To me, most people should. It is kind of pointless to waist time and money on something that might not have been the problem.However, to be frank - Who the hell cares? I mean really who cares if the deer saw, smelt or herd you first?
Sit there regurgitating "facts or fictions" and feeling like a victim of circumstances beyond our control and powerless due to the fact no one can “know for sure” what triggered the response.
Or
You can take steps to mitigate whatever it might have been.
Most of these steps sure as hell aren't going to hurt your odds.
If I did it quick that would have be sub 5 mins. This is the pace I hunt at, I don’t see the point in going slow. See below.I Recently watched a video on you tube of someone climbing and setting up for a hunt and timing it. It was obvious the goal was to do it quickly.
However, would I personally hunt that way? NOPE. Reason: There was so many things moving around, bumping together, and overall movement that IN MY EXPEREINCE it would spook any mature buck bedded even remotely close to that area.
This is a difference in hunting styles. Dave likes to hunt “Buck beds” where I hunt transition areas. I don’t completely believe the buck bed theory on ALL deer. There are some deer that will do this, but not all. So I don’t give a crap about noise, because there deer shouldn’t be there when I am setting up. Sure some might be, and I go about my business and can get set up and the deer never hear or see me. Where as Dave tends to set up within close range of bedded deer. So he believes that noise is a major issue for him. Different styles=Different thoughts.please don't misinterpret - I view noise as a big area to address.
I don’t think anyone here is arguing this, Deer see MOVEMENT very well. We all gree on this.I can't believe anyone that has hunted very long and been close to whitetails does not understand how great their vision is at picking up movement even when they appear to be looking in another direction.
This is exactly what I am trying to get across with this thread.good science is better than our opinions. Deer see movement and blue. True or not?
Social media is full of lies but good science with good data helps to evaluate whether things are true.
QUOTE="Ontariofarmer, post: 69894, member: 554"]One thing that I thought of when I saw this quote is something you said. Find a method and perfect it. Or you said something like that.
I think that video indicates a practiced method and verifies your advice as excellent. Do not be trying many methods and doing them poorly[/QUOTE]
Exactly what I was trying to show in my video, a perfect refined method. It shows my method, and the small details within my method that most people over look. It shows the perfected method that works for me.
Thanks,
Boswell