http://www.tbotech.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/tips-on-how-to-use-the-hunting-sling-shot-effectively/ Self Defense Products - www.tbotech.com - Keeping You Safe! Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:11:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.tbotech.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/tips-on-how-to-use-the-hunting-sling-shot-effectively/comment-page-1/#comment-8732 South island new Zealand hunting Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:28:12 +0000 http://www.tbotech.com/blog/?p=982#comment-8732 In the mornings you should definitely hunt in after them as they will be heading to a day time bedding area. Hopefully it's not so thick that you have to crawl. A red deer will take the easiest route so stay on the deer trails. Wind in your face, take a few paces, stop look listen, then a few more paces, stop look listen. Don't bother tippy toeing through rubbish bush, but do sneak through the good stuff. Relax; I reckon deer can almost hear tension! Once you get comfortable in the scrub you will start to notice things of interest, like the deer that is standing still watching you long before you've seen it. Fresh wind falls are hot spots but they also mean hard travel so skirt around them with your eyes peeled. Humans naturally head towards the light, in most bush this is a bad move as most of the time the open canopy will most probably mean thick regeneration and old wind fall, not a nice grassy clearing. It is easier travel under the big tree canopy. When climbing or descending bush covered hills stay on the spurs/ridges and poke off either edge for a look here and there especially if there is a nice deer trail and fresh sign. The little creek heads on the sides of the hill are day timehot spots, so are scrubby fringes of slips. Deer don't often seem to bed down right next to grassy creek flats where they might feed at night, possibly because that is where most hunters look for them? They tend to move about 3/4 up the hill for the day. Here are some wind tips.... walk along any stream and watch the water, when water flows out of a narrow channel and into a wider pool the edges of the top end of the pool have the water flowing upstream and cycling back into the main current (eddy). Wind does the same thing in the hills; the leeward side of a hill will have a wind eddy. You can avoid the eddy by moving back to the main wind current; towards the centre of the valley or up the side of the hill. In calm weather wind will flow down in the early mornings and up after the sun hits the valley floor (late morning). Warm air rises (anabatic wind). The wind will turn down again after the sun leaves the hills, sometimes not until the last hour of the day when it cools off (katabatic). So don't go for an evening hunt too early or the wind change will catch you out. You can use the anabatic/katabatic winds to plan your whole day of hunting by circling through different country after the wind change. In the mornings you should definitely hunt in after them as they will be heading to a day time bedding area. Hopefully it’s not so thick that you have to crawl. A red deer will take the easiest route so stay on the deer trails. Wind in your face, take a few paces, stop look listen, then a few more paces, stop look listen. Don’t bother tippy toeing through rubbish bush, but do sneak through the good stuff. Relax; I reckon deer can almost hear tension! Once you get comfortable in the scrub you will start to notice things of interest, like the deer that is standing still watching you long before you’ve seen it. Fresh wind falls are hot spots but they also mean hard travel so skirt around them with your eyes peeled. Humans naturally head towards the light, in most bush this is a bad move as most of the time the open canopy will most probably mean thick regeneration and old wind fall, not a nice grassy clearing. It is easier travel under the big tree canopy. When climbing or descending bush covered hills stay on the spurs/ridges and poke off either edge for a look here and there especially if there is a nice deer trail and fresh sign. The little creek heads on the sides of the hill are day timehot spots, so are scrubby fringes of slips. Deer don’t often seem to bed down right next to grassy creek flats where they might feed at night, possibly because that is where most hunters look for them? They tend to move about 3/4 up the hill for the day. Here are some wind tips…. walk along any stream and watch the water, when water flows out of a narrow channel and into a wider pool the edges of the top end of the pool have the water flowing upstream and cycling back into the main current (eddy). Wind does the same thing in the hills; the leeward side of a hill will have a wind eddy. You can avoid the eddy by moving back to the main wind current; towards the centre of the valley or up the side of the hill. In calm weather wind will flow down in the early mornings and up after the sun hits the valley floor (late morning). Warm air rises (anabatic wind). The wind will turn down again after the sun leaves the hills, sometimes not until the last hour of the day when it cools off (katabatic). So don’t go for an evening hunt too early or the wind change will catch you out. You can use the anabatic/katabatic winds to plan your whole day of hunting by circling through different country after the wind change.

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