can you drive to the stand site in an atv?
Stand hanging poll.
I got a new farm to hunt that has a big boy on it. I think I have a pretty good idea where he is living and feeding at night. I'll have to hunt him pretty close to his bedroom. I do not have stands up and am contemplating hanging them after dark when he should be out of there. What's your thoughts and experiances. I have had luck hanging and hunting but this place is a little different and a half mile walk with stands.
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Hang and hunt is your best chance IMO.
I can and really I would rather do that asap midday. BUT, my ATV is getting worked on and I'm not sure when it's going to be ready.can you drive to the stand site in an atv?
Hang and hunt unless you can get a really windy day with the right direction.
what about hunting him from a ground blind and staying out of his bedroom for now? Hang your stand closer to the rut after a few hunts in the blind to better know where it needs to be...Just my .02
Depending on where it is, and how much you have to traverse likely bedding areas to get it hung where you want.... I'd hang mid day now, with right wind, then let it rest til first day you want to hunt it.
Even if he hears you hanging it, by 9/15 unless you just stomped all over the place, and really created a ruckus, he'll forget all about it.
Disturb the are as little as possible, try to clear shooting lanes to keep out of line of sight for the deer, and by all means place stand where you will not get skylined, and hunt only when wind is right.
All my stands are on edge of my property, so I don't have to trample the bedding areas.
Even if he hears you hanging it, by 9/15 unless you just stomped all over the place, and really created a ruckus, he'll forget all about it.
Disturb the are as little as possible, try to clear shooting lanes to keep out of line of sight for the deer, and by all means place stand where you will not get skylined, and hunt only when wind is right.
All my stands are on edge of my property, so I don't have to trample the bedding areas.
Its not really going in to his bedroom just close. I will be able to access the stands without running in to him. Should make for an exciting early season if all goes right and he doesn't move off.
I'd hang it mid-day, asap, and let it rest. Better to me than trying to do it the day you hunt, and possibly busting him out that day. If it's there and you can get in quietly, downwind, etc.... It'll be killer first times you hunt it. :tup:Its not really going in to his bedroom just close. I will be able to access the stands without running in to him. Should make for an exciting early season if all goes right and he doesn't move off.
Does this plan have an effect on your neighbors property on their bedding areas or deer travel routes?All my stands are on edge of my property, so I don't have to trample the bedding areas.
The reason I ask is that I had one ladder stand about 100 yards from the property line on a well used trail. Neighbors guest hunter set up his ladder stand 10 feet from the property line overlooking the same trail. The deer ended up changing their travel routes going around the stand on the neighbors and at the same time they didn't come my way like they had done prior to the neighbors guest placing his stand.
To Maddux....this first year will be experimental where the best places to place stands and when to do it. Next year you will more than likely change the location of some if not all of your stands from the knowledge you obtained from this coming season.
Good Luck!
Mailman. This is going to be an assassination attempt. I'm setting these stands for one deer and going to try and get it done early. I was mostly seeing if anyone has went in the middle of the night to hang stands or am I just being paranoid. I agree new farms can take time to figure out sometimes but I'm pretty certain after studying topos and a little scouting where I need to be.
you have had some really good early season success, so I would just follow your instincts, or hang it midday 
No. My property is bordered by a road to East, Road to North(dirt) with pasture across that, Grainfield to West, and Pasture to South. There is no one hunting my neighbors property anywhere near my property lines.... I can hunt the very edges, and not interfere with anyone else.Does this plan have an effect on your neighbors property on their bedding areas or deer travel routes?
The reason I ask is that I had one ladder stand about 100 yards from the property line on a well used trail. Neighbors guest hunter set up his ladder stand 10 feet from the property line overlooking the same trail. The deer ended up changing their travel routes going around the stand on the neighbors and at the same time they didn't come my way like they had done prior to the neighbors guest placing his stand.
This is the reason I bought this piece of ground, I wanted bigger, but most of the other properties I looked at, neighbors had stand hanging in every tree on the fence line.
My property is one big bedding area, and I just hunt the edges.
Big....BYW, how big we talking??
I'd go in the wee hours of the morning and hang it the 15th, used to work pretty well long as you don't mind taking a nap from four till daylight.
Always the best chance to kill a buck from a stand on a new property, is the first hunt. This close to season, hang & hunt if you've got him on a summer pattern, do it asap. He won't stay on summer pattern long after velvet comes off.Hang and hunt is your best chance IMO.
is he feeding on the property and if so do you have to go thru the feeding area?
Need to figure out the wind on the day you hang the stands if it is near the bedding area.
Early season I would go mid-day and as quietly as you can, trim very little. Borrow the landowners tractor to get in with the stand
Place I am hunting this year, the deer have been bedding in the beans until the sun comes up over the trees in the mornings.
Need to figure out the wind on the day you hang the stands if it is near the bedding area.
Early season I would go mid-day and as quietly as you can, trim very little. Borrow the landowners tractor to get in with the stand
Place I am hunting this year, the deer have been bedding in the beans until the sun comes up over the trees in the mornings.
He is not feeding on this property at night. I would not have to walk through his food source or bed. It's really a great setup for early season morning hunt which sounds stupid.is he feeding on the property and if so do you have to go thru the feeding area?
Need to figure out the wind on the day you hang the stands if it is near the bedding area.
Early season I would go mid-day and as quietly as you can, trim very little. Borrow the landowners tractor to get in with the stand
Place I am hunting this year, the deer have been bedding in the beans until the sun comes up over the trees in the mornings.
Bring a climber! And geterdone
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