Do you ever experience “tag soup” because you hunted hard all year but didn’t seal the deal?
Are some hunting areas and situations “off limits” to you because of your physical ability, or inadequate gear systems (Example - if a tree is tilted can you still hunt from it, if water needs crossing do you avoid this, etc.)
Do you have bucks that show up mysteriously, then disappear, and not know why?
Do you often show up at a spot with high hopes, only to fail to get an opportunity at a good deer?
Do ever wish you had more locations to hunt, or feel that the spots you hunt aren’t currently “hot”?
Do you have less than 7 different methods you use to collect scouting data?
Do you spook deer coming and going from your hunting location?
Are hunting apps your main source for gathering information on an area?
Do you hunt a specific location more than once in a 30 day period?
Do you often have to scout deep on foot during the season to gather sign for in-season hunting decisions?
Do you make errant noises that either spook deer, or you fear has alerted deer in the area (stepping on branches, crunching leaves, gear noise, metal clangs, etc.)?
When deciding where to hunt, do you ever use the strategy of “just hunting a new spot in the rotation” when deer sightings seem to dwindle at your current hunting location?
Do you feel that hunting more often will get you more results?
Do you struggle to know if a buck has a mobile or sedentary personality?
For public or private land hunting, how often do you get hunts messed up by other hunters?
Do you sometimes lack information on a buck you’re trying to hunt (like when he typically shows in daylight, where he shows in daylight, the time of season he shows up, the wind he prefers to move with, etc.)?
How often do you hunt food sources for morning hunts, or walk through them for morning hunts? (example food sources - acorns, food plots, crop fields)
Do you make decisions on where to hunt based off a “feeling” you have on where the big one may show up?
Do you have to hunt more than 1 time to get a shot at your target animal?
Do you FAIL TO USE a numerically ranked data system to analyze scouting intel (trail cam photos, glassing observations, on foot scouting intel, etc.) with a decision tree to tell you where to hunt?
Do you rely primarily on trail cameras for your scouting intel?
Do you ever approach a season with less than 2X more spots to hunt, than days you have to hunt? (Example: If you typically hunt 10 days a year, do you have at least 20 different locations to hunt)
Do you ever just walk in the woods and say, “I think I’ll try here today”?
In a given year, do you spend more time hunting than scouting?
If you had to jog 2 consecutive miles without stopping, you would have to walk or take breathers to finish.
Do you find yourself guessing on the best spot to hunt a particular buck?
When deer are downwind, how often do you get an adverse reaction (stomping, snorting, flagging, changing direction of travel)?
Do you often “chase” a buck you’ve seen on night time trail camera pictures, only to have him elude you?
Do you lack multiple places to hunt for any given wind, time of day, or time of the season (early season, lull, pre rut, rut, post rut)?
When deciding where and when to hunt, how often do you “go with your gut”?
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