Don't worry amigo, I'm still a "hunter", I've just been really focused in the last few years on coyotes and deer.

"Care to hunt?" You bet I do. Have time or opportunity to hunt everything I'd like to hunt? Not so much. I travel 180+ days a year for work, so getting out onto EVERYTHING anymore is a challenge, and I flat LOVE rifle hunting, which is basically coyotes and deer, and I flat LOVE coyote calling (ironically much of this winter has been dedicated to taking coyotes with a bow). Wingshooting has just been an on again/off again relationship the last few years.

Ducks/Geese: With our severe drought, most of our smaller honey holes have dried up. I don't have waterdogs anymore, and frankly, there are guys out there that LIVE TO CALL WATERFOWL (same way I LIVE to call coyotes), that are losing their honey holes too. I've given up some of my hunting spots to these guys so they can have their fun, sorta traded off "if you can call ducks over here, I wanna call coyotes over there" type deals.

Upland: 'round about 2005 we hit a bad year for birds. When I was younger, we could limit out with 10 guys in 2hrs or less. After that dry, hot summer, we could walk every saturday and sunday for a month and not see 10 birds. I've gone a few times since then with friends/family or on out of state "customer appreciation" hunts, and about 2009/10 was getting pretty decent again, but after the last two years of drought and hot weather, we're back down to the poorest populations I've seen. If we can find a spot with birds, I love to go walk them down, but there just aren't many that aren't farm raised these days. Same type of deal here, there are guys that LIVE for opening day, I'll walk or block for those guys, but I wanna make sure that those guys get the resource. And again, I trade with some guys, if they let me call coyotes (protecting their limited bird supply), I'll let them walk down some of my properties.

Dove: Dove are always kinda a side-hunt anyway, and we're having the same problem with Dove as we do with Ducks/geese. There's just no water around this year. I did get out this year a few times, me and a buddy took our wives out for the first time, made a day of it, it was pretty mellow, and a lot of fun to get the ladies their first birds.

I do take a few of my younger cousins out a few times each year with my .410's after bunnies (or me and my brother-in-law go blast them with our Glocks), and taking the kids out with BB gun's after pigeons in the barns is a holiday regular every Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

So don't feel too bad for this guy! I still hunt around 70+ days a year, I just keep my focus on the stuff I LIVE to hunt, and then let the other guys focus on their stuff too.