Here's the scenario:
Checked one of my cams today and have a buck Ive never seen before that's worthy of my arrow.
I set my buddy up last week in hopes of him slaying a doe off this property that I hunt and he got busted by this buck in the process.
I have two stands already set up, the one is about 30 yards away from where I'm running my cam/corn. This stand is the one the buck busted him out of. My buddy did say it appeared he was going to come in on a string until he figured out something was up.
There is an obvious staging area about 150 yards away.
I figure I have about 3 options but am finding negatives in each one.
First: Hunt that stand every evening and wait for him to come all the way in.
Prob with this is that he is already educated on the location.
Second: Drop another stand closer to the staging area.
Prob with this is that trees with enough diameter to hang a stand in are very hard to come by in this area, and double trunk trees seem to be obsolete. I could get my stand set up somewhere but have absolutely no cover and not be able to go very high.
Third: Get the ground blind set up
Prob is there is not alot of cover to do a good brush job because the woods is fairly open and time is limited for them to get use to it.
I guess there is a fourth option:
Go guerilla style and sit in the drainage.
Prob with doing that is the amount of deer that would be passing by before he does. I'm not sure I could go undetected.
Well lets hear what you guys got.
Checked one of my cams today and have a buck Ive never seen before that's worthy of my arrow.
I set my buddy up last week in hopes of him slaying a doe off this property that I hunt and he got busted by this buck in the process.
I have two stands already set up, the one is about 30 yards away from where I'm running my cam/corn. This stand is the one the buck busted him out of. My buddy did say it appeared he was going to come in on a string until he figured out something was up.
There is an obvious staging area about 150 yards away.
I figure I have about 3 options but am finding negatives in each one.
First: Hunt that stand every evening and wait for him to come all the way in.
Prob with this is that he is already educated on the location.
Second: Drop another stand closer to the staging area.
Prob with this is that trees with enough diameter to hang a stand in are very hard to come by in this area, and double trunk trees seem to be obsolete. I could get my stand set up somewhere but have absolutely no cover and not be able to go very high.
Third: Get the ground blind set up
Prob is there is not alot of cover to do a good brush job because the woods is fairly open and time is limited for them to get use to it.
I guess there is a fourth option:
Go guerilla style and sit in the drainage.
Prob with doing that is the amount of deer that would be passing by before he does. I'm not sure I could go undetected.
Well lets hear what you guys got.
