What do you think the most overlooked aspect of bowhunting is?

Pretty self explanatory question. In your opinion, what's the single most overlooked aspect of bowhunting that is overlooked. No right or wrong answers here, I'm just curious. Who knows? Ya'll may come up with something I overlook all the time and don't even know it.

 

Scouting for sound stand placement...

While scouting each winter I see stands in some of most unproductive areas you could imagine....

 

Patience.

Even the guys we deem as the best spend countless hours afield each season, MANY fruitless sits on stand.

 

In and out route's to stands and hunting with a not so good/Iffy wind.

 

I'm with Schultzy on this one- Undetected access to and from and not paying attn. to the wind. No such thing as "forget the wind-just hunt".

Dan

 

Scouting other hunters, the old wooden stands can teach you alot and the new stands can teach you where not to set-up!

 

Knowing specifically, what the particular animal you are hunting, is doing.

 

Entry/exit routes to and from hunting areas.

 

I was gonna say stand placement.

Even though it seems like it is often emphasized, I think most people don't look into it as deeply as they should (myself included).

 

x2....... knowledge of the animal being pursued.

 

A prayer to bring it all together.

 

x3....Why the animal pursued, does what it does when it does it. I believe this to be true for hunting in general also.

 

the most overlooked thing....just the simple joy of being able to hunt is overlooked these days, now more than ever, we all should just be in awe of the opprotunity to just sit in a tree or stalk in the woods and plains when you consider the rat race that is going on around us....remember, Technology can force simplicity really fast in men like us...

 

I guess that I have to stick with stand placement and being undetected when entering, hunting and exiting. You won't be successful very long if your bumping all the deer on the way in.

 

The time invested.

If you are really serious, it takes a LOT of time and preperation to make everything come together to have that one oportunity every year at killing a good buck.

 

I dunno.. probably something I overlooked.

(c'mon.. who didn't see that one coming?)

 

It always amazes me how many hunters I know who just don't know jack about deer behavior in general. Paying no attention to wind direction is another thing I notice from people.

 

All of it...
Miss one detail and you will not shoot that deer you hoped too!

 

If you know they are there and hunting.....

I had a stand on a GREAT funnel that's produced for me many times over but for some reason even with a good wind, I was just not getting any deer in the area. Trying to be PATIENT, I gave that stand a LOT of sits before one night I saw something moving amongst some hay bails and realized there was another guy hunting not 100yds from me. Sitting there, smoking his cigarettes and eating a sandwich, I figured he was the "culprit. I set up about 150yds further away from him, and on the first night, I arrowed a monster doe, watched a couple young bucks spar, then a third smallish buck joined in and I had three little 1 1/2 yr olds all sparring withing 50yds of me. LESSON learned, WATCH for any movement, human or animals alike.

 

There are some good replies here. 1 didn't see was movement in the stand. I watched the a kid in gun season @ 300 + yards, moving back & forth,looking around. Later that night when I told him about it he said he wasn't moving at all. That I think that saves more deer than anything else.