Most hunters understand a successful hunt begins well in advance to the
opening day. Most hunters season begins as soon as the season ends.
Hunting is not a one month event every year but a conglomerate of off
season scouting, habitat improvement and target practicing. I will go
over a few steps I have been taking this off season to prepare for
opening day.
There is nothing like seeing a picture on your trail camera of a big
buck to get you excited about the fast approaching opening day of
archery. It also serves as a great motivator to get your bow out and
start practicing to get to mid-season form before the first day. This
year we put out four different trail cameras for about four weeks
straight moving them around occasionally to help us pattern the bucks
movement. With still four weeks to go we still have time to explore more
areas but have already uncovered three solid shooters and two late
season baggers.
