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Preparation for Deer Hunting
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Preparing to Hunt Big Game
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We try to provide you with the largest and the best collection of information about deer hunting equipment and services available on the net. This site is for general information. You can find specific information on items like deer stands and optics under Shooting Accessories and Outfitters and Rifles. Please scroll down to learn more.
Preparation for Deer Hunting
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Equipment
When deer hunting close to home, you can get by with a daypack or fanny pack. In a more remote area you might need a frame backpack. You can carry all sorts of stuff in a pack, but never leave home without these essentials:
Equipment
Blaze Orange Vest (too many nuts out there)
Small ax
Sharp Knife
Rope
Map, aerial photos, compass
Flagging tape
basic first-aid
Second pair of eyeglasses
Extra warm clothes
Portable Deer stand
Safety belt (for tree stand hunting)
Preparing to Hunt
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When you consider how many little things can go wrong to spoil a hunt, it's surprising how many bow hunters just don't pay attention to the minor details. No matter how good of equipment you have or how much you practice and scout, overlooked minor details can cost you the deer of your dreams.
Here are some "minor details" that you need to remember before you head to the deer woods:
1. Avoid eating foods such as garlic and onions during season.
2. Store your hunting clothing in unscented bags along with twigs, leaves, grasses or scent wafers that contain the natural scent of your hunting area.
3. Use hunting clothes for hunting only. Do not wear them for changing oil, working in the yard or doing other household chores where you might pick up human odors. Since odors are acid, use baking soda to neutralize your own and other odors.
4. Don't wear your hunting clothes in the cabin or campsite or in the car on your way out. Change into them when you arrive, thereby avoiding smoke, exhaust or food odors.
5. Use a tightly sealed urine bottle for nature's call.
6. Wear rubber-bottomed boots. They hold less human scent than leather-bottomed footwear.
7. If you can, stop scouting about a month before the season opener so your human scent doesn't build up in the area you will be hunting.
8. Be aware of your silhouette when on the stand. Make sure a tree or brush is at your back to break up your outline.
9. Twigs and branches will deflect an arrow. Double check your shooting lanes.
10. Remember that big bucks may become almost completely nocturnal in heavily hunted areas. Your best chance for them is very early or very late.
11. Always tell someone where you plan to hunt and when you plan to be back home. This could be a vital backup in case you get lost or injured.
12. The best hunters are planners. Do it scientifically and don't rely on your memory or instinct unless when you can have real data.
If possible, scout your hunting area off season. Make a map showing deer sightings and signs.
Put Lanocaine or Solarcaine in your hunting kit. They are marvelous for poison ivy and mosquito bite itches.
Advice: Courtesy of Split Rail Outfitters
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Bow Hunters -- Be proficient out to 30 yards. This will be adequate for most of the bow hunts that I have available. Practice while wearing your hunting clothes and gear, headnets etc.
Gun Hunters -- The number one reason that many trophy animals live to see another season is the lack of skill among many riflemen. I have personally guided hunters who came to camp with a borrowed rifle that they had never fired a round through. Another one had someone else sight in his scope for him before he came to hunt Montana. Many more bring "too much gun" that they are not comfortable shooting; therefore they don't practice with it. Please remember it is much more important where you hit them, than what you hit them with. We are ethically responsible as hunters to make quick, clean kills. Nothing is more satisfying to a guide than to make a perfect stalk on a great animal and then see it go down clean with the first shot.
I suggest you sight your rifle in to hit 2 to 2.5 inches high at 100 yards; that will put most rifles dead on at 200 yards and 6 to 8 inches low at 300 yards. This allows you to hold right on the animal at all reasonable ranges and not worry about holding over or under. When you get it sighted in, get away from the bench and shoot it from hunting positions. Then do three things - practice, practice and practice.
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