Any way to turn down the sensitivity of animal hearing?

[Sparky]

I can be crouch-walking after an animal (up-wind of me) for an hour and it just keeps hearing me and running away before I can see it. :/

Currently I've just resorted to setting up a hide and chilling it with an animal caller, waiting for something to come by.

[Pinger]

simply no

[Sparky]

Originally posted by Pinger:

simply no

cool

[Mr. Ed]

In my experience following tracks in hopes of bagging the animal that made them is not a very productive use of time since it can easily turn into a several hours long attempt to bag a single animal. I get it if it's a rare or possible diamond animal but otherwise....

[Sparky]

Originally posted by Mr. Ed:

In my experience following tracks in hopes of bagging the animal that made them is not a very productive use of time since it can easily turn into a several hours long attempt to bag a single animal. I get it if it's a rare or possible diamond animal but otherwise....

Unfortunately it's been my only 'reliable' method of tracking down anything to kill. What do you usually do?

[Tenkillsmore]

Almost always game near water, look for need zones, feed zones, check for bottle necks between water and land. Plus go slow and make calls. You can use several calls one after the other [ waiting to hear a response between them]. For a few ideas.

[Sparky]

Originally posted by Tenkillsmore:

Almost always game near water, look for need zones, feed zones, check for bottle necks between water and land. Plus go slow and make calls. You can use several calls one after the other [ waiting to hear a response between them]. For a few ideas.

I mean, I do go to those areas areas but that doesn't stop them from hearing me.

[Hanuman]

I agree with Mr. Ed, I never feel its a useful way to track a single animal down. This does work for some animals; since there are no lures/callers for buffalo and bison, they tend to move slow enough for you to track very fresh tracks and you can kind of sneak up on them a lot of the time.

In general I look for tracks to tell me about animal movement. When I see lots of tracks I sometimes check if they lead to need zones or I will mark them on my actual physical map of the reserve to get a sense of where animals traffic through.

What I enjoy is pick a hunting stand that's upwind from me and about 600m+ away, and just ignore tracks and hunt the animals I run into and attract to me while carefully moving towards the stand. Then, if planned right, I bag a couple animals, get to my stand at the approximate right time to then get to hunt for 2-3 hours ingame while in the hunting stand, by a lake or what have you.

[42]

Originally posted by Sparky:

Originally posted by Tenkillsmore:

Almost always game near water, look for need zones, feed zones, check for bottle necks between water and land. Plus go slow and make calls. You can use several calls one after the other [ waiting to hear a response between them]. For a few ideas.

I mean, I do go to those areas areas but that doesn't stop them from hearing me.

Or do they see you? Buy first all skills that reduces your noise and visiblity. Don't move in open field. Move from tree to tree like the animals do.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Tracking or chasing animals that are not wounded is useless, you cant move fast enough to catch them while keeping quiet enough not to spook them.
You can either set up ambush at need zones or when walking through areas and hearing the animal call hide somewhere and start calling them in.
Also when walking keep an eye on your surroundings with binoculars or weapon scope to spot animals before they see or hear you.
Also keep your eye on the wind so they dont smell you, calling them in when wind is from you to them is usually useless, you can circle around them if possible.

[Sparky]

Originally posted by Dream Master:

I agree with Mr. Ed, I never feel its a useful way to track a single animal down. This does work for some animals; since there are no lures/callers for buffalo and bison, they tend to move slow enough for you to track very fresh tracks and you can kind of sneak up on them a lot of the time.

In general I look for tracks to tell me about animal movement. When I see lots of tracks I sometimes check if they lead to need zones or I will mark them on my actual physical map of the reserve to get a sense of where animals traffic through.

What I enjoy is pick a hunting stand that's upwind from me and about 600m+ away, and just ignore tracks and hunt the animals I run into and attract to me while carefully moving towards the stand. Then, if planned right, I bag a couple animals, get to my stand at the approximate right time to then get to hunt for 2-3 hours ingame while in the hunting stand, by a lake or what have you.

But if you hunt at a stand won't that create insane hunting pressure by it. You'd only get like 1 or 2 kills before you have to move out of the area to a completely new stand.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by Sparky:

But if you hunt at a stand won't that create insane hunting pressure by it. You'd only get like 1 or 2 kills before you have to move out of the area to a completely new stand.

Stands have reduced hunting pressure, while normally you can shoot three animals without removing nearby need zones the stands enable you to shoot more, think it was around 12 or so.

[Sparky]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Originally posted by Sparky:

But if you hunt at a stand won't that create insane hunting pressure by it. You'd only get like 1 or 2 kills before you have to move out of the area to a completely new stand.

Stands have reduced hunting pressure, while normally you can shoot three animals without removing nearby need zones the stands enable you to shoot more, think it was around 12 or so.

Oh wow. Does that happen for the deployable hunting 'tents' as well?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by Sparky:

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Stands have reduced hunting pressure, while normally you can shoot three animals without removing nearby need zones the stands enable you to shoot more, think it was around 12 or so.

Oh wow. Does that happen for the deployable hunting 'tents' as well?

Tri-pods and tree-stands do I think, I dont use them myself though, feels like too industrialized hunting.

[dbump]

I think any of the blinds/stands affect hunting pressure. You can use the waterfowl blind in the middle of a field to hunt deer, if that doesn't bother your sensibilities.

I will say that sometimes I will follow tracks I run across simply to see if they lead to (or from) a need zone that I haven't already found, and that can be lucrative. I have more luck with that for herd animals than predators though that may just be something I'm doing wrong. If the tracks lead in the general direction I was headed anyway, I will follow them a ways to see if I stumble on something useful. It seems like this should work better when you're going the opposite direction of an animals tracks, as you're less likely following one that you spooked. Edit: I suppose you could avoid that by not following trot/run tracks.

[Mr L]

What about following the tracks that that guy keeps saying- he spotted tracks "I'll send the coordinates" Are they worth following?