burning a spot with multiple sits

[roughrider 123]

I have over 30000 hours of camera time on scrapes, trails and i almost never get a buck more than twice a season on film. I hunt private club with land adgoining no hunting areas. During late october, i get alot of daytime pictures on scrapes in cover of bucks . Since they are usually all different bucks, would it be wise to sit the entire week of daylight activity? I have a signpost rub 30 yds. away and im in a funnel along a creek bottom loaded with thick honeysuckle. this was the first year i hunted this stand, first sit 16th of october. I took a small 8pt at 7am and 2 other bucks came thru by 8am. i got down a 9am. i set a camera up at signpost rub that also has a large scrape, lots of visits by bucks that last week of month. With the right wind, i want to sit 6 mornings straight that week, hoping the right buck cruises thru. Over the last 2 seasons, last week of october is better than all other weeks combined according to pictures. I hunt high pressure deer with long seasons in pa., most of largest bucks are nocturnal except for that week. What do you guys think? i acces from a roadside with a cut trail to keep my scent down.

[Woods Walker]

They are where they're at when they're there. BE THERE.

One thing's for sure......you can't kill them sitting at home.


Just make sure that if at all possible, when you do sit it, sit there ALL DAY. After close to 5 decades of deer hunting I've come to believe that it's our numerous comings and goings to and from our hunting areas that "burn it out" far more than our occupying a stand.

[HuntingFool94]

I hunt a field edge in a back corner next to CRP field - I make sure to use tree line to enter and leave, less deer see of me the better. A friend hunts opposite tree line about 200 yds distant but he walks in corn field outside tree line - deer seem to prefer my side versus his - he is always irked about my kill ratio. I explained to him but he is not willing to take the harder route. So be it.
I don't set cameras until September and I get the pics only once a month - when I come and go it is through the woods where deer have a harder time spotting me - I always wear full camo - no jeans, no orange, and scent control and gloves all year every time - no advantage to the deer.