getting to your stand

aint got a boom box loud enough to call in yotes. Also, .. we need to get of the damn ground so the ANTS DONT EAT US ALIVE!! SHooting from higher helps too.
We pretty much sit still for hours. Trucks are quiet. 4 wheelers are not.
 
Dont hunt from a stand, but its a 3 mile hike into where I camp for deer season. then another couple miles everyday during the season checking my favorite hidden mountain meadows.
 
On the state game management area I park at a closed gate and walk in, sometimes 100 yards and sometimes a half mile. But when I'm on private land I either walk from the house or get someone to drop me off near the woods. I don't like to leave a truck parked on the roadside. I have no use for 4 wheelers but if I ever win one at a raffle I'll just pick it up with the loader on the tractor and carry it around for show. :p
 
The last couple of deer that I killed I parked my truck, opened the gate and walked the 15 grueling yards to the old farm house, sit in the rocking chair and sipped coffee until I saw one I wanted. Man, you can't put a price tag on something like that.
 
I built a nice little structure about 30 yards from where I park and have shot deer for the last four years out of it. It overlooks a clearing that the deer cross back or forth from the feeding and bedding areas. If I park where the deer can see my vehicle, it stops them to get a good look at that thing that looks out of place and gives me more time to look them over. These deer are used to human smell and vehicles as they bed so close to the neighbors house that their dog starts barking when they start to stir in the late afternoon/early evening. Not exactly a wilderness hunt but the deer are big and fine eating, and I don't have a lot of time and money invested in a deer camp hunt. I will admit that I miss the old days of camping in the cold, chasing deep woods whitetails with a high power rifle, having a beer in the evening talking about the days hunt.
 
My understanding is that a deer's attention span is at most some twenty minutes. Absent a really loud and lengthy disturbance, most deer will resume normal activities whether a vehicle is around or not, after that twenty minutes--or maybe more, of course; I'm a pessimist--is past.

I'd figure that an older, trophy buck is gonna move away from any notable disturbance, and not likely return that day. Easing in quietly becomes far more important than when a person is merely meat hunting.

Vignette: One of the older hunters on our lease liked to park his car at a particular spot. He regularly collected a six-pointer there, year after year. One day he was late getting back to camp for lunch, so we went down to check on him. He was okay; he'd just dozed off, taking an unplanned nap.

And about fifty wild turkey hens were all around his car, with three or four on top of it.
 
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