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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: pope on September 10, 2016, 01:04:09 PM

Title: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: pope on September 10, 2016, 01:04:09 PM: Found a pretty good blacktail ambush spot on NFS land, a back-up plan in case the tree farm closed, which it did....but now it's open. Anyway, I left this spot alone for more than two weeks then finally got a green light from the Frau to start my four-month deer season. After five hours of tree-stand character building, I bailed but grabbed my camera before I left. All morning I heard squirrels dropping green cones but another noise above me sounded like rolling rocks. I was pretty sure I had company but I wasn't sure of its identity. I think I figured out why the deer vanished. I'm considering buying another tag, although he's almost cute enough to take home and cuddle.

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Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: pianoman9701 on September 10, 2016, 01:41:43 PM: You can always wreck his. :tup: Not all bear kills have to be record-book trophies.
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: mfswallace on September 10, 2016, 02:05:47 PM: :yike: Black BABY Bears Matter
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: fishnfur on September 10, 2016, 11:22:28 PM: What? No bear tag?

Those deer will be back tomorrow.
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: PA BEN on September 17, 2016, 04:53:57 PM: Bear don't bother deer at all, I've had bear on my game cameras and mins later the deer are there.
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: lewy on September 17, 2016, 05:16:15 PM: :yeah: seen em using cuts together many a time, ur deer will be around
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: tgomez on September 17, 2016, 06:06:31 PM: Quote from: PA BEN on September 17, 2016, 04:53:57 PM
Bear don't bother deer at all, I've had bear on my game cameras and mins later the deer are there.

This is very true. I had a spike and a doe come down the same trail an hour before I missed a bear this year. They keep a safe distance, but not enough to scare them out of the entire area.
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: pope on September 17, 2016, 08:59:59 PM: I'll be back in there Sunday and Monday (after work) with deer and bear tags. Hopefully something delicious will invite itself to dinner.
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: fishnfur on September 17, 2016, 11:33:56 PM: Hope you don't end up being the delicious dinner for some bear. :chuckle: Good luck!

http://tdn.com/news/local/longview-bow-hunter-survives-brush-with-angry-black-bear/article_bf372c92-34bc-11e4-bc51-0019bb2963f4.html
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: warthog on September 18, 2016, 09:24:40 PM: last year i got a pic of a deer and bear in the same pic. my cam was set up in a little plum grove about 15 yards from my porch. they are often in there at the same time. every now and then a deer will snort, honk, grunt, stomp and generally make a fuss if they walk in and get surprised. LOL!
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: pope on September 19, 2016, 04:56:32 AM: Quote from: fishnfur on September 17, 2016, 11:33:56 PM
Hope you don't end up being the delicious dinner for some bear. :chuckle: Good luck!

http://tdn.com/news/local/longview-bow-hunter-survives-brush-with-angry-black-bear/article_bf372c92-34bc-11e4-bc51-0019bb2963f4.html

That guy was lucky! Nothing to report so far, going back up after work.
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: mossback636 on September 19, 2016, 08:40:33 PM: Buddy shot a bear last month and I could almost see the bear and deer at the same time in the scope! Your good lol have seen bear and deer in the same cuts several times
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: pope on September 20, 2016, 05:43:50 AM: With favorable winds, Justyhunter and I attempted to call in the bear last evening, but 20 minutes into the set the wind shifted. Oh well, we gave it a shot and had fun getting drenched. For whatever reason, deer are leaving this spot alone currently. Maybe they were in there cooling off on hot days in August? This is big timber on the edge of a narrow strip of reprod with an open area on the other side of the reprod. Plenty of rubs in the feed area so I'm not giving up on it just yet.
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: fishnfur on September 20, 2016, 10:30:56 AM: That spot is where my bucks went in early July. I haven't seen 'em since.
Title: Re: This guy wrecked one of my deer spots
Post by: scoutdog346 on September 26, 2016, 06:44:46 PM: I used to think that too man! Don't worry. Its still a good spot of it was b4.