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How to learn to hunt with a selfbow?
Woody roberts:
Different areas require different tactics. So I will only talk about where I hunt. Public land along the Jacks Fork river. In a year when there are few acorns the deer feed in the bottom then work their way up on the ridges to bed.
I never want to go where the deer are, I want to go where they will be coming to. Hence in the morning I will set up on a trail near the top of the ridge. In the evening I’m on a trail in the bottom. It is so brushy there that the deer tend to use trails pretty regular. Most people won’t hunt there because of the brush.
In a year with lots of acorns all bets are off. They feed and bed up on the hillsides. As you hunt an area more you learn spots that are consistent producers. It’s always more difficult when your hunting a new area.
Shoot straight, Woody
Fox:
Thanks pappy, woody, and Eric and everyone else... So my much good advice, never met a better comunity then the people that love the woods and the animals and the primitive ways of using them.
-Fox
Fox:
(I'm going to have to print this page out and put it in my note book!)
Fox:
So I've been spending a bunch of time in the woods i plane to hunt. Lots of scouting and marking places on the map. So i built a blind In a holler between two spur ridges coming off the mountain, theres water, some big oaks, a few hickorys , and a few beach trees.... There's a deer trail about 10 yards from my blind, but other then that not a lot of sign of deer, I've done one sit out there without a bow. Nothing but some squirrels. As I was hiking up the ridge to the right at the top there seemed to be more trails and more scate... So should i move up there and do a sit? Or do more sits in the holler to see if anyhing shows up? Thanks
-Fox
Hawkdancer:
Look for the places where the trails converge. how fresh is the scat, what is the wind pattern? Can you set up down wind and either level or slightly downhill, is there enough cover for a blind? Make notes in your log and take some gps readings! Mark the area on a map, if you can. Remember, too, batteries go dead at bad times! I still carry a 1:24,000 map and a compass of my hunting area!
Hawkdancer
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