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Here are some things that are dead a$$ed wrong that will mess up your hunt big time.
1. "Hold high for an uphill shot hold low for a downhill shot..." WRONG WRONG WRONG!! Whether up or downhill a steep angle decreases your hold. You hold lower for either a steep uphill or downhill shot. It has to do with the angular vector of gravity acting on the bullet. A 45 deg angle either up or downhill decreases your bullets drop by something like 25%.
2. "All deer hunting in Texas is baited and behind a high fence." WRONG AGAIN! I've hunted Texas for years and but for one exception have never hunted a deer over a corn feeder or behind a high fence. There are some huge free range ranches and public areas in Texas that offer some very good free range deer hunting at some very reasonable prices. You just gotta look around. And I ain't telling you guys my secret spots so don't ask.
3. "Hunting behind hounds is unfair and easy that it shouldn't be considered a true hunt." Go book a bear or lion hunt in NM or some other place where it's still legal than come back and tell me how easy it was. Hound hunting is the most physically demanding hunt that you can possibly do. I guided behind hounds for year and number one problem I had was with clients who simply couldn't cut the physical aspects of the hunt.
4. "public land elk hunting in Colorado or anywhere for that matter is waste of time." I have to agree that if you don't know the area and you stick to the roads it can be a huge waste of time. But I have hunted every year in CO in some of the most used public areas and I have killed an elk every single year and most years two. The secret is, at least one ridge line over from the road and pick the most worstest looking steepest hell hole available then hunt the heck out of it.
1. "Hold high for an uphill shot hold low for a downhill shot..." WRONG WRONG WRONG!! Whether up or downhill a steep angle decreases your hold. You hold lower for either a steep uphill or downhill shot. It has to do with the angular vector of gravity acting on the bullet. A 45 deg angle either up or downhill decreases your bullets drop by something like 25%.
2. "All deer hunting in Texas is baited and behind a high fence." WRONG AGAIN! I've hunted Texas for years and but for one exception have never hunted a deer over a corn feeder or behind a high fence. There are some huge free range ranches and public areas in Texas that offer some very good free range deer hunting at some very reasonable prices. You just gotta look around. And I ain't telling you guys my secret spots so don't ask.
3. "Hunting behind hounds is unfair and easy that it shouldn't be considered a true hunt." Go book a bear or lion hunt in NM or some other place where it's still legal than come back and tell me how easy it was. Hound hunting is the most physically demanding hunt that you can possibly do. I guided behind hounds for year and number one problem I had was with clients who simply couldn't cut the physical aspects of the hunt.
4. "public land elk hunting in Colorado or anywhere for that matter is waste of time." I have to agree that if you don't know the area and you stick to the roads it can be a huge waste of time. But I have hunted every year in CO in some of the most used public areas and I have killed an elk every single year and most years two. The secret is, at least one ridge line over from the road and pick the most worstest looking steepest hell hole available then hunt the heck out of it.
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