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I am planning to hunt wild hogs, deer, coyotes late summer/fall with #50 Samick Sage, Easton St Epic arrows, 105 gr Muzzy Phantom broadheads, and a Ghillie suit. I have friends/family with places to hunt here in central Texas. I plan to hunt from the ground, the suit is well underway and I shoot and bowfit a lot. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Gang!
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Study your hunting area and learn the travel patterns and the terrain. Find the water and the food sources and hunt them.
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Patience and use the wind to your advantage
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quote:Originally posted by okla bearclaw: Patience and use the wind to your advantage
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Good luck, and pick a spot!
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Make decisions that will minimize the chances you will miss or wound.
Realize that responsible follow-up of a poor shot will cost you many hours or even a day or more of hunting time.
Have your gear tuned, your proficiency practiced, and your decisions perfected to the point that you expect a quick kill every time you drop the string.
Have fun learning from your quarry.
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Keep the wind in your face, move like your in slow motion, and keep the wind in your face. Did I mention the wind? Most of all treat every hunting outing like a class room and learn every time you go to class......oh yea, have fun doing it!
-------------------- In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Shunryu Suzuki Posts: 9289 | From: tribes hill , new york | Registered: Jan 2008
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I'm going to change things up a bit. The most important thing is to have FUN! This is an adventure and whether or not you put a tag on anything should have zero impact on having FUN.
Believe me...killing isn't hard. After the first couple the rest come rather easy. To many sportsman put to much pressure on themselves to produce and it takes the fun right out of it.
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Try to learn that there is much more to the whole game than dragging out a deer. Allowing yourself the joys of dreaming, preparing, participating, and remembering your hunt, of little things (and even not so little things) that happen while out there. Smell the roses and see the sights along the way. They can all be a grand part of your time in the woods.
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All good advice here, but for me the hardest part is dialing in the deer's travel patterns and then setting up close enough to get a shot. Scout hard, but not hard enough to spook the deer and change their habits.
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