Hunting myths that will mess you up!

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#9310 Big game won't use the trail for 2 weeks if you've traveled it.
(I actually tracked an elk last week that had stepped on my initial footprints later that night.)

#18324 Stand hunting won't work where still hunting is preferable.

#75 You need a rifle caliber that has magnum in the title.

#508 You need camo for deer hunting.

#4921 Taking the one with the biggest rack is the manliest thing to do, it affects meat quality.
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#9310 I've personally had deer walk down the same trail I just walked 15 minutes after I got set up in my stand... With no cover scent. =)

#18324 I can stalk any animal, but if I can be sitting in my tree lounge instead, you can bet you won't see me trudging through the woods looking for the flashing white of a tail. lol

#75 Anything from 6.5 to 12.7mm is fine with me... non-magnum of course. 12.7 being .50cal BMG. =)

#508 Blaze Orange looks great with blood stains too. lol

#4921 Sure, if you want dry, tough meat that you can't cut with a Hanzo Sword... This is why the yearlings hardly ever make it out of camp... they are field dressed and cooked before the weekend is over. =)

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#24759 Your 60 year old rifle is unsafe, and can't possibly be as accurate as my brand new Remington 700 with a 3-9x50 Leupold Scope, and you're shooting with Iron Sights... you'll never hit a deer with that - generally heard on the range, right before your (Mosin/K31/SKS/Swede/Yugo/Mannlicher/M1) puts down a tighter group at 100 yards with irons than they do with their new fancy rifle and scope. =)
 
Yea, I hate to say it but I kinda agree with Harley on this. Maybe refine to say muleys are easier to "shoot" than whitetails. They tend to spend more time trying to figure you out where as whitetails just get gone. I have had muleys watch an arrow go through them where as whitetails will just turn inside out and put their bellies to the ground to dodge it.

Just my experience, others may vary

~z
 
#20 Muleys are easier to hunt than Whitetail.
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Man, if that's a myth, Whitetail hunts must be a friggin' cakewalk. I've never hunted Whitetail before, but hunting muleys has not been difficult. Maybe #20 is true when hunting for trophy bucks, but for meat, I've never had to hunt more than a small portion of opening morning. I now know where to find them, and they just never scram like elk do. They give me every chance in the world to shoot them; it's silly.

I really need to hunt some Whitetail then. Maybe they field dress themselves.:neener:
 
#20 Muleys are easier to hunt than Whitetail
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That was no myth for me Wednesday, as I shot a forkhorn mulie at about 20 yards, he blundered down a ridge and never saw me. I think both species are equally dumb when November hits...
 
CoRoMo, if some gal pulls that on you, ask her if she drinks milk, and has she ever considered how that process began? You're a do-it-yourselfer after meat. Has she ever eaten a steak or hamburger? Is she afraid to get her hands dirty?
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Actually a devout Vegan (yes it smacks of religion) gave me crap like that, and I asked her if she plants and harvests her own grain for her bread. She said "no" and asked what that has to do with hunting, and I pointed out the large numbers of rabbits and other critters that get killed by tractors when planting, or harvesting combines when harvesting, even when the grain is "organic", so she was ignorant, but since she now "knows" what happens, unless she plants and harvests by hand..., she's a hypocrite. I am, at least, honest about what I do with my shotgun. :D She walked away muttering to herself.

LD
 
#11......By taking a bite from the raw heart of fresh killed game, you will inherit the cunning wisdom and spirits of the deceased critter.
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I have done this and didn't care too much for it. I prefer cooking it in little small pieces with the same deer' liver with cut potatoes, onions and a little bacon in a cast iron skillet over the camp fire. I feel it serves the same purpose.

LGB
 
lgbloader said:
"#11......By taking a bite from the raw heart of fresh killed game, you will inherit the cunning wisdom and spirits of the deceased critter."


I have done this and didn't care too much for it. I prefer cooking it in little small pieces with the same deer' liver with cut potatoes, onions and a little bacon in a cast iron skillet over the camp fire. I feel it serves the same purpose.
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Old Injun saying....."spirits evaporate in skillet"
 
After you've killed a 180" + mule deer come back and tell me how easy they are to hunt.

The major difference between trophy mule deer hunting and "trophy" whitetail hunting is that in most circumstances trophy mule deer hunting is the real deal. Much of the "trophy" whitetails we see taken are from high fenced genetically altered carefully managed herds.

I would agree that overall whitetails are more skittish than mule deer but a big old wild buck is a true adversary in either species. I've killed dumb young bucks and does of both species that were equally easy to shoot.
 
Trophy whitetail around here are more a product of genetics, nutrition, intense management than anything else. To hunt those managed deer takes money because it takes money to manage deer. So, I don't hunt for horns here. LOL!

I always like the one, "Hunting with feeders ain't hunting." Feeders are NOT a deer magnet, especially for the bigger bucks. They keep the deer in the area, though, and the big boys feed off 'em at night. They've read the game laws, ain't stupid. :D

My favorite areas that I've spot and stalked whitetail are west of the Pecos, out in Art's part of the world. Wide open spaces, brushed up dry washes. Lots of cover and habitat, but it's concentrated in the brushy draws. Especially during the rut when the bucks are out and about, you can sit on a ridge and glass just like for mulies in the mountains. :D It's a ton of fun if you're from the eastern part of the state and used to noddin' off in a stand, feeder or no feeder. LOL! I love it out there. Hunting stands starts to bore me after a while and I start duck hunting more. Now that the hogs have moved in here in such numbers, though, it's a bit more interesting. :D
 
You're entitled to even an uneducated opinion.

Hunting: The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something.
Sitting in a tree over a bucket of corn doesn't meet that criteria. ;)
 
Well d'uh! You don't watch the corn for crying out loud. You look thoroughly from the stand at the environment around the corn. Hunt smarter, not harder.

It is sort of like saying it ain't real trapping if you put bait in the trap.
 
I go duck hunting, I put out decoys and call 'em. I go dove hunting, I sit in the flight path and shoot 'em as they fly by. Yet, I don't call it duck "shooting" or dove "shooting", it's hunting. Been using a feeder and ain't shot a deer in 2 years. Yes, I'm hunting.

There are many ways to skin a cat. Stick with yours. It won't work down here, though. I like to spot and stalk when out in the mountains, but there ain't no mountains down here and I'm hunting on a whole 10 acres. I have areas out of state where I can spot and stalk when I get some more income and completely stop having to work, start gettin' my gubment checks. :D It's a logistics thing getting up there, but it's fun, and the mulies there are considerably bigger than the whitetail down here. There's a WMA near me, buckshot only, that opens for hog hunting in February. I get my share of still hunting and even what might be mistaken for spot and stalk (sit on the bluff over the marsh and watch for hogs coming back to the brush in the morning) there, but have to hunt with a 10 gauge, range limited.

A good hunter adapts. A hard head set in his ways starves, or, stops at Walmart for meat on the way home. :D Thankfully, the hog trap has kept my freezer stocked. LOL Damned deer are nocturnal even this early on in the season. Camera hasn't shot a daylight pic, yet. :rolleyes:
 
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wyohome, how would YOU hunt gently rolling brushy country where your vision at ground level is maybe fifteen yards at most? And often, less than that? And in walking and sneaky-snaking, you have to deal with thorny brush, catclaw acacia and cactus?
 
...the large numbers of rabbits and other critters that get killed by tractors...
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True. I've personally (via tractor) ground up entire families of soft, cute, little cuddly bunnies, all the while trying to prepare the ground to grow some food for vegans!!
 
True. I've personally (via tractor) ground up entire families of soft, cute, little cuddly bunnies, all the while trying to prepare the ground to grow some food for vegans!!
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You....you.....ANIMAL! ROFL!

I bet if I had a shredder, I could kill a hundred snakes a pass just on my little place in spring. Lord knows what else it'd take out, piglets, rabbit, coons, possums, bobkittens, quail, LOL.
 
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