So I am about to go away for the rest of the week up to the BOL in Arkansas. Not another vacation but for pure work. As you know we are getting ready to move in the winter to Arkansas permanently, something I have been working years to achieve. I won’t be hunting but I will be doing some scouting, I may even take the bow and hell who knows but the truth is I will spend this trip laying flooring. Yet just the thought of being in the woods in cool weather has me thinking of hunts past.
Additionally with the loss recently of my good friend Howell Dodd getting away could not come at a better time. I won’t be doing any prerecorded shows, I wanted to and was going to over the weekend but the loss of my friend just took it all out of me. What I will do though is rebroadcast some earlier shows on Wednesday and Thursday. Two that will hopefully keep anyone from getting to hopeful after today’s so called “historic elections”.
But if I am going to leave you for the rest of the week let me do so on a truly happy and fun subject. There are two times when I am absolutely fully happy, one is with gun or bow in hand in the mountains in pursuit of game, the other with rod in hand in pursuit of fish. Let me share what deer hunting has meant to me, the lessons it has taught me about life and prepping and how it is different in different parts of the nation.
Join me today as we discuss…
- The story of my first rack buck with a bow
- Understanding your preys advantages
- Sight
- Hearing
- Scent
- Instinct
- Understanding your prey’s weaknesses
- Follows patterns
- Can’t think like a human
- Driven by primal urges
- Territorial
- Your understanding of its advantages and disadvantages
- Methods of hunting
- Stalking
- Still Hunting
- Tree stand hunting
- Blind hunting
- Driving
- Tips and tricks
- The real hunting is from Feb – Sept
- Film container scent use (doe in rut is best)
- A bag full of pine needles
- Get dressed in the field
- Always read the wind
- Stay warm or cool
- Be organized
- Learn to “feel”
- Dealing with your kill
- Field dressing
- Skinning
- Quartering
- Aging meat
- Boning and primary cuts
- Thoughts on being a predator as a natural state
- It is about the harvest more then the kill
- Sometimes you “let one walk”
- Wise words from Robert Ruark
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