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How should we lay out the plan of action for Texas whitetail hunts?

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The possibility of new elevated stands is best erected right before the hunting season and left in appropriate place for the white tail hunting Texas. The hunter’s avail multiple stands to adjust to the alterations of swaying wind and deer movement and generally avoid over using a stand. Once we are committed to this approach, we need to avoid moving stands during the season.

Although, if we plan to elongate a lightweight portable stand, it would be appropriate to accomplish it at the commencement of each day’s hunt. At the end of the day, it can be moved or laid by the side for the next hunt. If it is properly stationed, we would be able to watch the buck before he figures out our stand and heads for shield. Portable, self-climbing stands would be absolutely suitable in areas with wide coverage of trees. We need to ensure that there is no crowd feeding and watering sites nearby. We are required to place stands downwind around 100 yards to a quarter mile from water hole or food pot. The odds for a daytime encounter improve consequently. Stand hunting is generally considered as the most efficient methodology for an average hunter to take down a whitetail, whereas experienced big buck hunters select to enter the pre-predator world by building ground blinds, hides in the ambush concealed by natural guard, then operates steadily on the leeward side of haunts and halting quite often to listen and assess the strategy.

While on the wheel track the bucks move forward then we can apply a strategy of combining cautious hunting and rattling. It is quite obvious for us to watch a bulk of deer while sitting in a stand and watching a feeder, but we are actually limiting the real hunting time to half an hour in which the deer eats up all of the dumped corn. Rattling implies to be the most fructified action before the rut’s peak when they are coming into estrus and bucks then usually searches for a duel. The matured ones try to implement impossible ways of hunting them down when they are at the peak of the rut.

In 1978, Al Brothers recruited a young and beginner outdoor photographer named Wyman Meinzer to the art of rattling in rut-crazed bucks that would never become visible to a hunter. Meinzer’s strategy has clattered many of the preys to camera and rifle in Texas. Many young and inexperienced hunters arrived to South Texas Brush Country to learn from him. They used to imagine that if a huge whitetail or multiple whitetails in group, would run over them before the click and then if shutter sound of the camera nudges them. All professionals make it quite simple and easy as they do not worry with camera or scented masks. They dress up in earth pieces and marks the direction of the wind.

I shall attempt to choose a location in South Texas with abundant openings to enable the photographer to take a good shot of the whitetail. The speed of the wind does not seem to be a hindrance for focusing on the whitetails of four years old at the peak. They will arrive right from the leeward side. There are some big old bucks who gets alarmed from the scent and tries to escape. The expert always backs up against a tree mostly with bushes on either side to shatter the outline. An old buck would surely carry the bush with its rattling antlers in the name of a duel. It becomes essential for us to conceal properly with the bush at least when we can observe that the whitetail is about 50 to 60 yards away to make Texas whitetail hunts successful.

 

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