How much do you know?
07-07-2008, 02:39 PM
#3
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: El Dorado, Arkansas
Posts: 2,174
RE: How much do you know?
I have studied and hunted for a lot of years... 30+. And I feel that I know a fair bit, but ever year they still show me how ignorant I am.... so I give myself a 50 / 50. I get them, but they fool me a lot too.
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07-07-2008, 02:41 PM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: How much do you know?
I voted 25%. I can see them but I have trouble in getting them within recurve range all to often. Thats the challenge in traditional hunting though so I've learned to live with it and except it or just plain old get better at getting them with in 15 yards in which I need to do.
07-07-2008, 02:44 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Wright, WY
Posts: 1,281
RE: How much do you know?
Just when I think I know how to get close to one of them they usually don't do the same thing or I never see them. So I voted for I hunt for immature deer!
Seriously, I just go out there and hunt and try to find a big deer by moving around and hunting different areas. I hunt very high pressured public land and I don't see big deer in the same spot in consecutive years. One of these days when I have my own land to hunt and have all the time I need to be proficient I will try to do what I can to learn everything about them. However this area I hunt is great land and I do see big deer each year I just have not been able to get a good shot on one yet. Did I mention it is thick!
Seriously, I just go out there and hunt and try to find a big deer by moving around and hunting different areas. I hunt very high pressured public land and I don't see big deer in the same spot in consecutive years. One of these days when I have my own land to hunt and have all the time I need to be proficient I will try to do what I can to learn everything about them. However this area I hunt is great land and I do see big deer each year I just have not been able to get a good shot on one yet. Did I mention it is thick!
07-07-2008, 02:50 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: IA/WI/IL
Posts: 1,482
RE: How much do you know?
well, I am not voting because I have no idea. The last two years the first mature buck I saw bowhuntingI managed to get within bow range and tag, but most of thatwas luck and although I will do my best to continue that streak I am still a realist - it will not continue for very long....I am somewhere in the 0-50% range
07-07-2008, 03:21 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: West Ky.
Posts: 1,161
RE: How much do you know?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I'll let you know after this season. So far I haven't hunted for them at all....and I'm 2 for 3.
So...is this really, really hard......or really, really easy?
I'll let you know after this season. So far I haven't hunted for them at all....and I'm 2 for 3.
So...is this really, really hard......or really, really easy?