Advice for deer hunting

[ACES&8S]

Safety is important, don't use a rifle scope to scan for deer. Don't attempt to hide if you see another hunter,
make yourself an Obvious Hunter with blaze orange, don't wave your camo arm at another hunter who
is watching for quick moving game.
Another tip you will find as important as the -actors- do in the hunting videos.
Plan your celebration & make it look authentic & entertaining, sort of like they do in the NFL now.
Also repeat this act with each person who arrives at the kill site like the actors do, or you could just
do like a real hunter & respect the animal's death for what it is supposed to be for. MEAT!

 

[john fisher]

I like the heart, ribs and testicles while still at hunting camp. Cut heart steaks to desired thickness and cook medium rare. Ribs go over a medium charcoal fire for over one hour until meat is well browned, almost crispy, and the meat can be peeled off the bone. The deer nuts are sauteed in butter.

I won't be shooting a buck, but I'd like to try that one day

 

[Enfielder]

Well, John, the first thing you need to learn is to sit still. Really still. Be like a fallen tree. Listen to the sounds around you. Watch all the animals around you. The birds. The insects the squirrels. Even watch the trees and the bushes and weeds as they sway in the breeze. Pay attention to the smells you smell. Feel the cool air on your face. Listen to water flowing over rocks. Look at the moss and the lichen growing wherever it grows. See one of those amazing moths that still fly when it's below freezing like a tiny fairy.

Take a deer if one comes your way. Shoot it above the front leg between the spine and the leg. It's heart is in the same place as yours if you were on all fours. If you have a pet dog, listen to where it's heart is. Shoot there.

Firing your rifle on game is one of the best parts of hunting. It's always over in less than a minute but usually a few seconds. The other best part of hunting is what I spoke of above. Go out there and realize that you are a part of it all. Fit yourself into that vast universe of the outside. Become part of it and know that it's always there and has always been there before you. That silence and the sound of it is what hunting is all about.

If you look around you, we humans have the little safe havens built around us to protect us against our fears. Even in the middle of nowhere in the Texas panhandle, 10 minutes from the highway, you'll find not these islands of safety. A gas station with enough lights so that you can read a book 100 yards away.

Hunting is about getting away from those islands and realizing that you are safe and have nothing to be afraid of. Go out way before first light and sit in the stillness. Stay past dark and listen to the day change to night.

Hunt and be still. Be there. Leave your phone in the truck. Pack a lunch. Drink water. Don't smoke.

One more thing, if you use one of those godforsaken scented laundry detergents, don't ever expect to see anything coming upwind towards you.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

One more thing, if you use one of those godforsaken scented laundry detergents, don't ever expect to see anything coming upwind towards you.

LOL
So I leant a wool capote, maroonish brown, to a buddy with a physical challenge since he was shivering, and we were teaching some Dutch Oven cooking to some campers one day. Told him, just give it back when I see you, and "OH, don't let your wife clean it." So he gave it back to me a week later, and I put it into my car and forgot to check it. THEN a week or so later, it was a drizzly opening day..., great for hunting, but a tad colder than I had expected, so I donned the capote when I got to the hunting area, which was a public hunting part of a local state park. I covered part of my flintlock lock with the bottom portion of the capote, to help keep the lock dry as I carried the rifle with the lock up under my armpit.
When I got to my spot, it started to drizzle, and after a few seconds...,
"WHAT is that smell?"
Why, it was the scent of "spring fresh" TIDE detergent, rising from my capote. Apparently my buddy's wife thought the "wood smoke scent" unpleasant and the capote needed cleaning. About a half-hour later, from the thick brush about 30 yards downwind of me, I heard the "PHEW! PHEW!" sound of several doe blowing from their noses in disgust, as they caught scent of me. I didn't blame them..., with my human nose I thought I was rather overpowering.

LD

 

[Choctaw]

Also, if you get one be sure to at least offer to share some of the meat with the friend who is taking you. That is always a nice gesture of appreciation.

 

[GAF]

I don`t know what kind of climate you live in, but dress for the weather in your area and keep your feet warm . Nothing is more miserable than a day with your feet cold.

 

[40-82]

I like the heart, ribs and testicles while still at hunting camp. Cut heart steaks to desired thickness and cook medium rare. Ribs go over a medium charcoal fire for over one hour until meat is well browned, almost crispy, and the meat can be peeled off the bone. The deer nuts are sauteed in butter.

I tried the buck testicles with my nephew Bobby with a little buck he killed early in the season a few years ago. I assured him that by eating them he'd take on the aura of a mighty hunter. He said they were quite good. No reason they wouldn't be. Beef testicles are good fare. Truth is, I had no idea what it would do for him, but I was more inclined to experiment on him than me.
He never got near another deer the rest of the season. I guess it's not good to try to hunt deer smelling like something that eats their balls.