ORIGINAL: goherd1111
ORIGINAL: GregH
I had 28 mature buck sightings from my stands. I logged 79 hunts from my stands, over 60 different days. The hunts averaged about 3 hours each. I'm at work or I'd look at my records and tell you how many does, fawns and immature bucks that I saw also.
Greg that is awesome that you log all of that info about your hunts throughout the year. I do it throughout the summer when I am bass fishing but I have never logged my hunts like I do my fishing trips. I believe next year I will try it. Do you use a field journal to keep your records or do you just do it on the computer in excel or word or something similar. Just curious.
I only hunted bow season no gun season for me. Here in Central IL I seen around 20-25 different bucks, this isn't counting bucks that I seen numerous times or more than once. I would say8-10 of them were mature bucks. The rest being smaller.
goherd1111,
My records are made up by me. I started keeping records in 1986. I wrote in a notebook, little stories about my hunts along with the weather and wind. I did this until the late '90s, then got away from records keeping. Then I started back up in 2002. This year I didn't tell the stories, just recorded sightings, weather, wind, AM, PM and stand location. I keep it all on the computer and use excell and chart the info. I did like the story telling though. I thought that one day maybe my grandkids might want to page through my notes, you never know. This year I am going to add a short description of each hunt in my notes. I'm a numbers guy, I like messing with the numbers and making graphs. Here's a couple, look at the info, see what you think.
