RE: Best learned lessons from 2006
I had the best season for seeing deer/bucks but the worst year for major mistakes. The things I learned:
1. When you know you're on a good spot have patience, I moved 80ydsup the ridge only to have a nice 8pt walk within 10ft of where I had been sitting only 20minutes later!
2. When you stalk up to a bedded 150's deerand it's only 1pm wait him out. Don't use the can call to get him to move! STUPID,STUPID,STUPID!! Again PATIENCE!
3. I hunt public land and from my observations over the last 5yrs, to be productive I will hunt the first two weeks of the season heavily and the first two weeks of November. And go more in the middle of the week.
4. Spend more time in the wood from 10am-2pm. I pushed alot of deer walking in at 1:30-2pm. It's hard for me to sit more than 4hrs but I drive 70miles one way I need to be focused and PATIENT in 2007.