With all the talk of tactics and being mobile vs setting in pre-hung stands... Can you be TOO mobile? It can stand to reason that if the spot was good enough to hunt once, then why not again if those same conditions presented themselves? Can you bounce your way out of a good area just for the sake of moving? If given a finite(and relatively small) space to hunt, how many "good" spots could you possibly have to hunt from?
I was actually thinking the same thing. I only have about 150 acres of land to hunt between two different parcels. I will have around 8 stands for different wind directions set up for the rut. I think rotating between that many stands is as mobile as I probably need to be. I do always have an extra LW lock on and climbing sticks available in case I see a new spot I want to try. The three biggest bucks I have ever shot were out of stands I had already used a few times that same season.
I believe you can be too mobile, just the as you can not be mobile enough. I tend to be on the not mobile enough side. I normally have 2-3 areas for each wind picked out before the season starts. If I start bouncing, I just feel unprepared then and that works away at my confedence.
IMO Mobile would mean going back to a great producing spot if the planets were lined up for that spot again, Thats being mobile aint it :d :d
Good point. The real question of mobility can only be answered by taking each property on a case by case basis. There might be 75 acres that you could move all over on and be ok, but there also might be 150 that only has a few locations suitable, farmland comes to mind.
Interesting. And ya.. you're likely right.. you could be too mobile. But I like to think most hunters would know when to stop moving. I know I like to think I do. I think many peeps take mobile hunting in the wrong way... as in they're (mobile hunters) just ruining there property. Which may be. BUT.. the learning curve for a mobile hunter versus a more 'fixed position' hunter is SOOO much quicker.. like night and day. Because.. let's face it.. how much could you actually learn by staying in the same place over and over.. where likely the deer already know you're there and thus they respond differently. You could be successful still.. yes. But.. that success will not help you out on the next property very quickly. These guys have a more difficult road ahead of them simply.. cause what they were learning.. wasn't always right. The mobile hunter.. he knows more.. almost automatically.. since he's made 5 times the mistakes.. experience just dictates this. Thus.. when he enters a new piece.. he or she is FAR advanced a tactical hunter than the other dude or dudette. Simply by circumstance. From my point of view.. and what I learned over these few years as a mobile hunter.. there is ALWAYS a better way.. and it pisses me off.
