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Marrucaso
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What method works the best for you personally?
As everyone has a different name for their method of hunting, for the sake of THIS POST ONLY, I'm going to give general definitions of WHAT I CONSIDER to be the usual methods. Please feel free to add to these what works for you and what you usually use. THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING!
Spot and stalk:
Do you glass from a tall hill at the butt crack of dawn, and then for a few hours to find a buck or bucks and see where they are feeding or where they bed down? Then, when they've holed up, stalk down to them.
Still hunt:
Go into an area where you think they may be. Walk a few feet, stop, listen and glass. Walk a few more feet, stop, listen and glass. Suprise em or catch em coming out the back of the canyon, etc...
Ambush:
Do some tracking to find recent rubbings, find feeding grounds they're currently using, find their beds, water, etc and set up in a draw leading to one of these areas and just wait. Or glass from a higher area, watch them comming from a certain water hole, bedding, etc and ambush them the next morning/that evening, when they may come back to that water hole, bedding, food, etc.
Straight tracking:
You locate an area deer have been very, very recently. You follow their tracks and scat to where they are now. You shoot them.
Drive:
There's a canyon you know likely holds deer during the day when they bed. One or two people push through the canyon (wearing bright orange, of course). One or two people are waiting on the other end in safe positons to shoot the escaping deer.
Road Hunt:
You need not answer this post.
Personally, I've only used the "still hunt" method. Unsuccessfully, I will add, as the buck saw me before I saw him.
Well - It's your turn. What works the best for you? Please be as specific as you are comfortable with, and use illustrations / examples.
Thanks for your time and knowledge!
As everyone has a different name for their method of hunting, for the sake of THIS POST ONLY, I'm going to give general definitions of WHAT I CONSIDER to be the usual methods. Please feel free to add to these what works for you and what you usually use. THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING!
Spot and stalk:
Do you glass from a tall hill at the butt crack of dawn, and then for a few hours to find a buck or bucks and see where they are feeding or where they bed down? Then, when they've holed up, stalk down to them.
Still hunt:
Go into an area where you think they may be. Walk a few feet, stop, listen and glass. Walk a few more feet, stop, listen and glass. Suprise em or catch em coming out the back of the canyon, etc...
Ambush:
Do some tracking to find recent rubbings, find feeding grounds they're currently using, find their beds, water, etc and set up in a draw leading to one of these areas and just wait. Or glass from a higher area, watch them comming from a certain water hole, bedding, etc and ambush them the next morning/that evening, when they may come back to that water hole, bedding, food, etc.
Straight tracking:
You locate an area deer have been very, very recently. You follow their tracks and scat to where they are now. You shoot them.
Drive:
There's a canyon you know likely holds deer during the day when they bed. One or two people push through the canyon (wearing bright orange, of course). One or two people are waiting on the other end in safe positons to shoot the escaping deer.
Road Hunt:
You need not answer this post.
Personally, I've only used the "still hunt" method. Unsuccessfully, I will add, as the buck saw me before I saw him.
Well - It's your turn. What works the best for you? Please be as specific as you are comfortable with, and use illustrations / examples.
Thanks for your time and knowledge!
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