Focus on the Deer

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The most important player in hunting is the deer. You must focus on the deer at all times. Deer are fickle, changeable, impatient, and elusive. Too many hunters want the deer to adapt to their strategies. Nonetheless, it’s the deer who sets the pace and rhythm of the hunt and we must adapt to their movements.
-Jim

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Why

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The most important question you ask, to solve any problem, overcome any obstacle, or achieve any hunting goal is "Why?" Top hunters always ask the question "Why?" and then act on the answers that come to them. If you know "why" you hunt the "how-to’s" will reveal themselfs. It’s the "Whys" that tell us the "Hows".

-Jim

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Identifying Primary Scrapes

 

Primary scrapes are used by several deer and are generally reopened season after season. They are often found on high ground, in funnels, and where one buck’s territory intersects that of another. Primary scrapes always have a licking branch above them and several rubbed trees in the vicinity. I’ve seen primary scrapes as small as 3 feet in diameter and as large as a sheet of plywood.
-Jim

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Insanity

Most hunters want to hunt the same way their fathers did, only they want significantly better results.

If you hunt the way your father or uncle hunted, then you can’t expect to kill any more or bigger deer than they did.
Albert Einstein said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
We must be willing to change ourselves and the way we hunt if we expect to change our results.

-Jim

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Free Chapter from "Blood in the Tracks"

Have you heard of my book "Blood in the Tracks" yet? Since it's release, I've received incredible feedback from dozen’s of readers telling me about how this book has helped to improve their hunting and helped them to find and stay close to big bucks.

If you haven't heard of my book, or haven't had a chance to check it out yet, I want to give you a chapter free. It's titled "Tracking and Buttonhooking Bucks."

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Jim
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Jim
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Patience

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In a society that demands instant gratification, patience is a skill lost to most hunters. Few hunters can win a stare down with a buck. Fewer yet can wait patiently enough to harvest a good buck. Learning to be patient is a far more valuable skill than learning the right moves. Patience is the central requirement for you to become an ever more accomplished hunter.

-Jim

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Google Earth

Good scouting uses a combination of both aerial and ground scouting. Google Earth has become an indispensable tool for trophy hunters. Not only will it give you a good idea where the brush patches are, but it also reveals food sources and travel funnels.

-Jim

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Do you have the heart of a hunter? (gift inside)

Have you read my book "Buck Naked" yet? Since it's release, I've received incredible feedback from readers raving about how this book has changed their hunting and enabled them to harvest bigger bucks more consistently.

If you haven't heard of my book, or haven't had a chance to check it out yet, I want to give you a chapter free. It's titled "Inside a Deer’s Mind."

Get it here

I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think.

If you're reading this email, then it's already clear that you're a hunting leader. Leaders stick out from the crowd, and for good reason.

Keep checking your email over the next few days because I'll be sending you more free gifts.

In the meantime, don't forget to read this chapter of my book for free.

Jim
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The Stink Buck

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The bucks, for their part, secrete their own strong hormones to help induce the females to ovulate. Researchers have long understood the effects of male odors on hormone levels in females, and have found that the length and timing of the menstrual cycles are markedly influenced by odors produced by males. This is why big bucks will always enter the field upwind of the doe herd. Not only does this promote estrous, but also the buck can visually detect even the slightest sign of sexual arousal his scent might be causing in the doe.

-Jim

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The Difficult Part

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The most difficult part of becoming a great hunter is making the commitment to be one. Trust me: it’s much more difficult to be an average hunter than it is to be a great hunter.

-Jim

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Intuition Vs Analysis

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You have a gut feeling and then you analyze it. Now it doesn’t seem like such a good idea.

Do you go with your gut feeling?

Or do you slip into analysis paralysis?

The challenge is not to talk yourself out of your intuition. The challenge is to defend your instinct and then go for it.

-Jim

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Keep a Journal

Observations aren’t enough, especially when you’re scouting multiple properties. Notes are necessary. All details should be noted, even some that may seem unimportant at the time. Journaling can make all the difference in hunting.

-Jim

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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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