Deer Hunters
 

Archery Season in KS opened 9/22; anyone been out? Any success stories? I am going out for the first time Sat. See if I can't stick an arrow in a doe while I am waiting for the rut. Supposed to be pretty warm this weekend, which will suck but I am getting the fever.

send me some jerky....jerky :)

Good Luck.

I've got some stands up, a couple of trail cams out....and 3 stands in the back of my truck I wish I'd had up a month ago.

This reminds me of something I read about I was going to put in the hunting thread.

Ever hear of "jigging for deer".....basically a 2-3' stick, with a short handle screwed in that looks like a night stick of a cop. Hoist it down by a green twine and plink it around in the brush and leaves to simulate deer steps to help with your grunts, bleets and rattling realism?

I'm thinking I'm going to try one out this year.

I won't be able to get out for archery season this year, but I do have my trail cams out on the property my dad and I purchased earlier this year.

Can't say I have heard of "jigging for deer". Is it supposed to be a pre-rut or rut tactic, or is it effective anytime?

in.
got the bow out and have been shooting each night after i get home. i'll go out this weekend, but will prolly spend more time cleaning brush around the stands and blinds than actually hunting.
just being out in the woods is great.

never heard of jigging for deer...
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*edit...i googled "jigging for deer and got this thread*

Same here

ROFL
maybe iowiener's getting jigged.
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I’d assume he’s talking rut, since the grunting and rattling sounds are to simulate a couple of bucks fighting.

got two stands up. I refuse to go out until there is a fairly decent frost, so I may sit and stew for another couple of weeks. Been seeing quite a few at my place though. More than one or 2 chigger and tick bites and those buzzing bugs by my facemask are not worth it for me.

Jigging for deer was in an article in this month's "bow hunter" not the superior "pedersons Bow Hunting". I accidently ordered the wrong magazine last year from a local HS kid....

Anyway, its a good article. Maybe I'll have time to scan that page or something.

Its like I said....Its made from a heavy stick(1-2" wide) about 2-3' long with a short stick towards one end, so It will look like a night stick. You wrap that with the green twine, like your bow rope.

It is to mimmic the sounds of deer walking. You lower it down, drop it into leaves and sticks and it makes noise when the first end hits, and the 2nd two when the other end falls. You can russle brush when you're bleeting or grunting, or rattling....russle leaves, bang it on brush....whatever. It should also work early in conjunction with bleets....a walking deer-sound.

I'd never heard of it either, but it makes a lot of sense....

It says it'll only really work on calm days...but if you think about it, when a doe walks through, a lot of times, its followed by other deer from other directions investigating.

It also says not to do it when you can see the deer....they'll pinpoint the sound, and I agree that would happen.

I think it will work pre-rut and during the rut.

I'm going to try it this year for sure. Worst that happens is it scares off deer I don't know are there anyway, and I don't see why it would.

My neighbors have taken two does .. Said they shot at two nice bucks but missed .. Black-powder .. I saw a decent buck yesterday.. Looked like a ten-pointer but not for sure it was about 200 yards away ....

who needs a tag when you can go out back in the 80 and shoot one

How come deer can pinpoint some sounds, but can't pinpoint a car coming at them

its all about the colors

and their eyesight