Hunting with a stickbow is never easy. But chasing deer that have been pressured for months makes things even tougher.
Watch as Clay Hayes traipses around the Idaho wilderness looking for a deer in stickbow range and discusses things like fatwood and mulitfloral rose bushes.
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Close, but no cigar. As it often happens with late season deer, just when everything seemed to be coming together, the deer had a different idea.
Having hunted late season whitetails with a both a stickbow and a flintlock muzzleloader for years in hard-hunted Pennsylvania, I've seen a spooky deer or two. The key is to remember that hunts like this one aren't as much about killing deer as they are about having a great experience in the winter woods.
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