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OO2
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How do you plan on accessing that stand in the morning without spooking deer? Are you hunting mornings in the early season?
OO2
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Yes that was the plan. I can skirt the edge of the field from my grandpas where I park then cut through a little section of woods, over an old farm crossing right into the back door of my stand.
OO2
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What's your reasoning for that? Not trying to say you are wrong just trying to become more educated.
Trust me, and all the other guys will say the same thing. I wouldn't hunt mornings until late October, if you do you'll ruin that property and the deer will be on to you quicker than flies on shit.
What Chad said. Early mornings do more harm than good until late October. When I started laying off mornings at our farm, it was immediately apparent that it improved my huntint when prime time rolled around.
OO2
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Our farm is a transition area, so we don't hold a lot of deer. Regardless of how I tried to access certain areas of the farm early in my hunting ventures there, I bumped deer almost every time I went in. I was hunting A LOT too and that hurt me in the long run. Staying out of the woods during October mornings not only keeps you from bumping deer, but from burning the place out in general. Less seat time in early and mid-October equates to better hunting when it comes down to crunch time. At least that's what I have seen from altering strategies over the past few seasons.
I listened to a wired to hunt podcast with Mark Kenyon interviewing Mark Drury. Drury said that the only time he would ever hunt a morning in the early season was if there was a cold front, and even then it's risky. He said he would rather hunt the evening and not risk blowing the buck out that he was after. Bucks don't stray far from their beds in the early season, and most are already in bed by the time the sun comes up.
OO2
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I guess that makes a lot of sense now that I think about it. I didn't see very many bucks in the mornings up until the rut started. Mainly just does. I also killed my buck last year in the evening...so once again the dots are becoming connected.
