How do you learn best?
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Bob Frapples
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Depending on how bad I uh ohed, I usually remember them best.
cohunter14
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Mistakes for sure...they stick with you the longest.
Good Judgement comes from Experience ... Experience comes from Bad Judgement.
Mistakes for me here, too.
I flat-out used the wrong pin last year on a spike on day 3 of my hunt. I\'ve often thought that I would have loved to kill that bull ... but since I missed, I kept hunting, and in the next 5 days had multiple close encounters with mature bulls and learned of two new \"honey holes\" that I would not otherwise know about.
I\'ve thought of that recently ... I would have really enjoyed packing that spike out ... but now I\'m kind of glad I screwed-up.
Mistakes for me here, too.
I flat-out used the wrong pin last year on a spike on day 3 of my hunt. I\'ve often thought that I would have loved to kill that bull ... but since I missed, I kept hunting, and in the next 5 days had multiple close encounters with mature bulls and learned of two new \"honey holes\" that I would not otherwise know about.
I\'ve thought of that recently ... I would have really enjoyed packing that spike out ... but now I\'m kind of glad I screwed-up.
I learn more from my mystakes. I have made more of them. My sucess might have just been dumb luck. I was 3/4 of a mile from camp sitting on a rock ledge overlooking a stream with a small grassy area on the otherside when 3 cows with their calves walked down to graze and drink. I will take dumb luck. It taste better than tag soup.
ORelksniper
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When I screw up I usually make multiple mistakes and I\'m not sure which one blew up the encounter. When I\'m successful I\'m never sure if I actually did something right or lady luck smiled on me.
All that said, my answer is C: Other.
I learn best from closely watching other hunters who are successful. I absolutely love watching a master at work.
All that said, my answer is C: Other.
I learn best from closely watching other hunters who are successful. I absolutely love watching a master at work.
elkmtngear
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\"OR elk sniper\" said:
I like that answer. I probably learned more from my \"Elk Mentor\" back in the day than anything I gained from my own encounters.
The best stuff I have learned came from finding some things that worked. I have a hard time with just learning from failures, because I don\'t know why it did not work, or what to do to make corrections. To make matters worse, I do not always know if it was a mistake. It may have been just bad luck, but when something works, then I try it again and again. I believe one thing that really helps is hunting the same area year after year. Knowing the elk in your hunting area and how they act and where they go is important.
elkmtngear
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\"Swede\" said:
Yeah, when a course of action works out once, the light bulb comes on :idea:
When lightning strikes twice...that\'s money :upthumb:
Thats kind of a tuff one. When I have made mistakes I have been in the elk and sometimes I have thought that if I had done this or that it would have turned out differently.
But it seems like another time it seems like I did basically everything the same and it worked out. I feel like what was a mistake one time could be the way to go in a different situation.
Seams to me every time I go out no matter what I am hunting there is something that I say I wont do again but all ways do :crazy:
But it seems like another time it seems like I did basically everything the same and it worked out. I feel like what was a mistake one time could be the way to go in a different situation.
Seams to me every time I go out no matter what I am hunting there is something that I say I wont do again but all ways do :crazy:
I am on the ship where both failures and success aid in learning, but the failures have helped me become better at success. Not only my failures, but every night at camp my brothers, friends and I relay our daily stories on what happened on our hunts. Then there are times when I run into other hunters and watch/listen to what they are doing and see how the elk react.
Example #1: My brother stalked to within 35 yards of the biggest bull (he estimates 340) he had ever seen in an OTC unit in CO. The bull came within 20 yards and my brother was thinking he had a slam dunk, but when he released his arrow it barely left the string and peetered out under the bull. It didn\'t quite know what just happened, but it eneded up walking away. Upon inspection, his knock had a crack in it and when the string was released the force of the string broke one of the ears of the knock off. Lesson learned - check your equipment.
Example #2: Last year bowhunting we decided to hunt a lower elevation and could hear real elk bugling and bugling hunters challing to them. I had seen this before, where the guys thought they were in a Primos video and were calling and pursuing the elk and the elk kept bugling but would distance themselves. We tried to move silently and quickly to the edge of the publid land to attempt and ambush the elk, but the bugling hunters pushed the elk onto private land. Those guys meet up with us at our camp and said they had been talking with the elk all week but they just kept heading to the public land. This is why I typically do not call, once an elk hears a call, they will know that it is either a real elk, or something else and they will focus on that position. If they do not physically see an elk after a while, especially if the callers are stationary and are not moving toward the elk, then I have seen the elk head out. Lesson learned - try to ambush a little more rather than thinking the elk will run up to calls.
Example #3: I had a cow rifle tag in CO\'s 2nd rifle season and we hiked 3 miles from camp to an area we typically see elk. There was some snow on the ground, it was a quiet morning and one could hear seemingly over the next ridge. We stayed put didn\'t call and then I heard snow crunching from below. I alerted my brother and friend and we waited, listened and sat quietly. After a few minutes I could see the cow coming up from below to my left. At 80 yards the 300 win mag jumped and double lunged the cow. She had no idea where the shot came from and actually ran to us and past us at 10 yards and piled up 50 yards away. Lesson Learned - be patient.
Example #1: My brother stalked to within 35 yards of the biggest bull (he estimates 340) he had ever seen in an OTC unit in CO. The bull came within 20 yards and my brother was thinking he had a slam dunk, but when he released his arrow it barely left the string and peetered out under the bull. It didn\'t quite know what just happened, but it eneded up walking away. Upon inspection, his knock had a crack in it and when the string was released the force of the string broke one of the ears of the knock off. Lesson learned - check your equipment.
Example #2: Last year bowhunting we decided to hunt a lower elevation and could hear real elk bugling and bugling hunters challing to them. I had seen this before, where the guys thought they were in a Primos video and were calling and pursuing the elk and the elk kept bugling but would distance themselves. We tried to move silently and quickly to the edge of the publid land to attempt and ambush the elk, but the bugling hunters pushed the elk onto private land. Those guys meet up with us at our camp and said they had been talking with the elk all week but they just kept heading to the public land. This is why I typically do not call, once an elk hears a call, they will know that it is either a real elk, or something else and they will focus on that position. If they do not physically see an elk after a while, especially if the callers are stationary and are not moving toward the elk, then I have seen the elk head out. Lesson learned - try to ambush a little more rather than thinking the elk will run up to calls.
Example #3: I had a cow rifle tag in CO\'s 2nd rifle season and we hiked 3 miles from camp to an area we typically see elk. There was some snow on the ground, it was a quiet morning and one could hear seemingly over the next ridge. We stayed put didn\'t call and then I heard snow crunching from below. I alerted my brother and friend and we waited, listened and sat quietly. After a few minutes I could see the cow coming up from below to my left. At 80 yards the 300 win mag jumped and double lunged the cow. She had no idea where the shot came from and actually ran to us and past us at 10 yards and piled up 50 yards away. Lesson Learned - be patient.
