Anyone going out tonight!?!?!?

Mossy, I would’ve never thought of that. I can see how well that would work! Small and easy to carry as my pack is already too full.

Heres what happened one time that I remember well. Id been going to my stand for a couple weeks in the dark like a guys supposed to do but this one morning I left late. I got to the fence just as there was enough early prelight for the deer to make out a human walking. I took my route to where I was setup at and theres a field in between where I was standing and my tree stand. The reason I had to go to my stand when it was still dark is because its an alfalfa field and always has deer in it the last hour of dark right befor prelight dawn. Ive already learned that one of the ways to walk when theres deer looking at you but can’t quite make you out is walk a very straigh line right twards the deer, thats the way deer walk. If you give them any kind of side profile they will see you walking, legs moving and will make out its a human. Well I did all this and made it too the area where my stand was, about 100 yrds away but there was a brushy area between where I was standing then and the tree that I had my stand in. I made it a point to always walk quietly through this area trying not too break any twigs or brittle weed stems,,, but I did. Only about 50 yrds from me a doe turned her head twards the noise and I already had my diaphram in my mouth and I just yelped a couple times and I could tell she went off aleart and her and a couple other does I haden’t seen yet just walked out of the weeds we were all standing in and walked down into the woods. I stood there 10 minutes to give them plenty of time so if something happened again like me breaking another twig they more then likey would be out of range and wouldn’t hear me because of the noise they were making themselves walking through the leaves. I was close enough to those does that if I couldn’t have done anything like giving a turky yelp they would have figured it out that I was human because they would have stood there until they did then blew through thier noses and hit the high trail putting everything else on aleart, not a good thing going to your stand for a mornings hunt. A turkey diaphram call is one of the easiest ways to let a deer know its the turkey making the moise and not a human. Lenny here on the site says hes got a friend that hunts with turkey decoys by his stand, this lets the deer know theres no humans in sight, Im pretty sure I remember Lenny saying that last year or a couple years ago. Diaphrams and decoys do help to put the deer at ease and to let them know theres no humans around. I never walk to and from my stand without a diaphram turkey call in my mouth ready for use. Buy one and use it a little to get it down and you’ll see how well they work, they work like that right in the middle of the day too.

Heres what happened one time that I remember well. Id been going to my stand for a couple weeks in the dark like a guys supposed to do but this one morning I left late. I got to the fence just as there was enough early prelight for the deer to make out a human walking. I took my route to where I was setup at and theres a field in between where I was standing and my tree stand. The reason I had to go to my stand when it was still dark is because its an alfalfa field and always has deer in it the last hour of dark right befor prelight dawn. Ive already learned that one of the ways to walk when theres deer looking at you but can’t quite make you out is walk a very straigh line right twards the deer, thats the way deer walk. If you give them any kind of side profile they will see you walking, legs moving and will make out its a human. Well I did all this and made it too the area where my stand was, about 100 yrds away but there was a brushy area between where I was standing then and the tree that I had my stand in. I made it a point to always walk quietly through this area trying not too break any twigs or brittle weed stems,,, but I did. Only about 50 yrds from me a doe turned her head twards the noise and I already had my diaphram in my mouth and I just yelped a couple times and I could tell she went off aleart and her and a couple other does I haden’t seen yet just walked out of the weeds we were all standing in and walked down into the woods. I stood there 10 minutes to give them plenty of time so if something happened again like me breaking another twig they more then likey would be out of range and wouldn’t hear me because of the noise they were making themselves walking through the leaves. I was close enough to those does that if I couldn’t have done anything like giving a turky yelp they would have figured it out that I was human because they would have stood there until they did then blew through thier noses and hit the high trail putting everything else on aleart, not a good thing going to your stand for a mornings hunt. A turkey diaphram call is one of the easiest ways to let a deer know its the turkey making the moise and not a human. Lenny here on the site says hes got a friend that hunts with turkey decoys by his stand, this lets the deer know theres no humans in sight, Im pretty sure I remember Lenny saying that last year or a couple years ago. Diaphrams and decoys do help to put the deer at ease and to let them know theres no humans around. I never walk to and from my stand without a diaphram turkey call in my mouth ready for use. Buy one and use it a little to get it down and you’ll see how well they work, they work like that right in the middle of the day too.