Animal Spooking Guide And Research Logbook

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Animal Spooking Guide And Research Logbook

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Howdy Hunters!

Today I've created both a guide and research project wrapped-up into one package for specifically understanding how various full-bodied clothing perform in different conditions with all the different animals, the conditions in which animals will spook, animal sleep schedule, and more. This is both a guide and a animal hunting research log started by me. Collaboration and contribution to this project by other TheHunter Classic community members is most welcome! How can you contribute? Firstly, by adding data entries of your own to the 'animal sightings log' that is applicable to the current hunting season that you've collected from your own hunts within The Hunter Classic. The more contributors we have making entries in this hunting logbook the better, the faster this project grows as a hunting guide.

It remains to be seen how useful this information will be for our hunting. Bare in mind, this is an experiment. I believe it can be useful and quite interesting what the data may reveal about the animals and how they react to the hunter depending on his/her equipment, clothing, and other variables. Want to know if that face paint is going to give you an extra edge on that Whitetail Deer buck or to simply save the paint? Want to know how far you can press your luck without spooking an animal in certain situations with what you're currently wearing? Want to know whether you should go prone when spotting a certain animal at certain distances or whether you can sneak closer without spooking? Want to know time of day a specific species is sleeping? These are the sorts of questions this research is intended to help us understand more fully within The Hunter Classic.

From the start, this log is mostly blank, with exception to a handful of entries that I've started. This is a research project. Over time, as this logbook fills in with more data, it will become more like a guide for understanding animals better, namely when it comes to conditions that spook them. For community members who wish to contribute data to this log, I've created this spreadsheet as a google document that anyone who follows the link below may view the spreadsheet and edit it. Together we can build this guide much faster as a collaborative effort. :)

As mentioned this spreadsheet is for research purposes. The intent is to gather data that offers a rough estimation and guide for how various cammo/clothing performs in various conditions within The Hunter Classic, what conditions are triggering animals to spook, animal sleep schedules, and more.

Here's how this logbook works.

Every time you spot an animal, it triggers an 'animal-sighting-event' that we will log in the spaces for these entries in the logbook. I have a specific criteria that triggers this event, and we only log the event if it meets that criteria:

Sighting events are triggered by any of the following conditions:

*Spotting Animal (Text Box With Spotting Info Appears) (spooked / unspooked)
*Drawing Weapon + Spotting Animal (spooked / unspooked)
*Animal begins to flee + Seeing Animal (Animal Spooked)
* Seeing or spotting animal sleeping

Here are some general guidelines:

*Each vertical column on the spreadsheet entry, "Spooked? (Y/N)", is for unique animal sightings.
* No multiple sightings of the same animal.
* Only log animals with a trophy value (Generally Males Only).
* Logged events should be the 'closest distance to an animal' you can get before spooking it, and a sighting event has been tiggered. Not as a rule, but as a guideline!
* Only spotted animals count as a sighting event. Other ID clues (calls, tracks, etc.), don't count.


Here's a sample image of the animal sighting log.
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This Animal Spooking Guide And Research Logbook is created as a google spreadsheet. This sheet is open in good faith to TheHunter Forum community and TheHunter Classic gaming community to use, add data, and to edit. Follow link below to access this spreadsheet.

Animal Spooking Guide And Research Logbook
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Questions, feedback, and suggestions welcome!

Happy Hunting! 8-)
~InvisibleFlame9
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Re: Animal Spooking Guide And Research Logbook

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*edited the “sighting trigger conditions” (for clarity only)

Sighting events are triggered by any of the following conditions:

*Spotting Animal (Text Box With Spotting Info Appears) (spooked / unspooked)
*Drawing Weapon + Spotting Animal (spooked / unspooked)
*Animal begins to flee + Seeing Animal (Animal Spooked)
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