Persistence Isn’t

Persistence isn’t hunting the same area with the same tactics over and over. That type of hunting is both boring and annoying.

Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

But the goal isn’t to harvest a buck.

The harvest of the buck is the result of doing things right.

-Jim

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Shed Hunting for Big Bucks

Big bucks are always first to shed their antlers. The largest bucks in any area will begin shedding within a couple weeks of the end of the rutting period.

If you’re lucky enough to find an extremely large shed, you’ll know exactly where you should be coming next fall.

The odds are that big buck won’t be far away. I’ve killed several bucks after I found their sheds.

-Jim

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Look for the Questions

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Good scouting is not so much looking for the answers as it is looking for the questions. In nature nothing is random and nothing happens by accident. The when and the where are a lot easier to figure out if we know what makes the we’ll go around.

-Jim

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You Need to Get This Book

My new book, BLOOD IN THE TRACKS: A MULE DEER MANIFESTO, is out and available on Amazon. I’m so excited about this book because it’s going to help a lot of people become better hunters. You can check it out by clicking on the link below. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it and learn a lot about mule deer hunting from it.
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Renowned out photographer Tony Bynum has provided some of the best mule photos ever taken for this book. The pictures are great!

Good luck and good hunting to all of you,

Jim
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Whizzing in the Woods

Recent research indicates that deer cannot distinguish between human urine and deer urine.

I’ve known this for some time. I quit peeing into plastic jugs 20 years ago and in that entire time I have never seen a deer spooked at the scent of human urine.

In fact, I’ve had deer walk up, smell my urine, and lay down in it. I won’t go as far as to say that deer are attracted to human urine, but I will say it doesn’t spook them.

-Jim

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Scent Elimination Clothes and Sprays

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Many hunters are showing little consideration for wind direction due to the invention of scent eliminating sprays and clothing. While these products keep us from stinking up the whole place, they are not the answer to the entire problem.

Most human scent comes from our breath and the sebaceous glands behind our ears and these products do little to help those areas.

I use these products whenever I go into the field. They help a great deal in keeping my past understand undetected.

However the old-fashioned way of staying downwind of the deer is the only true way to keep your scent away from the deer.

-Jim

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Double your Efforts

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It’s a matter of numbers only 1 out of 20 bucks will ever reach trophy status. Most areas just don’t contain enough deer to produce trophies year in and year out. Once the buck pool is drained in one area. It is time to increase and improve our hunting efforts.
If there’s a shortage of bucks in your area, means it is going to be rare to see big bucks.
What this tells me is that I need to double my efforts in scouting and locating new areas for big bucks.
-Jim
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