season isn't very good because the deer are moving too much.