What’s the best advice you’ve been given?

[cnelk]

Nobody is irreplaceable

 

[RockAndSage]

Mule deer hunting advice: Hunt the wind, hunt the shade, let your optics do most of your walking, and slow down.

Shooting advice: Ten dry-fires a day for a month will make you a better shooter faster than 300 rounds on a Saturday. But don't skip those Saturdays.

Life advice: Nothing will f*ck your life up faster or more permanently than a crazy chick - learn spot their habitat, herd behaviors, vocalizations, and their plumage, and stay the hell away. Crazy doesn't want to be saved, crazy wants to be enabled.

 

[Predator_SD]

Just get out and do it yourself.

 

[mj23polaris]

Hiking in on a December cow hunt. It was 1hr plus before shooting light I had a decent hike to get to where they should be. I dropped off the highway and was hiking down to the bottom of the valley. Saw a truck and trailer on the highway slow and turn around where I was parked and head down to a different spot. Fast forward I’m In the bottom of the valley about to cross a creek to head up a different drainage to go over the top into the next one. I see this small light floating across the meadow I stopped and watched it thinking I was going nuts. It disappeared into the timber, so I crossed the creek and made a small pull up a decent hill to a gate for the state land.

At the gate was an old man on a horse waiting for me with a dimly lit headlamp. He asked what I was doing and I asked him the same. Both cow hunting, he told me some stories about where we were both heading. He had a lot of success in his hunting career stacking elk and deer like cord wood. He mentioned to me if I needed help to flag him down and he’d shuttle some meet for me. So we said our goodbyes and nice to meet you and as he rode away into the dark he said something that changed my hunting forever.

“You can’t kill them from the couch”

Never saw the man the rest of the day or to this day on the mountain. I was on year 1 of being a Wyo resident and my hunting “career” and that was what i needed. Been living by that when it comes to scouting and hunting ever since. 7 years later I’ve had a lot of success because of those words. The waking up at 2am in the summer to drive somewhere to scout for the morning. The staying on the glassing knob till the bitter end of shooting light. Long hikes in the dark has all paid off.


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[cuerro viejo]

Has this paid dividends?

Absolutely, in health and hunting

 

[Marble]

Hunt intentionally. Don't just meander around without a definite purpose or plan. Hunt smarter not harder.

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[Oregon]

Nobody is irreplaceable

Way back in the day, I was very good at my job. The best, just ask me. I told my Dad this and mentioned that they would fail without me.
Dad laughed and said “boy, your ass can be replaced with a $3.00 add in the newspaper before sundown”
Grounded me for sure.

 

[NE Herd Bull]

Every elk is a trophy

 

[WRO]

Elk fuk on flat ground has been a great piece of advice that’s served me well.


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[mxgsfmdpx]

Ha, this just made my think of @Jason Snyder . He loves to say this when people need to get out more.

He’s normally always full of excellent advice on here.

 

[ODB]

You are always actively working toward something.

 

[AG8]

Don’t pack your fears

 

[ndlawrence]

Absolutely, in health and hunting

I’ve about lost hope in raffles! Good to hear someone is winning something…

 

[go_deep]

You could start an entire new thread with, what's the best advise you've been given, and did or did not take?
Defiantly some great advise I've been given, and unfortunately didn't take.

 

[cuerro viejo]

I’ve about lost hope in raffles! Good to hear someone is winning something…

No different then random draw OIL tag, someone’s going to draw it

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Also, never trust anyone.

 

[cnelk]

Elk fuk on flat ground has been a great piece of advice that’s served me well.


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I call that 'E.L.F.'
Elk Like Flat

 

[Jason Snyder]

He’s normally always full of excellent advice on here.

When in doubt, use orange.

 

[Jason Snyder]

@IDVortex I had every intention of catching steelhead this weekend. The weather has 100% conspired against me.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

When in doubt, use orange.

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I like it, a lot.