Intuition Vs Analysis

Photo courtesy of Apple Creek Whitetails

 

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

http://jimcollyer.com/

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

http://jimcollyer.com/

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

http://jimcollyer.com/

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

http://jimcollyer.com/

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

http://jimcollyer.com/

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

http://jimcollyer.com/