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Old Apache deer hunting tactics.
streamflyer:
Genius! cant wa
it to try this next season.
Marks:
I love bow hunting but I rifle hunt mostly. My dad farms a field near my house that is probably 400yds2 and has a ditch running smack down the middle of it. The ditch has sage and cockle burs in it but not real thick. This year the field had soy beans in it (my favorite). On 3 different occasions this year I've worn my dark brown carhart jacket and blue jeans and just bend over 90 degrees at the hip and slowly walk down the edge of the ditch all the way to the other end of the field where the deer were. I don't know if they just don't see me or they think I'm a deer. The carhart jacket is the same color as a deer. Each time I've walked within 100 yds. One time the ground was frozen and very crunchy. Our deer are usually super skittish.
jojo:
RabidApache,
Thanks for sharing. I was just bow hunting some coues whitetail in the superstitions mountains (AZ unit 26b) a few weeks ago. I normally wait till their heads are down to approach but I may start trying this other technique. I stalked some does pretty close but I'm not allowed to take those, rules are prob different on the rez.
That's really interesting how the apaches used to hunt. I wonder if it would be the same effect if I were to secure a few branches to my head. Only during archery season, however, to avoid the omnipresent and dangerous nimrod who would shoot a guy with sticks on his head.
I work a lot with the Pima and Maricopa Native Americans (aka Akimel O'Othams and Pee Posh from Gila River). I talked with a guy who hunts the Estrella Mountains for big horn sheep. He said he would not take a shower for a week before the hunt and bathe in dirt to try to get rid of his smell. He learned this from his dad he said. Not sure if it was more of a ritual for him or if it really worked to fool his prey. Everyone has their own method I suppose.
-jojo-
Marks:
--- Quote from: jojo on February 05, 2014, 08:37:05 pm --- He said he would not take a shower for a week before the hunt and bathe in dirt to try to get rid of his smell. He learned this from his dad he said. Not sure if it was more of a ritual for him or if it really worked to fool his prey. Everyone has their own method I suppose.
-jojo-
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I hate to break it to him but I've had people come in my office that haven't bathed for a week. I smell them. Usually as soon as they open the door. Like you said, "Everyone has their own method I suppose."
jojo:
I hate to break it to him but I've had people come in my office that haven't bathed for a week. I smell them. Usually as soon as they open the door. Like you said, "Everyone has their own method I suppose."
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Ya, I sorta think he made this up and is probably not an actual tradition (maybe its more of a spiritual ritual than anything). I think I read in "Hunting With the Bow and Arrow" (Saxton Pope) that Ishi would bathe in the stream before a hunt to get rid of his smell.
-jojo-
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