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John's
Journal... Journal Entry 12 - Day 5
We've learned all this week that you have to expect the unexpected if you're going to bowhunt successfully. The wind can change when you're on a stand and start carrying your human odor to a deer, which means you'll have to move. Or, another hunter can wander through your area on the day you're hunting and ruin your hunt with his odor. Too, if you find cigarette butts, candy wrappers or any other signs of another hunter in the region you're hunting, you may not want to hunt from that area that day. You also may prefer to leave your hunt site if dogs or coyotes come through your hunt site. |
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When the stand site you're hunting from becomes contaminated because of changing wind directions, other hunters, dogs or coyotes or perhaps because you've spooked a deer there, then turn on your GPS receiver. Get your location, and pull up the other stand sites that you've logged in, identifying which site is the closest to you and what's the shortest distance from where you are to get to that other stand site. Make sure when you log in the stand site that you also identify which wind direction you must have to hunt from that stand site. If your GPS receiver won't allow you to log in additional information, tape a piece of paper or cardboard to the back of your GPS that gives the number of the stand site and the wind direction you must have to hunt from that stand site." |
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"However, with a hand-held GPS receiver, I don't even have to try to remember all that information. I can store that information in or on the back of any GPS, and I'll always know where to hunt if my hunt gets spoiled. A hand-held GPS receiver can and will make you a much more efficient bowhunter and will prevent you from being frustrated, aggravated and upset if the wind changes or an animal or a hunter spoils your hunt." |
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I hope you've enjoyed this week of bowhunting with the masters and that you'll return every day each week, Monday through Friday, to learn more about hunting and fishing from the people I believe to be some of the best in the nation. |
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Read more from Jerry Simmons and others... How to Learn the Land To learn all you can about bowhunting, buy the "Masters Secrets of Bowhunting," by John E. Phillips. Click here to see the book's cover and review portions of some of the chapters. |
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