Thread: Help a newby hunter.

I believe that you make your own luck. Every time you do the things you are told to do by experienced hunters you buy yourself another chance at bagging a deer. The hardest part I found to begin with was doing any of what I have been told with enough persistence for it to pay off.

I got so frustrated with beating the tracks to death without even seeing a deer and even without seeing any sign I stopped.I waited till my heart slowed. My breathing became regular, then I took about 5 careful steps and stopped, looked around, listened and the repeated this over and over. A couple of corners later and a morepork started flying around me looking at me curiously. I remember all the deer hunting videos and them showing birds up close. I carried on. It was almost like the bush was accepting me into it, I was a part of it. 15 minutes later a fallow spiker walked along the track browsing on the odd sapling. I shot it. Was I lucky? YES. But I at least had a chance by doing at least a couple of things right.