Do you sit in the same spot all week ?

Wondering if you guys set up multiple spots during the hunt or if you set up one spot and go to the same spot every day?

I have 2 ground blinds this year. I'm thinking if setting them up in two different spots. Giving me an option on where to go.

One spot would be in the middle of the bush in a clearing. The only problem with this spot is if the snow comes down hard ill have to walk through snow up to my waist to get there in the morning.


My other spot is closer but in thick bush but is like a deer highway almost.
but isn't that bad of a walk through the snow if it does end up coming down.



Curious to know what you guys do.


My dads always been one to sit in the same spot all week because he's been screwed over after moving to another spot and seeing deer infront of the spot he was the day before lol


Any comments pictures etc are welcome :)

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I have 100 acres to my self. I have 4 spots I sit, all depending on wind direction so my wind isn't hitting the swamp/bedding area.

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I have 100 acres to my self. I have 4 spots I sit, all depending on wind direction so my wind isn't hitting the swamp/bedding area.

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Same here, multiple stands built to accommodate wind direction and a couple of pop-ups for rain/snow days.

Last year, I took a walk down memory lane for a few hunts. Went back to stalking and sitting randomly behind logs etc on my turkey hunting chair. It was quite fun and sure broke the boredom of staring at the same patch of bush, day in day out.

I hate trail cams during hunt week, no one wants to see a nice young buck standing in front of one stand when you went to the other on that morning. HaHa.

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Same here, multiple stands built to accommodate wind direction and a couple of pop-ups for rain/snow days.

Last year, I took a walk down memory lane for a few hunts. Went back to stalking and sitting randomly behind logs etc on my turkey hunting chair. It was quite fun and sure broke the boredom of staring at the same patch of bush, day in day out.

I hate trail cams during hunt week, no one wants to see a nice young buck standing in front of one stand when you went to the other on that morning. HaHa.

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hah tell me about it, had my trail cam beside my blind last year, as i was sitting in it i had a buck walk right past me but it was still 15 minutes until legal, buck turned around started yelling at me like a donkey snortted and then took off. my trail camera caught the whole thing. video is on my laptop, havent deleted it yet LOL. hopefully i get another chance at him this year.

what you guys are saying about wind direction is a good idea. perhaps ill do something similar this year.

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what you guys are saying about wind direction is a good idea. perhaps ill do something similar this year.

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If you're sitting in the middle of a bush, you'll find the wind direction swirls around on the forest floor. I learned this burning scent sticks and watching the smoke trail change from left to right continuously, even 360 circles sometimes. That's where you want to be up high and have the best scent control you can and hope for the best. HaHa.

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If you're sitting in the middle of a bush, you'll find the wind direction swirls around on the forest floor. I learned this burning scent sticks and watching the smoke trail change from left to right continuously, even 360 circles sometimes. That's where you want to be up high and have the best scent control you can and hope for the best. HaHa.

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fair enough, im surprised i seen as many deer as i did last year in the bush sitting on the floor. whats weird tho is after the third day it was a ghost town. which is why im thinking of setting another spot up, dont have the luxury of setting a tree stand on this property so hub blind is going to have to do. ill be putting it up fairly early and brushing it in well this year for sure.

There is no sure bet-deer does what deer do.
One can sit all week, and catch a deer, or move ,and catch a deer.

I have 10-15 spots,some for many years,some leaving then adding new every year(mind You-i hunt almost exclusively pay for use public-so i move some)

I think ,especially in hard hunted areas,the best is to move.During the season as well.
Deer will get patterned you out soon enough.
There is a huge element of surprise if you move(even 50 yards up/down a trail).

Pup up blinds/hub blinds are not the best for that-but nothing wrong sitting still on a right spot ,low on a turkey chair.

I have 2 stands, my original on the outer edge of a soft maple swamp, in a cedar clump about 14 feet in the air. Got my first deer here, so that makes it special and I almost always do my first monday morning sit here.
My other main stand is 100 yards further inside the maple swamp. This one is on a big maple about 22 feet up with a great view. From the ground it is hard to see anything 40 yards away, but from this height you can see almost 200 yards in some directions.
Both stands are made with pressure-treated wood and steel roof as well as plywood walls, the higher up one having a good wooden ladder with deck block base for it to prevent any premature rotting.
Both stands get a careful inspection every year at least once for integrity, and we have condemned 1 other tree stand we built about 20 years ago as the tree is starting to lean and die off.
We have a few other box-style stands being used that are about 7 feet off the ground but I prefer higher up for scent control as we do not really have major trails, the deer tend to wander anywhere and from any direction so you need to keep your head on a swivel.
Looking at putting a few bases in spots for doing stalk and sits as 1 hunter tends to get easily bored and likes to wander.
John

As others have said, wind plays a big factor in deciding where to sit. I also have stands on opposite sides of a field between 2 woodlots that funnel deer where the sun rising or setting decides which one I sit in so as not to be blinded at an opportune time. Other properties in controlled hunt area are strictly hunted hard during the early bow season and then left to settle down until the December hunt.

I would suggest setting up at least 2 stands. One tree stand and one ground blind is a good combo to take advantage of the morning thermals (the warm air rises in the AM). If you don't have a tree stand, I would set up one ground blind in a higher spot, like the top of a ridge for morning sits. The other one in a lower area for the afternoon/evening sit. Despite our best efforts to conceal scent, if the wind isn't right you will get busted. Obviously more of a factor for bow than rifle.

Also just as important as your stand locations...are how you access those locations. Chose spots that don't involve lots of trailblazing. You need to sneak in and out undetected. And don't get too close to bedding areas or you will bump deer off the property.

Biggest mistake I see guys make is put up stands or blinds and clear massive amounts of brush away for shooting lanes etc. The deer are moving through the particular area for a reason and any changes to cover etc most certainly changes their patterns. Trim enough to get a few small lanes but if it involves a chainsaw you’re likely altering things enough that they will make other plans as to where they travel. The exception is hard funnels or pinch points where there isn’t any other option for them. Spot and stalk has nailed many bucks for me and seldom am I found in a stand or blind. Like others said doesn’t matter what cover scent etc you spray on yourself or put on trees..you will not beat a mature bucks nose, gotta play wind.

Main thing is when you leaving your sit. Don’t get busted exiting your blind. You can get busted walking in doesn’t mean spot is blown. But if you get seen leaving out the door down a tree stand they’ll remember

I have two ground blinds and two tree stands, depending whether its bow or rifle on what I use. I have a summit climber which I will set up in random spots like the view of a beaver dam and it's paid off on a few nice bucks. Setting up trail cams too see deer patterns is lots of fun but big bucks are learning as much as we are!

I appreciate all the responses guys. So it looks like 100% of you so far have at least 2 stands/ spots to mainly play the wind

.very interesting.

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Nope, not at all.

Ive got about 1500 acres available to me and use it

We have a crown land camp. Our crew picks their watch by straw draw ans spend the first couple of days setting them up. Just out of a concern for safety,each member goes to the watch in the dark and we come out in the dark and only one member wanders around. That way,we know where everyone is.

Multiple spots to sit on a mix of private and public properties. It can lead to overthinking things, but it makes sense to have different setups for different wind, crops, season (early or late) and time constraints.

It keeps things interesting and seems to keep the deer from "patterning" us.



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Whether it’s moose or deer hunting, I have several favourite spots plus some other contingency spots. Where I decide to “sit” depends on the amount of fresh sign and to some extent the wind speed and direction. I really like to explore/still-hunt so it’s not very often that I’ll stay in the stand for more than 4 hours. Although it’s fun to sit in a tree stand and lay the thunder down on an unsuspecting buck, I prefer to snack em when I’m I’m sneaking around in their turf.

Multiple locations. Some are just a nice rock on a ridge. I don’t do well sitting in just one spot. I do have one pretty productive stand for evening sits during rifle though and I’ll sit it more often than not. Morning always changes.

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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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.