[HeskethPritchard]

Is it "seeing" them or getting into (or back into) the groove?

I find that if I have not been hunting for a while I lose the knack of knowing what to look for but thankfully it is only a matter of minutes before I find the groove again and all is well with the world.

In my peak I saw the caudal patch of a deer whilst out hunting with Brown Dog, I pointed it out, it wasn't that he couldn't see it, he was looking the other way but when he turned and clocked it he was amazed it was close to 1k away!!! At that range it was just a small white dot on the other side of the valley and more but it was a deer.

I got hunting with other colleagues and they see far more than me e.g. just an ear in the long grass, could I see it, no way, put the bino's up and bingo there it was and we both see using glasses. I'm not tuned to seeing them (ears) and its hellish hard (for me) to tune into them but I will keep working on it.

I think they just don't know "what" to look for but if your putting a buddy in front of full grown deer at under 200m and there is nothing obstructing the outline profile DONT HUNT BEAR WITH THEM LOL!!

Seriously, if they cant see at that range then something is completely wrong. Has he had his eyes checked? Is he realllllly into hunting or just making you happy, I'm not critiscising but if I took my girl hunting she wouldn't see them not because she cant but because she doesn't want to, she thinks hunting is boring and so wouldn't be interested in seeing them. Just a thought.

It would be interesting to see (no pun intended) what the other guys have to say on their experiences of this.