Where do you need to improve??
07-19-2007, 02:40 PM
#1
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Southern Maryland (St. Mary\'s)
Posts: 884
Where do you need to improve??
For me, I need to make major improvements in "hunting the wind". I start off every season with the idea of not hunting a certain stand unless the wind is just right. I start out doing pretty good with it, but as the season goes on something will happen to make me break the cycle.
07-19-2007, 03:23 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: Where do you need to improve??
I've never been real good at the 'sitting on stand' thing. I'd always get up and go looking for the dang deer after sitting for an hour. Can't stalk the woods like that any more, so I need to ramp up my patience.
07-19-2007, 03:38 PM
#9
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location:
Posts: 13,082
RE: Where do you need to improve??
Oh gosh, this is arather long list.....
1. Identify preferred buck bedding areas and piece together the puzzle
2. Plan better entry and exit routes to my stands
3. Don't overhunt my stands
4. Don't hunt where everyone else does
5. Play the wind better, understand it's not just it's "general" direction I'm concerned with. I need to know what it's doing in certain terrain.
6. Locate and hunt more terrain funnels.
7. I took an excellent approach to odor control last year, but this year I am going to be all but odor paranoid.
8. Be patient. Sit all day, dark till dark.
9. Don't hunt mornings until very late October. Don't let the desire to hunt ruin my spots.
10. Identify late season food sources, and hunt them.
11. Find more property to hunt.
This list could go on for days.....[&:][&o]
1. Identify preferred buck bedding areas and piece together the puzzle
2. Plan better entry and exit routes to my stands
3. Don't overhunt my stands
4. Don't hunt where everyone else does
5. Play the wind better, understand it's not just it's "general" direction I'm concerned with. I need to know what it's doing in certain terrain.
6. Locate and hunt more terrain funnels.
7. I took an excellent approach to odor control last year, but this year I am going to be all but odor paranoid.
8. Be patient. Sit all day, dark till dark.
9. Don't hunt mornings until very late October. Don't let the desire to hunt ruin my spots.
10. Identify late season food sources, and hunt them.
11. Find more property to hunt.
This list could go on for days.....[&:][&o]
