Big Game Hunting in Tennessee
Reality of Hunting, Keeping It Real
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- Category: Big Game Hunting
- Published on Saturday, 17 December 2011 19:26
- Written by Outdoorsman
You sit at home watching a hunting program on TV and you see those monster bucks taken with a variety of different methods. You see those fields with two, three or more big bucks in there, standing around just asking for you to drop one. The next day you are out hunting and you are all enthusiastic about the day only to find out you didn’t see one blasted deer. Then comes the feelings of being discouraged and ready to give it up. After all why cant you get out and see those deer like that? We have all been there at one time or another and I find myself in that same situation this week.
From The Field: Blind or Stand Placement and Wind Direction
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- Category: Big Game Hunting
- Published on Friday, 28 October 2011 04:16
- Written by Outdoorsman
As a follow up on our last article Placing Your Blind or Stand, we wanted to place some emphasis on wind direction and how it can affect your hunting set up. Being a wildland firefighter I have learned a thing or two about wind currents. The wind much like the tide will ebb and flow. Recognizing these wind directions and their related times throughout the day will increase your chances of tagging a deer.
Morning and evening winds will most often be in different directions. Many places will experience an increase in wind intensity in the noon hours lasting on into the afternoon. In mountain regions the morning winds will be up slope and then down slope in the evening hours. As a hunter wanting the edge over your game of choice, you will need to observe these conditions for a period of several days to determine the normal wind flows for the location you are hunting.
Read more: From The Field: Blind or Stand Placement and Wind Direction
The Mutant Deer
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- Category: Big Game Hunting
- Published on Monday, 24 October 2011 03:19
- Written by Outdoorsman
Mutant Deer? We picked this one up from a site that claims the deer came from a remote location of the wilderness in Main called the Belanger Range. Looks kind of like a cross between a whitetail and wild hog if you ask us. Its always fun to post something weird and strange every now and then but what if this thing is real? You can bet if it is and there are more of them out there we will see some really shaken hunters. Sort of looks like a Bubba deer huh?
Experiences From The Field - Setting Your Blind
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- Category: Big Game Hunting
- Published on Thursday, 20 October 2011 08:20
- Written by Outdoorsman
Often we find ourselves living out one experience or another and quite often we learn from some mistake we have made in that time. This is one of those “from the field experiences. We were out scouting a new location for deer hunting and had found a great spot along the edge of a recently cut and turned soybean field. Knowing that the green grass and soybean would soon begin to sprout again we decided to set our blind up along the edge of the field adjacent to a small run of brush bordering a stream. Looking at the location at first seemed to be the ideal spot. The brush gave cover, it was down in a small recess and ran between two fields. We had our mind set,