1. go back to shooting .019 pin on a HHA 5519 sight 2. continue researching and reading about using the terrain to kill bucks 3. maybe get a new QAD LD rest, the one I have doesn't seem to work all that well. 4. get more Axis arrows 5. do some serious late winter scouting on my new lands 6. rethink my early season tactics, hunt for big bucks early by using post season scouting info 7. try to get yet more land! 8. shoot a few more 3d shoots 9. refletch and fletch arrows 10. get a new target.. what about you?
I know...Im completely ate up with it....oh yeh, I need to add to the list.....I need to locate DOE bedding areas on my new land!
1. maybe get a new Limb Driver rest, the one I have is too heavy. 2. get more Axis arrows 3. do some serious late winter scouting on my new lands 4. hunt for big bucks early by using post season scouting info 5. try to get yet more land! 6. Sell off some stands I will no longer need. After 4 seasons, I finally know what I want to use. 7.Trim several shooting lanes. 8. Begin Protein feed supplements. 9. Shoot a lot more. 10. Get back into my workout routine and walking.
1. Shed hunt for the first time to determine what is alive and kicking in my hunting locations..probably in February. 2. Locate large deer tracks as well...5-6 inch tracks seem to correspond to the larger bucks from what I have read and seen. 3. Find specific buck beds. 4. Mark all of those those things on a map 5. Walk the "core" area based on the above factors. Walk and educate myself for as long as it takes in order to get a feel of where I should hunt 6. For each core area I determine, have 3-4 stand sites marked on a topo map and with the exact lat/long coordinates on my gps so I can just bring in my climber and set up shop quickly, based on the wind 7. Walk and scout some more until my feet hurt 8. Gain permission to hunt on 3-4 suburban spots. I don't need much, only 2 acres or so to hunt on each spot. 9. Talk with the guys on here that I feel would help me in any of the above areas...at length until I get it right. Many of you guys offer great insight into many things that I do not know much about, and hopefully many of you will continue to help educate me on very specific skill sets. 10. Did I say scout more? And for real guys, if anyone sees anything "wrong" in my above plan, please let me know on here or via PM. I don't mind being critiqued at all because I am constantly striving to get better.
"Mapping Trophy Bucks" by Brad Herndon is the absolute best book I've ever read about deer hunting. I learned more about deer hunting, using his knowledge of terrain as deer patterning than anything ever. My top 10 would probably be, in no certain order: 1) Scout more in the summer. 2) Hunt more. 3) Shoot more. 4) Start using my climber more. 5) Scout more in the late season. 6) Find more places to hunt. 7) Get some early season plots out. 8) Hunt a new place each day. 9) Walk further to my stand. 10) Pass on lesser bucks.
ENOUGH WITH THE POST SEASON POST!!!!!!!! (Joking.) Congrats to those who aren't still out there kickin it.
Exactly, like jmbuck said above, it ain't over! I'll be out again tomorrow with bow in hand, morning 3 of PA rifle season.
1. Scout hard in the winter. 2. Hang observation stand for summer glassing on Farm A 3. Hang observation stand for summer glassing on Farm B 4. Hang a couple more sets based on this years sightings 5. Move a few sets around based on this years experiences. 6. Shed hunt several of the areas I watched bucks bed in. 7. Learn to read a topo map better 8. Scout and confirm the lay of the land using topos and my feet 9. Find more buck beds 10. Make all my final stand adjustments and trim.
1- Shed hunt like a madman. 2- Get a new sight, probably the new Octane. 3- Not think about deer hunting as much as possible. 4- Maintain and establish food plots. 5- Not let the hunting of animal consume me completely, i.e have a life. 6- Extend my range to 40 yards. 7- I probably need more arrows too. 8- Win the lottery and buy some more land. 9- Become a better writer and photographer. 10- Become a bad *** with a chainsaw, fell some trees and thicken up some the places on our property.
Another 10 1/2 weeks of bow season left here in Arkansas. Ends Feb. 28. Like another poster wrote, it ain't over yet
1. Catch a bunch of coyotes 2. Set up both of my new BlackOps Destroyer 340s 3. Catch a bunch of coyotes 4. Pull my 30 some-odd stands I've still got left in the woods 5. Catch a few gray and red fox 6. Continue getting back in shape like I was before the season started 7. Catch a few bobcats 8. Catch a few raccoons 9. Tan a lot of hides to decorate my game room 10. Do a lot of shed hunting to decorate my game room
Egads... hard to think about next season already. I'm still hunting. (if you can call what I'm doing 'hunting') 1. Put in another 40 hours of volunteer time so I can hunt the park again. 2. Save some money for the trip to Brown Co. 3. Save money to get shoulder fixed. 4. Save money to get truck fixed. 5. Work more so I can have money left over to save. I wonder if I can sell a kidney?
1. Buy a "new to me" bow 2. Purchase a climber 3. purchase a range finder 4. new release 5. attend a bunch more 3d shoots 6. Hunt more places 7. video tape some hunts 8. Buy a truck 9. Recover 100% from knee surgery 10. Gain new lands to hunt That about sums it up for me, there will probably be many more by the time next season rolls around.
I have until Jan 31st, but after that I will scout like heck until the middle of March (turkey season starts and that is my other obsession) and then cut some lanes and shoot throughout the summer. I learned more walking the entire woods right after season last year than I have in 15+ years off doing the whole scout a month before season thing. With no leaves and no worries of bumping deer, you can and will learn so much. I got that beat into my head from alot of you guys on here.
1. Study Topos of the entire 1200 acres I have to hunt.( and learn about adjoining properties as well) 2. Learn what I'm looking at while studying topo maps 3. Scout hard and smart 4. Find both buck and doe bedding areas. 5. Find creek crossings between bedding and food sources. 6. Get the Ford 9n up and running to be a lease tractor. 7. Plant and maintain food plots,( both to hunt over and supplement feed) 8. Figure out how to pay for a Destroyer, ( or whatever new bow I fall in love with while shooting as many as possible) 9. Shoot more 3-D with both longbow and compound 10. Sell one of my 3 campers to help finance another season.
