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Gadsden Flag,<\/p>\n
I always laugh at the tree-huggers who spout-off that ambush hunting is unfair to the deer and that hunting is only fair if we stalk up to deer at close range.<\/p>\n
I tell those tree-huggers about real-world deer:
\u2014 They see in the dark almost as well as we see on a cloudy day.
\u2014 They have an enormous field of view.
\u2014 Their hearing is at least 10 times more sensitive than ours.
\u2014 Their sense of smell is at least 1,000 times more sensitive than ours.
\u2014 They are ALWAYS on high alert.
\u2014 They are frequently in herds with MULTIPLE deer on high alert.<\/p>\n
That last point is particularly troublesome for a hunter. On rare occasions a hunter may be able to beat all of those attributes in a single deer. Beating all of those attributes on multiple deer in a herd? Nope, at least one of them is likely to \u201cbust\u201d you long before you stalk up close to them.<\/p>\n
The end result: even a skilled hunter will rarely succeed in stalking up close to a deer.<\/p>\n
As you stated Gadsden Flag, the practical path to success is to identify a good hunting property, find a good spot on that property, and then just sit in that spot as still as possible for several hours\u2013especially in conjunction with sunrise and\/or sunset. Sooner or later, a deer will come by.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n