etw

Be sure your safety belt/harness is secure before leaning over to pull up your bow.
Draw your bow at least once immediately after getting on stand.
Keep a bottle of real Vanilla handy, take a sip once every hour ,swish it around in your mouth before swollowing.
In the dark, take a seat. Stand when first hunting light arrives. Stand for 30 min. sit for 5. When you move on stand, do it as if a hugh buck was 20 yards away.
Draw a detailed map to your stand, leave it with your wife. (ifn' your paranoid seal it in an envelope.

bearklr

Here's one I'm sure alot of veteran shooters know but I'll post it for those just starting out.

After shooting vanes for awhile you will sometimes notice that the start to wrinkle and get wavy (from hitting the rest or each other). To fix this simply take a hairdryer and use the highest setting and go over the vanes with it. This will straighten them right out.

daystalker

if you have to get some where like i do walking through marshy areas, and you dont like getting your socks and feet wet.. no matter how much i spend on boots i cant find water proof boots that really keep all water out. just take two newspaper plastic bags and put em over your socks with a big rubber band to hold em up, that way you dont cut off circulation OR dont even use a ruberband, and put that in your bootsand lace em up tight, the slightest amount of water splashed in to your boot will stay out of your socks and you will be comfortable all day long.

along with Fieldmouse's sugestions, talk to older guys... preferably older farmers in your area its easy and most of them will be more than willing to let you hunt their land or even tell you about any land that is available to hunt. its unbelievable how much information you can get from talking to the right people and some will even give you little hints and tricks to help you on your way

this one i am not so sure about it being correct i havent researched it much but it came from a reputable source, deer have yellow retinas that means tehy can see the yellow and other wave lengths that are close to that, so if you use yellow markers for distances change to a blue or purple or red. apparently they cant see those colors to well. again like i said the guy that i heard that from is a taxidermist so i have no idea if its truth or not but it kinda made sence. just like musky and walleye. they see teh yellows and shartruce (sp) colors better.


and the best advice i can give anyone would have to be "DONT EAT YELLOW SNOW!"

bowhuntt

i laugh every time someone misses an animal due to branches even more so if the see them. its a common sense technique but it works to shoot through a hole if the deer is a 40 yards and there is a hole in the brush at 30 there is a way to tell just aim at the deer with your normal 40 yard pin then move up and check you 30 yard pin now you can shoot through holes rather than just hoping

HAZCON7

That made no sense to me - nor would I shoot through a hole in a bush at anything.

Can you stand back in that picture a little more? that cat doesn't look quite as big as an elephant yet.

My tip is one I've shared a few times on this board...
If you believe in the scent elimination hype...
Fill a sock up with baking soda and keep it in your bowcase. When ur done with ur hat, gloves, and facemask, etc, put them in your bowcase. The baking soda will keep ur bow, arrows, and everything else in there scent free and dry!

daystalker

i was going to say that too but i left it alone... clarification woudl be great and i think that cat looks too big...

Texarkanimal

Leave the 4 wheeler at home or the other end of the property. Deer are not dumb and when they here that 4 wheeler coming they know why. You might park it a couple hundred yards from your stand but every deer within a mile knows you are there. It is amazing how many more deer I started seeing by leaving the 4 wheeler parked. I now take a mountain bike to my stand and leave the 4 wheeler at the truck just for deer retrival. Proof: I was hunting a little 300 acre track of land and most evenings when leaving the stand on the 4 wheeler I would see a nice buck at the other end of the property. After seeing that buck on the other side I began to hunt that area. I then began to see him crossing into the field at the end I first hunted. I kept chasing this buck from one end of the property to the other and he was always at the opposite end as I was. After many weeks of playing chase I came up with a idea. I would drive my four wheeler to the far side of the 300 acres and walk back across it to the other side and hunt. On my 3rd trip with this plan I came out of the woods with a 137 inch 10pt. I am a believer now. USELESS INFORMATION: It only takes 10 dollars worth of camo tape to cover a entire mountain bike.

BLACKTALON

Here's another suggestion for "oral scent control.":

Eat an apple, or some other indigenious fruit, on your way to the stand.

BLACKTALON

adams

Check the wind often while on stand. A bottle of talcum powder is very effictive and cheap. The wind can be friend or foe. Play it smartly.

sho-me_bhntr

i tie a very small piece of thread on the end of my stabilizer and watch which way the wind blows it for wind direction. works great when stalking also...