Taking your game
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Ashman
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I voted blind. It's not that I haven't had success with the others, it's just I usually have a nice blind with heat and a comfy chair....I also bring my lunch out in it, so since I spend the majority of my hunts that way.....it has been my most successful. And most comfortable.
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You missed the most common method in the western US- Spot and stalk.
I don't really hunt any of those ways.
I don't really hunt any of those ways.
DrMike
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As hodgeman says, spot and stalk is the primary method in the west. I've certainly used blinds and still hunted. However, spot and stalk is the preferred method in the west.
Guy Miner
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Absolutely. Spot and stalk - the shot may end up being fairly close, or may be a longer one.
The routine is this - set up somewhere and glass, glass, glass. Might be hours on the binoculars or spotting scope. Move from time to time perhaps to get to a new drainage. Once game is seen, figure out how to get close enough for a shot, then make it happen. Sounds simple, but it can take all doggone day to get to that shooting position. It is frequently done out west where the land is large and a guy may be hunting many miles of terrain, trying to find one small band of mule deer or elk somewhere "out there."
Guy
The routine is this - set up somewhere and glass, glass, glass. Might be hours on the binoculars or spotting scope. Move from time to time perhaps to get to a new drainage. Once game is seen, figure out how to get close enough for a shot, then make it happen. Sounds simple, but it can take all doggone day to get to that shooting position. It is frequently done out west where the land is large and a guy may be hunting many miles of terrain, trying to find one small band of mule deer or elk somewhere "out there."
Guy
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I didn't vote, depends on what I am hunting and where.
JD338
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I am with Guy you need to add another one, Spot and Stalk! Killed my last elk of the year on thursday using that method, which is how I do the majority of my hunting. I have never been in a tree stand, I set up my blind for deer but end up shooting them somewhere else. Lots of spot and stalkers out west. :grin:
YoteSmoker
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Still hunting is closer to sneak, spot, and shoot...as I understand it.
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Most are spot and stalk but for elk in the timber it is still hunt.
375hh1973
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I didnt see "Look out your cottage kitchen window, see a deer, load your rifle, step outside and shoot it" so I voted STILL HUNT since I have had a lot of success doing that
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You mean like this... :lol:375hh1973":7ksdvdcr said:
I hunt out back 200-400 yds from the house.
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DrMike
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Jim,
That is just mean so soon after deer season has closed for many of us!
That is just mean so soon after deer season has closed for many of us!
Can't participate in that poll as I use all of those methods, depending on where and what species I am hunting. There are times I can just sit in the leather chair in the living room and wait for a whitetail, elk, moose or bear to walk out into one of our pastures or in our yard...........but it is more fun to go out and put a little effort into it. :grin:
We hunt bear over bait and by spot and stalk. Whitetail usually from a tree stand or enclosed shooting box when it is -20 or so. Elk and moose we hunt by spot and stalk, and occasionally with a tree stand near one of the ponds on our ranch. Just depends on the weather, circumstances, game movements, etc. It is illegal to bait deer/elk/moose where we live but they do of course like to feed on the grain crops and alfalfa fields. It is not a slam dunk though as there are so many alfalfa fields that the game does not concentrate and tons of forest to lay up in. Lure crops or food plots are also considered baiting here.
Our deer season just ended. I saw quite a few decent bucks but nothing huge.......at least not during legal shooting light. My wife and I saw several big 4x4 whitetail bucks and some small 5x5's, plus a lot of small dink bucks, but the biggest buck I got a decent chance at was a nice 5x5 that probably scored around 140. I let him go and hopefully we will cross paths in another year or two if he survives.
We hunt bear over bait and by spot and stalk. Whitetail usually from a tree stand or enclosed shooting box when it is -20 or so. Elk and moose we hunt by spot and stalk, and occasionally with a tree stand near one of the ponds on our ranch. Just depends on the weather, circumstances, game movements, etc. It is illegal to bait deer/elk/moose where we live but they do of course like to feed on the grain crops and alfalfa fields. It is not a slam dunk though as there are so many alfalfa fields that the game does not concentrate and tons of forest to lay up in. Lure crops or food plots are also considered baiting here.
Our deer season just ended. I saw quite a few decent bucks but nothing huge.......at least not during legal shooting light. My wife and I saw several big 4x4 whitetail bucks and some small 5x5's, plus a lot of small dink bucks, but the biggest buck I got a decent chance at was a nice 5x5 that probably scored around 140. I let him go and hopefully we will cross paths in another year or two if he survives.
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