I went there back in August, can't agree more, use the damn search!
http://www.saddlehunter.com/community/index.php?posts/412072
Here are just a few of my peeves so I can vent and feel better too! The
BOLD items are for you guys who can't or don't read!
- Nothing in hunting is absolute, even a 7 year old B&C buck will be taken dead downwind while smoking a cigar on a rare occasion. Scientific study and statistics on deer behavior are gold standards. If you want to be a more consistently successful hunter, stick to the %s on where, how, and when you hunt. Nothing wrong with going out on other times, but you will not be consistently successful doing so. Hunting harder or longer is not always the best answer, it's OK to do other things and NOT hunt, it won't kill you (if you knew me during my early hunting career, you would know how radical that is coming from me).
- Hunting tools are not always necessities or necessarily better than an another option (got news for some of you, but a Summit Viper still beats a saddle in some applications, and visa versa).
- ALL STICKS SUCK!
- WIND + TERRAIN on great/good deer land is king, everything else is just outdoor writer fodder (scrapes, rubs, tracks, calls, scents, scent eliminators...).
- Mature bucks are a different sub-species than does and small bucks, at least here in the pressured South (no they are NOT more intelligent, but have slightly different habits, and must be hunted differently accordingly). And to pressured states, I'm sick of hearing about how Michigan and Pennsylvania are the worst, I challenge any of you to come down here from there and compare, it is more like a tie in that respect, at best, and you don't own that, but I wish you did and it wasn't like that here.
- The bias toward bow hunting on this site and hunting shows irks me - the best hunting takes place during muzzleloader season and the first week of gun here. Bow season is generally too hot, and while you can take a big buck then (usually on a bean field or a bed, it is the exception more than the norm.
- And hell yes, you can use an HSS rope for saddle hunting, and you should have already known that 10,000x by USING THE SEARCH feature!!!!
This past weekend, I challenged myself to leave everything I didn't truly need in the truck and the items I took had to fit in cargo pockets of my pants. No pack, no worries! ML, license, cell phone (in AIRPLANE mode), lwhc, and saddle/ropes = more fun and a freeing experience for me, you should try it sometime!