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Post by NON-TYPICAL on Sept 24, 2009 22:38:20 GMT -5
Wanting to see what kind of set-up everyone is going to hunt on the opener? Sunrise, I will be inside the timber. There will be a cut oat field with standing corn running from the apples to the woods. Looking to catch a couple trying to make their way back to the swamp using the corn for cover. I will be about 25yds from the edge of the corn and about 20yds deep into the timber.
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Post by dbd870 on Sept 25, 2009 6:26:45 GMT -5
Not going out until the 3rd. It's always a hard choice on where to start out. My property butts up against a field; I'll probably be 25 yds off of it; the deer either run the field edge or about where I'll be. There are a couple of places I could go, may use the same tree I shot that 8pt out of last year. The Princess and I have to figure out where she wants to set up for a bird and I'll take it from there. There is another area that has been good to me that is a funnel area with a little creek. I noticed it's had recent activity when I went back and cleared lanes but it doesn't lend itself to bowhunting very easily and I tend to leave it for gun season. Her Majesty also found a bedding area (I thought it was being used) when she went back trying to arrow a squirrel but it is really nasty and thick. Bowhunting is out and it's a difficult spot to approach without being busted, I've been thinking about how to hunt that spot - they're not stupid!
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Post by hoosiernavy29 on Sept 25, 2009 10:59:21 GMT -5
I will be sitting in a blind just off a food plot that has alot of doe traffic from a close corn field, they come through the plot and move on down to a pine thicket about 300 yrds away to bed. Then for the PM hunt depending on the wind I will be hunting the creek stand to the south of the pines, always a great evening hunt.
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Post by cleetus on Sept 25, 2009 11:11:46 GMT -5
I as well won't be able to get out until the 3rd, but that AM hunt I will be hunting from one of my ladder stands about 30 yards off the bean field. I will probably get up in my climber deeper in the woods for that PM hunt unless I have some action in the field.
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Post by trapperdave on Sept 25, 2009 11:46:10 GMT -5
opening morn I'll be tucked in here.
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Post by vectrix on Sept 25, 2009 12:22:11 GMT -5
Took two does in urban off of acorns, one in a wooded creek bottom and the other in a small thicket beside a large tree farm. Scored a new spot back in june where my son and I glassed two absolute monsters from the truck last year in the beans. Consistently saw anywhere from 4 to 10 bucks in groups around this place I just got. The 2 bucks we glassed were probably 600 or 700 yds away and we saw the racks with our naked eye easily! We snuck in back in Aug and hung two stands over some trails, will probably head in there tomorrow for 1 sit. Just don't want to burn it out too early, man I see those racks in my dream!
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Post by jajwrigh on Sept 25, 2009 21:04:30 GMT -5
I have 1 ladder stand set up and 3 trees with cleared shooting lanes for my climbers. I basically will hunt ridge tops with natural funnels or near the edges where thick, nasty stuff meets logging trails. I see deer in all 4 areas, so its really a coin toss...
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Post by ridgerunner on Sept 26, 2009 6:33:53 GMT -5
Deep in the woods of Illinois in Big bucks country right next to a huge Whitetoak that's dropping acorns like crazy, huge tree rubs all over the ridgetop and beans 40 yards to the south...Can't wait.
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Post by duff on Sept 26, 2009 7:23:54 GMT -5
On an acorn ridge about 20 from the corn field.
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Post by drs on Sept 26, 2009 7:40:58 GMT -5
I have three ladder stands set up on my place here in Ky. One is overlooking a water hole & open field (long shots for the .270). One is way back in a small open cleared area allowing close shots. (Muzzle Loading). The last one is in the woods off a trail with some open spots (perfect for my .308) <Good Luck Hunters!>
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Post by vortex100 on Sept 26, 2009 12:20:32 GMT -5
I will be going out on Oct 2nd for an evening hunt. I will more than likely sit on a fence row between a field and a beading area. I do not think I will see that many deer in the field, but i hope to catch them moving through a staging area that is about 50 yards from the beading area. It will be a game day decision depending on the wind.
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Post by varmint101 on Sept 26, 2009 13:36:07 GMT -5
I will probably be tucked into some pine trees waiting for a big fat turkey (probably shoot a poult lol!) to walk by.
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Post by bowhunt01 on Sept 26, 2009 14:51:06 GMT -5
set up on an old roadway running through the center of the woods with a shallow ditch on each side . On one end is a lake and the other end is a bean field this old roadway is a heavily traveled path for the deer
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Post by featherduster on Sept 27, 2009 4:58:44 GMT -5
On lake ERIE fishing for Walleye.
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Post by UrbanArcher82 on Sept 30, 2009 6:17:27 GMT -5
Took two does in urban off of acorns, one in a wooded creek bottom and the other in a small thicket beside a large tree farm. Scored a new spot back in june where my son and I glassed two absolute monsters from the truck last year in the beans. Consistently saw anywhere from 4 to 10 bucks in groups around this place I just got. The 2 bucks we glassed were probably 600 or 700 yds away and we saw the racks with our naked eye easily! We snuck in back in Aug and hung two stands over some trails, will probably head in there tomorrow for 1 sit. Just don't want to burn it out too early, man I see those racks in my dream! im vetrixs's son and this morning hunt was succesful as i harvested a button buck with my bow
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Post by raporter on Sept 30, 2009 7:02:35 GMT -5
Congratulations Renagade82.
I have two ladder stands on woods edges. Have one more I will put up later. Lots of acorns this year so will be using the climber a lot to get near them.
Good luck and wear those harnesses.
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Post by bschwein on Sept 30, 2009 14:28:38 GMT -5
On lake ERIE fishing for Walleye. Its been rough up there on the West basin last week or so
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