By Alex Comstock
This winter, we filmed and produced a three part video series covering numerous topics revolving around saddle hunting. In case you didn’t catch them on our YouTube channel, I wanted to share them with you here and provide a thought on each video on what I find to be most important when it comes to saddle hunting.
Biggest Takeaway - My biggest takeaway from my 2023 saddle hunting setup is to come up with the best system that works for you. Just because this is the system that works the best for me, doesn’t mean it’s the best system that works for you. Play around with your system, and get comfortable with it. When you’re comfortable saddle hunting, you’ll hunt much more confident.
Biggest Takeaway - My biggest takeaway from the saddle hunting tips shared in this video is practice, practice, practice. Once you come up with your system, practicing with it will make you a much better hunter. I practice going up the tree, practice in the dark and practice shooting. When falls rolls around, you want everything to be second nature.
Biggest Takeaway - My biggest takeaway from this video is that saddle hunting is most definitely worth it. The amount in which you saddle hunt can largely depend on what kind of deer hunting you do most. Do you want to be mobile? If so, you may want to heavily invest in saddle hunting. Or, on the other end of the spectrum you may have your own property with numerous set stands you can leave all year. In this case, saddle hunting can be just an additional tool you utilize, even if you don’t do it that much.
Conclusion - By no means am I saying you have to saddle hunt to kill big bucks. I hunted most of my life without saddle hunting, but after my first year of doing it, and hunting out of a saddle more than 50 times, there’s a lot I learned and I believe it can most definitely help you become a better hunter.
