Thread: What are your main techniques for closing distance?

Are you a tree stand guy? A blind/ sit down all day and wait guy? A slow mover? Long distance Glasser and then planner? careless and hoping to get lucky?What's everyone doing to get animals into bow range?

Bigger magnification scope...

Seriously, finding dead ground and sneaking closer, preferably walking, as crawling can be noisy.
EDIT - reread your post and saw "bow range"... Nope. Haven't done that for 20 years. However, good camo, a LOT of patience and a dose of luck used to do the trick when my joints were a lot more silent and compliant!

Make sure you're downwind, stay out of sight and move quietly.
If the animal isn't spooked and you do the above you should do okay.
I'm not a bow hunter though.

Wearing heaps of matching camo and cool catch phases like all the YouTube channels

left foot forward..right foot foward repeated over and over again usually works.....

oh and hiding behind tree to get rest when big red hind is fourty yards away works really well EXCEPT when both your plurry dogs decide to step out,one to either side of tree,to see what Dads looking at!!!!!!

Walk slowly if you in the game zone,I mean slowly on the bush edges.Not in the open.

Depends where you hunt. I have tried the glass and stalk approach in tussoc country but am yet to get close enough for a bow shot. The times i have been close enough to get a shot but spooked animal before releasing was when stalking thick sign areas in the bush, very slowly.

Originally Posted by cally woo

Are you a tree stand guy? A blind/ sit down all day and wait guy? A slow mover? Long distance Glasser and then planner? careless and hoping to get lucky?What's everyone doing to get animals into bow range?

so not a bow hunter- but a mate was -he had this suit - I believe its called a ghillie suit - he looked like a cross between a compost heap and a hay bale that has been seriously attacked with a scrub whacker - apparently that's what bow hunters use to get close - me get a rifle you may never have to crawl again

Ghillie suits are indeed excellent camo, but for bowhunting, you need to keep the bow arm and opposite chest area free of anything that can get in the way of the (fecking fast-moving) string when you loose an arrow. How I know this, you ask... it cost me an arrow that went west into a concrete wall, well away from the target.

I have only been able to get really close to deer ( 3 - 5 metres ) in scrubby second growth and pig fern / scrub . Following fresh marks and listening for animals moving around - exciting shooting. If there is clear ground between me and the animal they will sense me - pick up the electric field and move. Vegetation between me and the animal cuts that field. Sometimes an animal will come bumbling along a scrubby track right up to you.
Practice on goats in scrub

Hunt in heavy rain. If you can't stomach that, then just after heavy rain.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

Make sure you're downwind, stay out of sight and move quietly.
If the animal isn't spooked and you do the above you should do okay.
I'm not a bow hunter though.

The Americans have a saying, keep the wind in your face and the sun at your back. I find dull and foggy days best on tahr. Good luck.