Do you sit in the same spot all week ?

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Originally Posted by outdoorlife

Bow hunting = constantly changing locations


Rifle hunting =

2 spots, one for morning, one for evening. Haven’t changed in 20+ years. Morning stand has produced 40+ deer through various seasons for a number of hunters. Evening stand 20+

The 40+ stand is our best producer. We used to put someone in it every evening. After 20+ years and 40+ morning deer killed there there has been a grand total of 1 doe shot there on an evening sit. Most evenings now no one even bothers with it.

Success is maximized by spending as much time as possible in those two stands. The objective for whitetail hunting is to find these spots and stick with them…,


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Nice. So what makes these such hot spot? What’s your set up?
Thanks

I have 6 ladder stand type set ups in different locations. My favorite is a stand overlooking my couple of acres of open field and old apple orchard and I usually have a corn feeder going. This particular stand I have shot I think about 12 deer from, a stand back in the hardwoods on a junction of two logging trails I have shot 3 deer from, all does but busted by at least 5 bucks over the years. Out of the six stands two had not produced but if I had not messed up I should have shot several nice bucks from one of them and the other we had no doe tags we could use. My success on the open field is that it has turnips, clover, beets , grown and thrown apples. The doe's come into feed and of course in due time the buck's follow.

I tend to check the wind pretty often just light up a small rolled up piece of paper towel and let it burn like a cigarette, which it will do for a long time, interesting to see how the wind swirls at times and has no definite direction. This gate stand is near the township road and because its got a swamp to the south and its situated in the south of the field, the deer come from the west mostly, with the wind to their backs, the only wind that spoils this stand is a south wind. The best one is a north wind blowing my scent into the swamp behind. I think if you up 15 feet or so your good. The wind generally goes down with the sun and I find it eliminates it some what as a factor when the deer are generally coming out to feed.

I have noted when the squirrels go away and stop feeding in the evening, the deer move right in about that time .

Adapt your spot to deer movement if necessary. The only way to know is to sit there and see what happens. I hunt on several small properties both public and private and use self climbers. So I'm acustomed to moving around. Granted in many places I have the "one" spot that covers a lot of the deer movement. But in larger bushes more than 30 acres I'll have at least around 2-4 spots.

I have 2 stands on my property as well with an option for ground blinds too. Which one I use depends on the wind, time of day and where I've seen sign or tracks.