Mathil
10-25-2013, 06:29 PM
Hey everyone!
It's my first hunting season, and first I'd like to thank everyone for all of the great information, humour, and stories posted here.
I'm a "first generation" hunter, with no family to show me the ropes, so my learning process has pretty much been Internet research and traipsing through the woods, or sitting on a tree and watching an area for a while. It's amazing the things you see when you allow yourself to blend in.
Unfortunately, I haven't come across any Blacktails, doe or buck. Am I sitting in the wrong areas? Is it still too warm and dry for them to be coming down? Walking around 1" branches are cracking like matchsticks under my feet, and I've heard that the blacktails like thick brush.
I've been in the depot creek area, as far in as I could reliably pack an animal out. Off the depot creek FSR about 500m at the least.
any tips? I've searched and read everything I could catch on here.
I'd love a mentor! I'm 26, own my own RV manufacture business, so I have a flexible schedule and can go out pretty much anytime. I have a .308, Sitka rainwear to sit in sideways rain all day, and if you need I can help you out with your RV repairs ;) I don't have a quad at all, perhaps next season.
thanks for any help!
It's my first hunting season, and first I'd like to thank everyone for all of the great information, humour, and stories posted here.
I'm a "first generation" hunter, with no family to show me the ropes, so my learning process has pretty much been Internet research and traipsing through the woods, or sitting on a tree and watching an area for a while. It's amazing the things you see when you allow yourself to blend in.
Unfortunately, I haven't come across any Blacktails, doe or buck. Am I sitting in the wrong areas? Is it still too warm and dry for them to be coming down? Walking around 1" branches are cracking like matchsticks under my feet, and I've heard that the blacktails like thick brush.
I've been in the depot creek area, as far in as I could reliably pack an animal out. Off the depot creek FSR about 500m at the least.
any tips? I've searched and read everything I could catch on here.
I'd love a mentor! I'm 26, own my own RV manufacture business, so I have a flexible schedule and can go out pretty much anytime. I have a .308, Sitka rainwear to sit in sideways rain all day, and if you need I can help you out with your RV repairs ;) I don't have a quad at all, perhaps next season.
thanks for any help!