Conversation with Jeff: on WMA’s, Public Land Hunting, Getting Started-”The Pass-Out Buck”
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Dogs, Gun, Hunting, Medium Game, Muzzle Loader, Primitive Weapon, Rifles, Scent, Weapon, Whitetail Trophy
I first met Jeffrey during the 2002-2003 deer season. He and my son were friends. They were about 18 years old and just graduated from high school. During visits, Jeff expressed interest in hunting, and would I take him out with me "sometime". I let him use a decent little rifle, a .44 magnum Marlin lever action with a 2.5X scope mounted and sighted-in, shooting 180 grain bullets at around 1800 fps-more than adequate out to 150 yards or so. I had Jeff take the Hunter Safety course, required by Mississippi state law for a license by hunters born after 1972,...
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...
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