Need some hunting tips!

[gonefishing600]

Originally posted by Fisher Cat:
I think you would be pretty hard pressed to get traditional archery-close to deer during rifle seasons even in states where dogs aren't allowed.

I sure would like to hear more opinions on this statement!

[cosgood]

Your neighbors should respect your property and your way of hunting, plain and simple. There is no way I would tolerate this, regardless if they've hunted there a millennium. When reasoning fails, it's time to take action.

[Michael Arnette]

I have family in SE North Carolina, around Pink Hill. I hunted with them during my residency in NC and was amazed at the thick cover!   It drove me nuts hearing deer and not being able to see them.
What does your terrain and cover look like? What are you planting in your food plots? Check with your local agriculture department about planting Alfalfa. I grew up hunting around several different agricultural plots including, early Soybeans(harvested before season), wheat, clover, and Rape...and alfalfa was by far the best and if its properly managed will last a long time.
Have you tried pushing the deer yourself? Either with a friend or with dogs? In small wood lots, pushing deer can be a great way to get at nocturnal deer. Take a friend in and set up on one of the fringes where deer like to hang out or bed down in...take a truck if you can and leave it running while one of you gets in the stand.
Have the other person get back in the truck and drive off to the other side of the  cover and have them walk the opposite end of the cover. The deer will go right back underneath of you, just make sure the wind is right.
As "Uncle Gene says, "young deer can't count"

[Michael Arnette]

Sorry, double post

[Michael Arnette]

I have shot around half of my traditional deer during firearms season here in Oklahoma...it can be done and can be a great time to be in the woods.

[Fisher Cat]

"Hard pressed" means difficult.  Bowhunting with traditional gear during rifle season certainly is more difficult than hunting unpressured deer.  It's even more difficult when you (admittedly) don't have much hunting experience.

IMO, it's also not very realistic to expect to hunt unpressured deer on a 70 acre tract during gun season with or without dogs (in most areas).  

If you can't beat-em, join-em.  I believe you will learn faster, have more fun and have more doors opened to you if you befriend your neighbors and, perhaps even gun-hunt with them from time to time (that is, unless they are evil red-necks who would shoot someone else's hounds).  The older I get, the more hunting becomes about memories and experiences shared with friends, and less about personal accomplishment.  Good luck - John

[NBK]

You're the one paying the taxes on YOUR land!  Are your neighbors going to your work and doing your job to make the money to pay for your land?
Now you can show some tact and explain to them this offseason what your wishes are, but when the rubber meets the road they are some pretty crappy neighbors if they don't honor your request.  
When we bought our land several years ago we had to be firm with several groups of people who'd hunted that land for years.  I acknowledged that it sucked for them,  but the ownership of property isn't a new concept.  One of the guys is a local game warden who asked if he could run his hounds through it for bear and bobcats.  "No" doesn't leave a whole lot for discussion.

[huey]

I know you would like to be a good neighbor, but shouldn't your neighbors give you the same. Box traps and blunts. I would not injure someone's animal no more than I would my own. For the most part my animals do as they are taught. You can teach the animal and the man to think about trespassing on your land. As always stay within the law.

[huey]

Sorry meant to say rubber blunts. I know you ask for hunting tips but I don't any without fixing the problem

[Cory Mattson]

Dude - you need to move on. As long as dog hunting is legal you will not have the stability and quality needed for stickbow hunting. 7000 acres maybe - but not with 70. There are some decent Public areas in NC within half a day drive. Jordan Lake is just one example we have hunted it since early 90s - taken several deer every year we hunted it - and have never seen another hunter while hunting during bow season. High quality archery hunting. JL gamelands produces over 600 deer a year tagged. You hunt there your freezer will be full.
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[gonefishing600]

I'm afraid your probably wright!