Worst Deering Hunting Advice?

[CAB]

I thought this could be a fun topic of what's the worst deer hunting advice you have ever heard or received? For me it was that all deer ONLY walk quartering to the wind. When I first heard I thought it was true but quickly realized this isn't possible and is just false when I started hunting more.

 

[KHNC]

HECS will help you defeat a deer's senses. It only helps you defeat your own senses.

 

[Cady Creek]

"HECS will help you defeat a deer's senses. It only helps you defeat your own senses."

I thought HECS and Ozonics makes you invisible, and you'll have Booner's sniffin your boots?

 

[DooleyVT]

When whitetail season rolls around my dad only hunts from sunrise until 9AM and breakfast back at camp was at 9:30. After a few chores is lunch at 12:30 and then a cat nap from 1:30-2:30 then get ready to hunt the 2 hours before dark because those are the ONLY times that the deer will be moving. Took me some time to tell dad I'm not going to be back for breakfast and I'll take lunch with me in the morning.

 

[Btaylor]

Forget the wind, just hunt

 

[GSPHUNTER]

When I first started hunting white tail in Wis. Lots of guys would carry their deer out across their shoulders. Even back then at a young age, I thought, how stupid is that.

 

[molliesmaster]

Horn size matters.

 

[Dirtbag]

Hunting the "October Lull" is a waste of time because all the bucks are nocturnal.

 

[deltadukman]

The colder and nastier the weather, the more deer movement you'll see. I grew up in the SE and the old timers would always be excited when a front was blowing in and it was cold, wet, windy and overcast. Fast forward to later in life and have learned they hunker down too and prefer clear, cold, high pressure blue bird days.

 

[540-Virginian]

When whitetail season rolls around my dad only hunts from sunrise until 9AM and breakfast back at camp was at 9:30. After a few chores is lunch at 12:30 and then a cat nap from 1:30-2:30 then get ready to hunt the 2 hours before dark because those are the ONLY times that the deer will be moving. Took me some time to tell dad I'm not going to be back for breakfast and I'll take lunch with me in the morning.

Diddo - i cant hunt with my elders anymore, theres alway a football game around lunch…

 

[Billy Goat]

Not deer hunting, but was taking a deer hunter goose hunting in a field.



Told him he needed to use scent killer on everything cause they land into the wind.

 

[FLATHEAD]

Not advice but always, after returning from a hunt: "Did you catch anything"?

 

[tgus59]

Basically any reason given to stay home, i.e too hot, cold, windy, rainy, etc. You can't kill them from the couch, and I've had some of my best hunts on days that weren't ideal!

 

[Rich M]

The whole scent-free scam. Deer will walk right up to you if you use dead downwind or whatever other gimmick.

 

[Lowg08]

Don’t hunt if the wind ain’t right. If I followed that living in the mountains I’d never hunt

 

[jimh406]

Hunting in the middle of the day is a waste of time.

 

[N2TRKYS]

Horn size matters.

That is bad advice. Deer don’t have horns.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

That is bad advice. Deer don’t have horns.

Maybe he's not a hunter. I always like when people ask, how many deer, elk, whatever did you catch.. My response is, hunting is not a catch and release sport.

 

[Maz7869]

Aim below the deer they’ll drop into it…..

 

[N2TRKYS]

Aim below the deer they’ll drop into it…..

I’ve done that to a few deer over the years while bowhunting. Worked like a charm.