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How to Choose The Best Deer Hunting Rifle

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

rifles deer mydecoys 300x225 How to Choose The Best Deer Hunting RifleOne of the most important decisions for you to make in your hunting career is what is the best deer hunting rifle you should purchase. The keys to achieving your deer hunting goals come in the form of the best firearm for you.  When you go to pick out a firearm, you want the one with the best style, action, sighting, size, and ballistics for  your hunting area and physical capabilities. Your final success is dependent on having a deer hunting rifle that matches all these criteria.

Where Will You Be Hunting?

The two main types of deer hunting environments are the deep woods/dense brush and open range country. Some areas contain a mixture of both environments. Every hunting environment has different styles of shooting and require rifles with different characteristics.

Deep Woods/Dense Brush Best Deer Hunting Rifles

The best deer hunting rifles to use  in the woods are rifles made for medium or short range shooting. The average distance you will be shooting in this environment  runs from twenty-five to two hundred yards. It is to your advantage that your deep woods deer hunting rifle be relatively light (less than nine pounds with the scope), and be relatively short in length with a barrel length of twenty two inches or shorter. It’s important to be able to move quickly and easily through densely wooded areas. The best deer hunting rifle is one that offers fast reload -  automatics or lever action would be best; you might have to do a quick follow shot when you’re deer hunting in rough terrain. I would recommend using heavy bullet cartridges, .270 caliber or greater, with at least a 120 grain bullet, in order to penetrate any brush that might be in the way of your intended target.   Calibers/cartridges that travel at over 2200 feet per second are not recommended to minimize bullet deflection by the brush. If your hunting terrain only allows shots to be taken within 50 yards or less of the intended target, you may want to consider using an open sight.  If not, I would recommend a scope with four power, or a variable scope that can get down to 3X. If you want to find out if open site shooting works for you, test it out at the range.

Open Range Deer Hunting Rifles

The best deer Hunting Rifles that work well in open areas are optimized for longer range shooting, up to three hundred yards (or farther!). Rifle portability is not as important as accuracy and velocity in long shot situations and the rifles will be heavier and with longer barrel lengths than deep woods rifles. The best calibers and cartridges for open range deer hunting, are flat shooting, and high velocity. Calibers in the 6MM (.243) range or higher will be satisfactory and bullets from 100 grain up will perform well. When shooting larger caliber rifles, heavier bullets are generally best for accurate shooting. Typically, you’ll need at least a 6×9 variable power scope in order to shoot accurately.

Find What You Want

When choosing a deer hunting rifle, follow the recommendations above as they best suit your hunting situation and consider your degree of comfort in using high caliber or magnum powered rifles. How willing are you to lug around ten to twelve pounds long rifle across your hunting terrain.

Visit a nearby hunting rifle dealer and test out various models, kinds, and sizes from different makers of deer hunting rifles to see what feels good. Whenever you can ask a successful hunters what type of rifle they use and why. See if friends will let you handle their rifles, so that you can get a feel for what kind of weapon you are comfortable hunting with.

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Deer Hunting Tips – The Giant-Racked Deer : Rare And Elusive

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

No matter how satisfied you may be now with the size of the bucks you get from hunting, you’ll want to snag the big ones at some point. Please read the following advanced deer hunting tips to help understand what is involved in hunting the real monster bucks.

When you want to move up to getting the monster bucks, it takes quite a bit more learning, but you can read more to learn the deer hunting tips you need to succeed. The techniques needed to hunt mature bucks with giant antlers were not the same as the ones I’d used to hunt regular bucks. After a lot of hit and miss, I discovered the true secrets to locating the great deer, and my productivity has grown from year to year.

Is your overall hunting area populated with big bucks? Most very large bucks remain largely unseen. But even if there have been no reports of sightings of big bucks in an area, it does not have to follow that they are not there. Keeping that in mind, there are areas which do seem to be centers of activity for these monster deer. To give yourself the opportunity of taking one of these shy creatures, you must take your deer hunting to where the big deer are. It’s often frustrating to learn that many areas won’t have any big bucks at all, least of all one you can find. You can, however, increase your chances of finding big bucks if they’re in the area you’re hunting in.

The first thing you should do to find out if there are large bucks around is to ask local hunters. Ask around with all the career hunters and game wardens in your area; even ranchers and farmers can help you, as can feed store owners, to tell you where sightings of big deer have been made, so you may know where to go. Even the local coffee shop or diner can be a place to find information on local deer population. Your objective is to see if there are any large bucks locally, and where most of them have been sighted. Just ask about the sightings of extremely large bucks instead of overall population count. You won’t get anywhere finding a large population of average sized deer. You’re after a trophy rack. Talk to other hunters in your area if you’re already committed to one specific hunting ground and find out which stands or blinds are best to find the largest bucks, and ask others about their specific experiences. This is a good place to begin. Be cautious : just like fishermen, deer hunters may want to exaggerate their hunts, so double check your stories.

We hope that you use these deer hunting tips and techniques during deer hunting season to enjoy help you locate the true monster bucks.

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How Badly Do You Want To Get that Once In A Lifetime Buck?

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

big buck How Badly Do You Want To Get that Once In A Lifetime Buck?Are you deer hunting to take that once-in-a-lifetime deer with the giant rack? If your desire is to corral a deer that most people would absolutely kill for, I can provide assistance if you are willing to pay the price in terms of revamping your approach and settling in for the long haul with tremendous perseverance and determination. Here are some valuable advanced deer hunting tips to help you understand the effort required to successfully hunt monster bucks.
Except for the occasion when you may get very lucky, the productive hunting of a huge whitetail or mule deer is an undertaking that may involve a complete year or more of planning, scouting, and hunting. I have personally scouted out and pursued specific deer for years before I could make that kill I was looking for, to give you an idea of the commitment required. The huge “war hosses” have a singular characteristic of never being caught in a position where a man could shoot them. Often, the reason these bucks get so big is because they’re clever enough to survive several years of hunting.

Fortunately, you can typically predict how the bigger, older bucks will move, and you have to strategize and anticipate how they will move to succeed. Their behavior patterns and movements are so different from doe and smaller bucks, that you can’t approach them the same way. Together with their being older and bigger, they are smarter, more skittish, and much more considered in their behavior. If a trophy deer has lived to the age of six, that fact alone is self defining as a statement of his survival instincts that have allowed him to elude capture. These giant deer generally will not panic when danger lurks nearby, but will often hunker down in a safe location and wait for the trouble to pass. I have watched bucks hold firm in cover taking advantage of their natural stealth and incredible camouflage, and then slip, crawl or swim away in avoidance of the most seasoned hunters.

Your tactics have to change if you want to have a chance at bagging a large buck. In the same way that a law enforcement investigator must carry out an interminable amount of routine legwork in order to make an important arrest, you must plot a specific long term strategy to outsmart that deer.

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Improve Hunting Success With These Deer Hunting Tips

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

deer hunting 300x238 Improve Hunting Success With These Deer Hunting TipsIf you are a long time hunter you may find these deer hunting tips a bit obvious, but they are basics that can be reviewed, and some things beginners need to learn before they go out.

If you’re a beginner you should know there’s more to deer hunting than walking into the woods and just finding a trophy deer to shoot. You need to preform a lot of preparation work, follow safety precautions, and be disciplined.

You can increase your chances of a successful and have an enjoyable hunt by following the hunting tips discussed here.

1. Tips For Safety:

· Never consume any alcoholic beverage before or during a hunt.

· Always take care of your gun as if it was loaded and ready to shoot. You should never count on the gun’s safety to prevent it from firing.

· Never under any circumstance jump a ditch, climb a stand or a tree or cross a fence with any loaded gun.

· Do not pull the gun’s trigger unless you are completely certain that you are aiming at a deer. If there is any doubt about your target, do not fire.

2. Tips On Getting A Deer:

· Begin Early – Although a lot of hunters like to hunt all day, the best chances for finding a deer is during sunrise and sunset. They are more likely to come out of the thick brush during the early morning and late pre-dusk hours for feed. Be sure to be in your deer blind or stand prior to dawn in the morning and prior to dusk during the evening. Arriving early is vital, in order to properly set-up prior to the arrival of deer. It is truly agonizing to watch that trophy winning buck dart away due to you arriving a little too late, not giving yourself ample enough time to finish any preparations.

· Eliminate Scents – It is important to remember that deer can smell scents very easily, so do what is necessary to eliminate any human or unnatural odors. While it might be a scent that your spouse and friends love, to a deer it smells like danger. Do not use any cologne, after shave, deodorant, perfume, or scented soaps/body wash. Prior to going on your hunt, wash the clothing you will have on in an unscented detergent or with plain water. Due to how sensitive a deer sense of smell is, they will be frightened off by the slightest scent.

· Remain Still – While in a Blind Improve Hunting Success With These Deer Hunting Tips or Treestand Improve Hunting Success With These Deer Hunting Tips, refrain from moving and do so very carefully when you must move. One of the hardest things for me to learn to be a successful hunter was how to slowly look from side to side as I sat for hours in a deer stand in the freezing cold. Deer are highly skittish and will run from any quick movements.

· Be Silent – Being absolutely quiet is the key to having a successful deer hunt. The incredible sensitivity of a deer’s hearing has amazed (and later on disappointed) me more than once. They become very cautious and wary when they hear a human voice or any kind of unnatural sound. If you are hunting with a partner or in a group, make sure you talk in as low of a whisper as possible and, if possible, rely on hand signals for communication. You also have to be careful not to hit you gun or binoculars or your metal stand or clang the two together.

These tips are really simple and basics, and while there is a great deal more out there, if you follow these basic deer hunting tips, you’ll find your chances of success are dramatically increased.

Please use these deer hunting tips to help you during your upcoming deer hunting season.

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Deer Hunting Tips – What Conditions Affect Antler Size?

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Whitetail deer 300x255 Deer Hunting Tips What Conditions Affect Antler Size?To prize hunters, the goal is to harvest a deer with big antlers. The bigger the rack, the more valuable the prize. I don’t know any hunter who has not shared stories about huge antlers. They talk about the number of points, how big the spread was, the diameter of the antler, how long the tines were, etc.

The question is, how can you increase the chances that the deer you are hunting will have large antlers?

There are three main things that can influence buck antler size:

1. Genetics

2. What The Deer Has To Eat

3. The Age of the Deer

Genetics determine the potential size of the antlers. In other words maximum antler size is a trait that is inherited. This is a fact that experienced deer hunters and game managers know and that science has proven. Leases are often managed in a way to produce the biggest bucks by limiting the size of the antlers that are permitted to be harvested. A limit is put each season on genetically desirable prey and killing of genetically inferior antlered deer lets the gene pool move towards more favorable traits. The actual effect of these strategies is questionable, but the though process and fact basis of this practice is very sensible. The fact is that culling of deer with inferior genetics is seldom possible when you consider the number of other deer killed within a population.

Nutrition or what a deer has to eat is another factor affecting the size of a deers antlers. Even with optimal genetics, the deer will not realize its full potential if the animal does not receive the proper nutrition.  Most experienced hunters have hunted through seasons where drought has affected the food sources for the deer and the large antlered deer just weren’t there. In order for deer to reach their full antler producing potential, they need adequate nutrition throughout the entire year. Summer and spring diets are the most vital since the majority of antler growth really happens during those seasons. Inferior foliage growth during these months can greatly limit antler growth. Good habitat management can help alleviate the toll taken. Sometimes, it’s necessary to implement additional feeding.

The final factor is age, however research suggests that once a buck has reached 3+ years of age genetics and nutrition play a larger part in antler growth. Usually antler size potential increases throughout the first few years of life. It continues to increase some during the fourth through sixth year. However, the actual growth rate and size depend on the breed of deer and the deers genetics. For this reason, the harvesting of bucks younger than 4 years is not encouraged. The practice by insensitive hunters of culling bucks that are too young can lead to such colorful expressions from more experienced hunters as, “That deer still had milk on its breath.”  It’s best to allow the young bucks to mature and only harvest them afterward. If you are at a point where you need venison, but can’t seem to get a mature buck, then you should harvest a doe. You will see the benefit of this during the next season of hunting.

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Deer Hunting Tips To Make You A Successful Hunter

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

hunting deer 300x192 Deer Hunting Tips To Make You A Successful HunterThe average deer hunter who has average skills and an average commitment to the hunt, usually get average results for his efforts. You might be satisfied with just getting that single deer every couple of years, but if you want better than that for yourself, learn how to get that trophy buck.

The advanced deer hunting tips I’m sharing with you here are for the true hunting masters.

1. Scout Your Hunting Area – This does not simply mean know where you are going to sit while you are hunting. It means to go out and truly get to know your hunting location. The most successful hunters actually start hunting months prior to the first day of the hunting season. Get permission to be on the lease you intend on hunting and scout out all the potential hunting spots. I surveyed all the potential hunting sites and then did a “dry hunt” — went through the motions of hunting but without a gun, so I could get to know the areas that had the most deer movement, the largest bucks, and the best buck-to-doe ratios. It is advisable to scout the lease during midday as well in order to find any signs of big bucks. Speaking of which:

2. Know the Signs of Big Bucks – Knowing what to look for allows you to zero in on the areas where the trophy deer are. Spot any tracks. Be aware of the size, number of, and the direction of the tracks, which will clue you in on the size, number of and movements of the deer. Look for Scrapes – areas where bucks scratch the ground accompanied with urination to mark territory and attract does, typically below low hanging tree branches at the border of heavy brush during the rut. Another thing you want to look for are rubs. As a buck attempts to get the velvet off their new antlers thy need to rub on trees and posts. They also do this to mark their territory during rutting season. A “rub line” is a series of rubs, six or more within about a 100 yard space. The rubs are typically on the side of the tree that the buck is traveling form so noting which sides of the trees have rub marks in a rub line gives clues as to the direction of movement. Also, look for bedding areas and make a note of their size. No bucks will go through that area without leaving signs!

3. Understand Your Firearm. Know the ballistics of the cartridge and bullet you are using. Realize and be able to adjust for the distance you are shooting; the rise on short shoots and the fall on longer shoots. Practice judging distance and if all possible walk off the probable sighting areas ahead of time so if you are making a 400 yard shot you know it is 400 yards and you know the drop your bullet will realize at that distance and be able to adjust.

4. Shot Placement. If you master the aim and ballistics of your deer hunting rile, you will be more comfortable with precision shot placement. While many hunters have several different ways to shoot, one way that can help you is to shoot for the neck of the animal, as that will immobilize the deer much more quickly. If you hit the deer lower on the neck the carotid arteries will be severed. If you hit the deer high on the neck you will break the deer’s spinal column. Finally, if you hit the deer in the center of the neck you will get a combination of both of these effects. If you’re shooting from the side, front, hindquarters, or head-on, the neck is the most effective target, even more so than the traditional “behind the lower shoulder” target. I don’t recommend attempting full rear shots unless you are trying for a trophy buck that you can’t pass up. Cleaning a deer that’s been shot in the rectum is unpleasant, to say the least. You want to make smart decisions when you take a shot. The best deer hunters make a fast and efficient kill.

5. Attractants, Calls and Rattling. Briefly, our last advanced deer hunting tips involve attractants (food plots, mineral blocks and flavored blocks, and salt licks) deer calls, and techniques for rattling. Preparation time is necessary for food-based attractants. Planting food plots takes time ant attention much as any gardening does. You should set out food attractants in an area weeks or even months prior to hunting season, so that the deer will become familiar with their feeding times and the location of their meals. Usually calling or rattling will only work occasionally and only during the rut. Bucks will mostly be attracted to the rattles and calls because they’re curious if not in rut, but while rutting they’ll rush toward the noise, which is far from an ideal situation. There have been times when I have almost been run over by a buck while I was rattling. With this in mind, if you choose to use this technique you need to be prepared to react quickly. It’ll take a lot of time to get good at this. To effectively mimic the call or re-creation of realistic fighting sounds of deer has a learning curve, but can become very effective once learned.

No matter how interested in deer hunting you are, anyone with the slightest interest dreams of getting a nice trophy buck; you might also be a deer hunting fiend who wants a trophy rack each year. If you plan to become an elite hunter, you need to know the advanced deer hunting tips that the finest hunters have mastered.

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