This blog will be tell of my scouting adventures and things I learn along the way or have already learned. I hope you learn something, as I know there’s always something for me to learn from you. So please follow and comment!
This blog will be tell of my scouting and preparation adventures for hunting white-tailed deer in my home state of Michigan. This blog will tell of deer sign I come across or of certain things I have learned or learn along the way. Comments are definitely encouraged as I believe that learning about these animals is definitely a never ending experience. With that said I am all ears to anyone’s ideas about the behavior of white-tailed deer or of anything related to them in general as I post on this blog. I will be turning the age of 25 this month of May 31, 2015 I am a relatively young man. My father got me started hunting whitetails at a pretty young age (around 10). As I grew older I increasingly became more interested in the sport. When I first started I was mainly a rifle hunter. With my father being a hardcore rifle hunter it only made sense that that’s what I would be into from the start. I started playing around with bow and arrow when I was about 12. I didn’t get serious into it until I was about 19, and when I say serious I mean scouting year round and learning as much as I could. I started to notice people saying “it’s not deer season why do you care about that right now” or deer season is 6 months away! Well I have learned that to be a successful whitetail bow hunter you have to put in your time and it’s easier to do something you love and it’s my passion. I can now confidently say that I spend more time in the field scouting and studying these animals and then eventually hunting them more than most people I know or hunt with. I started rifle hunting with my father in Michigan’s Northern Lower Peninsula on a 143 acre hunting lease we still hunt to this day. As time went on I felt an increased interest in using bow and arrow to hunt deer. I feel that one must know the animal he/she is hunting more intimately when hunting with a bow and arrow. I enjoy observing and getting close to the animals and watching them act in their natural habitat, not having any clue of my presence. Throughout this blog you will see how I scout and hunt and the gear I use to hunt these animals. Thanks for reading my first post to my first ever blog hope you have enjoyed.
picture left is of a buck scrape I found in a post season scouting trip, this past winter, I never even knew that multiple bucks were visiting this area and eventually found this was just one scrape in a whole line. Scrapes are areas that deer both male and female use to leave scent either urine or fecal matter for other deer to find. It lets the deer know whos in the area and why. Scrapes are also used for territorial reasons during the breeding season . Scrapes will often be positioned under a low overhanging branch that will be used as what is called a licking branch, where further scent is deposited by deer by use of there preorbital glands on there face and from them licking/ leaving saliva.
Good content, I like the approach you are taking on this. Almost seams like your not new to blogging at all.
ReplyDeleteI myself am a huge bow hunter and am in the woods every chance I get. I look forward to reading your posts.
ReplyDeletethanks guys and hey its always a good thing to have other people following that also hunt, who are interested in what i have to talk about.
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