Best Tip or Strategy
05-27-2005, 07:43 AM
#32
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Miami, Florida
Posts: 160
RE: Best Tip or Strategy
4. Don't rely on gadgets, gimicks, trinkets, and the rest of the nonsence that the hunting industry cashes in on. Nothing beats good old woods savy. It doesn't matter how many f.p.s. your bow shoots if the deer is 10 yards away. And they don't sell anything that can make up for cutting corners. If you want to cut corners, the woods is no place to do it. There is no suit, scent, bomb, soap, spray, or anything else for that matter that can keep you from getting winded if the wind blows from you to it....believe it. And there is nothing in a bottle that is gonna get em running in from miles around....sorry, but most have been had.
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Amen!
05-27-2005, 09:09 AM
#33
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
RE: Best Tip or Strategy
Learn to hunt, learn to shoot, learn when to shoot, learn when not to shoot and learn where to shoot them....Don't just hunt deer....Hunt squirrels with a .22 and scope and just take head shots....hunt groundhogs, coyotes, crows,etc....I hunt almost year round...I grew up hunting...on a farm...was hunting by myself at 8-9 yrs old...was bow hunting with a recurve at 14 and started muzzleloading with a flintlock in 1975....We own 3 farms in eastern NC that are loaded with deer, have to kill 45-50 a year to keep the population in check...I am amazed at the guys we have come in as guests with a brand new deer rifle that have never shot it , I probably sight in a dozen rifles a year...The weapon in your hand doesn't make you a hunter...Even worse than these guys missing a deer, is them wounding them up...If they had started out hunting squirrels with a rifle they would be much better shots....
Other than that...my brother tells us every year after all the preperations are done and its time to get in the stand...its time to "Shut up and Hunt"
Other than that...my brother tells us every year after all the preperations are done and its time to get in the stand...its time to "Shut up and Hunt"
05-27-2005, 12:38 PM
#34
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Jackson,Michigan
Posts: 953
RE: Best Tip or Strategy
Moosehornhunter, said it best !!!! 1. Get in and out without leaving any scent or bumping them. 2. Don't think you have to take home game every time to be sucessful. 3. Learn something while your in the woods.
05-28-2005, 12:12 AM
#35
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 950
RE: Best Tip or Strategy
I completely agree with #2: Don't think you have to take home game every time to be sucessful.
There have been many times when I could have gotten a deer (buck or doe) and passed or just couldn't get a shot off. And there have been times where I didn't even get a deer in range or see one at all. Either way, I have considered many hunts successful when I did not get a deer because I would see a certain deer take a particular travel route, work the wind, do something I hadn't seen before, etc. etc. I consider a hunt successful when I have learned something new about the query I'm chasing, bottom line.
There have been many times when I could have gotten a deer (buck or doe) and passed or just couldn't get a shot off. And there have been times where I didn't even get a deer in range or see one at all. Either way, I have considered many hunts successful when I did not get a deer because I would see a certain deer take a particular travel route, work the wind, do something I hadn't seen before, etc. etc. I consider a hunt successful when I have learned something new about the query I'm chasing, bottom line.
05-28-2005, 09:25 AM
#36
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Leesburg Fl
Posts: 3,245
RE: Best Tip or Strategy
ORIGINAL: GSPsnFORDs
I completely agree with #2: Don't think you have to take home game every time to be sucessful.
There have been many times when I could have gotten a deer (buck or doe) and passed or just couldn't get a shot off. And there have been times where I didn't even get a deer in range or see one at all. Either way, I have considered many hunts successful when I did not get a deer because I would see a certain deer take a particular travel route, work the wind, do something I hadn't seen before, etc. etc. I consider a hunt successful when I have learned something new about the query I'm chasing, bottom line.
I completely agree with #2: Don't think you have to take home game every time to be sucessful.
There have been many times when I could have gotten a deer (buck or doe) and passed or just couldn't get a shot off. And there have been times where I didn't even get a deer in range or see one at all. Either way, I have considered many hunts successful when I did not get a deer because I would see a certain deer take a particular travel route, work the wind, do something I hadn't seen before, etc. etc. I consider a hunt successful when I have learned something new about the query I'm chasing, bottom line.
05-28-2005, 12:24 PM
#37
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,876
RE: Best Tip or Strategy
ORIGINAL: GSPsnFORDs
I completely agree with #2: Don't think you have to take home game every time to be sucessful.
Either way, I have considered many hunts successful when I did not get a deer because I would see a certain deer take a particular travel route, work the wind, do something I hadn't seen before, etc. etc. I consider a hunt successful when I have learned something new about the query I'm chasing, bottom line.
I completely agree with #2: Don't think you have to take home game every time to be sucessful.
Either way, I have considered many hunts successful when I did not get a deer because I would see a certain deer take a particular travel route, work the wind, do something I hadn't seen before, etc. etc. I consider a hunt successful when I have learned something new about the query I'm chasing, bottom line.
05-29-2005, 10:40 AM
#38
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 950
RE: Best Tip or Strategy
I know where you're coming from and I do a lot of scouting too. But sometimes when deer become pressured from hunters they do things a little differently than when you were scouting them.
