HUNTING TIPS
Hunting from the ground can present new challenges. Here are some tricks you may find helpful.
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Hunting from the ground can present new challenges. Here are some tricks you may find helpful.
Some hunters will experience the same hunt from the same location for decades with occasional success and never wonder if there is more out there.
Experienced hunters have complained about thermals for decades, but once they are understood, they can be a friend rather than an enemy.
A whitetail buck makes it to a mature age (4.5+) by finding locations to bed during the day where he can lay undisturbed during daylight hours. These locations may offer just a few feet of visibility or may offer miles of vision to the buck.
Strong wind shift events can create a predictable hunting opportunity for a mature buck. This will usually be associated with the passage of a strong cold front, which changes the wind from a southerly to a north or northwest direction.
A mature buck will approach his preferred bedding location from the downwind direction to check for predators and the presence of other bucks before bedding for the day. In pressured hunting areas this will usually occur more than hour before first light.
Prey species like turkeys and deer have survived for eons by using survival techniques to avoid becoming a predator's dinner. These techniques can be used to our advantage once we understand them.