New to archery/hunting here in socal. Does anyone have a recommendation for archery/bow hunting lessons?

Not a bow hunting question, but for those of you who have shot a TAC event, is there a day that is usually less busy than the others? I'm imagining Friday and Saturday are packed while Thursday and Sunday are maybe less busy.

Or even nock times that tend to be less busy.

I only get to shoot one day for the event I'm going to, so I'm trying to figure out which day might be best.

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As someone who is looking to get into bow hunting what are some do, don'ts or learning curve items that you wish you knew starting out?

Should I stick with the hitman stabilizer by trophy ridge and just get a longer one? Or should I get a whole different brand and everything? I mostly hunt with it and some target practice but nothing serious. Also any recommendations on the brand and everything

September of this year, 100°. Spent a week chasing these buggers. Go me! I wish I had those lashes

Also I know it ain’t the biggest but I’m proud of it

Hey everyone,

I’m posting here because I don’t personally know any dedicated bow hunters, and I’d really appreciate some advice from those more experienced. I’ve been a rifle hunter my whole life, and so has everyone I’ve hunted with. My typical setup is a basic tree stand facing a feeder—just a seat in a tree without a drawbar. I move its location on my property each year to keep deer from patterning it.

After the Christmas hunt in my state ended, I was frustrated because I messed up my last chance to fill the freezer. I got busted by deer I couldn’t even see yet, all because I moved too much in my stand. I vented to my roommate about it, and he let me try out his compound bow. After a few days of practice, I was getting pretty accurate at 30 yards, so I decided to give bow hunting a shot.

I’ve been out with the bow about five times now. Almost every time, I’ve seen deer, and about half the time they’ve come within range. The problem is I’m shaking like a leaf when the deer show up. That movement always seems to spook them—they either slowly move out of my sight or stare me down, pinning me in place so I can’t draw my bow.

This has been really discouraging, and I’ve been tempted to switch to a crossbow. But I don’t want to give up on the compound just yet. I’m looking for tips to help me manage the shakes, stay confident, and increase my chances of success.

I feel like I’m doing okay staying still and quiet until the deer show up. But once they’re there, my nerves get the best of me, and I lose my confidence to take a shot. I haven’t released an arrow on a whitetail yet, but I’m determined to keep trying.

Any advice or encouragement would mean a lot. How do you experienced bow hunters stay calm and composed when it’s time to draw and shoot?

Thanks in advance for your help!

New to bow hunting. Have sat for a bunch of hours in public woods on Long Island NY and private property where I’ve seen plenty of bucks and does on my cams both at night (more often) and during the day.

I make “ground blinds” out of vegetation and bring a small camo chair and play the wind.

I haven’t seen any deer come by at all and I once stalked and came up on a buck and a couple does but spooked them. When I tried to stalk them they got way too far to continue to follow. That was the only time I saw deer during my many hunts.

Any advice?

Should I consider stalk hunting more often or just keep sitting and hope for something to happen?

My brother and I split 20 rural acres last year as an investment (which also happens to be near the public land we hunt) and thought that it was too small to attract any notable deer. I guess we were wrong! We’ve had a few mature bucks stop by, but this guy takes the cake—and there’s about a week left in the season, too. What do you think he scores?

Hopefully that target buck walks by. If not, see him next year.

I’m kind of torn between which one to get. Mainly going to use it for 3D shoots.

I have recently discovered this youtube channel and love its style. I feel I have learned a ton from their guests but have a hard time relating a lot of what they talk about down south with mountains and swamps and great big hardwoods to my situation of flat and abundant agriculture land with little thickets of trees a few acres big. Not a big fan of large scale schilling hunting podcasts but was wondering if anyones found a smaller niche channel that just interviews successful midwestern deer hunters.

Looking to get into filming hunts on a budget next year.

A buddy of mine just started getting into bow hunting whitetail last year. I’ve been archery hunting sense I was young and have always thought it’d be cool to film hunts but with having a close friend that I’ve hunted with a lot it’s peaked my interest a lot more lately.

Was curious if anyone had any recommendations for cameras and a self filming set up on a budget. Thanks!

Didn’t get to hunt as much this year, but got lucky Saturday morning with this 6 y/o. He’d been mostly awol since rut started. Showed back up Thursday, so I sat for him Saturday.

Had a good southeast wind that blew consistently after 8am. He stepped out at 845 at 25 yards, perfectly broadside and staring away from me. Put the arrow where it needed to be, he went 50 yards through a field and laid it down by the road.

Looking back on my season, I ended up going 3/3 on my last 3 hunts, only went once a month November / December / January, but was able to connect on a deer each hunt.

Time to start shooting and scouting for next year!

I'm just curious how often people zero there sights, and if they do so on an indoor range with presumably no wind, or an outdoor range?

For those outdoors, do you find you have to revert often because of wind conditions changing, or do you just try to note wind direction when hunting/target practice and adjust your aim the best you can?

Thanks!

Hi everyone I recently got my first deer with my bow and I want to try to do a Euro mount for the skull. Dose anyone have any good tips for doing it?

Hi Everyone Has Anyone Here Have Used The Old Mountain Panther IMF Limbs Before?? And Would You Recommend Them If You Have Got Them?

Thank You In Advance.

I bought bow that has missing parts (I am sorry but I don’t know its name) can someone tell me how it’s called and tell me if it’s possible to buy those parts?

https://youtu.be/Aq_3rRPyqC4?si=L6roQmiCXAG17fW8

Any long range archery hunters out there? This was one of the finer shots I have made, and it was at 85 yards. Made a worse shot at 30 yards this year... funny how that works.

I recently got into bowhunting and I got an Elite terrain which is a pretty middle of the line bow. I love the bow and for being 1 year in I can shoot quite well up to about 35 yards. It doesn't seem like a nicer bow would have increased my accuracy a relevant amount since I am getting pretty tight groups with a midlle of the line bow so I can't see a reason to ever upgrade to something like a Hoyt other than because they look cool. What are you opintions?

Ended up looking for 4 ish hours today. Walked up and down the creek each direction for several hundred yards with no sign of her exiting the creek on either side. A couple places the creek is blocked with deadfalls and she would have had to get out to go around. Grid searched allllll around last blood and have absolutely zero sign. No fresh snow, old blood is still very visible so it’s not like any new blood got covered up. Searched the adjacent switchgrass field where they bed pretty often too. Steady blood spatter from the shot location to the creek, but it just disappears there. Almost positive now that it somehow only got a single lung, even with the clean pass through and quartering away angle but even so, the 2 hours between shot and searching should have been enough time for her to die from that shot. Didn’t find any beds or bigger blood pools anywhere where she might have gotten bumped from either. Just have no idea where she went.