Advice given; advice taken - it's only as good as it proves to be.

When all else fails, stand still ...

beware the 'Champagne taste, beer budget' syndrome

watch,listen,learn...try,succeed...pass it on

Be grateful of your mentors; they already kicked the rocks.

have a spare key made to put in your wallet that way if you are out in middle now where can still get in your car.  As soon as you see a deer coming and have the chance sand up, makes you mobile.  If you think you will out smart a flock of turkey's you are already wrong, when stalking them.

Learned this year...

Practice shooting from kneeling, sqwating, cross body shots, from below a target on a hill, from a tree stand hanging sideways. But when you set down for lunch with your butt on the ground and your back against the tree. That Buck will remind you, you never practiced one from that position.

No matter how good the shot was, Wait, Wait, Wait before tracking. Bucks are strong Critters when they feel chased.

When you be waiting for that buck to take the one step that is needed for the shot you are very vulnerable to the does sneaking up 10' behind you. At the sound of the snort I don't know who jumped farthest, me or the buck. I sure was in deep concentration on that shot to be. So I guess, one needs to use the eyes in the back of one's head too.    

"stretch and drink lots of water..."
Kurt Vonnegut

Snoring is my best turkey call.
Never leave your bow in the tree when you get down to answer the call of nature (peeing in a creek seems to be a good deer call.)
Never use old wooden permanent stands, even when someone tells you there fine.
Just about the time you think the lightning storm will pass, it hits.
GPS do not work well in lightning storms.
Have good rain gear when hunting the mountains.
Never forget TP and never give all of yours to someone else.  That's when your body decides it did not like the food you ate.

If you hunt with a 3 piece recurve or longbow,use mink oil, camp dry,or some sort of waterproofing on the felt between your limbs and riser to help keep out the water.

Probably the best advice I have ever gotten came form my grandfather, when I was a little guy. NEVER pee into the wind! Still just as relavent today.
Bill

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is the point in time where preparation meets opportunity.

Also I like to tie a 4" piece of white thread onto the front center part of the platform on my treestand.  With a quick glance you will always know the wind direction.

Dont pass up an animal on the first day of the hunt that you'd be happy with on the last day.

It took me years to get that into my goldfish brain.


AK.

Trim the bowarm on your ghillie suit AND any parts that hang down near your crotch!  
Human urine on a ghillie suit  IS NOT a cover scent.

I learned this this year.

For a right handed archer - if you hunt sitting cross-legged on the ground, don't put your pack / rattle bag / etc. on your left side.  Lower limb intersecting gear = missed buck.

QuoteOriginally posted by Dave Bulla:
Your thinking huh?


Or, to paraphrase a line from Gene and Barry Wensels book Come November, "In every wood lot, there is ONE tree that more deer walk past than any other tree in the wood lot."

That pretty much sums it up.I will never forget that one.      

QuoteOriginally posted by TimRadke:
The more someone's mouth is open, the more it's usually wrong.

I like that advise!