Hunting Season Preperation

About five years ago, 90% of my season preparation would have already been finished. Being married and having a twenty-one month old daughter, you tend to get things done later in life and able to only do things when you get a chance. I don’t scout as much as I would like to or shoot the bow as much as often as I like or do my “deer thing” in general. This is all a sacrifice for a good reason.

Here is what I do to get ready for the season and how or why I do them.

To begin with, I bought a new Mathews bow this year and I need to get used to it. I’ll shoot my bow just to get it shooting close, and then I won’t shoot it any more that day. I haven’t shot any this year and if I shoot too much, when I first start shooting, my arm will start shaking and it will not do any good to shoot.

The next day I’ll shoot 10 to 15 times before I start fine tuning my sights. The reason being, it’s a new bow, and I want to get the feel and determine my anchoring point with my release. Then I will practice every other day.

About a week before season I’ll put my broad-heads on, and I’ll have to fine tune my bow again, because I shoot fixed blade broad-heads and they always shoot different than field-tips.

When it comes to scent control, I take nothing to chance. Everything I will wear hunting is washed in Scent-A-Way detergent. If I hunt in anything one time, I’ll wash it again. I don’t have a scentlok suit because I hunt so many different places or stands. I’ll use many different camo patterns so I’ll always have a clean, scent free set of clothes to hunt in. It might not be the smartest way to do it, but it works for me. I also use Hunter Specialty’s Scent Wafers to help mask my scent.

That’s all for this time, next time I will talk about stand placement, and early season tactics.

Remember,
God, Family and then hunting!

Jim Nichols

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