>>2217049>Any advice for a first year archery hunter heading to Wisconsin to hunt white tail deerIt was my first year hunting archery this year albeit muleys in CO. Some things I learned:
>Quieter clothes matterI was wearing milsurp woodland BDUs and if they touched literally anything it wasn't TOO loud, but loud enough to notice.Next year I will probably invest in something quieter but I'm not 100% on what yet and I don't want to spend $400 on a set of fucking camo that I will wear one month out of the year.
>While most bowhunters use mimicry camo, I think disruption is probably a better ideaI can't speak for everyone, but where I hunt is a bunch of different biomes. Within 2 square miles I could go from sage brush, to pinyon juniper woodland, to oak scrub, to aspen groves. There isn't a Mossy Oak or Real Tree on the market that's going to fit that diverse of an area. I think WI is probably a good fit for mimicry since a lot of the forests are the same, but around here that just won't really fly. Also more open farmland is not conducive to archery hunts. I could've killed 40 different bucks if I had a rifle, but you can't really stalk across a fucking bean field.
>If you wear a gaiter, a kisser button is probably going to helpAgain, I can't speak for everyone but I can't really feel the string through the mesh which kind of disrupted my anchor points (knuckle to earlobe, string to corner of mouth). It didn't matter because I never even got the chance to draw my bow which brings me to my last point.
>Your success will likely heavily rely on how much time you spend out in the field.I had multiple bucks in range and before I could draw they were spooked by something out of my control or were on the wrong side of the fence. Once they got spooked by a farmers dog, another got spooked by another hunter, another got spooked by a herd of elk. If I had more time to hunt this year, my chances would have gone up significantly but thems the breaks.
