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Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: Dhoey07 on November 27, 2013, 04:04:38 PM

Title: Sitting in the blind
Post by: Dhoey07 on November 27, 2013, 04:04:38 PM: Half hour of light left, where ya at mr whitetail???
Title: Re: Sitting in the blind
Post by: Wea300mag on November 27, 2013, 04:08:07 PM: SHHHHHHHH!!! This guy is coming in soon.
Title: Re: Sitting in the blind
Post by: pd on November 27, 2013, 04:55:51 PM: That is just mean spirited :chuckle:

I feel your pain. Hopefully something good will happen this weekend. Pray for rain?
Title: Re: Sitting in the blind
Post by: Dhoey07 on November 27, 2013, 05:05:35 PM: That would have been nice. Nada tonight, I'll be back in there Monday :tup:
Title: Re: Sitting in the blind
Post by: BlacktailBowhunter on November 27, 2013, 06:46:18 PM: The temps are going to drop next week and it will be game on. Good luck. Most of my bucks are still nocturnal, so I am staying outa the blind until they start showing during shooting hours.
Title: Re: Sitting in the blind
Post by: BABackcountryBwhntr on November 29, 2013, 10:56:19 PM: Quote from: BlacktailBowhunter on November 27, 2013, 06:46:18 PM
The temps are going to drop next week and it will be game on. Good luck. Most of my bucks are still nocturnal, so I am staying outa the blind until they start showing during shooting hours.

thats a mistake..... you have to be there to kill them.. dont make the mistake of checking your cam and seein them in the day time.....
Title: Re: Sitting in the blind
Post by: BlacktailBowhunter on November 30, 2013, 04:25:50 PM: Thanks for the input, but I will wait until the temps drop. I have sat a few days this year from daylight until dark and passed on a fork x 3 about the size of the one you killed this year. I am after the big boys, which means I may eat tag soup.

I am a bit obsessed with patterning blacktails during the late season and have been photo documenting feed patterns in relation to temperatures going on 4 years now. The 3 cams I am running now get between 500 and 600 photos of deer per day combined. I go through a lot of apples. Over a ton so far this year.

For the last 3 years December 1st, 2nd, or 3rd has been the start of the big bucks feeding during shooting hours. It has been the days that the temps. fall, and it looks like it is going to hold true this year. At least in my area. I am on public land and these boys are wary. If I was on a private farm where there was no pressure, I would expect a lot more daytime activity, but these boys are being pursued and pushed. I plan to hunt during the week next week when most guys are at work. Big buck behavior is primarily dictated by the temperature and hunting pressure of a given area.

Every buck is different and the bucks I have patterned right now are nocturnal. I would rather bump them at mid day when I go into my cam than bump them coming out of the blind at dark when they may be on their way in. We all have a method of doing things and this has suited me fairly well.