Anybody hunt anymore?

[HoJoe1977]

Anybody still walk em up anymore or do does everyone sit under a feeder?

Reason I ask, I was sittin in my tree this morning and decided to get down n walk, my damn boots are too loud, guns too heavy, scopes all wrong, dressed for sitting.

I miss the old days I guess. Well cept the cold feet, long walks thru briars and dragging a deer a mile.

Happy thanksgiving

 

[ClintC]

Spot and stock or set at a feeder and watch the deer come to you. I’ll just set and wait for deer. I would love to go on a caribou spot and stock hunt. That has been one of my dream hunts.

 

[enuf]

Me and my buddy have been talking about that same thing the last couple of years, usually while we are sitting in our fancy stand with the heater and a cup of coffee looking at gun stuff on our phones.

 

[Dorkus]

I don't sit under a feeder but I don't walk around either. Usually for rifle I am in a tripod or a ground blind during archery. Either of the two for ML.

 

[Okie4570]

If a shooter buck is coming to a feeder, that's where I'll be. If they're hanging out somewhere else then that's where I'll go. If I'm after a doe, I'll be sure to sit where I can drive up to her in the truck so I can load it. I don't ever just wander in the woods hoping to find one.

 

[Preacherman]

Where I hunt is a natural area where the deer walk and do not have to put out a feeder.

 

[dennishoddy]

I used to still hunt in the 80’s some.
Did ok.
Now it’s time to sit in the insulated blind with a heater, coffee and a hot lunch.
Paid my dues over the years sitting on limbs or 2X6’s wedged into the crotch of a tree over a trail with no feeder.
Now, on our land, it’s just tree rows between agriculture fields. No place to stalk.
One has to hunt the way the terrain determines the best way to hunt.

 

[meatGrinder]

I dont hunt at all anymore. All I do is work.

 

[JT708]

(No Feeders) that's not hunting to me. Sit leaned up against a tree or a portable blind watching potential areas

 

[retrieverman]

This kind of thread and the responses are interesting to me.
I would say how you hunt depends on what your end goal is. If a person is just looking to kill a deer or any deer, spot or sitting on a trail can work, but if your end goal is a specific buck, you’ll more than likely need a feeder or at least a food plot to help draw them in.

For me, if I just cared about killing “a” deer, I dang sure wouldn’t need to own a place 500 miles away when I have deer practically in my yard at home.
Do I like feeders? No, but in the limited time I have to hunt, they increase my odds of seeing the kind of buck I’m looking for.