If I’m in that early all I need is my phone with an alarm to wake me up in a half hour when it starts to get light out. After that some diet Mountain Dew and my binos.
They’re up and moving here in NE WI. My wife’s cousin shot 4.5 year old with a doe on the 28th and I shot one on the 29th. Saw a good buck with a doe next to a strip mall the other day. Number of dead deer on the roads really jumped over the last week.
After 25 years of bow hunting my...
I’ve hunted some units that will likely take all of three points to draw in the regular next year. I’ve tagged out in them but it’s not quite as easy as you described in your post. If you just want to tag any antelope, as long as you can shoot 300ish yards you should be good. But if you hope...
I hunt suburban whitetails quite a bit. The big guys might be bedding a ways away and only come through your area at night or during the rut. Do you have any cameras out? If there are decent numbers of 2.5 year olds, most are probably getting shot or hit by vehicles before they get to 3.5...
Put a couple lanes through there with that thing. 400-800 yards long, about 14 feet wide, and arrow straight. Go in once a year and knock down the vegetation. Sit on those lanes during gun season.
Do something good for the deer wherever you don’t have the shooting lanes. Best spot we had...
A willingness to put in some effort, if needed, and the ability to shoot are all you need. Update: Based on one of your other posts you might have a tough job to fill a tag. Show up a day early and scout, be in position at least an hour before daylight, and shoot the first one you see opening...