Once again I am thrilled to share with you a guest post from acclaimed deer hunting expert, John Eberhart. As I mentioned in John’s previous post on hunting pressured whitetails, John has a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with us all. He has taken 23 bucks that have been entered into the Commemorative [...]
Scent control is a system. This is so important that I decided we needed to cover this again, even though I blogged about it a couple weeks ago. I know so many weekend warrior hunters who just don’t even consider the issue of scent control, that being said, I realize this issue needs to be reemphasized a [...]
This past weekend I called to a buck at about 50 yards, but had to watch him trot away in the opposite direction after a doe. Five minutes later I noticed a dark shape in my peripheral vision off to the right of my blind, the opposite side from where my buck had ran. That [...]
One of the most important steps to scent control is eliminating human and other foreign odors from your clothing and hunting gear. One of the easiest ways to do this, is to just prevent your gear from coming into contact with many typical household odors which can alarm deer. So how can you do this? [...]
“A whitetail’s nose is 4,000 times more effective at distinguishing scents then a human, according to Missouri Conservationist Online.” Wow. Stop and think about that. 4,000 times more effective?! I personally think that would be a rough life. With that strong of a nose I think Macy’s would just be unbearable and lets not even [...]