Pressured Deer Pro Insider Ty Miller from Indiana shared an out-of-the-box strategy with a bowhunter from Kansas named Cole who he got to know quite well while communicating with him on a bowhunting forum online.

Cole explained in the forum that he was trying to ambush a nice buck he had been watching all summer. Cole had him figured out. However, every time he was on stand to intercept this trophy, the buck never showed up.

Ty suggested a strategy he learned from Bill, but is rarely talked about by anyone else.

Here’s Ty’s story of helping his friend Cole who is 3 states away:

Well my buddy Cole from Kansas (got to know him via bowhunting.com) was on a big buck all summer long and had set up along a draw he was using almost every single day or so Cole thought.

Cole is blessed with an early season start time and hunted for Crooked Brow a lot the first part of the season. He had him within range only one time but it was well before shooting light….he’d hunt hard with no results, but would pull a trail camera card and get pictures of Crooked Brow every single day he didn’t hunt there, DURING LEGAL LIGHT TO BOOT!

So I chimed in and started with the simple question, “What do all the pictures he was getting have in common?” BAM!

They all had some kind of a North wind…which made sense because it was a draw that wound pretty much south to north with just a slight angle bearing off to the west towards the fields.

Well he was set up on the East side of the draw and would only hunt West or SW winds….expecting the mature big buck have to tail wind up the draw during light if he was to get a chance at him.

I completely shared unbashfully what I would do.

I’d get high as I can and hunt a wind direction the buck is conditioned to use to his advantage. Mix in a gentle type wind and the lowering thermals could get sucked down the draw and run the creek washing through the draw.

166 Kansas Trophy

If Crooked Brow walks by and gets close enough, even if he walks downwind Cole’s scent would blow right over him and it’d be game over. Cole took all this in and set up on another tree and shot Crooked Brow within days…at 20 yards standing directly “downwind” without a care in the world! 166inches of antler and his 3 year hunt for this bad boy was over!

Just a testament to making adjustments, and how hunting with the wind in your face just doesn’t work like it does in the TV shows.

Here’s a pic of him and the bad boy!

So-Lunar Calendar

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By now you may have heard and seen the huge buck shot in Wisconsin by Paul Keller.

A 244 inch nontypical B&C 27 point monster shot on the 18th of September 2012. This could become the new state non-typical record buck.

The rack may be non-typical, but the day in which it was shot is very typical according to Bill Vale’s So-Lunar calendar.

Bill has known for a long time that the 10-day dark period is the best time of the month to hunt big mature bucks.

What is the dark period?

It’s the day of the new moon, the 6 days prior to the new moon, and the 3 days after the new moon.

This September the new moon fell on the 15th. Paul Keller shot his 27 point monster on the 18th…..the last day of the dark period. But in addition to the dark period is another factor which enhances movement by big bucks, and that factor is called Perigee.

Perigee happens when the moon is at it’s closest point to the earth, enhancing the gravitational pull. This is an intensifier in the animal world. It enhances the activity of what big bucks are already doing according to their instincts.

Perigee fell on the 19th of the month. That same day Josh Duckworth shot this huge 8 point in Kansas.

Coincidence? Hardly.

Bill Vale has taught dozens of hunters who have been using this info to shoot big bucks for years now. Anyone who keeps records of deer sightings and cross references the data to Bill’s So-Lunar hunting calendar will easily see the obvious correlation as well.

These 2 big bucks live in different hunting conditions, terrain, food, and 3 states apart, but the one common denominator is that they were influenced by the dark period and perigee.

Don’t miss the next dark periods and perigee coming in Oct, Nov, and Dec.

Get Bill’s So-Lunar calendar here.

How To Hunt Scrapes

I call it the blind leading the blind when certain TV hunting prostaffers teach others how to hunt scrapes.

You can tell they don’t hunt in areas where there is lots of hunting pressure. The deer I hunt in southern Michigan might as well be considered a totally different breed of animal.

Even small bucks have been shot multiple times in MI when they were 1 1/2 years old. If they happen to survive to the age of 3 1/2, they are much more difficult to see much less shoot.

Here’s a video which explains the biggest mistake hunters make in how to hunt scrapes.

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So-Lunar Movement Forces

There it is, visible in the sky. Man has conquered his missions to the moon, walked on its surface, and tried to understand its mystery.

It has been said there is a man in the moon, but no one has ever seen him because it’s just a tall tale. No, I do not believe in the man in the moon, however, I do believe in the invisible force of gravity and how it affects the tides and more important to me, the whitetail deer.  Just because we cannot see something does not mean it does not exist.

Many things can be understood by believing in something you can not see. Gravity, the wind, love and God, are all very powerful invisible forces with one thing in common. You don’t have to understand how they work to benefit from them, but you do have to have faith they exist.

To not have faith in gravity would be disastrous. The wind as well, for if we ignore it, we become a fool in the woods as hunters. Our original sailing ships like the mayflower would never have crossed the ocean to establish a wonderful America. Love is a powerful force. We cannot fully explain the way it affects us. It defies even death, and was demonstrated in perfect sacrifice by a man named Jesus some 2000 years ago.

The moon affects the animals in many ways. I have studied it for over 5 decades and still do not understand it completely. But the information I do understand will be the focus of our deer hunting strategic approach for the month of September for Pressured Deer Pro Insiders.

This year we will give the foundational information to get us started. Next year we will revisit, in depth, this awesome and sometimes invisible movement force.

I hope you will take to heart and have faith in Moon Time Monsters

Pastor Bill

Hunting Strategies For Big Bucks

DEER HUNTERS ALERT!!

“Why is there a need to take a closer look at the tactical approach to hunting strategies for big bucks in this modern age? “

This question came up with one of my hunting website comrades.

It’s my experience from hunting pressured deer that has led to the mind boggling question as to why has the tactical information of yesteryear gone obsolete? The answer is simple because it was never correct in the first place. Yes, some of the very basic fundamental tactics are not to be disputed. However, the problem lies in the hunting industry promoting incorrect thinking and hunters buying into that thinking.

Families raised with hunters have an almost religious outlook on hunting for deer. Deer camps of the old days were very exciting and even the thought of the old cabin up north coming to life with anticipation of who will get the biggest buck this year at deer camp was a very exciting experience. The camping out, playing cards, the buck pole, the long hard track jobs, the beer and food after wards celebrating a great day in the woods was treasured times for all who were there. A place where memories were created and then relived around a roaring fire at night every year.

Of course no stories were ever stretched and the truth was always proclaimed to the best of granddad’s memory. No one ever admitted to having to ask their wife to go, or the mile long honey-do list that had to be completed before you were walking out the door headed north locked and loaded for one heckuva great time.

I on the other hand have never had even a cross word with my wife over hunting! And if you believe that, do I ever have some hunting land for sale for you!

What I have found is most guys have been taught wrong. By no fault of their own, or their teacher, sport hunting has only been around for about 60 years and really did not take off until 1970. With that said, the meat tactics developed centuries ago do not work on the big bucks of today. When the sport became popular, with it came the pressure on the mature big racked bucks. This changed their way of life, or behavior, and they had to adapt or else be killed. Since they adapt so well and now live in close proximity of humans that are targeting them, they have moved underground or move under the cover of darkness.  Nocturnal behavior is just one of the pressured big buck’s ingrained defense modes. They are now conditioned to obsolete and over-used methods of hunting.

Meat tactics and old school methods were intended to put meat on the table, not horns on the wall. Therefore these tactics are wrong in the first place with their intended purpose, and now has evolved with the help of the hunting industry, uneducated, misguided, and misled developers have effectively side stepped the real problem to treat the symptom of desperation. In doing so, they have ended up so far off base in their thinking that they have efficiently trained mature bucks, by association, to these obsolete tactics, that they are now so conditioned to these lame tactics, that it’s no wonder hunters are tearing their hair out in frustration.

Older meat tactics being used by most hunters handed down from generation to generation, are now obsolete when pursuing the grey ghost of Michigan and other high pressured states.

I just so happened to experience and witness this progressive change when it was taking place. I read tons of books by great hunters read countless magazine articles until I thought my eyes would pop out. I tried every new gimmick that came along and nothing worked. I became a victim of this chronic backwards way of thinking that now afflicts millions of hunters.

So I left the main stream and began my own research and prayed for wisdom. It’s been a very long hard road and now I want to set the record straight. That is what I aim to accomplish with my new site.

Hunters need to know why they are not scoring on very good properties, even well managed properties, as well as my reasons for my approach to teaching.

I will be posting several videos every month for insiders. I continue to do research even during the season so I can keep bringing it to eager-to-learn hunters. During the season I do plan on writing a daily blog post helping insiders, or members, to know what I am up to as far as the so-lunar movement forces and all the different phases as I see them coming.

A lot of my hunting strategies for big bucks have been called genius, fresh, never before heard of, and if anything is backwards to what most have been taught. I don’t consider myself genius. As a matter of fact, I have experienced a lot more failure than success. But in the end, a master type of system has evolved. However, before I could reach this level of success by evolving, I had to start over on my own with a completely different outlook. I had to begin my own research, break away from the main stream and be very careful about what I took to heart as far as the gospel truth about hunting.

Hunters are under the impression that if they spend enough time in the woods, they will eventually score on that buck of a lifetime. This could be no further from the truth, and this way of thinking almost cost me my marriage. Also waiting for a big buck to make a silly or even a tiny mistake is improper thinking in my humble opinion.

To say the word “mistake” implies intelligence of the deer and this goes against everything I base my theories on. In order for a big buck to make a mistake, he would have to have the intelligence to know what a mistake is! Intelligent people make mistakes so this seems like reasonable thinking to the average or misguided hunter, who I might add is not to blame. After all, if everybody else is doing it that way it must be right, RIGHT?

I heard a guy online one day in a video say  “a big buck will have his escape route from his bed planned out.” Another guy said “big bucks did not get big by being stupid!” I cringe when I hear such statements. A big old buck is neither smart, nor stupid they simply do what their instincts tell them to do.

The definition of instincts according to Webster is the ability to do something without having to think about it. I have changed that slightly to accommodate big buck behavior to being able to do something without being able to think about it, and I can prove the hunter’s online statement about a planned escape route is false with one easy example.

Their instincts tell them to escape into the wind. By me moving hundreds of bucks from their beds with snow on the ground, if the wind is different on two separate occasions they will escape differently on both of those occasions. But if the wind is the same then they will escape the same way unless danger is picked up in route.

So if you’re hunting old-school and you are dedicated and persistent, but things just are not coming together for you, it’s not your fault nor your teacher’s fault. It’s the industry and people teaching from a standpoint of  being a prostaffer and very successful with a wall full of impressive trophies that are taken off private ranches and highly managed properties in order to produce TV shows and DVDs designed to sell products. This after all is very convincing and I fell for these gimmicks myself for a long time.

People with lots of money, I will not refer to them as hunters, have gone to fenced-in areas and paid the big bucks for a big buck. Others have resorted to expensive outfitters and basically are nothing more than a trigger man. The real hunter is never seen and if anything, is kept on the Q.T. so the trigger man can inflate and play their ego like a tune. Everytime they look at their mount hanging on the wall, it will be a constant reminder of what he could not accomplish himself. It’s almost like admitting failure, except when other hunters come over and gawk and stand in awe of a well kept secret.

The Bible says wisdom is more valuable than silver and gold, and if everything else is taken away from me, the wisdom remains. The wisdom I now have I paid for with unbelievable amounts of time researching deer behavior outdoors, blood, sweat and even tears.

Many product manufacturers and pitch men in the hunting industry have collectively and successfully misled an entire hunting community with one bogus claim after another as if we are a gullible teenager on a used car lot looking for his first sweet ride and being told what he wants to hear by a ruthless smooth talking salesman.

Who wants to hear about hard work, sweating bullets, decades of research and development, year around dedication and commitment, because that’s what it takes. I can’t even give that sales pitch away!

The deer we hunt in high hunting pressured states might as well be considered a different breed. Even though they all look alike on the outside, on the inside they are completely different.

Through a process of conditioning called hunting pressure, they have transformed into a beast of burden and even desperation that plays right into the hands of the opportunistic hunting product creators that may even believe their own product or gimmick works. It may work on the deer they hunt, but on my deer it’s a joke. The only people laughing though are those taking your money and messing with your hopes and dreams.

Pressured Deer Pro is an academy for learning. The key to unraveling these animals does not lie in short cuts, gimmicks, or fancy equipment. It starts, as I did, with their behavior and instincts, and relating it back to the so-lunar movement forces. Years of testing, experimenting, and putting discoveries through the fire to keep refining until I identified a pure form of solid truths.

The years spent on snow backtracking and fore tracking led me to undeniable proof and truths about these amazing animals, and their incredible ability to avoid me no matter what I did.

When the scales were taken off my eyes, all that was left was a crystal clear vision of a way of doing things that encompasses a total overview of what I was up against and what had to be done on any given day or under any given circumstances to tactically undermine what seemed almost supernatural at the time.

Now I hunt differently. I know what I am looking for. I see it when set in front of me and still have just begun to learn.

If you are tired of the rat race, the false claims, the frustration, the disappointment year after year, then stop following the masses down the path of hunting failure.

It’s my heart’s desire to make your heart’s desire come true. Not only to be a teacher and advisor, but a friend and comrade sharing in a sport that exceeds all sports. That puts us to the test when the moment of truth arrives. That leaves us with our hearts pounding fast, our breathing accelerated and our knees weak. A natural high that exceeds all artificial stimulants and a sense of accomplishment that is so personal, it is almost spiritual.

I am passing out some 40 year old keys to consistently shooting mature pressured bucks.

Anyone want one?

Then become a Pressured Deer Pro Insider today.

See you on the inside.

Pastor William J. Vale

Long before the invention of trail cameras, I was gathering whitetail information and putting it to use. I used sewing thread, rain, snow, raked over trails, purposely leafing over scrapes tying thread around rubs, and coloring them with thick pencil lead, identifying tree types, profiling big bucks with different personalities, using terrain, weaving branches together near beds, drive-by scouting, and piling up small dead sticks in their beds so I could tell when they had come back, shutting beds off and blocking watering ledges.

I studied articles of radio collared bucks, threaded off holes in fences. Whatever it took to gain information on the bucks I hunted. One of the first gadgets I bought and used was the old string timers. They simply stopped a clock when the clip was pulled out, but it also indicated direction.

Information has put more big bucks on the ground for me than any other single element. It is our only dominion over them and it is God’s Almighty order of survival.

Recently the subject of trail cameras has come up and there seems to be a split decision on rather to use them or not. I will voice my opinion boldly.

Do I use them, and have I been successful in doing so? The answer is absolutely YES. Are there any draw backs? Yes, but for every drawback there are 10 advantages. This article is designed to convey my humble opinion on why I use and will continue to use trail cams.

Let’s start with one of the draw backs.

Some hunters say trail cams spook deer, leave human scent when checking or moving them and are a bad Idea. I disagree, but my tactical approach involves leaving scent on purpose, invading regularly, and yes, disturbing big bucks on the fringes of their safety zones.

I have never had a big buck totally vacate a security bed because I bumped him a few times they always seem to come back. One of the main reasons is how I present myself. In the first place I try not to act like a predator. If you act like a predator, you will be perceived as one. I don’t surprise them, I make plenty of noise and even let my wind drift in their direction.

But all of this does not apply when going to stand to hunt. I think most hunters use trail cams to locate bucks, and then just run with the ball from there. But there is far more that can be done and that is what this article is about.
Trail cams have given me multiple big bucks because of how I use the information. Not the information in itself. And I still use thread and other things as well on top of the cam shots.

To explain this clearly, I will have to use a real life hunt to clarify how, and the fact that it has worked for me on a live pressured big buck.

Continue Reading….

Why is it that the guy who has never hunted before, goes out and picks a spot, sits down, and shoots a monster buck? Or how about the guy who takes a friend to a property and the friend gets a shot from a seemingly poor location according to what we have been taught?

Are these strokes of divine intervention or luck?

Is this guy charmed or is something else going on that we cannot see. Yes, something else is going on and that something is the wind.

Beginners and novice bow hunters don’t have the wind savvy because they have not yet been taught the wrong hunting strategies, and that my friends is exactly why they get their buck. I am not advocating ignorance, as a matter of a fact I am just using this scenario to make a point. That point is since these guys don’t know any better, they pick a spot for different reasons than so-called educated deer hunters.

I will go as far as to say they hunt backwards to most guy’s way of thinking as far as the wind is concerned. Nature takes its course and without even realizing it, they set up perfectly for that day.

After all, we have all had the tables turned on us with our well figured spots right? So why would the opposite surprise us?

My wind strategies have been called different, out of the box, unorthodox, crazy, and a few other things. But the bottom line is they work and work consistently.

But as with all trade secrets there generally is a catch 22. Mine has no catch 22. I even tell guys my secret and they still can’t pull it off. Some of them have been able to, but most guys just cannot bring themselves to do the preparation and the other things I do to make it happen.

Playing the wind is the #1 most important single factor, that dictates where I will be hunting on any given day. I have hundreds of tiny variables, but this one factor, the wind, is what I bet my cash on in the end.

If you are a Pressured Deer Pro Insider, get ready as we dive into hunting success and make it happen by learning from the in-depth series of videos in August, my trade secrets on playing the wind.

An introductory course is available in my book inside the wind chapter. But if you are a Pro Insider, hang on, I feel a storm of windy information heading your way.

Blessings,

Pastor Bill

The Flooded Badlands.
The Answers Are In! Scroll Down To See How You Did.

P.O.L.T.S. (Possibility of Long Term Survival) is a factor or feature of an area that allows mature bucks to hide and go unnoticed by hunters.

In this case, the flooded badlands is what is creating the POLTS on this property. Initially, a section of the river was backed up by beavers and then the ash bore plague. This, along with several nasty straight line wind storms uprooting hundreds of live trees allowing them to keep their vegetation, has created what I call this the Bad Lands.

Holes at the root bases from the blow downs and fingers of muck, mire, soup, and higher dry strips of rock hard ground, along with little knobs and fingers overgrown with 7 foot tall warm season grasses makes for the ultimate in secluded bedding and hiding. All this would make 99.9 % of hunters not even think about hunting in this area. The edges yes, but not in it.

Aerial photos reveal a ton of info. This single area has plenty of room to house the trophy bucks in the area as well as a large doe population. The kicker being 3 other matching areas that are basically connected, only separated by a river, that is anything but passable in spots by deer or man. The river goes from an open winding ordinary looking river then disappears into this tangled up mess. No way to even decipher the main current stream for about a half a mile.

THE PLAN

Intense aerial study of geographic, and topographic maps, going back 20 years from December through July. This will give us a generational, and evaluational overview at different times of year. Cross referencing the past to the present by way of natural evolution to come up with an accurate prognosis. River crossings from these isolated areas, from area to area, and from the exterior to the interior, and on the hunted edges. The network within is subject to change due to time of year and water level.

Welcome to the flooded bad lands where the bucks grow old, and shifting elevations and high percentage safe movement and hiding is as good as I have ever seen. As far as I know, no other human footprint has ever been until now.

Trying to get all this stuff done in a month before the season is not only impossible, it is ludicrous. It can be a formula for failure in both hunting and life.

Quiz-
1. Other than so-lunar info what other variable am I going to use to time the bucks peak use at this location?
Answer: Hunting pressure, I am banking on pressure moving them in there.

2. What am I looking for in a hunting spot within the confines of this refuge?
Answer: Concentration travel points that naturally will squeeze them due to the deep muck water etc.

3. Why do other hunters stay out?
Answer: The difficulty it presents in hunting it effectively. Baiting to bring them to a particular point or spot, to get them coming and going from it, find the beds etc. You need to be able to work with anything that pops up.

4. How do I know that the pressured bucks will gravitate naturally to this area and adopt it?
Answer: Once again hunting pressure, will trigger an instinctive hiding response. With a food, water and bait station, it will further protect them from the outside the safety zone hunters.

5. What unique or out of the norm hunting gear is going to be needed to hunt this location?
Answer: Water proof containers for phone electronics etc. Chest waders and a long light weight pole for balance and lit tacks to stay on track when entering and exiting, so I don’t drop in a hole.

6. What unique safety equipment will be needed?
Answer: Flotation device made out of a large inner-tube with sides and a mesh top for dragging in gear.

7. What is the #1 tactic I will use to undermine the bucks natural instinctive behavior then exploit it?
Answer: The element of total surprise, high tree stands, and light winds, so I basically am invisible once there and all day sits during the new -full moon time frames and gun season.

8. What problems am I aware of ahead of time that will need to be addressed, unique to this information?
Answer: Stay out of this area if any of these factors are not present: #1 is great access, #2 all day hunts, #3 gun season and #4 great wind conditions. Hunt only the high percentage time frames.

9. How and what types of research will I conduct to absolutely confirm my suspicions?
Answer: Plot watcher cameras so I can watch bait stations from a distance and what bucks are in there when. Other surveillance, threading off suspicious runs, and cross referencing weather etc, and rising water table, how it effects or changes things.

10. Do you think it is a mistake to disturb this area and why?
Answer: Staying out has not worked so we invade, but do it tactically. Gather as much info as possible then place stands according to the facts. Intense plans, use all the variables as a guide and be willing to aggressively relocate if necessary.

How did you do? It will take a lot of common sense and determination but this spot has me excited! I will post and film my hunts in here so you can all see my step by step approach. Shawn and I will be putting this spot to the test,

See ya in the Fall,
(I would say wish us luck but we don’t need it)

Blessings Bill and Shawn

Daily prayer- Thank you Lord for your patience with me. Please give me wisdom in all things. Help me to see with my eyes, hear with my ears, and feel with my heart. Search me, make me aware of any offensive deeds, then help me to change and be the man you called me to be. Amen
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Sunday morning and the birds are waking up. The family is still in the sack, and my coffee is about to be in my hand. What an incredible 4 days of prep work in the woods with lots of great video footage. The wheels of success are turning and many plans are really taking shape. It looks like four properties will get my attention this fall.

In this post I want to cover a little property savvy. This is to buy some time so you guys can answer the quiz questions from my last post. Why is it important to have multiple properties to hunt? And why is 4 the magic number? One word says it all….Diversity!

Let’s work it backwards. Property number 4 is a spare in case I lose one of the other 3. This property ideally can be hunted on any day of the season and has all the components of all the other properties combined. This is a bread and butter property and is to be the most secure as far as not having a chance of losing access or permission. Its sole function is to prevent hunting lock down.

Property number 3 is my “microwave” property. It must be close to home or work. Its entire working function is quick hunts with very little time involved. Let’s say I only have 2 hours of daylight left. I pull what I call the quick hit. Over the years I have killed several super bucks on these quick hit setups. Generally speaking, stands are already hung. 20 minute max entry including driving to be ready to pull it off. This maximizes time and utilizes the solar movement force. This stand or series of stands must be able to be hunted during all wind conditions, and its sole purpose is to be able to hunt on a night, or morning with only an hour and a half in your pocket to spend.

You are there at prime time only, so percentages are good for action soon after arrival, and pressured big bucks are conditioned to this time frame, being nocturnal by nature. So on a day that has you running behind on everything and you don’t have time to shower, etc, instead of becoming a boob in front of the tube, you’re Elmer Fudd out tracking a stud.

Property number 2 is my dark period property. This property is anything but convenient but can be very user friendly. This properties function is to produce a shot at my target bucks of the year. All four properties may have stands locations to accommodate the dark period, so it is not to say that I will be glued to this one in particular, but this property has stands set for all-day hunts over doe families and travel routes and the daytime safety zone for bucks. Travel time is of no concern, and I am planning on uninterrupted pursuit on this property during all three dark periods. This is my meat and potatoes property, my kill celebration meal.

Property number 1 is my gun season property. This property’s entire purpose is to take advantage of high hunting pressure. I already know where I will be with my bow during gun season. All my properties may have a location to accommodate this purpose, but this property is a high percentage gun-season location and plays into the hand of the wise hunter.

The key component at this location is pressure working for you, not against you. The other key component is disruption. This property must be able to be accessed without running deer to other hunters, and recovery with this in mind as well. With guns everywhere, what a bummer it would be to spook a 3 year investment to a guy a mile away in a shack that only hunts a few days per year. I want them to move the bucks to me and I don’t want to return the favor. This is my pressure cooker spot and it puts a lid on locked-up bucks that are stubbornly nocturnal, and where movement is confined to a very small safe place.

Property savvy is an overlooked tactic. Being prepared has tons of value in it. It is very important to the serious trophy hunter. It only takes 7 seconds to draw anchor, settle in and shoot, whether you have been there 5 minutes or all day, not being prepared with options of where to hunt has often cost me big time. Flooding, drought, leased land lost, property changing hands, development you name it. Knowing where you will be prepping your properties to the different waves of hunting season according to all the variables is a key to yearly success.

From the forces of nature, to the mindset of men we must be two steps ahead of the game or we will end up on the losing end everytime. Are you totally prepared for hunting season this Fall? Property savvy can make you or break you.

Daily prayer – Lord please help me to acknowledge you in all my ways so you will make my path straight. Give me the wisdom to seek you and your kingdom first so all things good may be added to my life. I thank you for another day, put a person in need in my path so I may help them as you have helped me. I am here to serve you Lord in any way you ask. Amen

Trophy hunting is a year around commitment, and best done spread throughout the year to add balance to our lives. All things in moderation, except Love. Love with all your heart, mind, and soul. First God, then family and friends.

Shawn, Rob and I chose today and tomorrow for prep work in the woods because my wife has a very busy couple days ahead of her as well as the weekend. If I hang out at home, I will just be in her way, and a little break from two love birds once in a while is a good thing.

I can’t believe the property I get to hunt this year. What makes it great is the guys that I get to share the brush with. I thought I was craaaazed by bow hunting. These guys are wired to the fire.

Big bucks don’t just fall into my lap every season. I have to struggle to make it happen. I am not some kind of super human bionic hunter that is immune to this thing we call life where I can just wave a wand and poof, there’s my buck for the season. It takes time, work, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, planning and balance. I like to take my time to enjoy the bugs, lol, and do it right.

The moon was bright when I got up this morning. A short prayer on my deck spending the first fruit of the day with the Lord was awesome. So calm, so quiet, so serene, so real! Its good to be alive and my only struggle today is to cut shooting lanes, and yes, deal with the bugs.

Lots of little trips takes the work, frustration, and stress out of getting ready for the season. When I’m not tired, at peace, and see a day well spent, I am easier to get along with, and my family life is better. It’s that human nature thing again.

Well, I hear the birds singing my song. It’s a sign that daylight is on the way. We as hunters must feel the woods become part of our surroundings. I could tell it was getting light even if I was blind. Hearing the birds singing told me it was on the way. Yes, its going to be a great day. You have one too.