np307
Ten Pointer
So last thursday and friday I went up into Pisgah to do an overnight camp with the plan of deer scouting and maybe fishing some wild streams. What I really ended up doing was fighting through laurels at an extremely slow pace. There were only a couple of deer trails that I saw and a small rub from last year. Definitely not enough sign to make me think the area was worth returning to, especially since those were down in a draw that it took a couple hours to walk out of.
So my question is, should I expect anything different in other places? It wasn't extremely tiring so much as agonizingly slow to walk through with a pack and especially noisy. I didn't really see a way to hunt most of what I walked through. I learned a few years ago to stop looking for places that I could see for a long ways, but most of these places I couldn't see further than 5-10 yards. Am I just being too picky, or am I picking bad spots? Curious to hear from some of you more seasoned mountain hunters.
So my question is, should I expect anything different in other places? It wasn't extremely tiring so much as agonizingly slow to walk through with a pack and especially noisy. I didn't really see a way to hunt most of what I walked through. I learned a few years ago to stop looking for places that I could see for a long ways, but most of these places I couldn't see further than 5-10 yards. Am I just being too picky, or am I picking bad spots? Curious to hear from some of you more seasoned mountain hunters.