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New to Deer hunting
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Check for WMA's in the area for public land opportunities.
Take up small game hunting on public land. You'll learn deer by happenstance by the time you get really good a squirrels.
There is a ton of things you really need to know when you are hunting. Rather than explaining everything to you. Things like scent, wind directions, scent, paths, camouflage, movement, all of which you need to have a full working knowledge of before you go out. Any single thing could cost you a successful hunt.
Before going out, spend the time to sight in your firearm. Buy the training if necessary.
cmshoot
& others here offer training.
Realistically a single wrong thing can cost an unsuccessful hunt. If you do get a deer, do you know how to follow a blood trail? How to gut it? How far will you have to drag it to load it in your vehicle.
My best advice is to get someone to take you. Better yet buy a guided hunt. Pay attention, and ask questions to learn. When hunting, keep your mouth shut, keep quiet, and pay attention to the wind direction. Either you get incredibly lucky, or everything has to go right, because one wrong thing can be the difference.
Before going out, spend the time to sight in your firearm. Buy the training if necessary.
cmshoot
& others here offer training.Realistically a single wrong thing can cost an unsuccessful hunt. If you do get a deer, do you know how to follow a blood trail? How to gut it? How far will you have to drag it to load it in your vehicle.
My best advice is to get someone to take you. Better yet buy a guided hunt. Pay attention, and ask questions to learn. When hunting, keep your mouth shut, keep quiet, and pay attention to the wind direction. Either you get incredibly lucky, or everything has to go right, because one wrong thing can be the difference.
I’m the only one in family who hunts so I had to look up things I wanted to know/learn on YouTube. So good advice and some bad on there. However nothing beats time in the woods and acutely paying attention to learn.
You can get some basic info on there so you know what to look for in the woods.
Look up meat eaters whitetail edu for a good start
You can get some basic info on there so you know what to look for in the woods.
Look up meat eaters whitetail edu for a good start
Don't spend to much time and money on gimmics = things that big companies say better your chances.
Hunting areas
National Forests, WMA's, Friends and family with property, maybe try facebook for Hunting Clubs the ones on here are dead.
Hunting areas
National Forests, WMA's, Friends and family with property, maybe try facebook for Hunting Clubs the ones on here are dead.
I read lots of books when I first started.
Some very interesting ones from native Americans who use the sounds of the woods and other creatures that live there to unlock things that most hunters take for granted.
Stay away from the hunting shows/they’re not as realistic as they claim.
I’ve learned everything in my own and after 30+ years of hunting I’ve developed some very unorthodox yet simple ways of bringing deer to me by Just using using natural scent and noise to get curious deer to come my way.
Simply digging up the leaves and pine straw to expose fresh earth can get them running.
I also pee in it when I leave the spot …curious bucks then soon all the deer in the area will pee on it and leave their scent .
It’s called a scrape .
I make sure there’s a leafy branch overhanging that spot.
They will rub their scent glands all over it and lick it-it’s called a licking branch.
I sometimes run to my ladder like an idiot and make all kinds of noise then shimmy up my laser real fast and sit down ready.
More often than not curious deer will come running thinking I was a deer making all that noise.
I learned that trick by mistake and then started doing it on purpose.
If I’m putting out cover scent over a 30 yard triangular pattern after sneaking quietly into my spot and marking trees with scent I did not jump any deer on the way in so why not run from tree to tree, make my noise and spark their curiosity?
It freaking works especially when there’s good foliage and lots of deer paths around.
Listen for the squirrels barking ….theyre usually alerting to large animals lurking in the woods.
So much to learn and so much fun just making mistakes and learning from trial and error.
Safety first….if you’re in a stand -have a harness and Prussic knot safety rope.
Good luck man….we are always here to help a new hunter.
Birds have been a big one for me. I always know when something is coming through by listening to them.
