Just getting started
05-22-2007, 04:52 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Iowa
Posts: 1,858
RE: Just getting started
Read as much as you can in this forum. In my opinion, it is the best source of help. Don't be shy or scared to ask questions. Also, get your hands on as much reading material as possible and pick up some hunting videos. Well worth the money.
05-22-2007, 05:09 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location:
Posts: 1,438
RE: Just getting started
My best advice would be to find a fellow deerhunter in your area or someone you will be hunting with, ask them a lot of questions, and offer to help them with putting up stands, clearing lanes, finding good spots to hunt (scouting), planting food plots, etc. Getting your hands dirty will probably help more than book knowledge. But as Zubba said, reading up a little bit on some tactics and common knowledge could be helpful.
Lastly, get a good rifle and scope and practice with them until you are a constitently good shot.
05-23-2007, 07:37 AM
#5
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location:
Posts: 4,553
RE: Just getting started
ORIGINAL: LebeauHunter
My best advice would be to find a fellow deerhunter in your area or someone you will be hunting with, ask them a lot of questions, and offer to help them with putting up stands, clearing lanes, finding good spots to hunt (scouting), planting food plots, etc. Getting your hands dirty will probably help more than book knowledge. But as Zubba said, reading up a little bit on some tactics and common knowledge could be helpful.
Lastly, get a good rifle and scope and practice with them until you are a constitently good shot.
My best advice would be to find a fellow deerhunter in your area or someone you will be hunting with, ask them a lot of questions, and offer to help them with putting up stands, clearing lanes, finding good spots to hunt (scouting), planting food plots, etc. Getting your hands dirty will probably help more than book knowledge. But as Zubba said, reading up a little bit on some tactics and common knowledge could be helpful.
Lastly, get a good rifle and scope and practice with them until you are a constitently good shot.
05-23-2007, 08:14 AM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Illinois
Posts: 945
RE: Just getting started
my first advice would be to NOT take advice from someone who shoots a Bowtech! J/K! Naaa, thats a great tip though, I got one of my buddies started, he is still a little green in some of his ways, but he is getting there! take every word an experienced hunter says for verse, my buddy still thinks he has a better sense of smell than a deer, not really, but he takes a deer's nose for granted!
05-23-2007, 08:30 AM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location:
Posts: 1,438
RE: Just getting started
bhunter50,
Did you expect a Bowtech owner to say watch this movie and you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about deer?
I really like the tag-line. I gotta use that one some time.
Did you expect a Bowtech owner to say watch this movie and you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about deer?
I really like the tag-line. I gotta use that one some time.
05-23-2007, 08:44 AM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 4,264
RE: Just getting started
You might want to get into some PM chats with some experianced members when they're online, I learned alot that way.
Here's a few veteran hunters who I look up to:
Rebel Hog
James B
Bare Bare Jack
Montana Bob
renfrowridge
bigcountry
EKM
There's more, too, I'm just listing a few off the top of my head.
Here's a few veteran hunters who I look up to:
Rebel Hog
James B
Bare Bare Jack
Montana Bob
renfrowridge
bigcountry
EKM
There's more, too, I'm just listing a few off the top of my head.
05-23-2007, 02:42 PM
#10
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location:
Posts: 150
RE: Just getting started
ORIGINAL: younggun243
You might want to get into some PM chats with some experianced members when they're online, I learned alot that way.
Here's a few veteran hunters who I look up to:
Rebel Hog
James B
Bare Bare Jack
Montana Bob
renfrowridge
bigcountry
EKM
There's more, too, I'm just listing a few off the top of my head.
You might want to get into some PM chats with some experianced members when they're online, I learned alot that way.
Here's a few veteran hunters who I look up to:
Rebel Hog
James B
Bare Bare Jack
Montana Bob
renfrowridge
bigcountry
EKM
There's more, too, I'm just listing a few off the top of my head.