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SIMPLY WHITETAILS
4348 Oak Hill Rd Oregon, WI
"Today on the show we’re preparing for #ShedRally weekend by sharing our best shed hunting advice and then we’re joined by Jeremy Moore to talk through some very interesting next-level antler dog insights." (Mark Kenyon)
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)
After going through the month of October and into November without any sightings of a shooter buck from the tree I began to like most hunters become frustrated. “Where are the shooters that I had/have trail camera pictures of?” After hunting a large funnel between a food source and a bedding area were does frequent for many evenings with no success and knowing of two mature bucks in this particular area, I had to change my strategy and hopefully my luck. During a mid-day, mid-season scouting trip I investigated the property a little harder and even after many years of hunting the same property I had noticed an area that I had never noticed before. I found a tight funnel that lead into a bedding area that was full of rubs and scrapes. I immediately hung a stand and because of its relation to the bedding area I planed on hunting a morning instead of hunting the evening which I had traditionally hunted that area.
On the morning of November 4, 2011, with a favorable wind I was heading into the stand that I had hung four days earlier. A cool crisp morning with light winds I was set up early and had deer already all around me in the dark, “please don’t be the big one”, I said to myself as deer strolled through in the darkness. The movement slowed as the sun came up and I was just enjoying the morning. A doe and two fawns circled around my locations down wind and crossed my track where I had walked in with no detection. The doe froze and glared down the trail that I had walked in on. My view was obstructed and I couldn’t see what she was looking at. She took off like a bullet and the fawns followed. As the shooter buck which I recognized from trail camera pictures walking up the trail completely the opposite direction that I had anticipated basically downwind of my position, in my mind I thanked the Ozonics crew for the great product, I’m convinced and I’m a scent control nut. The buck continued up the trail past the location where the doe and fawns had entered the thick brush and b-lined to my only shooting lane 25 yds away where I had placed a doe in estrus Real Scent wick. I swung around in my Ambush Tree Saddle, drew, settled in and the rest is history.
Precision Bowhunting, by John & Chrus Eberhart
WIRED TO HUNT PODCAST #204: #SHEDRALLY AND MY ANTLER DOG INTERVENTION WITH JEREMY MOORE
In season scouting when times get tough
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• Another must-have title from the authors of the bestselling Bowhunting Pressured Whitetails (0-8117-2819-6) • Lays out a hunting program for the entire year, including preparation and training during the off-season • Especially useful for hunting high-pressure areas and it explains how to best take advantage of the rut Father-and-son team John and Chris Eberhart have joined once again to share cutting-edge information and advice on hunting whitetail bucks in increasingly hard-hunted environments. Their year-long program starts early in the off-season, where careful scouting, training, and planning create the foundation for a successful hunting year. Then, once the fall rolls around, the authors explain the scent control and scouting tactics that have helped them to bag trophy bucks in some of the most pressured parts of the country. They also cover hunting in the rain, suburban hunting, and various other special situations. Packed with vital information and fresh insights, Precision Bowhunting belongs on the bookshelf of every serious bowhunter. (AMAZON)