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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 4992480" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Take heart Zim. It's your first year hunting. Learning to be a successful deer hunter takes years, and many of the most important lessons that can be learned are usually learned the hard way, through failure! In addition, deer hunting never gets easy. If it did, we wouldn't stay deer hunters for long. We would move on to something more challenging. I went deer hunting for the first time when I was 16. I'm now 58 and still at it, just as obsessed as ever. And I'm still at it because it never gets easy. The deer usually "win." But on those rare occasions that they don't, that's what keeps me coming back!</p><p></p><p>If you keep at it, years from now you will look back on your first year and see all the mistakes you made. Looking back on my early years of hunting, I wonder how I ever killed a deer. I was making every possible mistake. But it does explain why I killed very few deer and almost never killed a "good" buck.</p><p></p><p>I wish I knew of a great "How To" manual on becoming a successful deer hunter, but I know of no such single work. In fact, I'm not sure you will find the necessary information in writing. Honestly, your best source of information will be successful hunters IN YOUR AREA. I stress that because deer behave differently in different habitat and terrain environments. Hunting mountain deer is not like hunting river bottom agricultural deer. Their behaviors, and the techniques for successfully hunting them, are night and day different. Find successful hunters in your area and pick their brain about why they choose to hunt specific locations. Although each hunter will be working from different "theories" and use different tactics, eventually you will find commonalities in their approaches.</p><p></p><p>And as for what NOT to do - and I hesitate to say these, as I'm probably going to piss someone off - take everything you read in hunting magazines with a grain of salt (a really BIG grain!). Having worked in the hunting industry, I've had the opportunity to meet many of the "famous" outdoor writers, and most don't know squat about deer. They're just excellent writers. Secondly, never, never, NEVER watch hunting shows on TV! They are designed to do only one of two things: sell products or hype a personality, and sometimes both. I've watched some of these shows being filmed and the finished product you see on TV has absolutely no connection to what actually happened. In addition, they are often filmed in situations/locations that are highly unrealistic and unrelatable for the average hunter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 4992480, member: 17"] Take heart Zim. It's your first year hunting. Learning to be a successful deer hunter takes years, and many of the most important lessons that can be learned are usually learned the hard way, through failure! In addition, deer hunting never gets easy. If it did, we wouldn't stay deer hunters for long. We would move on to something more challenging. I went deer hunting for the first time when I was 16. I'm now 58 and still at it, just as obsessed as ever. And I'm still at it because it never gets easy. The deer usually "win." But on those rare occasions that they don't, that's what keeps me coming back! If you keep at it, years from now you will look back on your first year and see all the mistakes you made. Looking back on my early years of hunting, I wonder how I ever killed a deer. I was making every possible mistake. But it does explain why I killed very few deer and almost never killed a "good" buck. I wish I knew of a great "How To" manual on becoming a successful deer hunter, but I know of no such single work. In fact, I'm not sure you will find the necessary information in writing. Honestly, your best source of information will be successful hunters IN YOUR AREA. I stress that because deer behave differently in different habitat and terrain environments. Hunting mountain deer is not like hunting river bottom agricultural deer. Their behaviors, and the techniques for successfully hunting them, are night and day different. Find successful hunters in your area and pick their brain about why they choose to hunt specific locations. Although each hunter will be working from different "theories" and use different tactics, eventually you will find commonalities in their approaches. And as for what NOT to do - and I hesitate to say these, as I'm probably going to piss someone off - take everything you read in hunting magazines with a grain of salt (a really BIG grain!). Having worked in the hunting industry, I've had the opportunity to meet many of the "famous" outdoor writers, and most don't know squat about deer. They're just excellent writers. Secondly, never, never, NEVER watch hunting shows on TV! They are designed to do only one of two things: sell products or hype a personality, and sometimes both. I've watched some of these shows being filmed and the finished product you see on TV has absolutely no connection to what actually happened. In addition, they are often filmed in situations/locations that are highly unrealistic and unrelatable for the average hunter. [/QUOTE]
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