How many of you guys are just sitting your hunt?

[nwcomechanic]

It’s hard for me to imagine the incessant need to be right and argue a semantical issue like this. Carry on.

Indeed this whole thread has turned into a bunch of hurt-feelings whitetail folks. I’m not trying to say sitting around in the elk woods isn’t hunting lol. I’m saying that tree stand hunting east of the Rockies is a joke and is not ‘hunting’ in the true sense of the word. Not trying to say you have to be moving and pursuing game constantly. This whole thread is sad. Unfollowed…


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[Jason Snyder]

Indeed this whole thread has turned into a bunch of hurt-feelings whitetail folks. I’m not trying to say sitting around in the elk woods isn’t hunting lol. I’m saying that tree stand hunting east of the Rockies is a joke and is not ‘hunting’ in the true sense of the word. Not trying to say you have to be moving and pursuing game constantly. This whole thread is sad. Unfollowed…


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I was referring to you.

 

[Grundy53]

Indeed this whole thread has turned into a bunch of hurt-feelings whitetail folks. I’m not trying to say sitting around in the elk woods isn’t hunting lol. I’m saying that tree stand hunting east of the Rockies is a joke and is not ‘hunting’ in the true sense of the word. Not trying to say you have to be moving and pursuing game constantly. This whole thread is sad. Unfollowed…


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I think you need to touch grass

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[el_jefe_pescado]

Not even sure what I am reading anymore but it is making me chuckle.

 

[Gerbdog]

Speaking of hunting east of the Rockies, im heading back to VA to see family for thanksgiving and think i might go sit a corner of a field for a few days on my uncles property and see if any bucks come out ! looking forward to it. I havent hunted whitetail in 25 years.

 

[trophyhill]

Speaking of hunting east of the Rockies, im heading back to VA to see family for thanksgiving and think i might go sit a corner of a field for a few days on my uncles property and see if any bucks come out ! looking forward to it. I havent hunted whitetail in 25 years.

My 1 and only Ohio whitetail hunt lasted about 3 hours in a ladder stand over some kind of mineral block that had all kinds of corn, oats and whatever else was stuck to it. Made a great 14 yard shot and a short 25 yard recovery. I found that hunt quite enjoyable! I'd do it again and I would define that as hunting. Regardless of what anyone else calls it lol

 

[Jethro]

Not even sure what I am reading anymore but it is making me chuckle.

Making me chuckle too. The one person on the thread that doesn't know the meaning of hunting, explaining to us, the meaning of hunting.

 

[Nine Banger]

Crazy how every hunter knows a guy that did this. Mine was a high school friend's dad. Does it ever really happen or just some story that passes from person to person as somebody who wants to sound cool takes the torch and repeats it?

It was Tom Brown, Jr. that started this. It was a big thing at our Boy Scout camp that was retold endlessly.

Tom Brown Jr:
I was 10 years old when I killed my first deer - with a flint blade on the end of a stick. I virtually lived with it for a couple of weeks, knowing its every move, every trail it would take. And finally, when I did drop from the tree and kill it, it was like killing a brother. I took the deer back to Grandfather - because it was going to be his meat for the winter - and threw it down at him and swore I would never go back in the woods again. He said: 'Grandson, when you can feel the same way about a blade of grass plucked from the earth as you do about that little deer, truly then you will be one with all things.'

 

[Gerbdog]

I feel smarter today for this. I also owe my buddy a real conversation if he's been laughing at me for believing him all this time. Trust but verify i reckon. Ah well, good on him for making me believe haha

 

[nwcomechanic]

All these old white folks sitting behind their desks all day getting hurt feelings HAHA, enjoy .

 

[nwcomechanic]

I was referring to you.

Really? Still wondering why you felt the need to join the conversation in the first place? Super productive

 

[Hnthrdr]

I think you have to be adaptable. Hot, early, season, sometimes bulls can be predictable. Sit a wallow. I have a saddle and some tree stands that I’ve thought about deploying but everything in my being is kind of against it…. Plus my luck I’ll be up there and have a bull ripping bugles 500 yards away so I haven’t committed to climbing a tree yet but maybe someday. This is all archery hunting btw. Rifle hunting I sit and glass and glass some more. Maybe I’ll slow hunt or cut tracks if the snow is right, but really if you can turn up a bull within 2000 yards and you have a gun, good chance you can kill him

 

[Gerbdog]

had a scenario similar to that some years ago... was sitting a wallow and a bull started going off just down the hill a bit... bugled at me for like 4 hours ... i was raking and splashing the wallow .... thought for sure he'd come in to the wallow.... so so so convinced...

looking back i wish i'd just gone down and killed him in his bed instead of waiting all day at that wallow for him

he ended up coming towards the wallow as the sun was just about gone, wind was all over at that point and he came from a direction i didnt expect.... only heard the sound of crashing bull headed away from the wallow

 

[muskysaloon]

I wish I had the patience to sit and glass more. I'm too antsy and my ass and legs go numb after about a half hour. Upgraded my sitting pad last year to one of the round puffy cushions with the styrofoam balls in it to no avail. What are you guys using to keep you confortable? Thought about trying one of those crazy creek chairs next.

 

[Gerbdog]

I wish I had the patience to sit and glass more. I'm too antsy and my ass and legs go numb after about a half hour. Upgraded my sitting pad last year to one of the round puffy cushions with the styrofoam balls in it to no avail. What are you guys using to keep you confortable? Thought about trying one of those crazy creek chairs next.

A couple pine boughs to plant my @ss on and keep it off the ground and extra layers. Gets cold even in September on the ground in the shade.