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The benefits I’ve found from using the Ripshot are numerous. It forces you to use the correct muscles to draw the bow. It steadies your sight picture.

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

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 hunting guides.

If your stand is near the edge of a short crop field or small food plot, 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 hunting season. You may never see that buck for the rest of the season!

Instead, hunt a different spot away from short 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.

The second of today’s bowhunting 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 bow hunting deer tips as the season moves along.

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

Good Hunting!

Randy

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 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 pockets, 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 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.

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.