Deer Hunting Tips
My deer hunting tips are on this page, 
Deer Hunting Tips for sitting on the ground: Lower is better for concealment, higher is better for comfort. Buying a portable stool consider: height, comfort, weight, quiet, camouflage, and stability.A wider, broader base is better for soft ground. Small legs/feet will sink into the ground. I currently uses the ones pictured. Also read: Ground Blinds List Are Great! Especially at the beginning of the season. A pleasant way to make list is to day-dream (in detail) about previous hunts. Day-dreaming helps you remember what you needed, and you can make your hunting list, camping list... writing down the equipment you needed to do it. You can also use my hunting list as a starting point. Remember to make different list for different: hunting seasons, places, camping... You may want to make what I call a Git-R-Done List. This one is for things you need to do: around the house, job, business... Things that could interfere with your hunting. Don't forget to try to keep Mom happy too! Check Your Calendar: Are there conflicts you need to take care of? You'll enjoy hunting more without nagging conflicts on your mind. When hunting, relax, but stay focused, alert, ready, and make every minute count. I've had unexpected opportunities when eating, sleeping, "marking my territory"... Make it a habit to keep your bow or gun in reach. To move quietly and still hunt , don't look and walk at the same time. Give full attention to your walking for a couple of steps, then stop, and give your full attention to looking and listening. Deer Hunting Tips for walking: Never stop hunting! Don't walk or stand out in the open, on hill tops... If you must; make it quick. Walk in the shade, try to stay somewhat hidden always. If you stop walking for any reason, you haven't stopped hunting, stay alert... Several times I've had a deer suddenly appear, but the movement of getting an arrow spooked the deer. I don't walk with a knocked arrow, but if I stop, I knock an arrow, or I sometimes wish I had. I don't know if it's a sixth sense, subconscious, or what, but: You can often see much better in a forest by getting low and looking under most of the tree limbs. This one is humbling because it's so simple, but took me years to understand what I was doing wrong. I was always getting hung up or making noise when walking under low hanging limbs! I finally learned to turn my cap around backwards so I can look up and see them! I haven't tried this idea, but it should work for easily and safely removing ticks: Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the tick is said to come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away. I haven't tried these dryer sheet ideas either, so I'll just "Bounce" them to you. (I couldn't resist!) Those dryer sheets may be good for more than eliminating static cling. Tie a sheet to your belt loop and it's said to keep mosquitos away. Also said to repel, yellow-jackets, ants, and even mice from where you place it. Put a sheet in things which smell, especially anything musty, kept closed for a long period of time... It makes sense that it would help prevent line from tangling... and that it would clean things by attracting dust, hair... But it is also said to easily remove bugs from your car, wet the car, and the sheet... Know before you go! Watch the TV weather, or check it with your computer. Wind direction is very important; it and other weather factors can help you plan your hunt before you get there. Have a plan for different wind directions, conditions... Read:
The Sense of Smell
Having an SUV camping tent which attaches to your vehicle is handy, especially if the weather is bad. You don't need to get out in the cold or the rain as much. Click on the image for more. More Deer Hunting Tips: Slow Down! Start hunting before you make a move. How many deer have you busted before you really started hunting, or because you were in a rush to walk somewhere and get started. We all make fewer mistakes when we go slow and think about our moves. Deer hunting tips: Less can be more! Sometimes we try to do too much in one short hunt. Do less, but do it thoroughly. You may enjoy it more, and have more success. There is some advantage in hunting the same area for years. You learn to predict the deer movement somewhat. I hunt a transition area often. The prevailing winds force me to bow-hunt most often in the evenings. The deer are moving out of the woods/bedding areas, and into the transition area (semi-open area) about sun down. They tend to hang-out there, often in small groups, until it gets pretty dark. When dark they move on to the wheat fields... Later in the season, around the rut, deer come and go at different times. They often travel through this area at some time of the day, and if rifle hunting I can back off where the wind direction is less of a problem.
Deer Hunting Tips: Cheap Call: Deer Hunting Tips: Where there is a chance for quick unexpected short range shot, I keep my scope set to a lower magnification. The low power setting allows me to quickly find the target with the wider field of view. A long shot will often allow enough time to turn up the power as I get into a more stable shooting position. Deer Hunting Tips: The more "stuff" you use: decoys, remote calls, even scents... The more you have to move around your hunting area to put them in place. They may help, but you are moving, making noise, disturbing "the natural". Even more important you are adding your scent to a larger area. 
Deer Hunting Tips: In the picture I'm wearing camouflage with a little camouflage makeup on my face. At bow-hunting range, my hand and ears are glaring, and my face is easy to detect. Camouflage mask Don't wear white socks! When you sit your pants legs pull up and you may have bright white showing. Using a white handkerchief or anything is never a good idea either... Trigger happy hunters come to mind. BUT! A couple of times I've hung a white handkerchief flapping in the wind, or even parked my truck, to try and divert deer movement slightly. I think it worked once, but I'm not sure, and it could blow the whole deal. None of these deer hunting tips come with a guarantee. Buck CLICK HERE: IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION,
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Tie a very small feather with dental-floss to your bowstring, bow, gun barrel... so that it can easily blow in the slightest breeze. It can help you detect wind direction when there is very little wind.
