Are You Willing to Do What It Takes?

Are you looking to bag that once in lifetime giant racked deer. If you are longing  to  bring home the type of buck that most people only dream about I can help, but you may have to adjust your thinking, your tactics, and embrace the patience and commitment it takes to bring home a colossal trophy deer. Unless you get really lucky the successful hunting of a giant whitetail or mule deer is a commitment that may take a full year of planning, scouting and hunting, or two, or more. There have been individual bucks that I scouted, pursued, hunted and dreamed of for several years before I finally had the opportunity to make the kill. The big “war hosses” have a particular affinity for never being in a position where a man can shoot them. There is a reason the giants are that way and they seem to almost have a sixth sense when it comes to eluding hunters.

There is a unique manner and behavior pattern with giant old bucks and to be successful in hunting them you must modify your strategy accordingly. You almost have to approach the giant mature bucks as if they were another species all together to successfully hunt them. Along with being older and larger they are wiser, more cautious, and much more deliberate in their actions. The fact that a trophy buck survives to 4, 5, or 6 years old is a testament that they have mastered a lifestyle that allows them to avoid hunters and other predators. A giant buck will not typically run at the slightest pressure ,they dig in and hide until it is safe to get away. I have seen bucks hold tight in cover using their amazing stealth and natural camouflage, then sneak, crawl, or even swim away to avoid even the most experienced hunters.

If you are going to be successful you must use different tactics for these big boys. It is almost like the police detective catching the master criminal, it can take months to years of hard work and a bit of circumstantial luck to make an arrest. But if you have the right knowledge and the commitment that comes from a burning desire to display that once-in-a lifetime-if-you-are-lucky class buck on your wall then read on…

A Chinese general named Sun Tzu once said that if you know your enemies and you know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles. While, as a deer hunter, the whitetail deer is hardly an enemy you actually fight, in a way, hunting does pit you in battle against the whitetail deer, and knowing everything you can about them can make a difference in whether you are successful or not. Here are a few important, but often overlooked facts about whitetail deer.

One of the most overlooked facts about whitetail deer is that they, like cows, are ruminants. What this means is that they ingest their food, store it in their stomachs, then regurgitate it later to further chew it. Because many hunters do not realize this, they expect deer to be constantly feeding, when actually, whitetail deer eat for an hour or two, and then find a safe place to chew their cud.

Whitetail deer can also see almost 310 degrees around them, meaning their peripheral vision is excellent. They can see even slight movement around them, and any movement that they see can frighten them and make them flee. They also have excellent low-light vision, which is why deer tend to be very active at night as well.

In addition to their very impressive range of vision, deer are able to move and fix their ears in a particular direction to pick up sounds. They are very sensitive to sounds, and a misstep while on the hunt can mean that a deer may have already seen or heard you before you can even spot him.

Whitetail deer also have a very sensitive sense of smell – even the faintest scents can lead them to believe that there is a predator after them, and this will make them flee. This makes it vital that a hunter be careful with the scents that he brings to the hunt. Odors from the foods we eat, the soaps we use on our bodies and our clothes, can be scented by the whitetail deer. A good many hunters, in fact, wash themselves and their clothes with unscented soap, and then take their hunting clothes in a sealed bag, where they change into them in the field.

These are only some of the facts that could prove very important in your hunt for whitetail deer, and, if you are a serious hunter, only the beginning of what you should learn to give you every advantage you can while hunting them.

Opening day, Nov 15th, 2007 deer hunting complete with kill shot. Buck was shot at 89 yards with a Remington 700 .03-06.

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Bio: John Borg has cut and stacked wood and has cleaned chimneys since young adulthood.
Filmmaker: Blake Borg

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My first years of deer hunting in Clarion, Cameron, and Armstrong county.

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