| How to Bow Hunt White-Tailed Deer For Beginners | | | | likely not to see many, if any at all, during the |
| PREPARATION: | | | | daytime hours. This mostly holds true for the |
| Choosing your first bow can be done with an expert | | | | Midwest area except during the rut season. |
| in the store of your choice or by reading up on your | | | | Once you have scouted the area for deer, practiced |
| particular needs and desires first. The Browning Micro | | | | your shooting skills and properly prepared yourself for |
| Midas is a great compound bow for women or young | | | | entering the woods, you can now carefully walk to |
| hunters. | | | | your blind or hunting spot, moving in downwind. If |
| Once you have chosen your bow, arrows, sites, | | | | you are hunting in the evening hour of the day be |
| clothing and target, it's important to make sure you | | | | sure to go 2 hours prior to sundown and sit quietly. If |
| practice before each new season and every hunt | | | | hunting in the morning hour of the day, be sure to be |
| with a well made compound bow to hone your | | | | there 1 hour before sunrise. How to Bow Hunt |
| shooting skills. | | | | White-Tailed Deer For Beginners |
| Good practices of hunting start by learning how to | | | | Unless you are hunting on a game reserve during the |
| shoot properly, making a clean kill so that you do not | | | | daytime where the deer move a little more often, |
| leave wounded deer in the woods to die. | | | | you will likely be bow hunting in the compromised light |
| Understanding the kill point or 'boiler room' is | | | | of the day, and since your arrow will lose it's power |
| important so that you do not have to go very far | | | | and trajectory angle once it reaches about 20 - 25 |
| looking for your deer once it has been struck. The kill | | | | yards away, this will be the distance you will be |
| point or 'boiler room' is located just behind the | | | | shooting for hitting a deer. |
| shoulder and about a third of the way up on the | | | | You can 'call' a deer in by making a 'grunting' or |
| chest. The intention is to hit the heart, which is just | | | | 'rattling' sound. The grunt sound is done with the |
| below the lungs of a deer. The entry point for the | | | | mouth or a grunt tube, and the rattle sound is done |
| broad head tip will vary slightly depending on the | | | | with a set of antlers. It is illegal to bait deer so using |
| angle of the arrow as it enters due to where the | | | | corn or feed is not allowed. |
| hunter is standing. | | | | Once your deer moves in, waiting for the right |
| Also, before ever entering the woods it's important | | | | moment to shoot is the final key. Since it's important |
| to keep your body and all your clothing from | | | | to have an unobstructed path for the arrow to |
| contaminants. Make sure you don't introduce gasoline | | | | move through, create or have a clear pathway for |
| on your hunting boots or clothing by filling up on your | | | | shooting otherwise your arrow may deflect if it hits a |
| way to your blind or hunting spot. Keep your entire | | | | branch. Also, since your best shot will be done with a |
| body clean of contaminants too by washing with | | | | still or non-moving target, you will want to wait for |
| unscented soaps and shampoos. Also, don't enter a | | | | the deer to stop briefly as it moves through the |
| room or brush up against clothing or people with | | | | woods. You can make a quick 'bleeting' sound to stop |
| perfumes, etc. How to Bow Hunt White-Tailed Deer | | | | the deer in its tracks. |
| For Beginners | | | | Give yourself a moment before climbing down out of |
| HUNTING HOUR: | | | | your stand or leaving your blind after shooting your |
| Hunting is generally done in the wee hours of the | | | | deer, and watch to see where your deer heads. You |
| morning or evening, the time when the deer are | | | | may have to wait for light if it goes very far. A blood |
| moving. Otherwise deer typically stay bedded down | | | | trail, broken branches, and hoof prints will guide you |
| until the next wee hour of the day in order not to be | | | | to it's location. |
| seen so unless you do a 'drive' of the deer you are | | | | |