doublerack
Active Member
Here's a hypothetical question for everyone.
Let's say you either own, lease or have exclusive rights to hunt a specific property. On that property you have knowledge of a really nice buck that is your "goal" buck for the year. You have done your scouting and have his core and travel habits pinned down pretty good. You know that he either lives on the edge of your property or on the neighbors property, but you know he travels through yours 5days out of 7 at the same time each day. Initially you knew that no one hunted the neighboring property. Good, great grand, but then one day you see a guy and a couple of kids hang stands about 30 yards into that property 100 yards away from your stand. There's nothing you can do. They have permission and simply want to hunt. Whether or not they know about this nice buck you have watched for several months is unknown and you really don't want to bring it up. Like usual, you have vacation scheduled for 1st ten days of November and planned to hunt that deer hard at that time if you haven't harvested on a weekend before then. The question is, with the new X factor of someone else hunting near this bucks core area, do you reschedule vacation for the first part of October and try to get him early? Or hope that these other hunters only hunt it on occasion and don't know about this deer?
Let's say you either own, lease or have exclusive rights to hunt a specific property. On that property you have knowledge of a really nice buck that is your "goal" buck for the year. You have done your scouting and have his core and travel habits pinned down pretty good. You know that he either lives on the edge of your property or on the neighbors property, but you know he travels through yours 5days out of 7 at the same time each day. Initially you knew that no one hunted the neighboring property. Good, great grand, but then one day you see a guy and a couple of kids hang stands about 30 yards into that property 100 yards away from your stand. There's nothing you can do. They have permission and simply want to hunt. Whether or not they know about this nice buck you have watched for several months is unknown and you really don't want to bring it up. Like usual, you have vacation scheduled for 1st ten days of November and planned to hunt that deer hard at that time if you haven't harvested on a weekend before then. The question is, with the new X factor of someone else hunting near this bucks core area, do you reschedule vacation for the first part of October and try to get him early? Or hope that these other hunters only hunt it on occasion and don't know about this deer?
