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Deer
Hunting Quiz...
The Deer Hunting Quiz - Can You Pass?
by Mel Gallop
To consistently bag white-tailed deer, the hunter must
learn the answers to many questions, including the behavior patterns of
the animal, the effects of weather and the signs a deer leaves behind
after he has passed through an area. And the more questions a deer taker
can answer about the animal he hunts, the more likely he is to unravel
the riddle of where to find a deer on a particular day.
Sometimes the deer hunter hears and believes wrong information.
Then because he is misinformed, he may miss his rendezvous with the buck.
Take the deer-hunting quiz and see whether you pass or fail.
- 1. Question:
- If you are deer hunting on a flood plain and the woods
are flooded, the best place to find your buck is on dry ground, because
deer don't like to go into water.
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- True
or False
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- 2. Question:
- A hunter can tell a buck's track from a doe's track
because:
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- (a)
the buck's track will be wider than the doe's track;
- (b)
the buck's track will show the dew claws;
- (c)
the buck's track will have the hind feet closer to the front feet;
- (d)
a buck's track will press into the ground further than a doe's due to
the greater weight of the buck;
- (e)
None of the above.
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- 3. Question:
- Correct bullet placement is critical to dropping a
buck in his tracks. The best place to put a bullet in a buck for an
instant, one-shot kill is:
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- (a)
the center of the front shoulder;
- (b)
just behind the front shoulder;
- (c)
in front of the front shoulder;
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- 4. Question:
- Sex scents will lure a buck to where the hunter is
because researchers have discovered a phermone (a chemical substance
that is produced by an animal and serves as a stimulus to other individuals
of the same species for one or more behavioral responses) which indicates
to the buck that the doe is in estrus and ready to be bred.
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- True
or False
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- 5. Question:
- Most hunters agree that when a buck smells human scent
that the chances of bagging the deer become extremely difficult. Therefore
knowing when the scenting conditions are in the buck's favor may be
critical to success. All things being equal, is a buck more likely to
smell a hunter in a tree stand in the morning or in the afternoon and
why?
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- Answer
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- 6. Question:
- If you knew where to find a buck, what time of day
he was most likely to appear and had a favorable wind and the opportunity
to hunt, what weather conditions would provide the optimum chance of
your seeing that deer on the day you plan to take him?
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- (a)
hunting just ahead of a front;
- (b)
hunting during a drizzling rain;
- (c)
hunting right after a fresh snow;
- (d)
hunting a bluebird day;
- (e)
hunting during stable weather conditions.
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- 7. Question:
- If you could choose between the following stand sites
for bagging a buck during the rut, which area would you pick?
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- (a)
a stand 20 to 30 yards off an active scrape;
- (b)
a stand on the edge of a field where you have seen does feeding;
- (c)
a stand in a natural bottleneck between two scraping areas;
- (d)
a stand where you have seen a buck earlier in the season;
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- 8. Question:
- All the bucks within a given area have the right to
and do breed the does in that region.
-
- True
or False
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- 9. Question:
- When hunting areas with high hunter pressure, your
best chances of bagging a buck are to:
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- (a)
find good feeding areas and arrive at those places early before the
other hunters do;
- (b)
locate the most remote regions with the thickest cover and hunt these
places assuming that the deer will prefer sanctuary over any other need;
- (c)
look for the most open spot you can find because the more land you can
see and glass with your binoculars,
- (d)
hunt escape routes knowing that when deer are spooked, they will utilize
these routes to escape hunters;
- (e)
stay up a tree all day, realizing that eventually someone will run a
deer by you because of the large number of people in the woods.
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- 10. Question:
- When hunting in places with high hunter pressure,
the best time to kill the buck is:
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- (a)
in the morning when the hunters are coming into the woods and spooking
deer;
- (b)
in the middle of the day when most hunters leave the woods to eat lunch;
- (c)
in the afternoons when the hunters are going home and spooking deer.
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- 11.
Question:
- If hunters allow the spikes to run, they will increase
the number of heavy antlered bucks that they have to hunt for the next
season.
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- True
or False
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- 12. Question:
- One of the very best things you can do this season
to improve your odds for taking a buck is:
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- (a)
sight in your rifle before your hunt;
- (b)
have your eyes checked;
- (c)
spend as much time scouting before opening week as you do opening week;
- (d)
all of the above.
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- 13. Question:
- Watering holes are one of a
hunter's very best places to take a buck.
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- True
or False
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- 14. Question:
- You are sitting on a tree stand just before dark when
a fine buck walks into view. You squeeze the trigger, and the buck goes
down but just as quickly jumps up and runs off. Rapidly you get down
out of the tree and see blood at the spot where you hit the deer. Do
you:
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- (a)
pursue the deer hoping to find him before dark;
- (b) don't follow the
deer and plan to come back later at night to try and find him;
- (c)
don't run after the deer intending to find him the following morning;
- (d)
follow the deer as far as you can until darkness overtakes you or you
locate the deer, then mark the place where you lost the trail at dark,
and plan to hunt for the deer the next morning.
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- 15. Question:
- Human scent will spook a deer quicker than anything.
To eliminate human scent the hunter should:
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- (a)
bathe well before he hunts;
- (b)
hunt into the wind;
- (c)
use a cover-up scent;
- (d)
make sure he has on clean clothes for hunting.
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