Adventures: Bowhunting

Done properly, all-day hunting can lift your success rate on mature bucks by a healthy measure. Over the years, 25- to 30 percent of the mature bucks I’ve harvested were taken during midday times. Is there anything that you can buy, or anything else you can do, that will up your odds of success much better than this?

For better than a quarter of a century, I’ve been bowhunting elk and mule deer on the public lands of our Western states. All my outings are of the do-it-yourself variety, and because of this, I’ve gleaned a vast storehouse of memories and savvy. Please allow me to tell you about a particular hunting strategy that has proven invaluable to me over the years.