- Start Val-des-Bois at 7 am, at Maison du Neant
- RUN 2/3 or so of the way down to the river; feel free to do a red deer call or two along the way, and if there's a response, slow down so as not to spook them
- Head to the river, where the stand is on my map. Call a bit, and watch what comes in; a lot of times I get big bulls come over from north of the river, or south where I came from, or more commonly, from the river to the east along either shore (in tree cover, at first).
- After a few minutes, if nothing turns up, just head east. Go along the water for a bit, but then cut south into the forest and skirt the river, as I've found a lot of red deer tend to be wandering down the river toward your first call.
- Go to the meadow where I've got the ground blind on my map, and call. I almost invariably have red deer herds/bulls come from the mountains south, the mountains north over the river, and a bunch along the eastern river and through the forest east.
- I usually stay an hour or two (game-time) maximum, and in that time run out of ammo.
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Screenshots of the fun, and the land surrounding the blind:
![Image](https://photo.thehunter.com/d6/d9/d6d9fb95a148d49e73730a01704122e2653c331a.jpg)
![Image](https://photo.thehunter.com/b0/59/b059cf6f0624b8dcb7f91d82e556fdaa90c46475.jpg)
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Another piece of advice... DO NOT get overeager and leave the blind to take a trophy shot. Wait for a long while until you've made a few kills and are 100% sure nothing else is coming in. Otherwise, this happens, and something gets spooked:
![Image](https://photo.thehunter.com/4a/81/4a81112f150ab4539ad41955d67b0b1016791943.jpg)
Here's an example hunt, with times and harvests -
https://www.thehunter.com/#profile/thes ... n/71514299
P.S. Loving the InstinctiveArcher Heavy Recurve Bow. Really awesome real life design he made, and wonderful port into the game. I chose it for my first bow, and definitely am not regretting it
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