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    Great How to Article for Sucessful Public Land Hunting

    Hunters new to public land this is a must read.

    Thought I would share this great article I just read. It is just the basics to successful public land hunting but it is worth a read for a refresher IMO.

    Pressured Public Land Whitetail: Tips - My Way
    http://huntingfreakz.blogspot.com/2013/08/tips-pressured-public-land-whitetail-my.html
    Do you hunt Public Land? Do you hunt PRESSURED Public Land Whitetail like I do? (don't forget to view the pictures below) Let me disclose ...
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    Great How to Article for Sucessful Public Land Hunting

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    Last edited by TallTexan; 10-11-2015, 05:06 AM.

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      #3
      pretty much sums it up

      I'd add "don't use flagging tape" unless you want someone following that stuff rights to the bottom of your tree

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        #4
        Pretty good artical.

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          Originally posted by gumbl3 View Post
          pretty much sums it up

          I'd add "don't use flagging tape" unless you want someone following that stuff rights to the bottom of your tree
          Since I hunt alone I use it but I use it in a way only the people I check in with after hunts know which direction to walk if I don't check in or need help dragging out a kill. I also don't space them 30 yards apart.

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              #7
              Thanks for the post

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                #8
                Wish I had a road that nice and level to ride in on. LOL.

                Good advice there, but nothing earth shattering to me or the many guys who have hunted public land in Texas for years. Looks like a typical SHNF bike setup to me (without the hills).

                The advice about telling "white lies" about your kills and not being seen by other hunters is sound. I'd love to be more helpful and up front with folks, but on heavily pressured public land, you just can't be or you WILL lose your best spots to the "takers."

                And I hunted public land in Illinois for six years. They are no match for Texas public land whitetails when it comes to smarts. Not even close. If you can kill a whitetail on public land in Texas with a bow, you've done something few will ever do.

                And +1 on the flagging/reflectors. I would never put them up to get to a spot I really like.

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                  Originally posted by Limbwalker View Post
                  Wish I had a road that nice and level to ride in on. LOL.
                  Good advice there, but nothing earth shattering to me or the many guys who have hunted public land in Texas for years. Looks like a typical SHNF bike setup to me (without the hills).
                  The advice about telling "white lies" about your kills and not being seen by other hunters is sound. I'd love to be more helpful and up front with folks, but on heavily pressured public land, you just can't be or you WILL lose your best spots to the "takers."
                  And I hunted public land in Illinois for six years. They are no match for Texas public land whitetails when it comes to smarts. Not even close. If you can kill a whitetail on public land in Texas with a bow, you've done something few will ever do.
                  And +1 on the flagging/reflectors. I would never put them up to get to a spot I really like.
                  Great to know that our public land are some of the hardest public lands to hunt. Makes tagging a buck or a doe that much more of a rewarding challenge!

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                    #10
                    Just offering my perspective after six (good) seasons in S. Illinois vs. our deer here. I was speechless the first few times an Illinois deer looked up, saw me in the stand, and then went back to feeding or whatever it was doing. Unreal. I shot several deer there after they had already looked right at me in the stand. Never could get over that.

                    I've said for years that there's a reason all the bowhunting shows are filmed in Illinois. You can get away with stuff there you would NEVER get away with down here on public land.

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                      #11
                      Great article...

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                        Originally posted by Limbwalker View Post
                        Just offering my perspective after six (good) seasons in S. Illinois vs. our deer here. I was speechless the first few times an Illinois deer looked up, saw me in the stand, and then went back to feeding or whatever it was doing. Unreal. I shot several deer there after they had already looked right at me in the stand. Never could get over that.

                        I've said for years that there's a reason all the bowhunting shows are filmed in Illinois. You can get away with stuff there you would NEVER get away with down here on public land.
                        And finding pinch points is a breeze in those farm fields and wooded creek bottoms. Not so in a massive pine thicket.

                        A person can read all the how-to stuff ever written about hunting public land but nothing beats putting your boots on the ground and spending some time learning the environment.

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