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Wolf Watcher:
My Opinion:  I think it depends upon the area you are hunting and your quarry!  I spent several years hunting the coast of Oregon for elk and blacktail deer.  The terrain there can be very steep and often with lots of heavy cover  I found blacktail deer to be very difficult to hunt as they tend not to have travel patterns and can hide like no other deer.  Often hunting the clear cuts a blacktail can hide all day without you being able to see him! Someone once told me that if every one in Oregon would line up on the ocean coast holding hands and walking thru the mountains to the Willamette Valley,  some of those blacktails would sneak thru!!  I found rain to be a big factor in my success with them.  Blacktails will hole up during a regular rain and are difficult to approach, but a heavy rain that drips down to the ground thru a tree's canape will cause them to get out of their beds.  I had better success hunting with my bow during those long, hard, and heavy rains.  Never did figure out how to stay dry and keeping the arrow fletchings dry was a chore.  I found that hunting coastal elk with my bow was much easier than trying to arrow an elk here in Wyoming.  If you can catch a herd of coastal elk in moving thru heavy cover, you can get right among them.  Most times you can smell and hear them and the rain seems to dampen your scent.  We have more snow than rain here in Wyoming and that is a different situation.  I always say, except when you are bugleing, that seeing elk first without being seen is 90% of success and the 10% is getting close enough to score a shot!   

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