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

I would be hard to due things the way he dues them...I thank...threw the thickest brush and all...he must be a reel hunter.....

Food plots for us out here are as much a management tool as a killing field.Trail cams give us a good cross section of what numbers we have in doe/buck ratios and the overall health of the herds.They also provide a diversity of diet and are helpful during extreme weather conditions to assure that the late hatch of fawns will see the warmth of spring...

Yu haf to bee, ef you gon two harrvest a trofey buk.

I hunt in a very large swamp with timber ridges in Manitoba. We hunt in treestands and it requires a very patient approach. I have come to believe over the years that we are a very small minority of hunters. Most hunters find it very boring and very cold in November. But my logic follows, "if a pack of timberwolves can't sneek up on a mature buck how do you expect too?" Stands used to be built by hand out of tree limbs and an occasional 2+4. If you go to Sasketchewan this how you will probably hunt. The technique is old school with new manufactured
stands. In many cases hunters do what they have to do to hunt the terrian and it is not a choice. When in the bush in Canada it is very thick brush that you must navigate and they hear you long before you get to see them. There are some that stalk because they have found a timbered area they can do so in. So I accept the way hunters approach their sport in many cases the game is requiring it to be sucessful. Buckfever1

really? no offense but its done every year all across the northeast. probably out west as well bgut they arent ghosts. they are deer. being as curious as they are often leads to their demise. ive found when tracking that after a few times jumping them out they will often times hang around long enough to see what you are.

an example would be last season my wife took her hunters saftey and hunted along behind me one and a half days before she killed her 6 pt as he lay in his bed, asleep

Seems so too, if I were you, I"d get rid of the computer and internet too and real quick. You are so old fashioned you don't need to be on here. go back to 2 shorts and a long.

not to mention the amount of work to put them in..... I"ve mentioned it before, but currently due(or is that do....) to drought, I'm putting 1000 gallons of water on a small food plot twice a week. Thats labor and money. Not to mention that they are in stress right now and feed prices have skyrocketed.... they are burning 300 pounds of creep feed plus corn a week and not leaving anything on the ground each day... PRetty soon with the level of the tank, I"ll have to start bringing loads of water to a water trough for them to make it through too.... You may not agree with what I"m doing at home, but I see deer on a daily basis and damnit all, even at 10 bucks a bag of feed, I"m not going to let them starve. I wouldn't do it to my pets or cattle either....

Jeff

Well, today you can either be a deer hunter or a deer farmer, your choice. Lot's choose to be farmers and if it didn't make it easier to kill deer I doubt like hell they'd bother.

What the heck do you do with them? Last year I put 2.5 deer in my freezer, ate mostly deer all year and I just start to run out when season opens again. There is just the 2 of us eating it but still.

This year I have 3 mulie doe tags and a whitetail general. I'm not going to fill them all unless I know a friend who wants one in advance.
Mule does for meat, I want a WT buck. Got cheated last year's shotgun hunt.

We just got a new sausage press too... mmmmm.

It's only money Jeff

Well lotsa people do suck at hunting. I do it completely old school myself and averaged 4.7 per season over the past 10 years.{didn't keep track before that} There aren't any food plots where I hunt and I haven't set foot in a treestand since the 90's. I could kill more if I could get more tags. Way more.

Blackheart, what type of terrain/landscape do you hunt?

We hunt open country on foot(spot/stalk) in TX, CO, and IA. A man could fill up a few dump truck loads of deer easily every season if he had the tags. OTOH, here at home if you don't scout and clear your own lanes, a buck could be 10yds from you and you never know he was there. A huge difference in tactics to see, much less kill, game. A few min walk could land you at the Sheriff's office as well(tresspassing).

Dang, I read "old school" and thought of grandpa shooting anything that dared to try and eat his crops. And it helped feed his eight kids. My friend's grandma shot a 55" bull moose in the head, from her kitchen window, with a 25-20. It was eating her cabbages. DRT.

What was the topic again?

Bill

That's why I say it feels like farming, not hunting. Plots are too much work.

Do you suppose there's a difference in food plot approval between those who own/lease/or hunt public land? Wondering. Seems like some comments are sort of sour grapes.

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I hunt on private land sir.

I wasn't replying to you specifically Youper. But is it your private land? Just wondering.

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Yes.

Heck, I had a guy here tell me he earns his food plot deer...but if I hunt over a foodplot I didn't personally plow, I didn't "earn" my buck.

Takes all kinds I guess. Everybody thinks they're better than everybody.

And for the record....

My truck's faster, rifle's more accurate, wife's prettier, kid's smarter and weiner's bigger than allz of yallz.