December 17th, 2011 — Gear and Equipment, Hunting
Whether you’re looking for hunting gifts for a hunting buddy or you’re someone who doesn’t hunt but you need a gift for someone who does, just keep in mind what the person loves and it’ll be hard to choose a gift that they don’t love. Gift giving for anyone is simplified if you keep in mind the things they love to do. Whether a man is a football fanatic or he likes model airplanes, a gift with some sort of relationship to those favorite things is going to be hit. So a man who hunts is going to love something related to the sport.
Outdoorsman hunting gifts can be anything they can use while hunting or anything that reminds them of hunting. While that might seem like a narrow field to choose from if you’re not a hunter, it’s really a wide-open area. Someone who hunts uses all types of gear. Hunting gifts could be any of those things that he regularly uses.
A duck hunter might enjoy duck calls or a new decoy. Someone who hunts deer or large animals like that might enjoy a new hunting knife or something specifically related to the animal that they hunt. If you can’t bring yourself to purchase a hunting knife for someone else, then consider things like a keychain that says deer or elk hunter. A bumper sticker or a decal for them to put on their vehicle that shows their love of hunting is also a good option.
Camouflaged items are popular hunting gifts. If you know the person’s size then camouflaged clothing is a good option as are things like camouflaged jackets. Many hunters also enjoy fishing or their hunting takes them out onto the water. So useful items like keychains that float and keep keys from sinking are a good idea. Most hunters can never have enough emergency flashlights so a flashlight it doesn’t require batteries like a hand crank flashlight is a thoughtful and practical gift.
If you already hunt and you’d like to buy hunting gifts for friends who also enjoy the sport, you can simply ask them what they need or go for something that’s a perennial favorite. Hunting DVDs and books that provide information and entertainment are sure to be appreciated.
Even if you are a duck hunter and your friend is a deer hunter, you can purchase them a book (Strategies for Whitetails
) or DVD (Deer Masters Home Deer Processing
) about white tailed deer hunting and that’s going to interest them. You don’t actually need to know anything about their type of hunting to give them a thoughtful gift about their sport. Also consider things like cookbooks for wild game (Dressing & Cooking Wild Game
). Your deer hunting friend might appreciate a cookbook all about how to prepare venison, or your duck hunting friend might appreciate a cookbook that’s about different ways to cook ducks and geese.
Just think about the many things that hunting involves from preparation to safety to cooking, and you’ll come up with great hunting gifts for everyone on your list.
Photo Credits: telethon
Originally posted 2010-04-09 03:51:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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November 24th, 2011 — Duck, Hunting
If you seem to think that duck hunting simply amounts to hiding until birds fly by, there are several duck hunting tips that can help you understand the sport better and help you do better when you’re out on a hunt. There’s much more to hunting ducks than simply hiding and waiting for them to fly overhead or land on the water.
If you’re serious about duck hunting, then record your progress. People who set goals and write their goals and their progress toward them down do much better than people who don’t. And because duck hunting is something that involves a lot of observation and paying attention to trends and surroundings, keeping a sort of diary of your duck hunts can help you see patterns and get the most out of your time in a boat or a blind. Being able to look back through your diary at what happened when you didn’t get any ducks and what happened when you did can make all the difference in how successful you are duck hunting in the long term.
This is a good tip to follow whether you hunt ducks or any other game animals or fowl. Keeping a written record of the weather conditions, how you felt, what time you went, and the kinds of decoys or calls you used is a way of recording vital information to discover what works and what doesn’t.
Another important duck hunting tip is to use the right decoys. A decoy isn’t just a wooden shape like a duck with a little paint on it. While some may seem to have good luck with just those types of decoys, better ones offer a better chance at attracting ducks. In fact, if you find a few brands you like you can mix and match them to get different colors and shapes as well as sizes in your decoy spread. The more natural it looks, the better off you’ll be. If you have large and small decoys it will look like there are adults and amateur ducks together and that will give the decoy spread a very ordinary appearance.
Also, rather than just setting decoys and walking away to hide, add some movement. A cord hooked to the decoys that you can pull on makes it appear as if they’re moving around on the water and will make the decoy spread look even more natural to ducks. Some decoys can be purchased that have magnets inside or other devices that will keep them moving a little bit on their own. But if you can move them at will, it will look more natural and you’ll have a better chance of attracting ducks.
Finally, don’t think that one specific tip will make or break your duck hunting. You can have the best decoys and a lousy call and not attract a single duck. Or you can have a great duck call but decoys that keep the birds from landing. Your blind or boat might draw too much attention, or it just may not be your day. Still, following these tips increases your chances of bagging your limit of ducks.
Photo Credits: peteSwede
Originally posted 2010-03-28 03:12:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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October 21st, 2011 — Hunting, Turkey
Here are a wide variety of little things that you need to avoid in order to turkey hunt successfully. Most turkey hunters learned these things through decades of turkey hunting, but now you do not have to.
1 – Limit movement.
When turkeys see movement, they immediately know that danger is afoot. Period. There is no way to move that will convince a turkey that you are not a threat so do not even bother trying to move when turkeys are afoot.
2 – Do not over call.
If you turkey call too many times, you are going to build up the ego of the bird to much to the point that he may stop coming, and may sit dead still waiting for you. You should have fun calling, but not too much fun.
3 – Sleeping in is another no-no.
Turkeys can see when it is light out, so you need to get into your position before it gets light in the morning, end of story.
4 – Prepare.
Poor preparation is not going to do you any factors. If you wait until the last moment to get all of your things together, then something important is going to be missed. Make sure that you have a list of things that you need, and make sure that everything on that list is within reach all the time so that you are properly prepared for the trek.
5 – Steer away from calling it quits far too early.
You can kill as many turkeys in the afternoon as you can in the early hours of the morning. They may make less noise, but they are certainly still out there, and potentially more vulnerable than they were before. If you can stick it out, do so, and your patience will pay off, especially when the other hunters give up and go in early.
6 – Do not stick with tactics if they are not producing.
By definition alone, this is an insane thing to do. If you keep doing one specific thing, and it is consistently not bringing you the results, stop doing it. Change your approach, change your strategy, try a different decoy, try a different location, switch your calls, or whatever else you have to do in order to get some variety. A change in your tactics may be exactly what was needed to land the kill. You are never going to know unless you manage to go the extra mile and actually make it happen.
Above all else, you are really going to have to want it in order for you to become a successful hunter of turkeys. You need to live and you need to hunt by that particular mantra if you want a wall of trophies and a mind that is full of some of the most exciting memories imaginable.
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Originally posted 2009-06-26 16:40:13. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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