Once you are "busted", is the spot "ruined" for a while?

[cajuntec]

Busted pretty bad yesterday in my ground blind. Normally, I have good wind in my face. I leave all the shoot through mesh up on my side windows, but have the solid flaps down. The deer approach from my front left / front right and continue on kind of "across" the front of my spot. I'm at a trail crossing, but the trails cross very closely (picture a very wide X), with my feeder at the crossing and me at the bottom void of the X.

Well yesterday was different. I had a large bodied deer (I could see the body, but not the head) come through the woods to my right / behind me. I had been holding off from urinating for a few hours and couldn't hold it anymore, so I had just ****** in a empty bottle when it approached. As I screwed the cap on the bottle and sat down again, I heard the very loud snorting and blowing, saw the larger body and white tail go up about 40 yards away, and it went through the woods like a bulldozer, making a ton of racket. So I'm not sure if it was smell, or if they saw me move inside the blind, or both.

So... now that it made all that noise and that particular deer knows where I'm at, is this spot "ruined" for a while, or do you think it's going to be ok?

Anything you would do if you were going to hunt today (the next afternoon)?

I don't have an alternate spot, and even if I did, I can't move more than 150 meters from the center point of my designated circle. This "was" the best area I have found. Is it ruined?

All the best,
Glenn

[TXJIM]

I have had deer do that and then come right back to the same spot in the same sit. You can burn a spot but not from just getting busted one time.

[cajuntec]

Thanks. Was hoping that was the case.
All the best,
Glenn

[swgreen]

Go back

[Mjjust]

I wouldn't think its ruined for more than a few hours. That one deer might not be back but others will. This has been a bad year for me and busts. Every time I thought I knew where deer where coming from they came from somewhere different and always directly down wind. Still saw deer in subsequent hunts. That's just my experience this year. Only second season bow hunting so I'm not an expert.

[zztex]

No

[kineticcowboy]

youre good. prolly wasn't even you.

[cajuntec]

I went back today. I only saw one deer - At just about the same time of day that I got busted yesterday, on the same trail. I might just have to put a stand off of that trail the next time I'm allowed out to my spot. It didn't spook today, but I had a very hard time seeing it through all the brush, low limbs and twigs. Still couldn't tell whether it was a buck or doe. Just a quick look of a large grayish colored body walking quickly and silently down that trail in a direction that didn't cross any of my shooting lanes.

All the best,
Glenn

[Thumper]

Thanks. Was hoping that was the case.
All the best,
Glenn

Unless he's a mature buck.

[panhandlehunter]

I pee out of the front window of my pop up. Lol. But I only leave one window open so they can't see me. I shot a doe a couple weeks ago that came in down wind about 2 minutes after I peed.

[mikeb1206]

give it time, they will be back.

[Speedgoat]

Deer don't have cell phones You will be good. I killed my biggest bow buck two hours after getting busted by a doe.

[JonBoy]

I've been busted and had different deer show up in the same hunt many times. And just because one group busts you doesn't mean that the next will

[deerfever]

Killed my best buck ever the day after being busted by him.

[DeadEyeB]

I've got an incredibly high alert doe on my property.. she's busted me like 3 times haha..

She's rather annoying to be honest with you, but she hangs around. Still has a yearling with her that was obviously a late baby.


That being said if it's an older wiser animal they might be suspicious of your blind from now on.. I"d for sure do something to make it less suspicious to them..

But they'll be back for sure.