Thread: How can I shoot more deer, and what's your hit rate?

Brodstar, your doing nothing really wrong, we/you just need to slow down and take it as it comes. Sounds like you have the basics right if your spooking them, now just reflect back on your mistakes and try and improve from there.

I've been hunting public land solidly from June last year and have only dropped 6 in that time (Sika & Fallow are two species I have ticked off). Sure that number would have doubled if I was quicker off the mark or had I been moving slower, but when you do get a deer it makes it that much more satisfying. One thing I've just learnt myself which I haven't paid much attention to is to stay away from ridges and sidle around basins/gullies moving very slowly. Its a basic hunting style, but not one that has been taught to me and it seemed to equate to more deer last week seen. I'm going to adopt this style next year and see how productive it is.