So, I was sitting in the hottub with the girlfriend, and out of nowhere, a beautiful doe walks up to the gate and starts looking around. That moment got me pretty excited for my FIRST ever hunting season . So heres the question: What's the best advice you were given when you started bowhunting?
Play the wind is the obvious answer, but I am gonna say entry / exit you can find the best tree in the world but if you can't get in and out without bumping deer what's the point? Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk 2
Patience...........have plenty of it!! You may have several close encounters that don't even result in you drawing your bow, you may have days where you don't see a deer then all of a sudden there one is and it's gone. Learn to love everything about bowhunting and above all don't press any shot....patience.....
It's hunting not killing and don't expect to see a ton of deer till you learn more and be patient. This is another one but, equally important. Hunt the wind. You can only control your scent so much but, if you are down wind from the deer, they can't smell you no matter how bad you smell.
hunt at night with a spotlight over a feeder............. JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!! I would have to agree with the patience, and to enjoy and appreciate nature all around you...I went my first 2 full seasons without even seeing a deer in a "hunting" situation!!!! and I was 14-15!!!! so ya patience
Patience patience patience practice practice practice scout scout scout Know your equipment well enough that when opportunity presents itself instinct takes over.
Best advice I was given was to be prepared to scout early and often. All the patience in the world will do you no good if you are not where the game is going to be. In retrospect, you can scout till the cows come home, but without patience you end up with the same results.
1) practice; 2) scout; 3) patients. All three of those have been the most redundant pieces of advice I've gotten since I started bowhunting. I like what ISiman/OH said: "Experience will bring you a lot of knowledge. Study the animal you are pursuing as much as you can." Never stop learning about the animal and environment you're hunting, every sit will teach you something new
If you ever come home from a hunting trip and give yer wife the crabs......just SWEAR it came from a truck stop toilet seat
