Have you learned anything new this year
 

Rifle season ends this weekend. I got two muleys but I didn't get my whitetail. Not for the lack of trying. I went out as much as I could but I never could put one down. I saw a lot. I would like to blame my equipment but in the end I know its me. But I have also learned a lot about whitetails and my equipment. What have you all learned this year, or in the past couple years that have helped you emensly.?

One thing that I have learned, acutally I already knew, but this was reinforced to me....ALWAYS CARRY TOILET PAPER....haha. don't ask.

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Whether it's with you all the time, or stashed in the truck, HAVE SOME TYPE OF CLEANING ROD TO FREE YOUR BARREL OF OBSTRUCTIONS!!!

Mud, in my case.[:@]

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that deer don't like me!!!!!!!. i didnt see 2 deer the whole season,i say 2 cause i did see one on opener.

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i learned not to fart when the wind blowing thrue your stand and towards the deer :(

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i learned that id rather be drippin with sweat in the stand than cool for 6 hours.

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I don't know whyI didn't think of this before.Bring along a short small cord to tie one back Leg up on a tree making it easier to Fielddress.Bring along Baby Wipes for clean up,I used them to wipe Blood off my Hands and Knife.

big rockpile

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dont count the points on a downed deer, unless your ABSOLUTLY SURE its dead!!!!

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Learned how much I love still hunting during a midday rainstorm...

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always bring toilet paper

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I am not a trophy hunter. I just like having a good hunt and taking a deer - either a buck or a doe, it doesn't matter to me. I took a buck the evening of the opening day. I had a doe permit also, but I made some mistakes. I found myself preferring to watch a football game -- the Dallas Cowboys -- on Thursday, Thanksgiving day, rather than hunting. I realized that I was looking at the hunting as directed to getting the deer rather than the process or state of hunting. I know, sounds sort of weird. But to me it is more than the act of killing the deer, it is the whole process and state of hunting. 5 seconds of viewing and shooting the deer and the whole show is over. It is more, for me, of the process and flow of hunting than the actual pay off. I realized I should be out hunting where I have the chance of learning more stuff. And I did learn a little -- I found a place where deer were slipping under a fence, as can be seen from deer hair on the fence. So, keep actively hunting.