Post by: turkeyfeather on December 07, 2010, 08:12:42 AM
Post by: Bigfoot on December 08, 2010, 04:28:51 AM
Post by: Shootmoore on December 08, 2010, 05:09:52 AM
Sounds like you need to start knocking on doors and asking for permission to hunt.
Pretty much this, although its kind of late in the game. To put a positive spin on things you just had a learning experience hunting archery with the later seasons involved. If your hunting private land you will want to have "early season" altitude area to hunt and "late season" altitudes. Learn the migration patterns of the deer with a heavy snow year this year. Have some "wintering area" property on the permission list. With having the high altitude like you have already you can move with the deer depending on the type of winter for that year.
I'm not real knowledgeble with that neck of the woods over there, but I would guess that there is state or fed land down at the altitude the deer have moved. While not optimal as private land "more pressure" that can always be a fall back, and may be good with the better than average snow we are having that normal. Break out the maps and the assesors web site and start figuring out who owns what where you need to be. Although your late to the game doing this, you may find the late season "honey holes" when we have another winter like this.
Good luck
Shootmoore
Post by: turkeyfeather on December 08, 2010, 04:46:40 PM
Post by: Shootmoore on December 09, 2010, 04:56:03 AM
I guess I need to knock on some more doors, I am quickly learning all the things I'm not doing right yet. I'll get the hang of this someday. Thanks for the help.
Thats all part of the fun. Each and every one of us who shoot stick and string learns something new every year. Heck I have been bow hunting for 29 years now (crap I am getting old!) and still learn something new every year. Or learn something new from other stick shooters all the time. I figure I will have it mastered in another 120 years or so :chuckle:
Shootmoore