I am new to backpack hunting and have camped only a handful of times in my life. But that will be changing here soon...
I am also going to Montana to seasonally work on trail maintenance and some day require 8 day trips out in the wilderness.
Is there an recommendations from experienced...
Check out Wired to Hunt podcast and focus when they talk about basic strategies. Also, keep your head high and try to find an old hunter to be friends with. Old hunters are the best teachers and mentors but experience (trial and error) can be a good teacher as well. Learn from every hunt and...
Hope your neighbors hunt mature bucks only as well. But good management will go a long way. Give them a reason to want to be on your property more than the others.
Also, you will eventually see failure and new hunters can take it hard. Keep your head high and have friends keep you up too! Just remember, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
I 100% agree. Not only do you need to be confident with your weapon but as a newbie you many have trigger anxiety (difficult to slowly squeeze trigger and rushes shots) or flinch whenever the triggered is pulled. Practice will minimize it. Plus the worse feeling in the world is wounding an...
I did a cape skin on the ground and when you have to do it at the bottom of a rhododendron gully thats a perfect V-shape with no flat surface... its is quite a challenge haha