For me beings this was the first year bow hunting instead of slug hunting i learned alot by just doing it. You can watch shows and get some good advice but unless you go out and try some things you will never get to use that advice. I started hunting a new peice of property for bow hunting i didn't know anything about so early in the summer i went out and tried to find the logical places i could see deer. It ends up the first place i put a tree stand wasnt in the right location. So I moved to a differnt spot after seeing where the deer were traveling. At first i was so scared that i might mess up and scare deer off or something but as i became more familiar with the plot of land and realizing the travel patterns i was able to shoot my first deer with a bow(8 point)at 8 yards. I guess the point im trying to make is dont be scared that your not going to look like the guys on TV. They have professional guides watching and managing deer herds. Theyknow where every deer is and unless you have 10,000 acres it is not that practical to expect the same results you see onTV. But with that said there is still alot of info that applies. Wind directions, backdrop(dont hang stand in the middle of openingwhere deer can pick you out) Moon Phases, scent concealment and so on. And in MN it is illegal to bait deer so that is one morechallenge that makes stand placement harder here. With a little trial and error you should have pretty good results. Everyone makes mistakes you just have to learn so you dont make them twice.

OK i'm donenow. Only 8 more months till deer season. But 2 months till turkey YEAHHHH