Over the years bow releases have evolved as hunters have found new ways to improve them. The latest innovation came out in 2009, the new RIP shot release. It is the most unique archery release on the market.  Instead of attaching to your wrist, it attaches just above the elbow.  I know what you’re thinking, “That sounds uncomfortable,” but actually it was made to be more comfortable and help use the proper muscles when pulling back your bow. It was specifically designed to help people who have had a hand or wrist injury shoot their bows again. Check out the link below for a review of the release.

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The benefits of the New RIP Shot Release.

It forces you to use the correct muscles to draw the bow. It steadies your sight picture.

New RIP Shot Release Videos.

If your still skeptical with how effective the  release really is watch the 2 videos below to see exactly how it works and the success stories of other hunters.

Got my bow sighted in, camo clothes are washed, carbon clothing is activated, fresh batteries in all my gadgets and hunting equipment.  I’m sure I’ll think of something else but I hate waiting until the last minute to get everything ready.

Do you already know what treestand you’ll be in opening morning or the first weekend? Hopefully you have a small secret deer food plot that is being visited everyday by a deer you’re willing to shoot.

Before you go marching out to your spot before first light, I want to pass along a couple huge bow hunting deer tips .

• If your stand is near the edge of a short crop field or small food plot where you are planning on bow hunting deer, there is a good chance that deer will be there feeding before they go bed down for the day. The last thing you want to do is scare them away by approaching and climbing into your stand. Don’t alert deer especially, mature bucks, to the fact it’s bowhunting deer season. You may never see that buck for the rest of the season!

Instead, hunt a different spot away from short bow hunting deer crop fields in the morning and save these field edges for the afternoon hunt when the deer will be in heavy cover when you arrive. If you don’t have another stand site available, then go fishing or go to work in the morning and only hunt that spot at night. Many hunters never even give this a thought and then wonder where all the deer went when they are bow hunting deer.

• The second of today’s bow hunting deer tips is that the first couple days of the season are usually pretty good for getting an opportunity at mature bucks before they go nocturnal. This means don’t shoot the first 1 1/2 year old buck that walks by just so you can say “I got my buck!”

In order to consistently shoot mature bucks, you have to be willing to let the small ones walk. Look for more as the season moves along.

Good Hunting!

Feel free to share your setup below for bow hunting deer and whether you have a deer food plot bringing ‘em in this year.

What is a defined deer travel corridor? It’s a high traffic route between a bedding area to a deer food plot, deer food plot to deer food plot, or bedding area to bedding area, basically between hot spots of deer activity. These travel corridors, or lines of movement, and the integrity of those lines, are critical to your land’s ability to hold deer and hunting success.

Random travel routes on your property are a major stumbling block to your hunting success with hunting equipment. An example of this would be taking a large piece of property and making it all sanctuary by doing a large scale timber harvest. Another example of this is the wildlife approach by attempting to improve every square inch of your land for deer or other game. The end result of random travel corridors is a property that is almost impossible to hunt! Great if you never hunt the parcel, but not for hunters. You don’t want to be left with land that evenly distributes the deer herd across the entire property, making it impossible for you to walk in from any direction without spooking deer. This is less noticeable on several hundred acres, but on a small parcel you are setting traps for yourself by spooking deer through random, undefined patterns of movement which can ruin your deer food plots or other high activity spots on your property in the first couple days of trophy hunting.

Travel corridors within the property can be anchored and enhanced by larger hot spots and can be better defined in a few ways such as:

1. Creating small whitetail deer food plots.

2. Creating bedding areas, which usually attract the female portion of the local herd due to the high-traffic location.

3. Creating brush, hinge cut, debris, or timber cutting lines that separate outer “non-improved” areas through which you access your stand locations, with the created and improved areas upwind and behind screening cover to offer a defined edge of travel.

4. Lay of the land could be an inner topography change, open pond or waterway, or any other natural feature that constricts deer movement to one side or the other.

It is critical that both hot spots on each end of the corridor, and the corridor itself, are insulated or screened from the approaching hunter in some manner. Both bedding and whitetail deer food plots have to be screened effectively to be secure. You are providing very private and secure lines of daily movement for the local herd so each hot spot has to be protected from your movements. It does no good to have the “perfect” bedding or deer food plot if a deer in either of those locations can stand on the edge and see you 50 yards away as you walk by or access your stand locations.

By trophy whitetail hunts the travel corridors, and not the hot spots, you decrease your risk of deer/human encounters. A “line of movement” is just that! The deer are traveling in a line from hot spot to hot spot. Unlike a hot spot where a deer may visit deer food plots or bedding areas for hours at a time, a deer spends a very little amount of time traveling in a defined line of movement. Of course a deer will stop to browse or a buck may be successfully slowed down by providing licking branches within the travel corridor, but by hunting a line of movement you expose yourself only a fraction of the time to deer in comparison to its hot spots and deer food plots.

These lines of movement are one of the most important aspects of property management. Often the success of the property doesn’t fall under the perfect bedding area or deer food plots. Instead your success will fall under how well you establish and maintain the integrity of the lines of movement on your land.

Hunting Deer Food Plots and Travel Corridors This way Will help Your Chances of Seeing and Shooting a Trophy Whitetail