Sighting In - An Ethical Hunters Responsibility Written by David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com
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Most popular deer rifles that are shooting slightly low at 25 yards will be about 2 inches high at 100 yards. Hunters who take shots out to 200 or 300 yards usually sight in a little high at 100 yards. If you never take a shot beyond 100 yards, sight in to be dead on at that distance.Any time you put a rifle on an airplane, you should shoot it at a target before you hunt. For that matter, you should fire at a target every now and then throughout hunting season. Once sighted in, most hunting rifles are very reliable, but even most accurate rifle can be "off" if it's knocked around enough. Regards, Tracker Outdoors www.tracker-outdoors.com
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| | Where Are The Whitetail Deer?Written by David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com
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Another factor that can reduce deer traffic to your permanent stand locations, feeders and food plots is human traffic. By late summer, it is important that your trips to stand locations be limited and that when you do visit these locations, it is important to reduce human scent left behind. If you are visiting your stands and feeders just to check for fresh deer sign, stop. Trust your stand location choices, fill your feeders and work food plots early enough that your present is no longer required long before season opens and it is time to hunt. Repeated trips will inevitably leave behind human scent and prevent deer from visiting. Your best chances of a successful deer hunting stand are those less visited by you hunter. If you do visit your stand locations before your early season hunts, take care to use quality scent elimination products and strategies. It is a good idea to use different routes to and from your hunting areas before during and after hunting season. The point is that you don’t want a human scent trail caused by repeated visits to your stands.Changes to environment near your hunting area can also play a part in changing frequency that deer visit a stand location. These factors may include timber logging, field plowing, construction or another hunter creating a new stand location to close to your existing one. For example, we have two deer hunting stands that are close to a paper company property line. About a month before deer season, paper company decided to cut timber on adjacent land. Before timber started falling, these stands always showed good deer sign. When timber cutting started, even though it was about 100 yards away, deer traffic to these stands was greatly reduced. In this case, we also learned that logging would stop just before gun deer season opened. So we chose to leave stands in place and hunt other stand locations until deer return to this area. For successful deer hunts, my bet is on hunter who adjusts to both natural and man made conditions, uses sound judgment when choosing stand locations and makes necessary adjustments as environment changes with season.Article By Tracker Outdoors www.tracker-outdoors.com
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