Deer are a lot more in tune with the outdoors than we could ever wish to be. They seem to be able to slip by you just out of range, or walk by the stand you sat in yesterday as you watch it pass from the ridge above.

For bow hunters especially; most find it near impossible to get a deer into range their first few years afield. The plethora of possible mistakes compounded by a deer’s heightened scenes can make it hard at best. The only way to excel as a hunter is continuing to ask questions and learn. Years of experience can easily be side stepped by a single question sometimes.

Learning from deer has its ups and downs, but cagy old hunters tend to be straight shooters and tell you like it is. I learn so much yearly about deer that I can’t believe there is anything left sometimes. Then, I get schooled by a buck again, or meet another old school hunter that passes on his bag of tricks.