OT: Am I becoming a lazy hunter?

[bigbore442001]

As a rule I get up well before sunrise to make a short trek to one of my treestands and sit for a while in the hopes of attaining success with the bow, modern gun or muzzleloading rifle. Many times the wait has been futile while other times it has been very successful.

I have one stand that is in the woods rather deep. It is in a gully for a lack of a better term that is part of a black spruce swamp. For over a month I have had a trail camera set up and the images of what I refer to as huntable deer all are in mid morning or early afternoon. I get some images at times such as 4:30 AM but that does no good for me. But it seems that the deer are in this spot between 9:30 AM and 10:30 PM and again at 2:30 PM or so.

I plan to take it easy this morning and enter that stand at about 8:30- AM. Am I being lazy or using my brain?

[Nath]

I don't think it's lazy, you still have to make the walks to check the camera.
I have took most my deer around mid day, same with fox. Just enjoy it BB

Nath.

[Jason_W]

Not lazy, you're just hunting the way you have to in Southern New England.

I'd love to hunt deer by finding a track and following it until I catch up with the deer (I get insanely bored sitting in one spot for hours) but if I try that most places around here, I'll just be pushing deer into more patient tree sitters.

There is a huge tract of land about an hour from here that was formerly paper company land and is now public. If we get a decent snow before the season closes, I may try tracking.

[rafter-7]

lazy is not going out at all!!!!

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[phc45-70]

Where I grew a gully in a swamp would be a deep hole of water.

[Thunder50]

Think you are hunting smart. I have never taken a deer/elk before 10am. You know when they are there, so I see no reason to get there 4 hours before they show up.

[wm]

Yes you are becoming lazy......the same way a home run hitter is lazy because he jogs around the bases instead of runs.



Wm

[Pete44ru]

[But it seems that the deer are in this spot between 9:30 AM and 10:30 PM and again at 2:30 PM or so. I plan to take it easy this morning and enter that stand at about 8:30- AM. Am I being lazy or using my brain?]

It depends.

If the route taken by the deer is anywhere near the one you would take, going in that close to their travel time affords the opportunity to alert them to human presence.

I once place my treestand along an old tote road, near where a "deer run" crossed it, with several scrapes near by.
Because of the area's geographic properties, I had to pass by/cross the "run" on the tote road to get to my stand - so I entered 2 hours B 4 I expected the deer, wore high rubber boots with pants tucked in, and sprayed a scnt disperser on my person/legs/etc before I went in.
When I shot an 8-pointer there, that morning, it was after I had watched him walk at a fair speed up the run, only to slam to a stop when he crossed my footprints.
He was shot while he had his nose to the ground, smelling where I had passed by, 3 hours earlier - trying to firure out the smells, I would guess. ( I never asked him )

That deer wasn't alerted to my presence until it was too late, but if the deer in your area sense you walking along in their area, there's an excellent chance they will immediately opt for an alternate route, leaving you to watch the trees grow.

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