Advice Please - Wary, Mature Coues Bucks

[rancilio]

Congrats! Experience is knowlegde. Good job.

[Guest wdenike]

Guy's,

 

I don't bow hunt for Coues deer, have bow hunted regular white tail, and rifle hunted most critters. But I have also hunted hounds for fifty years. Hunters in general think way to much like humans, and put things in perspectives that make sense to humans. I will make this statement. Company's that make scent elimination products are full of dung. If spending your money on them makes a person feel better. That is all it will ever be is a good feeling period. Cover scents are also BS when used in a way that makes sense to humans. After putting steel on the ground for many years. I will say the only way scents or lures are effective. Are by controlling human scents. The best known way is rubber ( gloves, boots ) these are marginal at best. Predators will eat your lunch when ya really put the pressure on them with steel.

 

This being said. In regards to the fifty years running hounds. My next statement will be bought to you through the nose of the hound. ( no different than any wild animal ) Many, many times through the years I have seen hounds get sprayed in the face by skunks. Only to go on and successfully catch the animal we were after later in the day or night. Point being made, is ya can't get any more covered up with scent than that. Yet animals can still separate different scents. So to spread cover scent around. Than sit our stinkin hind ends in a tree stand or blind. Is delusional at best. I probably should not have rambled so much. And simply stated what all good hunters already know. Wind direction is KING and always will be. Hope this may have helped someone.

 

 

Take care Willie

 

 

P.S. Also in all the rambling forgot to say congratulations anytime ya connect with the stick and string is quite an accomplishment!!!

[mattys281]

I have found a big buck will only have tolerance for a short amount of time. At some point while you visited your site the bucks came through and smelled ya or were coming in while you you there setting up stands or checking cams. They now have a fear of that specific location. During your hunt you saw them at a distance due to their fear and expecting an issue. I would set up a ground blind about 30 yards on the on other side of were you saw them. Good things to come.

This is exactly how I feel, I didn't do such a great job of wording it the first time but this is what I was thinking of doing with the second tree stand. I figure that the bucks ARE going to come back to check things out, they may or may not want the salt at the stand, but if anything, they will be coming on by and may want to take a look as curious as they are.. That curious look upwards toward the stand may be the perfect opportunity..

 

I would put up a blind where you have a easy shot on the salt and stay the heck out of there for a few days. I haven't hunted out of a treestand for 10+ years and probably won't for the rest of my life, wind has considerably less effect when in a blind with the windows closed. That's the other thing, leave a window or two open with shooting lanes but that's it, you'll have time for watching nature after you fill your tag. I don't think the bucks are coming back because they are curious to see if you are in your stand, or because they are passing through, they are coming there to eat the salt, plain and simple, and will come in and eat it if they don't smell you.

 

I would add to this that if you really want to stick a smart old buck, take your sleeping bag & some food & just plan on staying in the blind for a couple days straight. That way you're not dispersing scent & making noise on your way in & out.