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What is your favorite method of hunting

Stalking your prey
13 (8%)
Sit & Wait on Ground
8 (4.9%)
From a Stand or Blind
43 (26.4%)
I just wonder around in the woods
12 (7.4%)
Depends on the game
65 (39.9%)
Still Hunting
22 (13.5%)

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What is your favorite method
« on: September 28, 2007, 12:40:14 PM »
How do you hunt? and why

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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2007, 12:52:09 PM »
I hunt from a treestand.  I dont hunt over bait. Nothing against the people who do, I just dont like to sit in the woods staring at a pile of carrots. This year Im hunting out of a canoe. My brother & I canoe back into some state land ,set up a little spike camp & hunt. My jobs not a 9-5 mon-fri ,so alot of my hunting is in the middle of the week. Less crowded.  The last couple years Ive been too picky, not alot of shooting. Not this year, Ive got doe permits. Hoping to do a little more shooting.  Jay
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2007, 03:41:26 PM »
I like to set up a ground blind, I'll look for natural cover and maybe add some blowdowns for extra blocking. I stay out of tree stands, I don't like heights and I have a tendency to fall asleep in the woods, especially on warm days.
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2007, 03:51:05 PM »
Good things come to those who wait.

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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2007, 12:17:37 PM »
Spot & stalk, we do lots of glassing, but then we are in an area where you can glass for a long way. I buy the best binocs and spotter and spend lots of time behind 'em.
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2007, 02:17:15 PM »
I hate being wishy washy but:

Mainly hunt from tree stand for white tail unless:

Its raining - I hunt from an old barn ;)
Its done raining - I stalk (quiet walking)
I'm at my auxillary spots which are long range areas in which case I camo up and lay on a hillside overlooking a large valley.

Good question though, and a lot of it is likely guided by states that don't allow treestands for firearms, or only allow shotguns for deer.
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2007, 05:18:40 PM »
As I voted on the poll,...it depends on the game your hunting.
 No one method is best,..you have to do what is needed for success at the time.
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2007, 12:10:01 PM »
Quote from: ncsurveyor on September 29, 2007, 02:17:15 PM

Good question though, and a lot of it is likely guided by states that don't allow treestands for firearms, or only allow shotguns for deer.

Are there states that don't allow tree stands? I didn't know that.
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2007, 01:35:42 AM »
Quote from: GRIMJIM on October 03, 2007, 12:10:01 PM
Quote from: ncsurveyor on September 29, 2007, 02:17:15 PM

Good question though, and a lot of it is likely guided by states that don't allow treestands for firearms, or only allow shotguns for deer.

Are there states that don't allow tree stands? I didn't know that.

OOPS

I was going from memory, back when I hunted in Michigan and firearms were illegal to use from treestands.  Who'd a thought that liberal state would have actually changed???
Maybe there is a state that's still holding out?

Good catch.  Sorry about the disinformation. 
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2007, 04:07:03 AM »
deer-
bow tree stand or ground blind ,
ML spot and stalk , ground blind ,maybe tree stand !
gun season , we run dogs , stand hunt , and all the above .
often we will sit in a tree for a couple hrs. then get together and run dogs and late afternoon be back in a tree or watching a field or other hot spot .
i get to hunt most days for at least a couple hours and we only run dogs certain days so i hunt a mix of ways , hey its all good !
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2007, 11:18:39 AM »
Quote from: ncsurveyor on October 04, 2007, 01:35:42 AM
Quote from: GRIMJIM on October 03, 2007, 12:10:01 PM
Quote from: ncsurveyor on September 29, 2007, 02:17:15 PM

Good question though, and a lot of it is likely guided by states that don't allow treestands for firearms, or only allow shotguns for deer.

Are there states that don't allow tree stands? I didn't know that.

OOPS

I was going from memory, back when I hunted in Michigan and firearms were illegal to use from treestands.  Who'd a thought that liberal state would have actually changed???
Maybe there is a state that's still holding out?

Good catch.  Sorry about the disinformation. 
I wasn't trying to point the finger at you or anything, I was just curious, for all I know there are states that don't allow them. After dealing with the dumb gun/hunting laws in Illinois I would believe just about anything.
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2007, 12:56:10 AM »
No worries Jim, didn't think you were pointing a finger.

Just another of the forum phenomenom, you couldn't see the sarcasm.  Besides, your question prompted a little research on my part which I should have done before I started typing. :-(

It's all good.  I owe you a beer (or sweet tea) if you get around dixie in the near future.

Illinois, eh?  Stupid game laws? How does it feel to be at the mercy of Chicago?

And now back to your regularly scheduled thread..............
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2007, 03:48:12 PM »
None of the above.

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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2008, 01:08:39 PM »
Still hunting when deer hunting.  However this has been forced upon us by hunters on a wildlife management area, they shoot any dog running deer! I have hunted deer, with and without dogs, all of my life in the Tunica Hills of Louisiana.  The dogs do not, I repeat do not hurt a still hunters chances of seeing deer, they enhance it!

But for some unknown reason some think the dogs hurt deer hunting, it's just not true.  I have never, in almost 40 years of hunting deer, seen a pack of hounds catch or hurt a deer unless they were wounded.  Then they need to be caught and recovered.

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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2008, 11:40:00 AM »
I hunt from elevated box stands for deer except when I rattle - then I'm on the ground.
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #15 on: February 15, 2009, 02:59:17 AM »
I mostly hunt deer and turkeys. In my woods, I have homemade ground blinds in small patches of cedars which allow me to be well hidden.  I use them for both. I sit and watch the trails the deer follow and call turkeys from them.  When I bird hunt, mostly grouse and pheasant, I walk around following a dog.  I like sitting there undetected watching nature go by and around me as if I wasnt there. 
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Re: What is your favorite method
« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2010, 12:41:46 PM »
Depends on the game being hunted.
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