ORIGINAL: GregH
ORIGINAL: GregH
Three things helped me a lot.
1. Passing smaller bucks and having patience.
2. Not touching anything with my bare skin enroute to my stands.
3. Hunting funnels between doe bedding areas.
I forgot one that I feel is very important also.....
4. If you see a lot of concentrated deer sign or movement from your stand, especially during the rut, move your stand over there imediately. Let the deer tell you where they like to be. DON'T KEEP SITTING IN YOUR STAND HOPING THEY WILL COME BY SOONER OR LATER.
I totally agree with that last one. Don't try to make the deer come somewhere they don't really want to be. That is why I love hunting out of my climber. Very mobile and versitile. The other three aren't bad either.
And I am kinda like Hunsucker. What did it for me was killing my first big buck. I kinda liked it and wanted to it again. So I did everything I could to learn how to make it happen again. But it ain't easy.