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The Eyes Of A Young Hunter
My Warm Weather 11 point
Buck
Unfortunately, this year I could not hunt the first days of bow season.
The weather was perfect, the temperature was down in the 30's and the bucks
had started rubbing and scraping.
 Then
after the first week of bow season, it turned warm. I started hunting during
the warm weather. I took a couple of Wildlife Research Center's Ultimate
Scrape drippers and filled them with Wildlife Research Center's Active
Scrape and Golden Estrus and put them where I had seen some buck activity.
Most people think that the deer aren't moving during warm weather. What
you really need to do is make those bucks think, that there are does out
there in heat.
That is where the scrape dripper comes in. This dripper only drips scent
during daylight hours. In the evenings, when it cools down, it stops dripping
and in the morning when the temperature starts to rise it starts dripping
again.
That makes the bucks think that there are does coming through during
the daylight hours. That is just how it happened to work in my favor.
On October 11,2003, I got in the stand before daylight.
When the sun came up, it was about 75 degrees, and just how I had planned
it, this nice 11 point buck came walking in right under-neath my treestand.
He was headed straight for the dripper bottle that was hanging over a mock
scrape that I had placed there a week ago. I shot him at 5 yards from my
treestand. He went less than 60 yards.
So, if you don't think that the bucks aren't moving during warm weather,
think again. This deer weighed 195 lbs. field dressed. I hauled this buck
out of the woods with a Yamaha Realtree 450 Kodiak.
The number one thing that you need to do to be successful is to
make sure you are as scent free as possible. Be sure to wash your
clothes and yourself in scent free products. Wildlife Research Center
makes a full line of detergent for clothes and Scent Killer body soap,
shampoo, deodorant and Scent Killer spray.
 Randy
Oitker, age 15, is an avid bowhunter and outdoor sports writer. Randy is
also a professional archer who hails from Plainville, IL. Randy can be
seen giving tech tips to young hunters each week on the Outdoor Channel
on Sportsmen's Outdoor Strategies and his little sister Tiffany does a
lead in a commercial on this show. It can be seen at 7:30am on Wed.,
11:30am on Friday and 7:00pm on Saturday Central time.
Randy Oitker is sponsored
by:
Mathews Solocam bows, Muzzy
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Optics, Sims Vibration Laboratories, Carter Releases, Tracer Products,
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Outdoor Edge-Knives, LaCrosse Footwear, Carbon Express Arrows, SKB Bowcases,
Eze- Crest Arrow Wraps, Walker's Game Ear, Cannon Country Game Calls, BCY
bowstrings, Arrowspeed Radarchron, Bug Tamer Suits, Coleman Outdoor Products,
Cobra Electronics, Magellan GPS Systems, Toxonics BowSights, Knight Rifles,
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City Ford, McDonalds and Outdoor Power.
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