Live from the stand thread

[hillrunner]

 

[Bill Loser]

Was trying to figure out your post @Bill Loser! Looks like I said the second part but I didn’t, I think that’s just your reply to my post.

I’ve shot much much smaller @Bill Loser. I hear you.

It actually looks a lot like the one I took last year. Mine was a mature deer though so not sure how much bigger he would have gotten. But I certainly left no chance for us to find out!

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Not sure what I did there... Lol. Weird it posted like that. Sorry about that.

 

[KY wild]

Would be nice but it’s not. He showed a pic from his cam. Started daylighting on his cornpile this week…

I get so sick of corn piles. I had 2 target bucks get shot on corn piles first morning of gun season on two different farms. Both about the same story neither cares about whitetails the rest of the year and then towards the end of October, they start putting out bags of corn weekly in front of a hang on stand. Then they get in the stand before daylight and hunt and this year it was two 150s bucks.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I get so sick of corn piles. I had 2 target bucks get shot on corn piles first morning of gun season on two different farms. Both about the same story neither cares about whitetails the rest of the year and then towards the end of October, they start putting out bags of corn weekly in front of a hang on stand. Then they get in the stand before daylight and hunt and this year it was two 150s bucks.

I had 7 neighbors all telecheck bucks yesterday. Every one of them was over a cornpile I’d bet my last dollar. I have not one deer left to hunt after opening day of rifle cause of a rifle and corn and I have 650 contiguous acres. This deer I videod in Oct…dead. Box blind feeder and rifle. Whoever says mature bucks are smart is mistaken. Bait is by far the worst thing to ever happen to hunting.

 

[Bill Loser]

I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm really not. But what is the difference if a buck is shot off a artificially planted food plot or a corn pile,? Both are baiting, both are out there with the intention on killing off them, so what's the difference?
For clarification, I don't bait, I have before but don't anymore, didn't even plant plots this year. Have 0 issue with either tactic.

 

[Brian662]

I had 7 neighbors all telecheck bucks yesterday. Every one of them was over a cornpile I’d bet my last dollar. I have not one deer left to hunt after opening day of rifle cause of a rifle and corn and I have 650 contiguous acres. This deer I videod in Oct…dead. Box blind feeder and rifle. Whoever says mature bucks are smart is mistaken. Bait is by far the worst thing to ever happen to hunting. View attachment 85258

The wildest thing to me is that our bucks are only(mostly) going to food right now to check does if at all. They are mostly just running the timber checking bedding areas. Are your bucks going to these corn piles to eat or scent check does?

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

The wildest thing to me is that our bucks are only(mostly) going to food right now to check does if at all. They are mostly just running the timber checking bedding areas. Are your bucks going to these corn piles to eat or scent check does?

The big one my neighbor lost was all alone coming to it. And it’s somewhat irrelevant, if they are just coming for does and does are using the bait it’s one and the same to me.

 

[Native Hunter]

The weather is brutal this afternoon. I couldn’t take it without being in a blind. I just saw a buck big enough that it made me grab my rifle and ear protection. However, once I looked through the scope it was a big 3 YO that I recognize. He better not do it 2 years from now.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

The weather is brutal this afternoon. I couldn’t take it without being in a blind. I just saw a buck big enough that it made me grab my rifle and ear protection. However, once I looked through the scope it was a big 3 YO that I recognize. He better not do it 2 years from now.

It’s rough. Pounded with freezing rain

 

[Brian662]

The big one my neighbor lost was all alone coming to it. And it’s somewhat irrelevant, if they are just coming for does and does are using the bait it’s one and the same to me.

It's completely irrelevant I'm just trying to comprehend the corn pile being that large of an attraction at a time when I'm not sure our bucks even stop to eat when in the plots.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

It's completely irrelevant I'm just trying to comprehend the corn pile being that large of an attraction at a time when I'm not sure our bucks even stop to eat when in the plots.

Consider yourself so blessed you don’t need to find out. Go Antifa style protest if they ever try to bring it back to wisc

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

It's completely irrelevant I'm just trying to comprehend the corn pile being that large of an attraction at a time when I'm not sure our bucks even stop to eat when in the plots.

I have plots and apple orchards in Wisconsin and my neighbor who has since moved would consistently bag the biggest bucks around 20 yards from his mailbox.

He would throw out a bucket of apples and corn every day when he got his mail. It would draw in does during daylight and he would only start hunting then when he started to see a big buck there in camera in daylight. It was pretty depressing to see how a bucket of corn and apples was better than acres of plots.

 

[Brian662]

I have plots and apple orchards in Wisconsin and my neighbor who has since moved would consistently bag the biggest bucks around 20 yards from his mailbox.

He would throw out a bucket of apples and corn every day when he got his mail. It would draw in does during daylight and he would only start hunting then when he started to see a big buck there in camera in daylight. It was pretty depressing to see how a bucket of corn and apples was better than acres of plots.

OK but was he doing it during this time of year? Specifically the first week or two of November?

I'm aware bait is much more powerful than plots are, I've always just thought for the most part bucks don't spend much/any time eating during this period.

In this example from Dawg, in KY, the rifle would seem to be the equalizer, IMO. Bait the does in, bucks come to scent check does, shoot buck at distance with rifle. I don't think that strategy would correlate in WI during this particular time of year being archery season. I could be wrong.

 

[H20fwler]

Bucks will hit feeders this time of year for sure.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I have thousands of pics of bucks hitting feeders from 10/15 to 11/25 when I tried defensive baiting (which is a waster of money). My neighbor who shot the buck above is a 73 year old woman hunting with her one eyed husband. I promise she didn’t Chris Kyle that thing at 600 yards. So yes the rifle in the peak of the rut is the lighter and the bait is gasoline.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Had a major cold front move in the night of the 8th here in northern IL. I sat 3 hours last night and the windchill felt like 12 degrees even though it only got down to 21. I can’t remember a time being this cold in a tree in November. Saw NOTHING over standing beans and corn. Starting to lose steam a little bit with the lack of deer sighting. Really determined to get the first deer off our farm with a bow.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

OK but was he doing it during this time of year? Specifically the first week or two of November?

I'm aware bait is much more powerful than plots are, I've always just thought for the most part bucks don't spend much/any time eating during this period.

In this example from Dawg, in KY, the rifle would seem to be the equalizer, IMO. Bait the does in, bucks come to scent check does, shoot buck at distance with rifle. I don't think that strategy would correlate in WI during this particular time of year being archery season. I could be wrong.

Yes, he shot them with a bow in November. The daily bait drew in doe groups during daylight and the bucks followed. He said the old bucks would get nervous being that close to the road, but they wouldn't leave the local does that fed on his bait pile every day.