While Rattling for Whitetails has been around for years, using decoys to dupe a wary deer is somewhat a new trend. There are many different decoys on the market today and many different opinions on whether to use a buck or a doe. Here is a quick list of tips and tricks that may help you, should you decide to give a decoy a try this fall…
5 Things That Will Make Opening Day Much Sweeter
I’m the type of hunter that daydreams about being in the woods all year long. I start preparing for archery season in May, and try to practice with my bow year round. Even though I can’t seem to get bowhunting off my mind, I still end up running around getting all the things I should have gotten done in the summer two weeks before the season starts. This year I decided to get more organized. I set out five goals to work on regularly throughout the summer.
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This week I’m going to take a look at some of the features of many of today’s trail cameras. All cameras have their positives and negatives and I plan on discussing many of these topics along the way.
Film/Digital
Cameras that take pictures using film are quickly becoming a thing of the past. They were the first camera introduced for the use of wildlife surveillance. They were great when they were the only option available to hunters, but now digital cameras have been introduce. Film cameras only allowed 24 or at most, 36 pictures to be takes. With digital cameras and a 1+ gigabyte card, depending on the number of mega pixels your camera is, a hunter is able to capture hundred if not thousands of pictures without checking the camera. Also, instead of having to spend the money to get the film developed, you can easily insert the camera into a card reader or directly into your computer and view the pictures. There is no money wasted getting blank pictures developed.
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For as long as I can remember this issue has been festering among archers. The Internet forums are full of heated controversy between the vertical and horizontal archers. What puzzles me most is seeing how some archery organizations feed this controversy by purposely spreading false hype and misinformation, and for what? Mainly, to protect their own agenda and selfish goals.
Here are just some of the commonly made statements that surface with regularity about crossbows:
“Crossbows are an ineffective hunting weapon.”
“Crossbows lead to unethical behavior”
“Crossbows are not archery equipment, they are guns with a string.”
“Crossbows are not traditional archery”.
An understanding of deer behavior and travel patterns can help you choose a hunting site. Because deer feed primarily during low light conditions they have two primary rest periods, late at night and during mid-day. Generally they leave their daytime bedding areas in heavy cover late in the afternoon and move toward night time food sources. They intermittently feed, travel and rest during the night before returning to their daytime bedding areas.
As a human it’s hard to fully understand how a whitetail deer could live by its nose. Humans do not function this way, and if we had to survive simply through the use of our noses, we probably wouldn’t make it very long. On the other hand, whitetail deer live by their noses, and mature whitetails learn to rely on their noses more than any other sense. A whitetail deer's nose is to him what eyes are to humans; he trusts what he smells more than any of his other senses. The cliché, “I have to see it to believe it,” represents humans’ heavily reliance on eyesight.
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