The first thing to keep in mind is you have to move very slow and quietly when still hunting. There are a few things that can help a person successfully still hunt. Still Hunting Skills And Tactics For The Muzzleloader Season Sitting in a stand during this season has never produced any deer for me, ever. In fact, the only time I have ever seen deer during the black powder season is when I have been trying to stalk them. They rely on their skill to track animals, as well as their senses to see, smell, and hear their prey before they themselves are detected by the animals they are hunting.ĭuring the muzzleloader season I still hunt 80% of the time. Hunters who are proficient at still hunting are some of the best hunters around. Still hunting is actually what hunters do when they want to stalk the animal they are hunting. Well, still hunting is most certainly not about sitting or standing still. When you hear somebody mention ‘still hunting’ the thought that comes to mind is not moving when you hunt, to be completely still.
Still Hunting Whitetail Deer With A Muzzleloader In order to be successful during the black powder only season, I need to do what is called ‘still hunting’. There is hardly anybody in the woods as most hunters don’t hunt this particular season, so nobody is moving deer around. So they tend to stay in thick cover and not move at all during the daylight hours. Other hunters that walk into and out of the woods when they get cold push the deer around… I see a lot of deer just by hunkering down and waiting for them to walk by.ĭuring the black powder muzzleloader only season, which starts as soon as the nine day regular gun season ends, the deer are spooked and on edge from all kinds of people being in the woods the week before. In the nine day regular gun season I just sit on my butt in my blind because I hunt public land.
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I know how to hunt them based on their travel patterns that I scout out in the months prior to hunting. In the archery season I know what the deer are doing, where they bed down and where they go to eat.
I tell you what, between the archery season, regular nine day gun season, and the muzzleloader only season, the hardest season to hunt and be successful in is the muzzleloader season. Muzzleloader Hunting For Whitetail Deer In Wisconsin As I continue to write this post, I will be writing based on hunting in Wisconsin. However, for deer hunting I use a modern inline muzzleloader, and I’ll go into that further below.ĭisclaimer: If you are thinking about getting in muzzleloader hunting, not just for deer, but for any wild game, be sure to check your State’s laws and regulations. He bought a Thompson Center kit gun, and we would both go to the range to shoot our ‘smoke poles’. It was thirty years ago in my early to mid teens that my father got interested in traditional muzzleloaders.
The muzzleloader season hardly sees anyone in the woods, and I like that. For me it’s about two things being out in nature, and not having to share the woods with a lot of other hunters. I found that the muzzleloader only season is a great time to be out in the woods. The muzzleloader only season is seven days long and follows the nine day regular gun season. Wisconsin has an archery season, a nine day regular gun season, and a muzzleloader only season. Several years ago I started muzzleloader hunting for whitetail deer in Wisconsin.
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