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If you want to bring home the bacon, here are the 10 things you can do to be a great bow hunter in no time.

1. Practice, practice, practice.
2. Scout prior to the hunting season and scout often
3. Place your treestand in the right spot.
4. Determine your Effective Kill Range or EKR.
5. Ask advice from those who knows a lot about bow hunting
6. Always consider the direction of the wind.
7. Do not ever try to over hunt.
8. Make sure that you hunt hard, but hunt during the late hours of the day.
9. Prior to hunting, make at least a couple of shots. Do this a night before you hunt and few hours before heading to the field.
10. Learn more about the prey.

Trail cameras, also known as scouting cameras, are one of the best hunting tools if you want to know more about the animal that you are looking for. Whether it is a deer or a bear, the trail camera would allow you to scout areas without the need for human presence. This can also be helpful if you want to take picture of the deer and bucks without getting near the animals or even creeping up in the nearest distance as well.

This type of technology incorporated in hunting is a major advantage if you are in an area with tons of hunters that are not using trail cameras. You can now sit comfortably in your camp while the camera does the scouting.

Even if you are very accurate in shooting the bear or dear with a bow, your prey can still get away from you wounded. If not, it would take you several hours just to track and find the prey that you just hit (even if you targeted the most vital organ in its body).

Probably you have overlooked the sharpness of your broad head. If your broad head is sharp, it will almost instantly kill the deer or the bear, leaving you less time tracking and more time hunting.

A sharp broad head can be the most lethal weapon that you can have when bow hunting. See to it that you test the sharpness of your blade first before heading to the hunting site.

There are actually different ways to call a turkey so you successfully hunt it, roast it, and serve it for your family’s dinner.

The Yelp – it can either be a friction type turkey call or mouth blown diaphragm call. Try to get a CD that has an actual sound of a turkey to know how you could execute the yelp perfectly.

The Cluck – this is the most common turkey that we know. You can actually replicate this by using the available turkey calling devices out in the market today.

The Cackle – also known as the mating call for turkeys usually made by hens

The Cutting – these are short yelps made by excited adult hens

The Putting – usually a more relaxed call that has soft purrs

One of the best ways to hunt for bears is to let this fuzzy animal go to you instead of chasing it. And how could you possibly do that? You can have the most delectable and scrumptious foods served in your tent and let them in. But it would destruct your belongings and may even cause injuries to the people nearby. Or you can also try to call the bear so you would be able to attract the big animal and be able to hunt successfully as well.

Bear calling can be both frustrating and exciting at the same time. If your bear calling strategy worked, there is no doubt that there would be adrenaline rush as the bear starts to approach. However, if it is otherwise, then you would probably swear that bear calling is the lamest bear hunting strategy that you have tried.

There are three kinds of bear sounds or vocabularies that humans can actually imitate in order to attract the bears during hunting. This includes the Grunt, the Blowing sound, and the Human-like bear calls. It is just up to you which one to choose when looking for teddies to hunt.

Oh great! You finally shot a deer after a long day of waiting. But with the distance that is between you and your prey, how would you actually keep track of the deer and get its body afterwards? Simple, just read between the lines. In this case, read the body language of the animal.

Analyze if the deer already pants for breath after a clear shot. This means that you hit a sensitive organ like the lungs. If this is the case then your prey could no longer run far. Better let your trusty dog do his job and start following him to avoid losing the deer.

When the deer humps upon your bullet or bow hits, then you probably targeted the guts. With this, you should wait at least 4 hours or so before you start tracking the blood trails of the deer.

If you aimed for the heart, don’t expect that the deer would drop dead easily. Surprisingly, unless you have hit the right spot, the deer would be still back on its feet in a matter of minutes.

The trick in tracking the deer is to use paper or a tissue on the pinkish blood to check if it is still fresh. In that way, you will know where is the animal has gone.

If you are trying to stand hunt in search of deer, moose, bear, or even bird, here are some more useful tips that could help you have a successful hunting during the hunting season.

1. Other than wearing clothes that would help you blend with the environment, you must also camouflage your face at the same time.
2. Stay in areas where there are dark shades or in place where you can be silhouetted.
3. Before you start hunting, make sure that you prepare the shooting lane so it will be clear by the time you start your stand hunting.
4. You must also clear the ground. Take the leaves and the twigs so you would avoid making unnecessary noise when hunting.
5. As much as possible, stay on your stand for at least a day.
6. If it is inevitable to stay on your stand for the whole day, don’t let the deer know your movement pattern.
7. Do not stay in an elevated stand hunt unless you wear a full body safety harness that could carry your weight.

Recently, we have discussed the four various locations where you could set up your stand when hunting for deer. But there are actually two more best places to deer stand hunt and these are the following:

Benches – the benches are the shelves that are located below the ridge top. This is where most deer feed, bed, and make their scrapes as well. The benches are also the perfect locations especially when the woods already give a hunting pressure to the deer.

Saddles – deer loves to pass through the ridges and this could be the perfect spot for you to set up your stand. During the heavy or peek times of the hunting season, you will be able to hunt for numerous deer here in saddles since they would be using it as their escape route.

Here are the other locations where you could best deer stand hunt.

• Funnel areas – These are the bottleneck areas where the deer is forced to go a narrow place due to obstacles such as rivers, lakes, and even open fields. The whitetail deer is flourishing in these funnel areas especially during the hunting season.
• At their habitat’s edges – More often than not, it is the whitetail deer that is usually seen at the edge habitat. Usually they are staying at the edge of the field and forest. During the night, set up your stand near the edge of the field. This is where they usually feed. But if you want to hunt during day time, set up your stand near the bedding area of the deer. Make sure that you don’t place the stand too close to the bedding area or you would scare the animals away.

Watch out for the next blog to know the other places here you can deer stand hunt.

Getting the right location is one of the cornerstones of success when it comes to deer stand hunting. Here are the first two common places where hunters put up their stands to wait for their dear, i mean deer, prey.

• Area where the deer gets its food sources – if you would like to deer stand hunt during the night, it would be best if you do it near the field. On the other hand, if you would deer stand hunt during the day, expert hunters recommend that you locate your position not so far from the bedding area.

• Trails – always choose the trail side where the wind is always at your favor. See to it that you cut the lanes to get a clear shot of the deer.

More location tips on the next blog…