Hello Everyone!
These next 3 or 4 months are probably going to be the most exciting times for us
hunters. This is the season we all wait for!
Before we get into the meat of things, I want to mention that we updated our website with some useful stuff. We now have a moon phase calendar, deer density charts, access to topo maps, antler growth stage photos and more. We still have more goodies to upload, so stay tuned! On another note, we changed our name from Great White Hunter, to Non-Typical Hunter.
Times have changed and we have to change with the times. So, our new website address will be www.nontypicalhunter.net instead of the old one. If you go to the old website address, it will redirect you to the new address for one year. After that, lets hope you have the new address saved in your browser favorites.

We will also be moving our forum. That will be linked to our website, so it will be easy to find.








 
If you haven’t already signed up for the forum, now would be a great time to get into the discussions.
I hope we see you there.

Time to focus on Whitetails!
In some parts of the country, the time finally came……hunting season for whitetails.
For the rest of us, we still have to wait until October.                                                                                                                        




Now is the time for you to ask yourself: Do I want to kill the first deer I see or do I want to go after a big buck?

Now if you want to go after just any size deer, you can delete this email newsletter now because you won’t need it. If you want to go after a big buck, then it’s time to read. It’s decision time folks. Do you have any big heads mounted on your wall? Do you want big heads mounted on your wall? Then go for it.
I’m going to sum up decades of experience in just a few paragraphs. In fact, these very words might be enough for you to do something different this year, if not, they’ll just be words.
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Hopefully by now, you have done your pre-season scouting. You have a general idea where you want to hunt. Lets start at the beginning:
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Getting to your stand. When I give a seminar, sometimes I have the audience close their eyes when I get ready to speak.
 I’ll have an associate take 2 or 3 different types of spray bottles filled with different scents and quietly spray different corners of the room with these scents. No one can hear the spray, but I can see their facial expressions. I watch them flinch, noses twinge and so forth. I try to distract them, so I talk about something menial.

After about a minute or so, I have them open their eyes and ask them some questions. I ask them what was going through their minds. They eventually tell me that they heard strange noises and started smelling certain scents. They tell me that their senses were elevated to the point where they could tell what was going on around them.

Now amplify those senses by about 1000 times, and now, ladies and gentlemen, you have experienced what a whitetail knows about you each time you enter the woods. A mature whitetail sits and smells, then listens, then smells again and so forth. Very rarely does he ever see you unless you jump him.
 You want to know why you hardly ever see a mature buck? It’s because you walk into the woods, smelling like the truck you just drove in, smelling like the food you just ate, smelling like the aftershave or perfume you had on and so forth. It’s because you sounded like a human walking through the woods, kicking up leaves, sniffling and so forth. As far as any big buck is concerned, you’re busted buddy! You are now officially depending on luck, and good luck at that!

Total concealment is crucial if not absolutely essential. Camouflage isn’t just covering your clothes with a good quality-hunting garment; it is concealing everything about you! Your body must be a neutral smelling object and it is a lot of work getting it to that stage. DO IT! When walking to your stand, walk like a deer. Heel only or toe only! That double sound from your feet (heel-to-toe) will give you away in a heartbeat. Think not? How many times were you in the stand and could tell the difference between a deer, turkey or a squirrel walking up behind you?
 It’s no difference folks. Some of us can even tell the difference between a mature buck walking up from behind compared to a smaller buck or doe. Oh yea, it’s that critical.
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Climbing a stand can blow it for you also. You need to hug that tree and keep your silhouette from being exposed. You might as well be a flagpole waving at everyone if you can bee seen. Moving through the woods should be tree-to-tree and not straight down a path. Hey, if this is too much work for you, big bucks can also be seen in magazines, because you won’t have very many to look at on your wall.

Selecting a stand based on the wind is so crucial, I can’t even begin to explain. But I will tell you this; I hunt mostly on the ground and I watch my scent like my life depends upon it.
It should be no different in a stand. I watch the wind on every move I make. One mistake, and you just walked into a buck’s living room with a smoke bomb attached to your belly. Busted again.














































 
The Hunt
Go for the skunked hunt! That’s right, it’s OK to get skunked.


 Get skunked over and over again if that’s what it takes to get a big buck. By letting the little ones walk, they not only get older, but it also gives you a chance at the larger bucks. Those big bucks wait for the smaller bucks to do their dirty work. Once they feel it’s safe for them, they then decide to make the move. I’ve had other hunters tell me that that they get enjoyment from killing smaller bucks and that trophy hunters should back off the “let em go and let em grow” attitude. That’s fine with me. If killing a small buck gives them enjoyment, I’m all for it. It’s just funny how most of the same hunters also drool over huge mounted heads and complain they never see any that big. There is a reason for everything, my friend. 
Besides, how many memorable hunts are there with basket racks as compared to monster racks? Not many.  As most of our readers know, we do some goofy things to find big bucks. You’re aware that we have been pushing the “string method” over and over to our readers. Well we are starting to get some feedback from our readers about what they’re finding.

Here is what Allan Woodruff of Illinois said when he wrote to us last week:
“I have been threading trails for several weeks now and the results are eye-opening”……. “Places that I thought were good ones, well the thread has been there for 2 weeks and nothing. Am looking forward to the next newsletter. Thanks”
Allan just saved himself weeks of hunting in a dead area.

Here is what Jodi Barlow from Ohio said last week:
“I am so exited to hunt this year! I tried the string thing you talked about and now have several downed strings in the same area. Completely different section of ground I was hunting on the last 4 years. I never dreamed I had a big buck hiding on our ground.”
This “big buck” fever that many of us have can only be cured by doing your homework, so let’s do it!

















People, Places and other good things.

Keith Wahlig

Last month, I was scheduled to speak at the Fur, Fin and Fowl festival in Pekin, IL. Another gentleman,
Keith Wahlig, was scheduled to speak the same time as I was, but in a different part of the expo. I had a
chance to speak with Keith for some time and enjoyed his company. Keith is on the pro-staff of Knight and
Hale game calls. He is a champion turkey caller from Missouri, in fact, he is the state champ. He shares his
love of the outdoors with many of us and like myself, loves to work with today’s youth. If you get a chance
to see him speak, I would advise you do.

New Jersey Hunter

Talk about an invasion! Wow. What a good group of guys. Now you don’t see this kind of loyalty too often.
The New Jersey Hunter is a hunting forum with about 3000 members. They caught wind that we were starting
a brand new forum so they spread the word and they piled in! Now most hunters are funny about jumping state
lines to join new forums. Not these guys. If you get a chance, check out their forum:
http://www.newjerseyhunter.com   .
These guys love to hunt, love to share ideas and will welcome you aboard.
Never a dull moment with the Jersey guys (and gals)!


Product Tested
This month we tested some products from 24 Seven Scents. 24 Seven Scents is part of the
MDR Outdoor group. 24 Seven created a very unique product.
  How do you compete in an environment where everyone is trying to sell you buck and doe urine? How do you know which is best? What makes one better than the other? Well for starters, if you want to stand way out in front of the others, you start by making your scents last longer and that is just what 24 Seven Scents did. First and foremost, deer urine is a pricey little tool that hunters use to get the attention of other desirable deer. Pricey? Did I say that? Yes, pricey it is. 1 once of doe pee is way more than a gallon of gas, milk or orange juice. Indeed, a little goes a long way, but if you have an entire season to hunt and many places at that, the consumption rate could exceed the pocket book. 24 Seven Scents took hunting with scents, up the echelon a step or two by creating granules that “hold” your scent within the granule itself, thus staving off environmental stresses.
You simply pour your own deer urine over the time-released granules and then place them over a mock scrape,
real scrape, etc. depending on the type of scent you’re using. They not only come in an unscented form, they
also carry pre-treated granules in doe estrus, dominant buck, and early buck scents. Although it is too early to
test most of their scents in our pro-staffers’ hunting environments, we did test some of these products for their
ability to hold scents outdoors and they did exceptionally well as compared to ordinary scents. We give the 24
Seven Scents a thumb’s up for their innovative products! You can visit 24 Seven Scents at:
http://www.mdroutdoorgroup.com  .

Website of Interest
If any of our readers are in business or if they have any hunting related services to
offer, please visit "Hunt of a Lifetime".

Hunt of a lifetime takes children with terrible diseases and makes their wish come true. They gather resources
from people all across America to provide these children with a hunt of a lifetime. They take services from
taxidermists, guide services, take clothing, will accept places to hunt, etc. Is there is anything more rewarding
than giving a seriously ill child a chance to see the outdoors and to hunt in the wild, in some cases for their
very last time? Hunt of a lifetime is a non-profit organization made up of people like you and me.

Please visit them at: http://www.huntofalifetime.org/index.shtml  

We donate our taxidermy service to these children and wish to have others across America join in and show
support for a great cause. I hope to see your name on their website!

Short Story Time 
Ron Cook, our Pro-Staff expert from Wisconsin chimes-in with his 2-cents on
whitetails. As stated in our website, Ron is a big-buck hammering machine
and has a wall full of monsters, so listen up folks!

 


For years I have hunted like everyone else that I know:
hunting from daybreak until 9:30 a.m. then going for
breakfast and hanging out with "the guys" until time to
go back to my stand at 2:00 p.m. There is a major problem
with this style of hunting: you are educating the deer. Every
time you walk out, you alert them to your presence and
interrupt their actions. Then when you return to your stand
you again alert and distract them, so basically the deer are
now aware of your "pattern".

Like many hunters, I feel that my best chance of killing a
big buck is during the rut. In Illinois, where I hunt, the first
two weeks of November are prime rutting weeks. One year,
in the first week of November, I started seeing bucks while I
was on my morning stand. That got me to wondering what I
was not seeing when I leave my stand in the afternoon.….for
four hours. I decided then, the next time I would bring enough
food and drink for the whole day. On November 5th, my first
full day, I had no sooner gotten into my stand when I started
seeing bucks! By 9:30a.m. I had seen five different bucks!
Between 9:30 and 1:30 I had seen another six of them! Two
of those six were definite shooters, but were out of range.
Then between 1:30 and sunset I saw another five bucks.
This proved to me the wisdom of remaining all day. I had just
seen sixteen bucks that I would have normally missed seeing.

The next day, November 6th, I sat in my stand until 11:30a.m.
and then climbed down to sneak over to another stand
approximately 100 yards away. This offered a slightly different
change of scenery for the last half of my hunting day. I climbed
into my second stand at 11:45 and prepared for the afternoon hunt.
At 12:30, I looked up to see a 150 class, 10-point buck coming my way. He gave me a perfect ten-yard shot. I have now
used this same technique for several years and it seems that the best bucks are up and moving between 11:30 a.m. and
1:30 p.m. Now I knew what I was not seeing when I left for four hours everyday!

One theory is that the deer are somewhat "educated" from years of watching us leave during those hours. Another
theory I have is that the bucks know that the does are bedded during this time period, and so the bucks are up and
cruising from one bedding to another, looking for "hot" does. My advice? Locate your stand along a travel route between
bedding areas. I like to grunt and rattle occasionally during my time on stand. Just do not overdo it! If you hang in there
during that prime period, sooner or later a shooter buck will appear.

In retrospect, there are a couple of important things to remember. First, have enough food and drink to last the whole
day, because if you get hungry you won't make it. Second, you must be dressed to withstand the elements all day.
You can always shed clothes if you get too warm, but if you are cold, that warm coffee shop will beckon to you!
And, of course, if there is a chance of rain, do bring a rain suit. If you are hunting with a partner, it is a good idea
to bring along a walkie-talkie. A brief conversation, every hour or so, will help the time to fly.

Now I am not suggesting that a hunter should sit in his stand all day long, all season long, every day. There will be
many unproductive days and you would be burned out by the time the rut gets into full swing. Here in the Midwest I
suggest all day hunts whenever you can, for the first two weeks in November, especially from November 5th through
November 12th. The important thing to remember, is that considering the time and money we invest in the hunting
season, we should hunt our hardest and spend as much time on the stand during the optimal time periods when the
chances of harvesting a big buck are the best.

I enjoy going to the coffee shop and talking deer hunting as much as anyone, remember though, that donut in the coffee
shop is really sweet, but driving home with a big buck in the bed of your truck is even sweeter.

Ron Cook
Pro Staff 
Non Typical Hunter Inc.
www.nontypicalhunter.net  


Vittles Anyone?
This is one yummy recipe if you like chili! I saved this one for the Fall, as I know you will love it.

Marc's Chili:

2 pounds ground venison
2 - 16oz. cans kidney beans (1 dark red and 1 light red)
2 onions
1 green pepper
4 - 16oz. cans whole tomatoes, peeled
1 tablespoon cumin
Garlic salt & hot seed (hot seed or hot sauce optional)
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
A splash of ginger root.














This concludes this month's newsletter!
Feel free to write to our staff with a story of interest, ideas, or anything else you would like
for us to consider placing in our newsletter! You can also send us your trophy pictures for
our website! This newsletter is about hunter interaction and exchanging ideas, so keep them
coming in!

Tell your hunting partners about our newsletter … get them on board!

See you next month!

Marc Anthony
V.P
Pro Staff
Chief Editor
Non Typical Hunter Inc.
www.nontypicalhunter.net


 

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