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If you heed these a href=http://www.deer-huntingtips.com/deer-hunting-tips/choosing-your-perfect-deer-hunting-rifledeer hunting tips/a carefully you will find your hunting success multiply rapidly. If you are an average deer hunter, you have average deer hunting knowledge, put forth average commitment, and only get average results. It is easy for the average hunter to be able to get a small buck every year or so, but being able to bring home that beautiful trophy buck on a regular basis requires more commitment and more knowledge.
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The true deer hunting masters know the following advanced a href=http://www.deer-huntingtips.comdeer hunting tips/a I am about to share with you.
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1. Scout Your Hunting Area – This does not simply mean know where you are going to sit while you are hunting. It means to go out and truly get to know your hunting location. Some of my most successful hunting seasons were started months before opening day. I developed the habit of getting permission to check out the lease where I was going to hunt, then I scouted out the surrounding areas. I would survey all the available hunting sites and dry hunt. Act just like I was hunting but not bring a gun (only a camera) to evaluate which areas had the most deer movement, biggest bucks and highest buck to doe ratios. And at noon I walked around the lease, looking for signs of big bucks. And speaking of big bucks….
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2. Learn to Recognize Big Buck Signs – In order to find out where the trophy bucks reside, learn what to search for. Keep your eyes open for tracks. Be aware of the size, number of, and the direction of the tracks, which will clue you in on the size, number of and movements of the deer. You also want to look for scrapes. These are areas where a buck scratches the ground and sometimes urinates to mark their territory and attract does. Bucks usually do this below low hanging tree branches that are located on the border of heavy brush areas during the rut. Rubs – If the bucks rub the velvet off fresh antlers on posts and trees, be sure to see it and mark where they are. If you see six or more rubs in 100 yards, that’s called a rub line. Most often, rubs are on the side of the tree that the buck came from, so knowing which sides of the trees have rub lines will tell you which way the bucks are going. Also scout for and note the size of bedding areas. No signs of bucks means no bucks!
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3. Know Your Firearm and Ammo – You need to know the ballistics of the bullet and cartridge you shoot. You also need to know how your gun reacts to the distance you are shooting. You need to know how far your shot raises for short shots and how far it falls for longer shots. You should practice judging how far your shots are and maybe even walk off the distances to possible sighting areas. This will allow you to know if you are making a 400 yard shot and also know how much your bullet is likely to drop making this shot. Doing this will enable you to be able to adjust your aim to make a quality shot.
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4. Shot Placement. If you master the aim and ballistics of your deer hunting rile, you will be more comfortable with precision shot placement. Personally, I am a neck shooter. While many hunters do not agree with this technique, a properly placed shot anywhere along the neck will drop your deer instantly. No matter where you hit the neck, you’ll get him very effectively; you’ll either sever the carotid artery or breach the spinal column, or some variation thereof, depending on how high or low the bullet lands. If you’re shooting from the side, front, hindquarters, or head-on, the neck is the most effective target, even more so than the traditional behind the lower shoulder target. I don’t recommend attempting full rear shots unless you are trying for a trophy buck that you can’t pass up. Cleaning a deer that’s been shot in the rectum is unpleasant, to say the least. Be sure to place your shot very carefully – the best deer hunters try to bring down their quarry in one shot.
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5. Attractants, Calls and Rattling. Briefly, our last advanced deer hunting tips involve attractants (food plots, mineral blocks and flavored blocks, and salt licks) deer calls, and techniques for rattling. The food related attractants require previous preparation. Just like any garden, food plots takes a lot of time and attention. Continuous feeding of an area should start weeks or even months ahead of the hunting season so the deer get used to the location and timing of their free meals. Calling and rattling are hit-or-miss techniques that usually only work during rutting. Occasionally I have been able to bring a buck in slowly and cautiously by rattling outside of the rutting season, but during the rut, they tend to rush right in. There have been times when I have almost been run over by a buck while I was rattling. With this in mind, if you choose to use this technique you need to be prepared to react quickly. And proficiency is required and often slowly learned. There’s a bit of a learning curve that comes with accurately recreating the sounds of deer fighting, but if you get it right, it’ll be very advantageous.
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Every deer hunter wants to display a trophy buck at some point, and some of us can’t rest unless we bag at least one grand creature every season. If you are going to join the ranks of the elite hunters, then you need to know the advanced deer hunting tips the elite hunters know.
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