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just started hunting,and with a bow at that. I am extremly eager to get out there, but maybe some tips and insight would be appreciated. I live in upstate SC. Thanks and looking forward to next year.

just started hunting,and with a bow at that. I am extremly eager to get out there, but maybe some tips and insight would be appreciated. I live in upstate SC. Thanks and looking forward to next year.

I'm down in the low country of SC, and I don't bow hunt. You might find good archery tips in the archery forum, and possibly even down in the SC forum. Since the regs are different in your part of the state, on top of the geographical differences, I don't know if my rifle and shotgun with dogs style can offer you the information you need. I will tell you that when I'm sitting in a tree stand with a rifle, I'm hunting over food plots and bait piles(which I believe are illegal up there). My best advice, regardless of style of hunting is to hunt with the wind and try to control your scent as much as possible. Scouting your area and knowing where the bedding areas and food sources are located and how the deer travel to and from those areas is going to be the same no matter what your choice of weapon will be, so I hope that will at least get you headed in the right direction.

Posted By wschramke on 15 Nov 2012 02:44 PM
I'm a total beginner, and my wife told me that I would have to first shoot a buck, otherwise when I first shoot one doe, a buck would no longer visit this place.
Is that true?

As my Grandpa use to say "Ahhh Horse Pucky!" I am not an avid hunter as I am in the military and I am not a club member nor do I run dogs in the lovely state of NC. Still hunting, which I grew up doing, might as well be nonexistent with this underbrush in this state. But I try to get back to home state every year to hunt with my dad. Not only do him and I use the same corner lot of his land to hunt deer, but surprisingly enough, every year I have used the same exact spot/tree on the public land I have shot a deer. Course, in Ohio with only a week of gun season, and bringing hunters from all over, you will eventually have a deer pushed to you in the public land. But being my dad owns just under two acres, and has 14 acres attached, there is not much pressure around his land. We both have taken the biggest dear of our hunting careers off his land and many others for the last almost 10 years. So I would have to says there maybe a small truth to shooting a doe before a buck, if you are not in a high pressure hunting area. But as I was taught to hunt, you can't eat bone. 

Sounds like your wife does not want you to shoot any deer or at least any does.

Joe

come on

 THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN .. I'VE SHOT MANY DOE'S AND BUCKS AND POSTED ALL OF THEM ALONG WITH THE RAM'S AND THE WILD PIG'S GOT NOTHING. SO THAT DOESN'T MEAN NOTHING TOP THEM LIKE RT AND MANY OF OF SAY..

 I'M RETIRED USMC

SNIPER AND PROUD TO BE AN AMERICIAN..

 

hello , your answer is no ,dont put her down, your wife could be helpful in the hunt