HickoryNut
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Scent mask, slice the apple and rub the scent on yourself
Hunting question
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In my humble opinion, deer love apples. On the place that we sold, there were a couple of apple trees, every day apples would blow or fall off and the next morning they were always gone. It did not make a difference if is was the early apples before they were ripe or after they were ripe. They also like squash, pumpkin, or anything else from the garden. One spring we dumped between ten and twenty thousand pounds of potatoes that were left from the fall before. The deer ate most of them.
Getting back to the original question of baiting with half an apple, not likely, it was probably dropped.
Getting back to the original question of baiting with half an apple, not likely, it was probably dropped.
Tanberry
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Those four dogs you has would have picked up on a scent if the person was still in the area . Most hunters would have just picked it back up and ate it . I think you had some one walking fast and cutting across your place that was walking and eating . I suprized the other guy you let hunt didn't see them .
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Thingy: The farm is 250 acres and on a couple hills Ironic you say that about bow hunting as my sister in law just found an arrow in a different field. I’m aware of a deer that was “shot” with an arrow and got away so I don’t know if this is that arrow or something other.
Paddy: Could be walkers but with hunting season on, we’re not getting TOO many walkers out here. We DO get some though, but this area is a fair distance off the walking trail and indeed, rather complicates getting back to the trail unless you want to walk out next to my house, or slide down some of the bigger hills to the trail down below.
Tanberry: This isn’t a “natural” shortcut for the trail at all. Indeed, for the work to get BACK to the trail, it’s probably easier to simply stay on it than deal with all the thick growth. As for the other guy not seeing them, no way he could have. As I understand it, we live on the highest hill in the county (or next to highest?). The “friendly” hunter always hunts on the backside of the hill next to the houses so the hill is always between him and the houses. This “apple location” is so to say, in “front” of the houses and on the other side of yet another hill. If they were on foot, they could have pitched camp & had a campfire going on and we’d never know it. Lol, that brings up a memory… couple summers ago I was on the backside of the farm on the backhoe. I’d been going back/forth from there to my house, moving some dirt. On one of my return trips, there was a cut log in the “roadway” I used to get there. As I had JUST driven this from my house, I KNEW this log wasn’t there before. Or, at least, I THOUGHT it wasn’t there before. No biggie… I drive on… hmm…another log… I drive on… ANOTHER log… clearly I’d seen several logs that were not there before. I drive on.
As I go to the midway point on the hill to turn towards my home, I see yet another log further up the hill. Now I’m curious as clearly these were put here within the last 20 minutes and NO ONE was around (family members).
I drive on up the hill and all the sudden, I see a vehicle in the woods, at the top.
I drive closer and there’s 3 guys there, maybe 2 trucks. One truck has a trailer FULL of firewood.
Long story made longer, I drove up, stopped and said hello and “whatcha all doing?”
They’re setting camp. I informed them that this was private land, they insisted it was public land. I clarified to them that it was private land and they were trespassing. They needed to pack up and leave AND pick up their logs that they’d dropped along the way.
One thing that really ticked me off after it was all said and done, it became clear, they’d driven over to where I was. They SAW me working (had to for how close the log was dropped, but they saw my backside which is why I didn’t see them)
They then backed up and scooted up the hill. All the while, playing stupid and innocent “we thought this was public land”
Ya… and all the cut fields and three houses you passed, not to mention me working on the backhoe are what… TVA rental homes??
Sigh. It amazes me with some of the stories some people come up with.
Paddy: Could be walkers but with hunting season on, we’re not getting TOO many walkers out here. We DO get some though, but this area is a fair distance off the walking trail and indeed, rather complicates getting back to the trail unless you want to walk out next to my house, or slide down some of the bigger hills to the trail down below.
Tanberry: This isn’t a “natural” shortcut for the trail at all. Indeed, for the work to get BACK to the trail, it’s probably easier to simply stay on it than deal with all the thick growth. As for the other guy not seeing them, no way he could have. As I understand it, we live on the highest hill in the county (or next to highest?). The “friendly” hunter always hunts on the backside of the hill next to the houses so the hill is always between him and the houses. This “apple location” is so to say, in “front” of the houses and on the other side of yet another hill. If they were on foot, they could have pitched camp & had a campfire going on and we’d never know it. Lol, that brings up a memory… couple summers ago I was on the backside of the farm on the backhoe. I’d been going back/forth from there to my house, moving some dirt. On one of my return trips, there was a cut log in the “roadway” I used to get there. As I had JUST driven this from my house, I KNEW this log wasn’t there before. Or, at least, I THOUGHT it wasn’t there before. No biggie… I drive on… hmm…another log… I drive on… ANOTHER log… clearly I’d seen several logs that were not there before. I drive on.
As I go to the midway point on the hill to turn towards my home, I see yet another log further up the hill. Now I’m curious as clearly these were put here within the last 20 minutes and NO ONE was around (family members).
I drive on up the hill and all the sudden, I see a vehicle in the woods, at the top.
I drive closer and there’s 3 guys there, maybe 2 trucks. One truck has a trailer FULL of firewood.
Long story made longer, I drove up, stopped and said hello and “whatcha all doing?”
They’re setting camp. I informed them that this was private land, they insisted it was public land. I clarified to them that it was private land and they were trespassing. They needed to pack up and leave AND pick up their logs that they’d dropped along the way.
One thing that really ticked me off after it was all said and done, it became clear, they’d driven over to where I was. They SAW me working (had to for how close the log was dropped, but they saw my backside which is why I didn’t see them)
They then backed up and scooted up the hill. All the while, playing stupid and innocent “we thought this was public land”
Ya… and all the cut fields and three houses you passed, not to mention me working on the backhoe are what… TVA rental homes??
Sigh. It amazes me with some of the stories some people come up with.
gemini5362
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Eddie I dont know about apples but i know about Arkansas deer and pears. I have about a dozen pear trees on my place and we dont eat pears or if we do just one once in a while. when the pears get ripe and fall off i just let them lay on the ground. If we have a good season you are probably talking about enough pairs to fill the bed of a pickup truck. The deer go crazy over them I have driven home and seen so many deer eating pears that you thought i was raising them and that was my herd.
Tanberry
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Do you have the purple paint law there ? That makes it a felony if they tresspass . at least if you caught them you could get em in in hot water . I had a guy sneak in on my place and then the fool locked his keys in the truck and had the nerve to knock on my door wanting to use the phone .
Robbie Hegwood
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Richard, do yourself a favor and call your local game warden. For all you know someone could have been watching you the whole time through a scope, mounted on a rifle. Things happen!!! Our local wardens take treppassing very seriously and they will pursue. People know when they are trepassing and the apple is proof. Luckily for you they dropped/left it and now you know. Weird feeling know someone was just there wasn't it??? Robbie
Paddy
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Gemini,
You are so right on the pears! Our lake land is at the end of a 1 mi private road. At the entrance there are a few old pear trees. When there on the ground, the deer will eat away as we drive past just 20 ft away! You can stop and roll down your windows. They only move if you open your door. In Southern Indiana, our deer are starving. They will eat the paint off a barn!
If you want to hunt, call any IN farmer. heck they will likely pay you!
You are so right on the pears! Our lake land is at the end of a 1 mi private road. At the entrance there are a few old pear trees. When there on the ground, the deer will eat away as we drive past just 20 ft away! You can stop and roll down your windows. They only move if you open your door. In Southern Indiana, our deer are starving. They will eat the paint off a barn!
If you want to hunt, call any IN farmer. heck they will likely pay you!
250 acres is alot of posted signs but,,,you gotta post it. Than on the first couple of days of all hunting seasons,[bow/gun for deer,,,squirrel,turkey],,you gotta be out there patroling your property,,,you could just act like you were hunting too,,,once you let them know where the boundries are and you are there watching,,they will get the message.
Another thought is you said you let one guy hunt,,,if you don't want to deal with it much,,if you could find one or two guys who loved to hunt but were safe and could be trusted to not bring in any more people,maybe who didn't have any land themselfs,,,maybe let them take charge of it during hunting season,,they would protect your land from others,,,trouble is finding a couple guys like that.
In w.va.,people have to have written permission to hunt on posted lands,so you could write just those two a little note.
Yeah,the main problem you got is your property borders state,[or tva] property. A lot of people who have been run off other private places for good reason, hunt these kind of areas,,very dangerous. thingy
Another thought is you said you let one guy hunt,,,if you don't want to deal with it much,,if you could find one or two guys who loved to hunt but were safe and could be trusted to not bring in any more people,maybe who didn't have any land themselfs,,,maybe let them take charge of it during hunting season,,they would protect your land from others,,,trouble is finding a couple guys like that.
In w.va.,people have to have written permission to hunt on posted lands,so you could write just those two a little note.
Yeah,the main problem you got is your property borders state,[or tva] property. A lot of people who have been run off other private places for good reason, hunt these kind of areas,,very dangerous. thingy
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Its not a bait station......sounds like a bow hunter. Make some more frequent rounds back there. Even though you are in the right remember you never know just who you are dealing with, if the apple was that fresh I can assure you were watched. Could of been someone who arrowed a deer and was giving fair chase....should of came and asked / told you they had a deer down on your land if that was the case. Our land is bordered by Corp of Enginer land on 3 sides so it happens.
