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Just learned to enjoy myself and be thankful I have the ability to be outside and enjoying God's creation. Sometimes I take for granted the small stuff in life like being able to WALK that 1/4 mile to my stand or being able to SEE the sunrise on that fall morning. Just gotta learn to enjoy life because no man is promised tomorrow....

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Be sure to identify any green, 3 leaf plant before wiping

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Always carry a gun, you never know what you will see!

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To tough out freezing rain even when you're cold and miserable and nearly shivering because a nice 9pt might be a half hour from a 15 yard shot!

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I'm out of shape for screwing in steps and hanging a stand and dragging deer.[&:]

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Never forget the reason you're in the woods. I've seen many references to it and I'll confirm, don't take this gift we call hunting for granted. If you're just there to kill you'll miss the best parts of hunting. There's a reason hunting doesn't turn into work until after the shot!

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that I like killing a buck off the ground at eye level more than from a stand..never willcomplain about either though.. ;)

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Same for me

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I learned that there is always room for improvement, and that getting skunked is just as educational as scoring.

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I learned to take my time, calm down and pick a spot well in advance of the shoot, and that I need more skill in tracking shot deer.

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I learned to make sure your 7 year old urinates before he gets dressed. Hard to find his tick tac when its 15 degrees and dressed in cover-alls. This leads me to my most frustriating moment. Been scouting a nice 10 pointer all summer. Pick the son up from school seings he like to go hunting with me which he does a pretty good job sitting still. It is a half hour before sunset and my son fell asleep on the ground under my treestand behind my portable blind. Wouldn't you know it the 10 pointer steps out of the corn feild 80 yards from my stand and simultaneously my son wakes up and starts crying because he doesn't know where he is and he has to go pee. needless to say I never got a shot at the deer. It just stood there and looked at me whisper yelling at my son to sit down. Funny as hell but not at that moment. Deer ends up getting hit by a car 2 weeks later. Damn shame.

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Always take your bow with you. I did this past year when recovering a buck I had already shot. I had just stopped dragging and I heard something behind me. A small 6 was standing there not 30 yards away and maybe only 10 yards to the left of the path I had just come down. You never know when one will pop up.

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Under Armour 3.0 is worth every penny.

Great way to get a deer to stop in you shooting lanes and have fresh Doe pee laid down, pull off higher up branches with green leaves still on them on the way to your stand and put them in your shooting lanes where you want the buck to stop.

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Hunting in the rain sucks.

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Patience...

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someone stated they needed to get a better exit/entrance route to their stand, that is something I learned last year and put into affect this year.
I learned two things 1:bring lots of toe warmers because 2: no matter how cold you are, you gotta be there during the rut. I'm lucky I stayed my extra 15 minutes, that I had been telling myself to do for close to an hour. The cold wasn't so bad after you shoot the buck

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Not to rush the shot, and not to rush the shot, and not to rush the shot!

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X2

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TO PRACTICE UNDER 10 YARDS!!!! After I missed a guaranteed 150" buck at about 8yrds I now start every practice with one round 15yrds and under. That was one of the most embarrasing moments of my life he came running in to my grunt calls stopped at my scent canister perfectly broadside ane I shot just under him:(

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The more time I thought through the small details of the hunt, the more consistently successful I was at locating and getting closer to bucks.

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I still can miss

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Just because there's no blood trail doesn't mean there's no dead deer. I hit a doe at 20 yards broadside found her 60 yards from where I hit her with not a drop of blood in between. I backtrailed after I found her and still nothing. The hit was a perfect double lung. I shot 12 deer with bow and never seen anything like this.

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be in the stand plenty of time before day light i got busted two many times