Gut feelings
- bowfreak8
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Re: Gut feelings
If you get that gut feeling just go with it. I've ignored it too many times and have been burned.
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Re: Gut feelings
I second guess my self way too often on deer and I need to quit doing that and just go with where my inner me tells me to go
Yeah, well....sometimes nothin can be a real cool hand.
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Re: Gut feelings
To me, a gut feeling is nothing more than acquired knowledge and time spent in the woods. In terms of a baseball player when a big league batter digs in at the plate and begins to work the count. He will get a "gut feeling" of what pitch is about to be thrown. Why? Because he's been in the situation so many times he is able to take a high odds guess based on past experience.
Sometimes it works out sometimes it don't. You take that knowledge and farther educate your gut.
Sometimes it works out sometimes it don't. You take that knowledge and farther educate your gut.
Life is hard; It’s even harder if you are stupid.
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Re: Gut feelings
There have been a few times over the years. These are the kills that stand out.
2016 when I killed my #1 target buck during rut. That buck was all over my small rut grove the year prior. I had my mind made up that if I hunted it hard but smart I’d catch up with him there. After a morning hunt watching the does browse around with a relaxed demeanor, my gut told me he wasn’t there. I wouldn’t be able to stomach hunting elsewhere and have him show up on cam...
I just felt the odds of him cruising in there or chasing a hot doe in on the evening hunt were astronomically low. I decided to switch it up and hunt a small piece of lowland 2/3 mile away and ended up catching up with him. He was bedded with a hot doe in the cattails and popped out 75 yards away an hour before dark.
Another example was ‘08. The wind was marginal for my set and a pheasant hunter walked the neighboring property shortly before sundown. I felt the odds of that stand producing were super low even though I did have a nice trail coming from bedding that hadn’t been affected.
I didn’t overthink it, it was all gut instinct. I packed up and moved to a different preset about 400 yards away and got set up right as the sun hit the horizon. 10-15 minutes later an 8 pointer read the script and I ten ringed him at 18 yards. I remember Dad saying “That was a damn good call. Most people would have just sat there and hoped for the best.”. It wasn’t a big buck but I was pretty proud.
Sometimes you just have to go for it. Block out all the questions and doubt and don’t look back.
2016 when I killed my #1 target buck during rut. That buck was all over my small rut grove the year prior. I had my mind made up that if I hunted it hard but smart I’d catch up with him there. After a morning hunt watching the does browse around with a relaxed demeanor, my gut told me he wasn’t there. I wouldn’t be able to stomach hunting elsewhere and have him show up on cam...
I just felt the odds of him cruising in there or chasing a hot doe in on the evening hunt were astronomically low. I decided to switch it up and hunt a small piece of lowland 2/3 mile away and ended up catching up with him. He was bedded with a hot doe in the cattails and popped out 75 yards away an hour before dark.
Another example was ‘08. The wind was marginal for my set and a pheasant hunter walked the neighboring property shortly before sundown. I felt the odds of that stand producing were super low even though I did have a nice trail coming from bedding that hadn’t been affected.
I didn’t overthink it, it was all gut instinct. I packed up and moved to a different preset about 400 yards away and got set up right as the sun hit the horizon. 10-15 minutes later an 8 pointer read the script and I ten ringed him at 18 yards. I remember Dad saying “That was a damn good call. Most people would have just sat there and hoped for the best.”. It wasn’t a big buck but I was pretty proud.
Sometimes you just have to go for it. Block out all the questions and doubt and don’t look back.
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Re: Gut feelings
Lockdown wrote:There have been a few times over the years. These are the kills that stand out.
2016 when I killed my #1 target buck during rut. That buck was all over my small rut grove the year prior. I had my mind made up that if I hunted it hard but smart I’d catch up with him there. After a morning hunt watching the does browse around with a relaxed demeanor, my gut told me he wasn’t there. I wouldn’t be able to stomach hunting elsewhere and have him show up on cam...
I just felt the odds of him cruising in there or chasing a hot doe in on the evening hunt were astronomically low. I decided to switch it up and hunt a small piece of lowland 2/3 mile away and ended up catching up with him. He was bedded with a hot doe in the cattails and popped out 75 yards away an hour before dark.
Another example was ‘08. The wind was marginal for my set and a pheasant hunter walked the neighboring property shortly before sundown. I felt the odds of that stand producing were super low even though I did have a nice trail coming from bedding that hadn’t been affected.
I didn’t overthink it, it was all gut instinct. I packed up and moved to a different preset about 400 yards away and got set up right as the sun hit the horizon. 10-15 minutes later an 8 pointer read the script and I ten ringed him at 18 yards. I remember Dad saying “That was a damn good call. Most people would have just sat there and hoped for the best.”. It wasn’t a big buck but I was pretty proud.
Sometimes you just have to go for it. Block out all the questions and doubt and don’t look back.
I think those examples are almost more important than the ones where you set up thinking it's a good spot. Knowing when your spot isn't that great and actually executing a move to a new spot I think is what a lot of guys struggle with. I have been guilty of it in the past but I feel I am much better about it now.
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