Brentai: The cigar is a fine quality. You sit in the chair in the trophy room, reading quietly from the hand-written book, puffing a stogie...
If you don’t have one already, check out the new bow sights with fiber optic pins. They’re great in low light conditions during dawn and dusk. The Montana Black Gold is a tough, well made model to look at. However, check your local hunting regulations before hunting with any fiber-optic equipment, because some states don’t allow it. If you like friction calls, try one of the one handed push button models like Knight & Hale’s new Lonesome Hen. It minimizes movement, makes great sounds and lets you get to the gun easily. Always walk on the inside of any curves in the trail. This will help prevent game from seeing you as you come around the turn. When hunting local ducks that have been in the area for more than a week, it is best to keep calling to a minimum. Rely on soft quacks and feeding chuckles. Fun Bumpers: Pup's attitude toward training and retrieving is of paramount importance. One of the best ways to adjust Pup's attitude is with the use of Fun or Happy bumpers. Start and finish every session with these fun bumpers. Tease Pup with a bumper. While saying, "Hup, Hup, Hup!," and throwing it, let Pup chase it when it leaves your hand. Do not keep Pup steady but encourage him to chase. Keep a happy attitude yourself while doing this and Pup will always look forward to coming out and training. The diaphragm call is by far the hardest to master of all turkey calls, but is the best over call that you can use and requires no movement. Put out as many goose decoys as you can. Usually the more decoys you have, the more interested the geese are to land. TURKEY HUNTING SAFETY Many factors are important to a turkey hunter’s safety. Often overlooked is fatigue. Many early mornings in a row can cause us to be too tired to make quick, accurate decisions. Hunt when you can…rest when you need to. Buck or Doe? One of hunting’s most endearing debates centers on whether or not hunters can distinguish buck tracks from doe tracks. A fistful of tips should help tip the odds in your favor. First, concentrate on the width of the track rather than the length or overall size; invariably, buck tracks are wider than does. Second, the space between the rear tracks of bucks will be proportionately narrower than the front (the opposite is true of does). Reason being, bucks are more barrel-chested, while does are wider at the hips to bear offspring. Hand third, buck tracks are more blunt than doe tracks, presumably from extra scraping and pawing activity triggered by the rut. A final clue is the way bucks tend to drag their feet and swagger slightly, whereas does walk pigeon-toed and more upright. Incidentally, you’re looking at a whale of a buck if the rear tracks do not come close to overlapping the front tracks in the animal’s normal gait. Simply stated, a big buck is noticeably longer than does and adolescent bucks and it shows up in his stride. Never get up and retrieve the first squirrel you shoot. More than likely there are more moving in the area and chances are you can kill more before you have to go pick them up. To clean your pheasants quick and easy pull apart the skin and pull off the feathers. Next snip off the wings, feet, and head. Simply cut up the back with game shears opening it up for entrails removal. The bird is done. When following a recent kill trail, don't shout or make loud noises. This may alert the deer if it is still alive and cause it to run off. A good way to always be alert to wind direction is to attach a small duck feather to the limb of your bow. When using a grunt call be sure to move the call in various directions. What this does is recreates the sound of a buck running a doe. Keep your grunts short and frequent. Mix in a few rattling sequences to spice up the mix a little. Don’t fall into the trap of concentrating all your time and energy to the pursuit of just one big buck. Instead, divide your efforts to include several different bucks that reside in as many different areas. Mother earth is the ultimate earth scent. When I take my stand, whether in a tree or on the ground, I churn up the soil underneath me. It really releases a potent, all-natural scent that belongs to that area. If I am hunting from the ground, this also gives me a silent base an which to stand, so I don’t inadvertently crunch a leaf or snap a twig. When gun hunting in a storm, tape the end of the barrel to keep out rain or snow. Also, cut three inch strips of inner tube and stretch one of these strips over both ends of your scope to keep out Snow and water. Try using scouting cameras triggered by a infrared/motion-detection device. I’ve tried them all and have found the CamTrakker to be the all-time best unit available. Position the cameras on trials, scrapes, feeding areas, etc. to monitor buck activity and discover the sizes of the bucks living on your hunting land. Wear dark soled boots. When sitting in the woods deer sometimes spot the light colored soles of boots first. When rattling for whitetail, always use a soft call first. You may be unaware of a buck that is bedded down a short distance from you. If you use the rattlers first, he will pick you out right away. You never know-it might bring in that buck without even getting a chance to rattle! In some western states and Canadian provinces, both black bears and protected grizzlies occupy the same range. In these areas black bears are also found in brown color phases, which complicates identification. A grizzly's face will have a rounded, dished out appearance. It will also have a large hump above its shoulders. A black bear's head will be more rounded and it will not have a pronounced hump above the shoulder area. When hunting geese or ducks, always camouflage yourself to match with your surroundings. Wear rubber boots to reduce ground scent. This will help prevent deer detecting your presence. In early archery season before the bulls begin bugling steadily, plan to hunt wallows and game trail between feed and bed areas. Also plan to stalk elk who are feeding in open areas. Elks are not quite as wary as deer and a careful bowhunter can often stalk within range.
...the book continues. It seems to have been written by a person with no sense of organization or presentation.
Exits: E and W.
Items: 2 10-foot poles, 2 gold coins, a strange hunting book.
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Topic: The Labyrinth (Read 27920 times)