Opening Day Bowhunting Tips
By admin on Sep 23, 2009 in bow hunting deer, hunting equipment
8 days and counting! Got my sight bow 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.
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
2 Comment(s)
By Ronald Walters on Sep 25, 2009 | Reply
Hello Randy, I’m going to what intill it gets a little colder before I start hunting. I like to hang my deer at least 14 days. The meat is a lot more tender that way. Thanks for emailing me about opening day for bow season. Let me know how you do this year and I’ll do the same. Thank for everything you have did for us.
By Michael Wylie on Sep 25, 2009 | Reply
Morning Setup. Treestand in a hardwood bottom surrounded by pines on both sides. Deer use thickets on far sides of the pines to bed in and feed on acorns up the bottom on their way to their beds from the food plots.
Afternoon Setup: Blind tucked in the corner of a stand of pines overlooking a small 1/8 acre food plot planted in clover and Austrian winter peas.
Note: Once the cold weather hits I will be using my blind overlooking a Biomaxx plot or a treestand overlooking a stand of brassica. I won’t move to these stands until freezing night temps start.