>>1858968Yeah, sounds pretty easy. I've been teaching myself animal scat: squirrel, rabbit, deer (individual pieces and logs depending on diet), otter, fox, coyote, raccoon, and probably more I can't remember at the moment. I know basically everything I'd ever want to hunt within the next few years. Also, I'm not too familiar with scrapes (I don't see many, but do see them), but I'm mainly going to hunt squirrels, anyways, so I'm not really going to be looking for scrapes or scat; I'd be looking for gnawed off bark, nut shells at the base of a tree, their nests (dead leaves in a big ball in the tree). It's been a few years I've been doing this (ignoring when I used to go in the woods when I was younger), so I'm not all that new to IDing animals by pawprints, their scat, where they sleep, and their food leftovers. Also, I know for squirrels, a good sign is certain trees they eat the nuts from.
Apart from that, the other stuff you're supposed to learn is safety, obvious shoot/don't shoot situations, making sure bullets don't go far after the shot (or if you miss), etc.
