6 HABITS OF Successful Hunters

Winning strategies don’t just happen. To enjoy consistent success in any job, hobby or other pursuit requires ability and a game plan. And the key to a great game plan is how the plan is structured. Structuring to win requires an understanding of the endeavor, a mastery of the fundamentals, finetuning through repetition and execution.

The same structure applies to successful whitetail hunting. Becoming a great deer hunter doesn’t require the intellect of a rocket scientist. It does, however, require that a hunter understands the animal and the environment it lives in, and how to execute a hunting plan. When these three aspects are mastered, success follows.

1. STUDY THE ANIMAL

A keen understanding of whitetail behavior is the ticket to the dance.

The success of so many strategies is tied to how well one knows deer behavior. The more you know, the better your chances of structuring and executing a successful hunt. It was only a few decades ago when hunters were just learning about whitetails, there was little reading material available on the mysteries of deer behavior. That was basically the case until the early 1980s.

In those days, the only way one could truly