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I agree, there is no "set way" to discount it either

I never said it was.....but I think you were drawing on a lot of your situationfor examples therefore one could make that assumption.


While I agree with most, somethings can only be learned over time. for example, I went through a seven year span where everything I did (hunting wise) went as planned and nothing surprised me. Then one year I saw acoyote do something I'd never seen before.I learned from it and was able touse what I learned the next time I hunted coyotes.

So, the more years someone spends hunting the more opt they are to learn more about their quarry. Granted it's not always the case but it tends to hold true.


I agree, to what extent though, I'm not too sure.


I personally don't think there is a fast track to experience. There may be a fast track to becoming a proficient hunter but experience is the knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what has been observed over the course of time. You can only see and shoot so much in thespan of one hunting season. It takes many seasons to become an experienced hunter, I know I have a ways to go myself and I've been at it my entire life.


That's an understatement!


You do the same.

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First, I would like to say those were a couple outstanding posts BigJ......

I know personally the more experience I get the more my hunting style evolves.I amconstantly evolving from what I have picked up each fall. I can certainly tell you I do not hunt or look at a set of woodsthe same now as I did 3-4 years ago. The experiences I have had and will continue to have will keep shaping me in the future as well.
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Buckeye.....the same can be said about LIFE! Being 42 yrs old.....and where I am in life (not that its anywhere that 'great' to anyone else....but it's great, to me;)) I think it's easier for me to straighten those curves than it would be for a younger man in my position in experience years.

Thanks for the discussion, guys. Though I may agree with you (in part or in whole), sometimes.....I STILL want to know why you're so adamant about things. Thanks for the conversation.

Good posts, Rob...John.;)

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Very nice post ahunter55! You impress me as being a person we should all be paying attention to when you share information.

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While I just made a comment about ahunter55's post,I would like to say that there have been a number of really excellent posts! A lot of them have really wrung true for me.
The pursuit to become better and better is so much of the fun and challenge of whitetail hunting! I would expect as Rob had mentioned that most if not all of us are humbled every year.The goal is to minimize the amount of times that happens.

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3 more pages you all can do it, come on 20

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Been away for a while. Sorry about the hijack attempt. Back on topic, everyone who hunts gains experience,beginning with practice,hanging stands,game cameras etc. Both hunters gained valuable experience in your example,just different kinds of experience. The hunters who don't gain experience are the ones who only hunt in stands that someone else put up and take the first deer they see, they remain stagnant. To each his own,but time spent in the woods is the best teacher,so spend as much time in the woods this year guys and learn something new. Process you own deer if you haven't (you really learn about the shoulder this way. Me I'm going to make my own sausage. I already process my own deer, it really isn't hard.

Good luck to you all this season!

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I think if people left the word "I" out of their post this thread would be about 2 pages long. So for those of you that know a ton about hunting big bucks, tell us about that. This is a deer hunting forum and there seem to be many with so much expierence so lets here your stratagies. I'm eager to learn.

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Strategies change with time and place again it all, boils down to time spent in the woods!

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Hunter A. I think the more you put into something, the more you'll get back. I think there is a lot more to learn about hunting than the shot and what happens after, not that you don't need to know a lot to be successful there as well. All that being said, if you're not listening to the lesson, it doesn't matter one way or the other.

Ken