by bill herian » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:13 pm
I didn't want to do this, but my only other choice is studying for my soils exam.
You can't possibly tell me that its less difficult to kill a mature whitetail buck on the ground with a bow than it is to kill a mule deer that a hunter and camera man can crawl to within bow range of without it ever even knowing. It just dosen't happen. You could come to the midwest and try to do it for the rest of your life and never release an arrow.
If you even see a buck on it's bed that hasn't seen you, you've accomplished something. Not saying mule deer and elk are dumb, maybe more trusting, but theres a reason its plausable to kill them spot and stalk, and whitetails just don't play by the same rules. Every good buck i've ever bumped off his bed was laying somewhere where he was totally hidden, facing a downwind escape route.
Vegitative assemblages are a good thing to consider too. Our forest floor isn't covered with moss and pine needles. It's covered with decidous leaf litter, about like walking on egg shells, no matter how careful you are.