Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Old school Deer hunting vs. hunting over food plots

And kick my azz running "threw" the thick brush.....

LOL!!!! HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! bring up a discussion and people don't like it......I've hunted a lot of places....same technique...scout...scout...scout....talked to hundreds of people about the subject..got one thought...people I know and have met thank its easier to run there food plots and hunt over them...that's fine..

Hell, I certainly don't consider taking a deer from a TREESTAND as old school.

I haven't been in a treestand since the early 90's after realizing, this sucks.

Wvhunter is still stirring the pot huh? Remember this thread?
http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/4292395/1

Wvhunter, what I really want to know is if you ever returned the $70 bucks to the guy from AR that tried to do business with you?

I will never sit on water, on the edge of a hayfield?

Of course.....grin

See...I catch fish...you just fish. Cating fish isn't boring.

Old school, hmmm, I remember old school deer hunting. As a preteen in 1960, They would put me on the back of a jeep dog box and ride the country roads with a 12ga and buckshot. Put a load of buckshot in one and turn the hounds aloose. Old school? No thanks, I taught my kids woodskills and stalking. We hunt food plots, stalk, and use tree stands.

anytime i watch a hunting show, not all but most, and im only refering to whitetail episodes i think to myself, ide like to see ya do that in MAINE or NEW HAMPSHIRE, and not out on the coast either where the deer are chewing on peoples shrubs and playing w/ the cat. even w/ a fod plot up here the deer population is so low (0-2 deer per sq mile in places) it would be tough, so the cost would become an issue for me proving to make it worth doing. much cheaper to find a big track up north and chase hime down. plus you get to see some cool country, its always a different adventure and most often, they show you more pockets of deer. i dont know if you could call any of these things you guys are talking about old school. they are just different ways to hunt. different strokes for different folks. some years when im not seeing many deer i wish sometime i had a pile of grain somewheres lol but then again my morals make me feel guilty and wouldnt be real proud of myself.

btw, no body has mentiond 'driving deer'. isnt that pretty old school.

This OP did the same troll last year about this time, IIRC..

yep, here ya go...

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/4292395/1

I thank it is two early on a monday mourning to respond to a post lack this...

Their are two many ways two make phun of this, and it is two EZ....

I won't bad mouth anybody's way of hunting as long as it is legal where you hunt. Someways I don't believe I'd like to do but that is no sign that everybody else has to feel the same way.

A lot depends on where you hunt and what the terrain is. Just for instance I saw a reference to thousands of acres to wander in.

Where I hunt I can't think of a place where a twenty minute walk in any direction wouldn't put you on somebody elses land. That ain't too cool down here. You go wandering around on your own couple of hundred acres and all you acomplish is running the deer over on your neighbor for a while.

By necessity it is a sit and wait game here. If you have to sit and wait you might as well have something to wait for because it is a lead pipe cinch your neighbors have feeders or food plots out.

I kill my deer by wandering the woods,looking for BigFoot....

Running deer with dogs is a big deal around here(Tidewater Virginia). Not my cup of tea, though. To me, the dogs are the ones "hunting" and the standers are just "shooting". I understand it's a southern tradition, but being a displaced mid-westerner it's just not my style.

Amen to that.It's still done in Eastern NC,I don't care for it myself.I've shot one buck,that had been "run",never again,worst meat I ever had...my dog didn't like either.....

Spotlighting hayfields at midnight seems to work. At least a few days before the season opens...and you don't have to wear orange!

Use a suppressor and you can usually get 3 or 4 of 'em before they figure out what's goin on.

In all seriousness, though, I haven't hunted deer from a stand over a food plot, but I've sat on the approach to a hayfield, and I've hunted black bear over bait. I don't much care for the way they show it on TV, hunting with a guide in a treehouse over an alfalfa field; but I can't knock it for someone who wants to do it that way.

I disagree there is no skill in food plots. You still need to figure out what they eat, what grows in your area at the right time of year, get your stand placement correct, hunt durring the right wind, etc. Lots of things go into setting a plot. You don't just plop them into woods and shoot a 160.

That being said, I've never hunted over one. I hunt mostly big woods public land where there isn't a food plot or field within 10 miles.

The private land I do hunt, is surronded by big woods public land, so it's the same type of hunting.

Lets see you trophy mountain trophy buck?

You don't like the way he due things?

Pennsylvania hunters often use the drive technique and fast handling carbines to get the job done. Its not uncommon for hunters to take 3 - 6 deer per drive effort depending upon many factors. But modern bolt action rifles and tree ladder stands are more for the lone hunters instead of "gang" drivers and posters. Both methods work but the guys I know focus upon drives.

Sherwood