Riflescopes and Scope Accessories

No matter how long you have been hunting, if you have just started or you have been doing it for years, it is still important to review and/or learn the deer hunting tips covered in this article. If you’re a beginner you should know there’s more to deer hunting than walking into the woods and just finding a trophy deer to shoot. A certain amount of preparation is required, a level of discipline is necessary, and certain safety rules to be learned and applied, but the tips discussed here will help you have a truly enjoyable and prosperous hunt.

1. Tips For Safety:

· Be sure to refrain from consuming anything alcoholic before or during the hunt.

· Never depend on your gun’s safety - act like it’s loaded and ready to shoot at all times.

· Never under any circumstance jump a ditch, climb a stand or a tree or cross a fence with any loaded gun.

· Do not pull the gun’s trigger unless you are completely certain that you are aiming at a deer. If there is any doubt about your target, do not fire.

2. Tips For Bagging A Deer:

· Get An Early Start - Many hunters like to spend the entire day in the woods, but the most likely times to bag a deer are sunrise and sunset. The fact is deer will come out to feed in the early mornings or the later hours just before dusk. If you’re hunting mornings, be at your stand or blind before daylight, or well before dark if it’s to be an evening hunt. This will give you the time you need to get set up and settled in before any deer become active. There’s nothing that will be more disappointing for you than getting to your blind or stand late, scaring away a magnificent buck in the process, and then not spotting any other deer for the remainder of the hunt.

· Eliminate Scents - It is important to remember that deer can smell scents very easily, so do what is necessary to eliminate any human or unnatural odors. While a scent may appeal to your friends or spouse, it will repel a deer. Shower before you go, then no deodorant, scented/deodorant soaps, perfume, after shave, or colognes. Be sure you wash whatever clothes you plan to wear with unscented laundry soap or just plain water before going on a hunt. Unfortunately, deer have an astounding degree of smell sensitivity, and anything unusual will have them scattering away before you can act.

· Remain Still - While in a blind or stand, refrain from moving and do so very carefully when you must move. One of the toughest things for me to learn was the ability to keep looking SLOWLY from side to side, hours at a time, as I sat freezing in a deer stand. Deer are highly skittish and will run from any quick movements.

· Remain Silent - This is perhaps one of the most vital keys to any deer hunt. The incredible sensitivity of a deer’s hearing has amazed (and later on disappointed) me more than once. Deer are always on alert to a human voice or any sounds that seem unnatural to them. If you are involved in a hunting party and need to communicate, do so very quietly, substituting hand signals if you can. You also have to be careful not to hit you gun or binoculars or your metal stand or clang the two together.

The aforementioned tips are really simple basics, and while there is a great deal more out there, if you follow these basic deer hunting tips, you’ll find your chances of success are dramatically increased.

Please use these deer hunting tips to help you during your upcoming deer hunting season.

Please visit www.Deer-HuntingTips.com for more advanced deer hunting tips you can use this year.

Filed under: Rifles and Shotguns on November 23rd, 2009