Originally Posted by saddlesore
I have tried to teach a few younger guys how to do it. My biggest problem was getting them to slow down. Then it was getting them to stop and look and using their binoculars more.Binoculars are not just for looking at things far away.


The first time I used a binocular in heavy cover it was like a light going on. What huge difference it made.

I learned to still hunt pretty much on my own. My early mentors were mostly eastern drive hunters. One old guy I hunted with kind of got me started on still hunting but I was always moving too fast and too much. It took a lot of years to figure it out. I still move too much sometimes but find it's way easier to move slow and deliberately the older I get. I still don't like to sit. I'll do it occasionally but it takes more determination on my part to sit on a stand than it does to still hunt properly.


Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.