How to Bow Hunt

Video Transcript

"How to bow hunt. Difficult to teach in just a few minutes. You need a properly prepared hunting bow. You need to practice as much as you possibly can. Get as proficient as you possibly can with your weapon. The next best advice I can give you is to get reasonably good quality camo. You want to cover every part of your skin. So a camo coat with a hood, camo pants, camo face mask, and camo gloves. I personally prefer fingerless type gloves so that I can operate my release aid. Trigger finger open. The only skin I have exposed is my fingertips. Head to foot camo is very important for bow hunting. Proper broadheads. This is a fixed blade broadhead. This is what we refer to as an expandable or mechanical broadhead. It opens on impact. It flies very good, because the blades are closed; very large cut. It helps with the recovery and the blood trail for recovering your animal. The next best tip I can give anybody is to buy a tree stand. This is a climbing stand. My safety belt is with the stand. Always use a safety belt when hunting from a tree stand; very important. Buy an approved, a manufacturer's approved tree stand. They all come with harnesses, safety belts, good instructions. It's your life when you're twenty feet high in a tree. Be careful and always use good quality stuff. Don't fool around. Don't make homemade tree stands. Get the right tool for the job. Another method, if you choose to not climb trees and stay on the ground. Behind me is a ground blind. The windows are open now on that, but it has camo mesh screens that an arrow can be shot right through. It works very, very well. You always want the backside window closed and the camo screen up. Deer detect movement very, very quickly as do most game animals, so if you get inside a ground blind inside the ground blind you don't wear camo you wear a black face mask and a black shirt and black gloves and then your movement will be hidden inside the ground blind. In a few minutes or less learning how to bow hunt takes time and experience. Buy hunting magazines, talk to other hunters, another very important factor in hunting results is to hunt in the right place where animals are plentiful typically farms and places like that help. Becoming friendly with farmers and getting written permission to hunt on farm land is always a big aid in hunting success and the farmer can always tell you where he sees animals on his property. Other than that you can spend your lifetime trying to learn how to bow hunt, as most hunting enthusiasts do. Year around in the woods will also help you just to see what's going on. My favorite tool is winter scouting. On the tail end of the winter, before spring starts we walk around the woods when there is still a little snow and you can clearly see the tracks of where animals have been and what animals are doing. This will help you to choose a good location for hunting the following fall."