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Paul metioned in another thread that he learned some good tips from the bushmen in Africa on stalking. Hey Paul (and any others) if your willing how about sharing some of the things you have learned form them and from your many years experience on stalking game.
I live in Utah and have not spent very much time in a treestand. I love the spot and stalk game and I am always trying to learn new things and try new methods.
Thanks Mark
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I would like to hear some tips too. I recently started doing more ground hunting being a long time tree satnd hunter. I like the more pro-active approach and got a doe this year on a spot-n-stock. My 1st!
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1) Don't let them see you 2) Don't let them hear you 3) Don't let them smell you.
Follow those three and I bet your stalks will go great.
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Go slow. One step at a time. One step than stop. Don't move if the animal is looking or listening your way. Don't look in its eyes, look just above or beside it. If you make loud noise, all is not lost alot of times. Just stay put for awhile. Keep something between you and it if possible and something behind you. Crouch over as much as you can. Keep hand movements and head movements as slow as possible and as few as possible. Do NOT slap mosquitoes. Do NOT sneeze. Do NOT fa*t. Keep your eyes moving, there might be others around you that will bust ya. Go slow and then go slower, one little step at a time.
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Busted chairs and broken dreams. Posts: 2097 | From: Port Alberni, BC | Registered: Sep 2003
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Stalked a doe on a real windy day. I went in cross wind and it took the scent and my noise away. So if you get a windy day and you don't want to be up in a tree try it. Also big trees help as you can keep one between you and the deer and go from tree to tree when it looks the other way.
Paul
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Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are probably right-Henry Ford Posts: 1105 | From: Athens, OH (Middle Earth) | Registered: Apr 2003
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Deer-walking is another technique everyone ought to try at least once. I've walked to within two or three steps of ground squirrels a couple of times with them doing nothing more than checking once in a while to see if I was still in the neighborhood.
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MarkM, One method of ground hunting is what is called the 5 -10 , You walk for 5 minutes then wait for 10 minutes. Five and dime em. Of course once you see game,while walking or waiting, you figure out what to do next. I'll be using this method this afternoon on some stateland here in WNY. Its opening day here in WNY .My gps solar luner table says that 2:45 till 4:45 is best. That sounds about right to me. I killed a deer with a motor cycle this summer and it pretty near killed me. So I will have revenge in my heart for the whole species.I'll be using a home made hickory backed, Ipe, bow 55# @27in. ,ceder shafts, burr edge Rib Teks. Good shooting, 1,2,3,4,shoot Ray L
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i watched a tape the other night of some native jungle hunter stalkering pigs. they were very good.....but they were bare footed and only wore a loin cloth. they were realy quiet. ya might give that a try
Oh yeah, it's slowly coming back. He would plant his toe and then kind of slap his heel down to do the cuncrunch. Making one step sound kinda like two deer hooves.
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Yup, set your toe, hesitate a split-second, then snap your hell down. Creates a four-footers cadence instead of our all too identifiable two-footer gait.
You still want to heed Keiths advice and stick to two, maybe three slow, short steps at a time. Deer-walking just lets you take advantage of the inevitability of making noise and turn it in your favor.
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If you read some of Howard Hill's old writings you'll see that was his method of stalking; however, he didn't snap his heel down, he placed it softly. Toe first, with weight on back foot. Says he got that from a Seminole Indian and it worked great. George
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quote:Originally posted by Dan Worden: ...I saw G Fred talk about it a few years ago. I'm sure it's in his book Stalking and Stillhunting.
It is indeed described -with pictures- in G. Fred Asbell's book, Stalking and Still-Hunting. IMO every ground pounder should own a copy and read it. There's a good deal of helpful knowledge to be found between the covers of that book.
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