Number 1 destination for first day of hunting this fall?

[Charles Ek]

#7116

Have you figured out where you are most likely to go on your first day of hunting this fall? I found my likely opening day spot today. Good place to hang the new hammock seat slightly below a major deer trail, about 16-18 yards, any wind will be good if it’s not easterly or southeasterly, and I can get in there with a dim headlamp without breaking a leg or puncturing my own lung.

View toward the deer trail

View from the deer trail

[paleoman]

#58298

10 minutes down the rd. Local SGA w some very thick spots I screw myself into. Before EHD hit it’s always been good for an opp. Should be well into recovery now, but then we did have an extreme winter. Will see soon enough. Still not seeing much around the house since ’12. Sad sad sad!

[David Fudala]

#59679

I’ve been away from home working for over a month now so I’m looking forward to getting back and doing some quick power-scouting. With only 25 days until the opener I’m gonna have to fall back on an old standby area I know well. I have a couple areas in mind but won’t know until I see what’s happening. We’re buck only this year so that will affect the spots I consider for early season.

[WyoStillhunter]

#59795

I have resigned from one job as of end of August and started another as of beginning of August and my elderly parents are needing all sorts of attention almost 900 miles from where I live. Scouting? What is that? –End of whining. —

So…with deer and elk archery seasons starting September 1 I will just grab my gear, role under the fence I share with some state land which leads onto USFS land and start “hunting.” What really matters is being “out there.”

[Cladinator]

#60065

I’ve never gone bow hunting. I really plan on it this year though. I need loads more practice (I don’t think I’ll ever feel I’ve had enough).

I plan on hitting the Kankakee River State Park just several miles from my house as well as Mazonia State Park, also just a few miles away.

I live in a rural area on 2.5 acres. It might be plausible to hunt the small swath of land I live on (I know they are out there).

I’m not interested in tree blinds. I’d like to set up hasty ground blinds but I’m more interested in roving.

I’m not trying to hijack the thread, but would this be proper etiquette if hunting on public land?

Travelling lightly with my bow, quiver, arrows, and binos along the ground sounds like great fun to me.

The last thing I want to do is cross into an area where a hunter is already set up and patiently waiting for his chance to make a kill. As a new bow hunter I’m unfamiliar with etiquette. Thanks.

[Charles Ek]

#60484

Cladinator wrote: I’m not interested in tree blinds. I’d like to set up hasty ground blinds but I’m more interested in roving.

I’m not trying to hijack the thread, but would this be proper etiquette if hunting on public land?

Travelling lightly with my bow, quiver, arrows, and binos along the ground sounds like great fun to me.

The last thing I want to do is cross into an area where a hunter is already set up and patiently waiting for his chance to make a kill. As a new bow hunter I’m unfamiliar with etiquette. Thanks.

You are perfectly fine doing this. It’s probably what the majority of people on this forum do regularly, including yours truly.

I do actively try to make myself aware before and during the season of where others are likely to be hunting and to avoid intruding there. If I see someone heading out or coming back, I’ll strike up a conversation and explain that I want to avoid intruding. Sometimes they’ll open up, sometimes they’ll think I’m out to steal a treestand – which I never use.

Have a good time!

p.s. Interesting guy you chose to quote. (I work professionally as a translator of the Scandinavian languages.) I’ll steer clear of you if I see you with an axe in your hands. 😉

[Cladinator]

#60502

Thanks for the reply. That’s good to hear.

That’s a pretty interesting profession you have.

Egil’s Saga is probably my all-time favorite story. There aren’t too many unique characters (real or fiction) quite like him.

[WyoStillhunter]

#60966

Cladinator wrote: Thanks for the reply. That’s good to hear.

That’s a pretty interesting profession you have.

Egil’s Saga is probably my all-time favorite story. There aren’t too many unique characters (real or fiction) quite like him.

When I returned from Vietnam in 1969 I worked the first half of 1970 at the Gaines dog food plant in Kankakee then returned to University of Missouri to finish my bachelor’s degree.

For the last 20+ years I hunt exclusively on foot in SE Wyoming and try to interact with others that I see in the woods. Still hunting is my primary approach to all hunting. Good luck with your efforts this fall.

[jczieske]

#61718

A wonderful place in North Idaho, we call the “Cedar bowl”. Cool, dark, and full of Bull sign.

[grumpy]

#62138

Wildlife Management Area (WMA) right here in town. Road is North/South and to the east (just beyond the parking lot) is a big meadow. By BIG, I mean acres. Grass and forbs taller than me, and taller than you. Clumps of brush and trees for the deer to hide in during the day. They can eat all night, and sleep in the brush all day. On the other side (east) are hardwood ridges. I’m going to get in on the Eastern side and be at the top of the ridge east of the big meadow. So when the big trucks arrive, slam the doors, and start talking.. The deer will head up into the hardwood ridges, and I’ll be there with the sun at my back, and the thermals in my face.

I have already found the deer trails they use to get up the ridge. I’ll be in a ground blind just over the ridge.

But, just as in military planning, the plan goes out the window when the shooting starts. No matter how well you plan SOMETHING is going to go wrong when you least expect it. Probably break my leg. 😕

[jmsmithy]

#62224

First hunt of this year will be this Monday 8):lol:

My son and I leave for Maine Friday to chase the bruins around come Monday for week or so!!

Can’t wait. Hard to beat huntin with your 15 y/o 😀

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#62695

My first day will be spent somewhere out here:

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#62955

Well, since it’s more and more unlikely that I will be able to go Elk hunting this year since I’m working every weekend in September, my first hunting destination will probably be in New Jersey, along the Delaware Water Gap. Very pretty country, but lots of hunters and the New Jersey hunting regulations book is like a penal code book. By the time you finish reading it, and understand it, you won’t feel like going hunting at all anymore! :shock::shock: You’ll become a non-hunter!! Hhhhmm, maybe I’m on to some here… maybe that’s “their” goal! 😀

[Charles Ek]

#62982

AlexBugnon wrote: … the New Jersey hunting regulations book is like a penal code book. By the time you finish reading it, and understand it, you won’t feel like going hunting at all anymore!

If it’s any comfort, the AK regulations demand the same effort to understand and stay legal. (But the cervids are a tad larger and the bears a tad more fearsome …) 🙂

[adirondackman]

#63020

I’ll be bumming around the Siamese Ponds Wilderness area in the Adirondacks. Deer densities are pretty low but you can’t beat the country and there are few old gnarly Bucks living there. None of those ATV things allowed in there either.

[Etter1]

#63915

NE GA bear hunting. Somewhere on a 36k acre piece of real estate Looks like Ill be camping by my lonesome Which is totally fine!

[Bunyan Morris]

#17669

I had two flip a coin stand locations picked out for the opening of whitetail season. However, I just found another more recently and heavily used trail in a pinch point between bedding and a MAJOR food source. It’s tough making decisions. 😀

[Tradnut]

#18025

My first day started yesterday and I hunted early. Got into 5 does but, never got a shot opportunity. My hunt area is just outside of Lebanon, OR.

[wojo14]

#19440

I will be in my usual hunting area that I have been hunting since 2011. Its about 45 acres of private land in western PA.

Lots of deer. Mostly small buck and doe. I have seen signs of a big boy, but I have not seen him in person.:?

I plan to take a doe early for some meat. It would be my first trad harvest of a deer.

Well, I hope to take a doe early! HaHa 😆

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