Spot & Stalk or Ambush

[Petersen]

hunting bucks/finding bucks to hunt --- spot and stalk

killing a buck you already have located - sit back and ambush especially considering the long range game.

 

[don77]

Spot and stalk is what we do the most.

 

[mtwarych]

I started my dismal hunting career as a bowhunter. I learned a lot of tactics and animal ways and means. I use the same bowhunting tactics for rifle hunting and have had great luck doing so.
I bowhunted 9 years before buying a hunting rifle.

 

[one crazy kid]

Re: Why not both?

spot them stalk them and then set up your ambush.

well saidgun)

 

[morcey2]

Until I'm in better shape, it will be Spot, stalk, wheeze, stalk a little more, wheeze a little more, and ambush them while they're laughing at me.

 

[rfpalm]

I'm not patient enough to ambush. The deer run off giggling.

 

[luv long range]

I get very bored sitting. I know where they are cruising so i travel the same trails and whammo there tey are.

 

[shaughn]

I was a stalk and shoot type until the amount of cruisers on ATV, made it not worth the effort.

Now I found a choke point on my own land, where they cross between to large sections of Crown land (Federal lands) there is bogs that stay wet all year and a high ridge runs thru the property, there is unobtrusive range markers sprinkled down the field and the deer now ignore the occasional wind flag...so yep I am an ambush hunter

 

[Mlb1970]

Open country we always sit on the glass

 

[dfanonymous]

That's great on private land but on public land it sucks when you've packed in 5 miles and are glassing a high basin only to have 10 guys on a drive push through and ruin the whole area for everyone else.


I much prefer spot and stock which feels more like hunting while ambush seems more like shooting. Just my $.02. Also why I limit my shots to 600 yards requires a little more maneuvering in to position after glassing an animal at distance.

I do mostly spot and stock...both due to terrain and because i do more archery hunting then rifle. that being said, in the cali late season, deer are nocturnal...like there is not a deer to be seen besides maybe a doe by private property...at least in d8. Most of the deer in the late season are up on some hill in the thickest nasty bush possible...its sometimes easier to ambush if you are looking for meat in the freezer in that case..or wait till you get lucky in hopes some buck makes a fatal mistake. Now in the X-zones....all spot and stalk.