“The Devil’s in the Details”: Tips on Tactics
Often-all too often-overlooking or disregarding the most minute factor, the tiniest little detail, makes the difference in success or failure in the deer woods. The more we take care of the potential for mistakes or errors, that much more often we can look forward to having the chore of dragging out a fresh kill, even that once-in-a-lifetime trophy. I THINK I've learned from some do's and don'ts, mostly the mistakes I've made in my over 50 years of stand-perching, "easing and slipping", and stump-sitting. Skirt the Stand Many commercially available treestands, be they ladders, hang-ons or climbers have a rail around the...
Personal Protection Weapon; Handgun or…?
This is a synopsis, or summation, of a recent conversation, via email, I had recently...the content is self-explanatory, and maybe worth YOUR thought and consideration. Question: I'm looking at buying a pistol. Assuming you don't have an extra one you might wanna let me have. If not, do you have any suggestions? I've been looking at the Walther P22 and PPK Thoughts? Answer: All I have left in handguns is Daddy's little 5-shot Smith & Wesson, the .38 antique with the 1-3/8 in. barrel that the archivists at Smith can't identify as to year of manufacture, or any other details. I had to sell my big .44 mag scoped...
More on Scent Control
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Hunting, Scent, Scent Control
Around 1965, during one of the first Bow Seasons in Mississippi, I was hunting a field edge on a private club "over the levee" in the Delta. The field was known as the "Pea Vine Field", as the club grew field peas there to attract and hold turkeys and deer, and provide extra nutrition. We found and noted the afternoon wind direction, and skirted the field on foot and out of sight to get to the down wind side to hide and hunt. I found a distinct, well-worn trail leading to and from the field, backed off 20 yards from the...
Scent Control (not “elimination”)
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Hunting, Scent, Scent Control
First thing to understand and accept is that human scent cannot be eliminated. We breathe, have moist eyes and ear canals and other "openings" in our bodies that constantly exude scent. The best we can do, therefore, is try to control or mask our "smell" to fool this number one whitetail sense. A whitetail can differentiate scent particles as few as 2 or 3 parts per million. To illustrate: if a gallon of pure, 100% deer urine were poured into an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a deer smelling the water could determine the sex, age, general physical condition, probable date of a doe's onset of...
Whitetails is the “kwaziest’ animals…
Being already 13 days into the Mississippi Bow Season, a lotta beasts have been stuck, downed, shucked, chopped-up and freezered. Due to having to make an unexpected, long drawn-out residence move, I haven't even been out into the woods yet. Too much packing stuff, then moving the same stuff; now, I'm faced/burdened with unpacking, settlin' in, getting services and utilities switched over. The only way I'll ever move again is due to an eviction notice, armed and hostile sheriff's deputies at my heels, and/or the county coroner taking out my mortal remains! Primary excuses aside, the extended rains here (Central Mississippi, 45 miles...
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