A buck in rut gives no fucks. I saw two does shot one for the meat then other doe sits there afew seconds and walks off then comes out this rutting buck head to the ground after the other doe and I got him. I went mehh he kept going I did it again and louder he stopped then I got him lol. And this was pressured public. Granted a 6 point buck but still.
@@thegeneral1955 not a mature buck brother. Young buck still learning the ropes made that deathly mistake. They do give much less of a fucj during rut but 9/10 times he’s right. Mature bucks will not come into exposed areas without security cover
@I'm Just Kyle I do agree property prices are outrageous. I just can't deal with the rat race that comes with public land..I do hunt public now and again
@I'm Just Kyle you Commie.... you're 2000 percent wrong...just because you're jealous someone actually is HARDCORE enough to work his balls off and BEAT YOU... dude's living your dream because HE CARED MORE
I've heard that if you jump a good buck he will most of the time make a big giant Circe and will usually be in the bottoms or on top of the hills when he circles back. They claim if this happens run as quick as possible to the bottom or the top and then sat and wait. Lots of times he will run right up on you.
I’ve learned to get in the woods hours before sunrise,just to listen to the deer traveling through the water trying to escape the hunters coming in the woods. I’ve killed several big bucks and I only leave the woods with them after dark to avoid people seeing them. I killed the Louisiana state record in 1997,muzzleloader ,168 5/8”, gross score 182 3/8. On public land.
Lmao you know what's great about my own land I can pick and choose which big bucks to kill or let go for another year or two without worrying someone else will get them I don't need any tags or hunting license aka government or state permison to put food on my table and I can hunt all year round whenever I want and I dont have to worry about getting shot by some city boy that hasn't been hunting ever in his life I can feed and raise young bucks up to mature deer to feed my family on the diet I want them to eat and they never leave my property cuz I only hunt here and there when I need food you fools are crazy id never hunt on public land anymore now that I own almost 40 acres with deer way bigger then you will ever ever get hunting public land and never have to worry about some yuppie walking in ruining my hunt !!
@@VX-cy4du i dunno i guess just going in scouting, carrying your gear on your back......failure and success. When i hunt on my own property its easier for me to pattern deer. I guess i should have said its more difficult, didnt mean to offend just an opinion. But harvesting a good buck on public land feels more rewarding, to me.
Yea boys thats right, crawl your way through all that shit to get close to those big mature bucks. I'll just sit my ass in my warm box blind and smoke me giant on my 100 acre farm hahahaha. Wall hangers for days suckas
I always make fun of a buddy who has trophy bucks in his living room but he’s paid thousands of dollars to “hunt” on private ranches where the ranchers pick the deer up and process it. I remind him that this is shooting and bagging, not hunting
Well the good thing is he paid for them so he could have them not to hear your shit input I’d tell him awesome just like he’s gonna tell you when you pull out a hard worked for 8 point your just a sour lil twat dude
As a hunter why would you make fun of anybody that hunts different than you. Not every guy wants to run around on public land just to shoot some little baby buck just to say they did it on public land is an excuse. It's not as easy as you think just shoot trophy deer just cuz you have money
Lived in PA, big bucks come out at 12 noon and dusk ,on public land if pressured. Everyone goes home, around 10am -11am. bring 2 apples, find a deer trail, your ice fishing pillow, head lamp, enjoy the woods. State records shot after 11am. Be safe. Got a scope with illuminated reticle at one point.
Without public land hunting there would be no hunting. And PA (where I live) has more of it than any other Eastern state. I've spent many days hunting there and taken lots of game. BTW a nice doe well taken is well worth it. Real men don't need antlers to boost their egos.
It's true. I love the guys who send me buck pictures all season then havnt shot a deer not walking down the road in 5 years 🤣 mean while I hang out on the boat all summer never set cams then tag out every year.... come rut your works worthless. Can't pattern a deer when he's 15 miles away!!!!
Your not quit right I've raised deer heards for 30 years on both public land and 240 acres of my land two states open grass and trees open grass land they do move a little more I hunt open public land in ND iv had privlage to hunt 5 200 class bucks in my life time haven't got one yet but I'm seeing them most deer don't travel much more then a mile from where there born after all these years I find I'm now hunting the land and not the deer I find these remote spots and year after year the monsters are all ways there now geting within 3000 yards is a trick I can all ways and do pick up a satellite buck nice one 165 my biggest but the realy big bucks get big for a reason to even see one is unreal once you do it will get under your skin and will become an addiction free range fair hunt
Bucks don’t travel more than a mile from where they’re born? Try hunting Northern Maine where I live. They travel 20 or more miles a day during the rut looking for does because the deer densities are so low. Try patterning a buck that does that. Lol
Wanna know the best tricks to successful PL hunting (for any game) 1. Have good Hunter etiquette and respect for both other hunters and nature. 2. Don't be lazy! Put in the miles and hours scouting and searching. STOP hunting off trails and close to roads! Lol
I use the ground. And I still hunt public land. I bet use a stand or rarely a stool. I do a lot of still hunting. Looking for them cold cold days with high wind on the lee side of a ridge line looking down into benches and what not looking for them in the bed.
Depends on where you're hunting. Eastern Hunter's don't understand just how much public land there is west of the Mississippi. (And how rugged it can be)!
I've NEVER used a blind or tree stand. I've always used natural cover (downed tree, brush, tall grass) to sit and wait. I know which way they walk in the morning and evenings. The wind is a factor in whether I go on the morning or evening.
People just don't stalk anymore...I've never dropped a deer from a stand... a blind sure...I've never stepped foot in one .. GL out there... be safe...
Mature buck (9 point) presented himself last night to myself let my brother take him at 3:30 pm when he was just about to leave the woods. Big open oak woods on public land not much cover and he just walked right up on us probably about 150 yards for me 50 yards for him. He’s down now I’m back out in the morning for mine lol
I would agree. But he is more or less making the point that the control over public land restricts hunters from using tried and true techniques to get better results. Is it all bad? Some rules are there for conservation, which everyone should be for, but not all the laws...
@@AFreeThinkingDawg09 wtf are you talking about? I'm talking about conservation of the species, not your precious material possessions. If there weren't the regulations that there is on public land, every large game animal in the US would have most likely met the same fate as the Bison, or worse.
@@daybreakoutdoors2142 spare me, bison were hunted to extinction bc the US govt said to kill them all as war against the native Americans. They even paid bounties. Completely different issue. There are more deer in the US today than there were in the early 1900s. It’s conservation run-amuck. Deer are responsible for more human deaths than any other wild life bc their numbers have exploded. Hence the harvest limits being raised nearly every year in most states that actually know what’s going on.
Depends on your state. I've been in states where you could have screw ins, semi-permanents, permanents. Not sure on the cutting part but a lot of them would set up on the power line lanes up ajd down the mountain
I remember when real hunters didn't need to cut anything and waited all day long ,they went after it nun stop till they got dinner not about price size animals it's about survival
This man has changed my hunting game. He is a wealth of knowledge for big deer. Look him up and listen, if you follow some of his advice you will get to the bigger buck and have more overall deer interactions.
@@AlexEvans-dm3yl my comment was long enough ago that I don't even know what I was trying to say back then. 😂 but I guess that I still don't like hunting purely for the game vs. food. I also think leaving the big ones alive is better so they can breed.
Saw Plenty of Bucks on Public land and the best part is that some of the Bucks do not have excessive fear of people. Some spots the bucks are not spooked like on a farm.
I don't think people understand how common it is for someone to hunt private and they don't do any work to it except for shooting lanes like a week before
Alaska is very different. We cut down trees to build hunting blinds and meat racks on public land. Guess it doesn’t matter as much when there’s so much more land.
On my very first ever hunt, we snuck up on a treeline where we spoted some 600yards away. Got to 200 or so and they were both mature bucks. Antlers locked and fighting.
The yruth is there should be more public land to hunt. Any land that is being forclosed on should be open to public until the legal paperwork is done to make is private again. Public land should be managed better .
I prefer the challenge of hunting on public land feels like the animal gets a little more of a chance rather than private land that’s been tailored to make hunting as easy as possible. Hunting doesn’t need to be over complicated my grandfather would bag bucks by just sitting on a bucket behind a tree and waiting lol.
If it were easy to get a buck it wouldn't mean anything and take most of the fun out it. Taking the time to finally get a good legal one makes you feel amazing.
Depends where you are. I know a ton of people who kill incredible bucks on public land here in iowa sitting on a random public land ridge top travel corridor. Hell to me the best hunting strategy during the main part of the rut is hunt a ridge top that will have a steady flow of deer. During early season I hunt thick cover with few shots, ridgetops and open bottoms during the rut, and food or travel corridors to food in the late season
Don't know where you live.. but in my neck of the woods, PNW, people cut shooting lanes all the time, and gaf rig or use screw in spikes to get up trees... even build crued deer stand structures. What you want find are store bought, pop-up ground blinds left for days or those rigs that have a built in ladder and a platform for two... they will get stolen.
In my area lot of nation forest but you can’t bait whitetail deer and I have yet been to one where a corn feed sack is not on a trail . Like game wardens catch you there you getting a ticket for baiting. Not sure if they aren’t doing it themselves
And yet the private landers out here saying public land is just as hard as private. Literally what my friends tell me when I ask to go hunt their dad’s land. “It’s harder cause we can’t just pick up and go to a new spot” uhh every new spot I hit had 30 people in it before me. No one pressuring ur deer
And someone was recently telling me how hunting and fishing licenses help maintain parks and animals for future generations. Our discussion was on the loss of liberties over the generations. He maintains no real loss while I maintain if I can't do the things my grandfather could do when he was young, then, yea, liberties have been loss.
Public land where I live is so hard. Very little acreage and tons of pressure from all types of hunters. There are even people who walk their dogs off leash and let them stir everything up. There is almost zero deer sign there. The private land I hunt feels easy by comparison. Lots of sign, lots of deer, low pressure, etc.
I'm not sure if this is 100% true. I've seen some big deer shot in IN and MI on public land. The best was a 160 8 point by bow. But for the most part it's hard as hell to do.
Agreed, but "can't cut shooting lanes" or "have to find the perfect tree". Na. If I have a couple small branches less an inch around, ain't hurting nothing removing them. Especially in the absolutely mess of dense river bottom forest.
I live in Pennsylvania. I'm pretty sure the game wardens don't enforce the branch cutting law. because people cut shooting lanes. all the time. I usually don't because I prefer hunting from the ground. but most hunters do
I don't think so. My step dad goes hunting almost every year and he scouts for obvious trails that the deer make themselves. After that he would pick a tree about 20 feet from the trails and he gets dear every year he goes and he gets 6 to 8 point bucks sometimes.
its gotten so bad that a couple days before hunting season starts there are deer every where. as soon as people go to set the stands the day before hunting season you can watch the mass exodus of deer over to private property. they have this pattern down pat
Always check the most missed spots on state land,close to developments, industrial parks or even heavy trafficked hicker spots,deer are very adaptable creatures and will live silent among humans
But yet they do it's a hassle but lots of people hunt public land and do well as to where hunting clubs usually have a pecking order with outrageous fees, and egos
