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<blockquote data-quote="JCDEERMAN" data-source="post: 5019110" data-attributes="member: 5787"><p>What a great thread. Love all the comments. I agree with most all things posted here.</p><p></p><p>A few things stand out to me with the successful hunters. They put in the time after the season is over year after year - they know how to read the sign, where the most opportunistic position would be located and how to enter and exit it. They have an ability to decipher all of the information and piece it together. They are able to know when to be there and when not to be there (phase of the season) - also which conditions will allow and not allow them to be there. They are able to see the details others can not see or understand. Things stand out to them that are mostly overlooked by others. They aren't just putting boot leather down - they are intrigued by every little detail and always ask why? </p><p></p><p>The hunters that aren't as successful don't have ill-will towards the hunter in the club that has success. They just don't understand how a person can have so much luck. At the same time, that successful hunter is obsessed with it. It is all they think about and is never satisfied. Even in a homogeneous landscape of hardwoods, they know how mature deer use the landscape - how they travel, how and where they are likely to bed. Not necessarily a "bedroom", but the favorable positioning of a bed that favor the deer with sight, sound and smell - Many of these have excellent escape routes. Can most hunters find the beds? If they do, do they kneel down in it and look around? Ask themselves.....What can he see? What wind direction is it? What can he hear? Is the bed in a wind tunnel? Do most hunters know what a wind tunnel is? Not only looking off in the distance at most of that stuff, but immediately surrounding that area within several feet. Why did he choose this?</p><p></p><p>In a nutshell, most hunters won't put in the time to scout as much as they need to. That scouting isn't necessarily to kill a deer, but to accumulate deer behavior knowledge over time. Those successful hunters are able to think like the deer and sometimes predict movements. Do most hunters really, REALLY understand what they are looking at and know at least a little biology on these animals?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JCDEERMAN, post: 5019110, member: 5787"] What a great thread. Love all the comments. I agree with most all things posted here. A few things stand out to me with the successful hunters. They put in the time after the season is over year after year - they know how to read the sign, where the most opportunistic position would be located and how to enter and exit it. They have an ability to decipher all of the information and piece it together. They are able to know when to be there and when not to be there (phase of the season) - also which conditions will allow and not allow them to be there. They are able to see the details others can not see or understand. Things stand out to them that are mostly overlooked by others. They aren't just putting boot leather down - they are intrigued by every little detail and always ask why? The hunters that aren't as successful don't have ill-will towards the hunter in the club that has success. They just don't understand how a person can have so much luck. At the same time, that successful hunter is obsessed with it. It is all they think about and is never satisfied. Even in a homogeneous landscape of hardwoods, they know how mature deer use the landscape - how they travel, how and where they are likely to bed. Not necessarily a "bedroom", but the favorable positioning of a bed that favor the deer with sight, sound and smell - Many of these have excellent escape routes. Can most hunters find the beds? If they do, do they kneel down in it and look around? Ask themselves.....What can he see? What wind direction is it? What can he hear? Is the bed in a wind tunnel? Do most hunters know what a wind tunnel is? Not only looking off in the distance at most of that stuff, but immediately surrounding that area within several feet. Why did he choose this? In a nutshell, most hunters won't put in the time to scout as much as they need to. That scouting isn't necessarily to kill a deer, but to accumulate deer behavior knowledge over time. Those successful hunters are able to think like the deer and sometimes predict movements. Do most hunters really, REALLY understand what they are looking at and know at least a little biology on these animals? [/QUOTE]
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