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You just aren’t good at hunting. No big deal and nothing wrong with that. If you enjoy it keep going. I’ve hunted in high pressure and low density deer areas my entire life. 10 deer in thirty years is rough. Also. You don’t need all that fancy gear. It won’t help you kill deer. Nothing will help you more than spending more time in the woods. Good luck brother.I love being in the woods. I'd just like to SEE something, ya know.
I spent some time thinking this past week and tell me if this makes sense.You just aren’t good at hunting. No big deal and nothing wrong with that. If you enjoy it keep going. I’ve hunted in high pressure and low density deer areas my entire life. 10 deer in thirty years is rough. Also. You don’t need all that fancy gear. It won’t help you kill deer. Nothing will help you more than spending more time in the woods. Good luck brother.
That’s the right attitude “hunting is super easy besides where I hunt”The hunting shows on tv make it look easy..it isn't. Keep on hunting. What else would you do with your time anyways.....whitetails in Pa are one of the toughest animals to hunt since most of the time it's in close quarters.....not like shooting a muley or elk at 500 yards across a canyon or grain field.
Hunting the same spot over and over is not a great strategy, deer are better at patterning people than people are at patterning deer.I spent some time thinking this past week and tell me if this makes sense.
I started archery hunting in 2010 after a little time off work for a hernia surgery. Got someone to help me throw a stand up on a scrape line and hunted a couple mornings. Nothing serious.
2011, i actually started scouting a little, moved that stand and got my first deer with a bow.
I hunted that little patch of woods until a couple years ago when they timbered it. I know deer love a good thicket and I want to get back in there but complications
Anyway, my point. As far as I know, I was the only person hunting those woods. All the hours I spent hunting, scouting and foraging those woods, I never saw anyone or any real sign of anyone. A mowed walking path a neighbor maintained.
Having recently transitioned to hunting at my club, I'm now hunting deer that are hunted rather than unpressured animals and I need to make further adjustments. Maybe the lower pressure animals were letting me get away with stuff?
Does that make sense?
For my understandingHunting the same spot over and over is not a great strategy, deer are better at patterning people than people are at patterning deer.
You need to be hunting fresh sign always, don’t spend time hunting a spot that dried up for sign, that’s a huge important detail.
If you are archery hunting, it’s even more critical to stay mobile, because if you are getting in their zone, you are laying ground scent and disturbing the area, you need to bounce around and keep them guessing
Find current sign, look at the area, form a strategy and believe in your strategy, if you sit it a couple times with no action, move on and start the process over again, and you can always circle back to areas you’ve hunted in the past and keep checking sign
Just during the duration of a deer season, human pressure aside, there are a lot of phases of deer activity and hunting the same spot the whole time isn’t the best strategy
Make a goal of finding more places to hunt, and keep bouncing around, and don’t overcommit on any one spot
Here's what happens. I'm kind of like old Charlie Brown, you know. Right to the mooooon.....Can’t have no in your heart. I almost gave up on my elk hunt this past year and killed a nice one on my way out. Sometimes things just happen for no reason and god works his way into your mission.
I would consider a spot far enough away that you aren’t impacting deer that you are currently hunting, and most of the time a different spot would be hunting a different population of deerFor my understanding
Can you better define a "spot"?
Like how big is a "spot"? I'm assuming that it's more than the specific tree you're hunting from so, like how big of areas are we talking about here?
Obviously, ground conditions will dictate a lot of this so, for clarity, most of what I am hunting is reclaimed strip mine. Super thick cover interspersed with some older growth open areas and some small-ish ag fields.
Is a "spot" an acre? 100 acres? 1000?
For my understanding
Can you better define a "spot"?
Like how big is a "spot"? I'm assuming that it's more than the specific tree you're hunting from so, like how big of areas are we talking about here?
Obviously, ground conditions will dictate a lot of this so, for clarity, most of what I am hunting is reclaimed strip mine. Super thick cover interspersed with some older growth open areas and some small-ish ag fields.
Is a "spot" an acre? 100 acres? 1000?
Overthinking and over-analyzing are what I do.You’re way overthinking this. In this thread alone, you’ve “thought” more about whitetail strategy than I have in the past 15 years. Go hunting with someone that kills a lot of deer. Learn.
good adviceHunting the same spot over and over is not a great strategy, deer are better at patterning people than people are at patterning deer.
You need to be hunting fresh sign always, don’t spend time hunting a spot that dried up for sign, that’s a huge important detail.
If you are archery hunting, it’s even more critical to stay mobile, because if you are getting in their zone, you are laying ground scent and disturbing the area, you need to bounce around and keep them guessing
Find current sign, look at the area, form a strategy and believe in your strategy, if you sit it a couple times with no action, move on and start the process over again, and you can always circle back to areas you’ve hunted in the past and keep checking sign
Just during the duration of a deer season, human pressure aside, there are a lot of phases of deer activity and hunting the same spot the whole time isn’t the best strategy
Make a goal of finding more places to hunt, and keep bouncing around, and don’t overcommit on any one spot