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Re: what's the best hunting advice you have received
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Go hunt in N Alabama š
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: what's the best hunting advice you have received
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03/21/22 08:11 PM
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Easier to kill after dark - thatās halarius
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: what's the best hunting advice you have received
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Growing up not being taken hunting once these types of threads are what I clinged to for years hoping I would find that one thing that Iām not doing. Everyone knows to hunt the wind, hunt as often as you can, sit still etc. For years I would get so frustrated because I would read magazines about the big deer killers and talk to them and do everything they said as well as work 4 times as much as anyone else looking for that edge and never have a big buck to show for it. Iām roughly 15 years in what I consider hard hunting now and Iāve still never killed a big buck, probably never will and I just have to be ok with that. If a person hunts just to kill big bucks thatās fine, nothing wrong with that at all but in this state itās a long row to hoe. Itās one thing to create a deer factory on private but the guys like Michael Perry, who consistently take big bucks from Alabama public land, are just phenomenal woodsman. They deserve all the respect you can give them.
I guess I say all that to say this. Hunting advice has nothing to do with the woods and skills but everything to do with your outlook and appreciation. If I had to guess, I'd bet that Michael Perry does most of his serious scouting between the end of deer season and the end of turkey season. He prob goes in and hangs his stands or identifies his stand locations, cut his shooting lanes, and puts out his cell cameras (if he even uses cameras) in mid-late summer. Then, Id be willing to bet that he does not go back into those areas at all, until he is ready to hunt it, and then he only hunts it when conditions are perfect. Reading what you wrote, I honestly think the most detrimental reason for you not killing a big buck in 15 yrs is most likely "the hunt as often as you can" part of what you are doing. I probably hunt 1/5 the the total number of days that I used to hunt in a year and I probably see and kill 4-5 times as many mature bucks as I used to. It takes discipline, but when it comes to killing big bucks, less is always more, when it comes to pressure. They simply will not tolerate it and will go nocturnal the first time they catch your scent. If you love the woods and love sitting in a tree and love just shooting any legal deer, then definitely go as often as you can, and enjoy yourself. If you want to kill big bucks, find one, and dont hunt him or go anywhere near him at all, until conditions are perfect. Best hunting advice I ever got was, "your best chance to kill a really big buck is always the first time you hunt his home area". Yep, I kill more big deer now, than I ever did when I hunted āa lotā. But, youāve got to have big deer, and the more of them you have, the crappier you can be at hunting them.
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Re: what's the best hunting advice you have received
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03/23/22 08:32 PM
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They call it hunting, not killing for a reason.
"Never met a deer that I didn't like" - QDMAV8R
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Re: what's the best hunting advice you have received
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03/30/22 08:33 PM
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Go hunt. Enjoy the memories.
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Re: what's the best hunting advice you have received
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04/02/22 03:49 PM
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can't kill him if ya can't hit him, learn to shoot that damn rifle till it's second nature.
how many folks do you know that miss a gooodun every year????? That's some great advice. It has always amazed me at the number of people who cannot hit a doe eating grass 75 yds away. And that was out of a decent stand with some sort of rest. I used to carry a lot of church members who just hunted occasionally and many of them had never taken this advice. Best hunting advice I've ever gotten was about turkey hunting, and it came right off this forum. Yekrut said that too avoid a turkey jinx, when you kill a gobbler get down and roll around in the feathers and blood like a dog and get as much as possible on your hunting clothes. Then don't dare wash them until the season is over. I started doing it and haven't been jinxed since. It would probably work for deer too, but I don't care about them enough to do it.
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All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: what's the best hunting advice you have received
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^^^^
Not sure I believe all that but when I kill another if good Lord letās me I am trying it on turkey
Feel tremendously unlucky. Watched turkeys before season every day on camera then they leave either a few days before season last 2 years or for first time they did stay around 4-5 days after season this year - they were henned up - I could not get on the one I did call In and another one came in behind me - now they appear to be gone again. Neighbors property is beautiful hardwoods where they go to - but I just got thinned timber - maybe they be back. Always wonder if neighbor feeds during season - he did try to get turkey rights from me
And today I just went on a 1000 acre spot that was new to me that has had turkeys in the past - not a peep - not a turkey track on 3 hour walk
My 80 in Sweetwater my neighbors try to keep turkey run off me or poach
I feel more likely to hit a hole in one than kill a turkey right now - and I can kill Turkeys if they want to gobble - hard 3 years - had 20 plus day stretches the last 2 years when I did not even hear a turkey gobble - most people prob quit
Thanks for tip PCP
And with all that complaining - I am still A very blessed man - just having turkeys to hunt is not my strong suit š¤£ - i have pretty decent deer spots though for this area
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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