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Give one tip on deer hunting

Stop relying so heavily on technology and for the love of god turn your phone completely off when on stand. Countless bucks have walked right by laughing at the guy sitting in his tree staring at his phone who never had a clue that buck was there.

Learn to turn all that garbage off and slow your mind down to the point you’re attuned to the natural world, you’ll see more deer.
 
swampdonkey said:
Stop relying so heavily on technology and for the love of god turn your phone completely off when on stand. Countless bucks have walked right by laughing at the guy sitting in his tree staring at his phone who never had a clue that buck was there.

Learn to turn all that garbage off and slow your mind down to the point you’re attuned to the natural world, you’ll see more deer.
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yep… funny story.. I hunt NW Florida public land… one of my strategies is to set up cameras along swamp edges and young pines… each camera progressively deeper… once bow season starts I will go to pull first camera and hunt that area and next hunt go deeper to next camera pull it and hunt there… and so forth…therefore no a lot of disturbance… anyway one hot morning got to tree and had hot south wind… took a lot to set through mid morning… finally broke down and pulled out my phone and started looking at pictures from that camera… hadn’t gone through 10 pictures and I’m looking at pictures of deer coming from behind my treestand… sure enough heard something behind me stood up with phone in my hands in time to see 3 nice bucks come out right where the camera said they would… obviously couldn’t shoot them with my iPhone…
 
Nutterbuster said:
Non-negotiable?

1. Tell somebody where you're going. My wife has a pretty good knowledge of where I hunt because I take her fishing, flower picking, etc in those areas. If I tell her I'm going to the beaver pond, she knows where that is. If I'm hunting where she isn't familiar, I text gps coordinates to her phone.

2. Really don't have another non-negotiable rule.
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3. Toilet Paper.

Non-Negotiable...:grinning:
 
Surprised people haven't mentioned any of these:

1. LISTEN: For me, hunting is about listening to the birds if they alarm, squirrels if they bark, and the rhythm of the woods. If that rhythm is broken, then I know something is coming, and I can start getting mentally ready.

2. INTUITION: Sometimes, you pick a stand or a trail based not on OnX, but on that weird tingly feeling you get when you "feel" deer. I think that's the echo of our early ancestors who figured out that protein was a damn good way to grow a bigger brain. Even sometimes when I have a tree picked out, I listen to that "feeling" and change my plans.

3. SMELL: You can smell deer (smells like a horse), and the funkiness of a rutting buck. If you're walking through the woods and get that smell, stop, and look around. Your killing tree could be just a few feet away.
 
swampdonkey said:
Stop relying so heavily on technology and for the love of god turn your phone completely off when on stand. Countless bucks have walked right by laughing at the guy sitting in his tree staring at his phone who never had a clue that buck was there.

Learn to turn all that garbage off and slow your mind down to the point you’re attuned to the natural world, you’ll see more deer.
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Guilty…..multiple times. The phone has cost me a couple giants that slipped up on me.



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SNIPERBBB said:
Learn how to trap...you see so and learn so much more when you're trying to put a piece of steel in the ground that has 8-20 square inches of kill area. Tom Miranda was a big trapper before he was the known as a big time bow hunter. Last couple of years at out National Trappers Association convention he's given demos on how trapping has made him a better hunter.
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Amazing insight. I’ve achieved success (the hard way) in trapping several groundhogs, rats, and mice over the last few years. Amazing how strategic it made me in pursuing my quarry. I knew my hunting days would be limited last year, so I devoured every data point I could find of my buck and doe sightings (going back to 2005) to identify the most likely point in the lunar phase that local bucks would be pursuing does. I hunted the fewest days I’ve ever hunted in a season last year (4 days) and dropped a doe and a buck after having a 5-6 year dry spell. Trapping really does “up your game” on strategizing your hunts!
 
Rutman said:
Guilty…..multiple times. The phone has cost me a couple giants that slipped up on me.



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Yup, amazing how quiet they can come in even when you’re paying attention. My buck last year was not there one second and when i turn my head back towards the cattails he was just there, standing on the edge of them. I was so surprised because i just looked there at that spot a few seconds prior and had no idea he was coming. Even at that i barely had time to pick up my bow and ready myself for the shot as he closed the distance really quickly.

Had i not been paying attention he’d have been on top of me and i’d not been able to do a thing but watch. He never did make a sound until my arrow slid between his ribs.

I definitely try to keep my phone in my pocket.
 
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