| It's extremely easy to get stuck in a rut in our | | | | to come up with our own new ideas. |
| hunting tactics and strategies. I know I've been | | | | The woods are an ever changing environment |
| guilty of it many times. Weather you've been | | | | and whitetail deer are extremely good at adapting |
| hunting for just a few years or for your entire | | | | to changes around them. So we as deer hunters |
| life it's an easy thing to do and not even realize it! | | | | have to be just as good at adapting and changing |
| If you think about it, you probably have done it | | | | our own hunting tactics. No matter how deep into |
| too. Here are a couple things that tend to lead us | | | | the woods we travel to hunt whitetail, we have |
| to that rut. | | | | to be aware of how our presents change their |
| · We get to know a piece of land and get | | | | behavior and how to adapt to it. |
| comfortable with it. | | | | Often time's tactics that worked for Gramps |
| · We have success doing one thing and | | | | don't necessarily work for us due to a variety of |
| just keep doing it over and over. | | | | variables that we have to deal with that weren't |
| These aren't totally bad things to do, it's just that | | | | present even 20 years ago. The point I'm trying |
| they tend to make us tend to stop exploring and | | | | to get across is that we have to keep an open |
| learning. The same holds true for the deer hunting | | | | mind and read as much as we can about others |
| knowledge and information we have. It's just | | | | experiences and opinions on what to do to |
| human nature to not put in the effort to learn | | | | continue to be a successful whitetail deer hunter. |
| more as we get older. But if we just take the | | | | On a lighter note, it also allows us to extend our |
| time to read about others deer hunting | | | | deer hunting season (in our minds anyway) to be |
| experiences and opinions and keep an open mind, | | | | able to read and plan our strategies for the next |
| We would find that our own deer hunting vision | | | | deer hunting adventure! I know I thoroughly enjoy |
| would expand greatly! We don't have to believe | | | | reading about hunting whitetail deer hunting when |
| or agree 100% with what we read, but just be | | | | I'm not able to actually get out into the woods |
| open to another view, and that tends to allow us | | | | myself. |