RE: How do you handle the down time?
BCmuley you are a lucky hunter to have all of that around you!
Y'all are right about food plots, they take a lot of time. Which is nice in some ways and a pain in others. To be honest I don't really shoot much from December - April. Start it back up in May and shoot everyday through November. Never got into 3D shoots, always wanted to but I am too chicken to go by myself. This spring I am spending trying to get my wife into hunting. At least she likes shooting a bow. I can live with that.