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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: BigTines on February 02, 2012, 03:07:01 PM

Title: Whats your hunting style?
Post by: BigTines on February 02, 2012, 03:07:01 PM: So we know everybody has their own style of hunting mule deer. Which one is the best? Do you walk slowly all day? sit all day? Some of both? Walk the ridges? Bottoms? Glass? Which method have you shot most of your deer?
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Post by: seth30 on February 02, 2012, 03:08:27 PM: I prefer to either sit in a spot that has heavy traffic, or slowly walk a ridge. Every hundred yards stop sit down glass for 30 minutes and repeat.
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Post by: vandeman17 on February 02, 2012, 03:12:27 PM: I am a spot and stalk type of guy. I like to be on the highest ridge or best vantage point at first light glassing and hopefully finding them. If that doesn't work, I will then slowly move from ridge to ridge repeating the same process.
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Post by: Dhoey07 on February 02, 2012, 03:12:38 PM: Scout until we get weather, and then meet them in a nice little partial cut :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL:
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Post by: Caseyd on February 02, 2012, 03:14:28 PM: Both:

Morning sit and watch areas I have picked out.

Afternoon on the move check out the spots I know they usually get pushed to
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Post by: Cuda on February 02, 2012, 03:27:08 PM: I hunt low pressure areas that we have spent a few years figuring out. Hike in before light to know bedding/feeding areas with great lines of sight then wait for them to wake up and/or bed depeding on condtions and activity. My wife and I harvested two bucks from the same general location both within 1/2 hour of shooting light. Not on the same day but back to back days on opening weekend.
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Post by: Kowsrule30 on February 02, 2012, 03:28:15 PM: I like spot and stalk the most.... But I've been just as successful sitting the am or pm away at a place I've picked out.... Just gotta keep telling myself to stay put and not wonder what's around the corner/ridge/ect.... Sometimes my wandering get's the best of me and it works out then sometimes as well....
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Post by: Buckmark on February 02, 2012, 03:37:32 PM: Road hunt, nothing better than crusing around in the cab of a warm dry truck, make sure to have the maximum number of people that will fit in your rig along for the ride, makes the drag to the road easier.
A few good road hunting tips
1) Make sure to have a big thermos of coffee, nothing worse that having to drive back to camp for more.
2) Get a semi auto like a remington with the removable magazine (clip) easy to throw in when your bailing out of the truck, no hinged floor plates, they get in the way.
3) If you do use a bolt action, use a rubber band to hold open the bolt, hook it around the bolt and then the butt stock, nothing worse than having the bolt jiggle closed when your riding around on all those bumpy roads.
4) For a hot lunch, wrap a u-nuke-it burritto in foil and put it up on the defroster, it will be nice and warm come lunch time.
5) Dont forget to take your gun with you when you stop to pee (after all the coffee), nothing worse than missing the big one because your standing there holding the little one.
6) A money saving tip is to get a 30-06 and dont buy any ammo, just stop at every camp and ask if you can borrow a shell or two because you forgot
yours, heck you'll have a box or two after a few days.
7) Make sure to have the biggest scope you can afford and set it on the highest setting, that way you wont need a set of binos.
Make sure to count all the bucks hanging so when you get home you can say i saw blankety, blankety # of bucks but nothing i could of shot at.
:rolleyes:
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on February 02, 2012, 04:13:32 PM: Spot and stalk. I live and die by binos and spotting scope.
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Post by: BLUEBULLS on February 02, 2012, 05:55:46 PM: I love spot and stalk but if I had to pick a favorite method it would be still hunting. If I can glass a good area I'll spend hours on end doing it but I always have a desire to see what's just out of sight. I do think spot and stalk is a great way, maybe the best way to kill a big mule deer but it's just more fun for me to slowly cover a lot of ground.
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Post by: jeepguy on February 02, 2012, 06:06:06 PM: get to a good vantage point a watch the game trails ,let other guys push'em around sometime 's i set up in my blind and wait pretty soon they show up .
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Post by: MAVsled on February 02, 2012, 06:20:02 PM: One shot, one kill.

rifle or bow, that's my style.
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Post by: nalley112 on February 02, 2012, 06:50:14 PM: Vandeman... I do the exact same makes for most days seeing some good bucks... Sitting on the highest point give you the upper hand of overlooking more draws and gullys... Also I find the bucks just befor dark and got to the same spot I seen them the night before and start spot and stalk...
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Post by: grundy53 on February 02, 2012, 07:08:16 PM: Still hunting is my favorite. Followed by spot and stalk.
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Post by: Kola16 on February 02, 2012, 07:18:29 PM: Spot and stalk......................followed by a miss :P :chuckle:
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Post by: 724wd on February 02, 2012, 07:39:57 PM: so cruising stubble fields on a quad is frowned upon? pretty effective, though... :angel:
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Post by: adamR on February 02, 2012, 07:45:30 PM: spot and stalk!
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Post by: turkey slayer on February 02, 2012, 07:49:28 PM: As a lot of you know I scout hard all summer and keep journal and goggle map and the new cabala's gps program on my phone with sighting time patterns and beeding area. So my hunting style is a lot of glassing and spotting scope time. Most of the time I am bettween them from there feeding areas to watering holes or bedding areas. If that doesn't pan out then to a highest top and start picking through the sage bedding area with my spotting scope and finding the best way for a spot and stock
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Post by: wsucowboy on February 02, 2012, 07:54:10 PM: Find a good spot and watch the trails. Let the other hunters kick the deer around. It's worked pretty good for me so far
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on February 02, 2012, 08:06:29 PM: Spot & stalk but I do alot of sitting and glassing when bear hunting but for deer & elk got to be on the move ! ;)
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Post by: Fowlweather25 on February 02, 2012, 08:12:40 PM: Spot and stalk from morning till mid day lots of glassing in there! Afternoon finds me walkin draws and more glassin for bucks that are hidin.
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Post by: Bean Counter on February 02, 2012, 08:17:52 PM: I only stalk once I spot. If I know a high point is in a good area, ill be up there all day long, from before sunrise to after sunset.
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Post by: Cascade_fisher on February 02, 2012, 08:24:42 PM: Scout early and often, then quick and clean sit and wait pistol hunting blacktails. Spot and stalk is sexier though.
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Post by: 270Shooter on February 02, 2012, 08:57:01 PM: I road hunt
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Post by: deerslyr on February 02, 2012, 09:08:42 PM: back country bowhunting spot and stalk is my preferred hunting method.
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Post by: hugheshunter on February 02, 2012, 09:44:28 PM: I always say i am going to sit and glass a while but my curiosity gets me and i go check out what is over the next ridge. So i usually walk and try to find them. I have shot most of my bucks by just coming over the crest of a hill and there they are less then fifty yards in front of me.
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Post by: summit creek on February 09, 2012, 06:13:22 PM: dont hunt mule deer spend all my time chasing blacktails
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Post by: head hunter on February 09, 2012, 06:24:15 PM: Naked! most of the time they just sit there and stare. :chuckle:
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Post by: head hunter on February 09, 2012, 06:27:04 PM: I mean spot and stalk.
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Post by: spookgus on February 09, 2012, 06:56:55 PM: Spot and stalk, but if I'm somewhere where other hunters will ruin my scouting I'll still hunt.
When I was younger in the 80's and 90's and hunting the Snake and Salmon river breaks of WA, OR, and ID it was "Search and Destroy". Coon one canyon after another until I found something I couldn't pass. It was nice to be young and hike your way away from hunting pressure.
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Post by: sakoshooter on February 10, 2012, 06:43:08 PM: Quote from: Pathfinder101 on February 02, 2012, 04:13:32 PM
Spot and stalk. I live and die by binos and spotting scope.

I'll second that. Only way to go.
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Post by: sakoshooter on February 11, 2012, 09:12:36 PM: Spot & Stalk the first couple hours of the morning then still hunt using bino's mid day with a short sit down prior to dark.
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on February 11, 2012, 09:33:56 PM: Sitting on my front porch...................waiting and waiting and waiting. I don't like deer meat. I'd rather go with the guys and show them the deer.
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Post by: ghosthunter on February 11, 2012, 09:44:38 PM: Well I spot and stalked for years but now i am mostly sit and watch.
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Post by: dr.derek on February 11, 2012, 10:47:44 PM: Quote from: Buckmark on February 02, 2012, 03:37:32 PM
Road hunt, nothing better than crusing around in the cab of a warm dry truck, make sure to have the maximum number of people that will fit in your rig along for the ride, makes the drag to the road easier.
A few good road hunting tips
1) Make sure to have a big thermos of coffee, nothing worse that having to drive back to camp for more.
2) Get a semi auto like a remington with the removable magazine (clip) easy to throw in when your bailing out of the truck, no hinged floor plates, they get in the way.
3) If you do use a bolt action, use a rubber band to hold open the bolt, hook it around the bolt and then the butt stock, nothing worse than having the bolt jiggle closed when your riding around on all those bumpy roads.
4) For a hot lunch, wrap a u-nuke-it burritto in foil and put it up on the defroster, it will be nice and warm come lunch time.
5) Dont forget to take your gun with you when you stop to pee (after all the coffee), nothing worse than missing the big one because your standing there holding the little one.
6) A money saving tip is to get a 30-06 and dont buy any ammo, just stop at every camp and ask if you can borrow a shell or two because you forgot
yours, heck you'll have a box or two after a few days.
7) Make sure to have the biggest scope you can afford and set it on the highest setting, that way you wont need a set of binos.
Make sure to count all the bucks hanging so when you get home you can say i saw blankety, blankety # of bucks but nothing i could of shot at.
:rolleyes:

Ha if you are serious I hope the bullets you steal don't fire when you see a buck
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Post by: deerslyr on February 12, 2012, 01:42:25 PM: it was obviously sarcasm...