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When prepping stand sites, clear the last 100-150 yards of debris, it allows for a quiet approach and entry to the stand, and just as important,it allows a quiet exit.
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1)take a calf length, non-white sock and cut the foot part out of it- when you are wearing heavier clothing just slide the sock up over your arm and let keep your clothing out of your bowstring.
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go to the dollar store, get a little plastic funnel and use that to refill your wind checker bottles with baking powder. Cost for the funnel, 99 cents...cost for baking powder, 69 cents..enough to fill your bottle about 30 times.
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Sometime, before deer season, I will fell a tree or two to the known downwind approaches through my stand sites. I'll fell the tree as to redirect the game the way "I" wish for them to travel/approach. It seems to be working. CK
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Use a doe grunt call more than a bucks. Learn the different calls they make and why and you will call in more deer of both sex. I like to use a turkey mouth call while on stand or still hunting to cover any sounds I may make while moveing. Have had many deer calm down and come in after makeing a few yelps or purrrs. I think the deer feel safer around some turkeys. Plus turkeys can make a ton of noise when coming thrue the woods. Just be safe while doing this!!! Do not want someone to think you are the real thing In 15ys of doing this I have never called in another hunter. I see them well before they see me........Raven Posts: 1497 | From: Mt. Gilead, Ohio | Registered: Nov 2003
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When still hunting and I'm trying to close within shooting distance of a deer, I will remove my shoes and make the final sneak(150 yards or so)in my stocking feet. When it's cold or wet, I'll slip on a pair of scuba diving booties. Even then, I still only move when there is some kind of natural sound to cover mine(e.g. an airline jet flying overhead, wind rustling the brush, car or truck going down the road).
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pin a cotton ball to your shirt or jacket and pull a piece off and flick-it to watch the wind direction. I have just put 'em in my pocket but it's a little less movment on a outer garmet.
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When stand hunting for whitetails, watch how you enter and exit your stands. You may want to take a longer and more difficult way into or out of your stand if it will keep you away from where the deer are most likely to be at the moment. Also, if there are deer around your stand when it gets dark... wait until they leave to get down! Spooking deer uneccessarily will ruin your chances significantly with each encounter.
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When hunting public ground, be in your stand at least an hour before legal shooting time, and at least 1/4 mile from the nearest road. Most hunters won't enter the woods till legal shooting time, and then seldom venture more than 2-3 hundred yards from the road. Let them move the deer to you. Make sure you stay in stand for three hours after sun up. Most hunters are down and out an hour after the sun peaks over the horizon. Same thing on and afternoon hunt, go an hour before anyone else, and don't plan on getting down till well after the end of the day.
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When I am preparing a ground blind that is to be used as soon as it is done I try to mimic noises a deer would make. I even bring a grunt call and grunt a few times while preparing the area. I know I will be making some noise in the process so I try not to sound like a hunter making a stand. Twice I have had deer come into the grunt. One very nice buck got on me before I was even in my hunting garb (I carry it in) and I had to lay under the log that was the basis of my blind while he looked for the intruder. He left unscathed as I did not get a shot. The second event ended wit;h a nice fat button buck in the freezer.
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Most hunters do not realize that your breath is a major point of released scent. Try and chew a mild flavor gum or plain bubble gum and eat an apple. There are companies now making gum just for hunters. It has chlorophyl and flavors like pine and apple. I myself use apple flavored bubbalicious. Shawn
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Take a pair of gloves and cut off the index, middle, and ring fingertips from your shooting side. This way you can put on your shooting glove and then slip the cover gloves right onto your hand. You have concealed your hands, you have added warmth, and you can still shoot. All the best, Al.
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Carry a "Walking Stick" Not only does it steady your balance on uneven terrain, you can push vegetation aside to keep from touching it. Like wise never touch a fence wire. Top wire if a fence is right in a deer's nose, if he comes along. Use the walking stick to push it down. When crossing a fence never follow a deer trail, clear a lane for yourself if necessary 10-20 yards on the prevailing down wind side. Carry pruning shears at all times, but angle your cuts so the end does not reflect right at deer's eye height. Down is better.
-------------------- Many have died for my freedom. One has died for my soul. Posts: 1962 | From: Nebraska | Registered: Apr 2003
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When stand hunting for deer, I'll often kick out a place in the leaves in a place where a deer passing will smell it before he crosses my scent. Put a little doe in heat in it.
Seems to distract them without alarming and I've had them approach this "fake scrape" for a slam dunk shot...make sure you can shoot to that spot.
I think the fresh smell of dirt is as big a factor as the doe scent.
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