ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
...CI as for the statement " thats hunting" I have to disagree with you my friend ...when I hunt I try to leave the woods thinking I have done everything I could that day to harvest a buck ....we did not do everything that could have been done IMHO...we were not looking for excusses but adjustments from our outfitter
Do you have to rely on your outfitter? Why couldn't you make your own adjustments if you were that displeased with the way things were going with him? Heck get down, go throgh the snow, and go stalk something.
NY thats precisely what I did ....on Thursday night I told the outfitter that I would not be hunting the same stand again ...I had gotten down early thursday afternoon and went scouting on my own and found a concentration of fresh tracks in the snow crossing a beaver pond going into some bush...I felt if the tracks were doe tracks which is what they appeared to be that with the rut in swing I might find a buck in the area....as it turned out it must have been night traffic because after two days all I saw was one young buck 10 min before dusk on our last day .... CI thank you my friend ..yeh I will get over it but I did want to share my experience with my friends on the forum ...thought it might help a fellow hunter who may be thinking of going on a trip using a guide or outfitter ...