Thread: Outfoxing the fox?

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

well he will still be around - what would have been a better way of tackling that stag would have been to split up - one stay back and roar and the other sneak in - the one roaring does not overdo it - dont roar straight after the stag does and vary it a little bit dont try to just immitate him - roar away from him to mix it up as if you were moving around a bit -and no bashing antlers - new hunters have this idea that they can go out and here is a stag roaring and all they need to do is give a roar bash a branch and stag will come in - well over last I quess 40 years of roar hunting I could count on one hand the occasions where a stag has come in with any aggression - have had them sneak in especially early roar to try to see what I am - but the best normally is the stag will stay put long enough to sneak in - when you heard him wallowing and then he roared one of you should have been sneaking in - I used to take my boots of that final stalk in so as to be as quiet as possible - hind calls are good just occasionally mix one in but where they really work is if the stag has shut up or sounds like he is moving away - use it then can change their mind to stay or even start coming back - but forget the idea that they will come in to you- yes sometimes but rarely -my ideal would be to not roar at all just sneak in - that way stag does not even know you are there - those old boys dont get old by being stupid

Thanks Barry. That's a great bunch of info to digest. It didn't help that the first time I ever tried the branch trick one came right to me (but I didn't get him). It gave me unrealistic expectations.

We did use the wallowing to get closer, but not close enough.

Any thoughts on the timing of the wallowing? Was the timing of dawn and wallowing a coincidence?



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