It just meant I knew which way the wind blew....and what that particular animal's habits were.
I agree emphatically with your dad.
that's pretty much the ticket.
I watch some TV hunting from time to time.
the majority of the white tail hunting seems to be hanging out over food plots, feeders, bedding routes,,etc.
you have to know the animal and where they are going to or coming from and when.
then set up to play the wind. [shrug]
they come close enough to get an arrow or stop long enough to catch a bullet of one sort or the other.
around here it's a different game altogether.
you have to find the right area, then find the deer, then work on seeing it again.
now the rough part.
short seasons, high doe to buck ratios, the Deer bail for private ground as soon as any pressure is applied, high hunter numbers [they are free to go anywhere you can go] and we don't get to hunt the rut.
as far as camouflage goes I do and don't wear it.
my hunting coat is [don't laugh] made for duck hunting in cat tails.
it however has allowed me to back slowly across an open grass flat with 10 deer on a ridge above me before shooting one eating up there.
I have also walked up within 15-20 yds of bedded deer wearing a checker pattern black/grey or black/red flannel shirt, and have had them walk up within 50 yds while I have been patiently waiting on the side of a hill.
sometimes deer are just busy doing deer stuff or are worried about some other sound they heard and you could be sitting in a muffler less big block pickup with the radio blaring skrillex and have them walk right past you.