The most prolific hunter in modern history only hunts a stand one time a year. Will only hunt when conditions are right.What about this thought? Anytime I hunt some place that I have not hunted before it is almost always a great hunt. The old saying the first time you hunt a stand is the best hunt I find to be true. So my point is the new stand I go to and leave just like the other stands which seems to say that maybe it is not how I am coming and going but some other factor and I think the factor is all the skin cells that I drop in and out each time. So maybe mature deer is bothered more by your past pattern than a one day change, like noise walking in over the ridge. Just a thought
Who gets that title?The most prolific hunter in modern history only hunts a stand one time a year. Will only hunt when conditions are right.
Dr Bob shepherd. Google his name and whitetailWho gets that title?
Quicker travel and doesn't leave "your" scent.I don't have many good options to get to my stands. The deer are use to hearing our tractor and UTV on the trails. I think for evening hunts I'm going to start driving the UTV within 50 yards of the stand and walk to it. Like Westwind wrote, "best bad plan".