my dad who chews and spits right under his stand and also takes ****s there have this much luck with deer??? when i try to play everything by the book i never get a good shot...
what do u guys think these scored.. the left 2 where taken with a bow and the right one with a gun... just wondering
Funny you mention the chewing thing, my grandpa used to chew beechnut. One year we had early snow during rifle, and he was spitting in it at the base of his stand and had two little fawns come up and start eating the snow where he was spitting. Snow cone anyone?
few years ago I had a set up a post with hemlock boughs pushed down inthe snow for cover...deer went up to it to eat the boughs...nosed around inthe snow hit a patch of my snus spit and I could see by the tracks that deer scrambled - almost fell - getting the heck out of dodge!
ehh sometimes its better to be lucky than good . my dads the same way im always paranoid about scent and hes a carpet cleaner and he just goes out smelling like detergent and sweat after work and have deer all around him and i get winded at 40 yards with every precaution.. not fair
my best friends dad smokes out in the stand and he shoots monsters all the time.... i piss in a bottle and take them in at night and yea deer smell me from a mile
You know I don't understand these things either...I too follow the book by the letter, or at least give a 110% effort in my attempt to, but I know so many guys that either chew, smoke, eat etc in their stands and come home with big old booners! One guy I know got a 170 buck while standing in his stand smoking a cigarette and peeing into a mountain dew bottle. He put the cig in his mouth, the bottle on the seat and shot it with his bow. I don't get it, I'm doing everything "right" or at least from what I read and was taught and I see them at 40-50 yards in brush that I cannot get a shot at...WTF?!?!
Did said event happen during the rut? Let's not kid ourselves guys, anyone, AND I MEAN ANYONE...if placed in the right location (sheer luck at times) during the rut can, will and some have taken monster bucks!!! Purely because bucks get stupid at this time! Not all bucks but most definitely some do for sure! Following the book seperates good hunters from lucky hunters in that we successful see bucks yearly, perhaps even harvest them pretty commonly and we do it not just during the rut.
