You seem knowledgeable I’ve never been hunting before and it seems as though I cant cause harm to any animal. How do I overcome that?

Made a bow and everything but I can never complete a hunt; its not fear I think but empathy for the animal.

Hey. One of the things you could do to kind of help prepare your self with being self reliant is to build your own long bow and take it out and hunt. When I was younger I made bows just to shoot at targets. But honestly it feels so much better to harvest an animal that you shot with a bow than a gun. Hunting with a bow takes A LOT more skill from tracking to where to put the arrow in the deer. With a gun it’s point and shoot. Or compensate and shoot.

I hunt whitetail, turkey, coyote, and rabbit. All of them provide something for me. So when you go hunting for whitetail you usually wanna scout some possible running trails a couple months ahead of your season. And then once right before your season, but don’t run all up and down that trail. Ok, so after that with bow hunting you find a solid tree to put your stand up into (youtube how to put up a tree stand). Then you usually want to get that stand 20mins before sunlight, because once the sun comes up, the deer are up. If you get one to come in great, make sure you hold steady and right on the heart. If you don’t, don’t try to leave and come back to the stand a lot. Maybe leave once for Lunch and then come back about an hour before sunset if you can. Rule Suns up=Deer up Suns down= Deer down. Also when your scouting the area making sure you look to see what kind of camo you will need, ex) Light vs dark camo. Make sure you have hunting arrow tips too, not target tips. (I’ve seen hunters with target tips before) And when your done, it may sound cheesy, but thank god for your harvest. If you have any questions feel free to reply :)

Thanks for sharing!