Originally Posted by
Topgun 3006
About all I do any more is look and photograph them, especially bull elk that are an absolutely awesome animal and even more so when they are bugling during the rut next month! I've got thousands of pictures saved that I enjoy looking at to remember hunts just like we do when we look at mounts on the wall. I'll tell you one thing and that is to not wait until your an old man to go on a hunt out there and you won't be sorry even if you never shoot anything. Cripes, I hardly even put in for tags any more and just go out to see the country, animals, and help a few friends fill their tags. The last ten years I can honestly say that I've been having as much or more fun doing that than I ever did shooting all the animals I have over 60+ years.
I'm sure I will go back but for now we have decided to quit traveling. We took the daughter to Disney last year and decided that would be our last one for awhile(we have already seen most of the country)
We decided to make more commitments with our money here and just can't afford nor have the time for both. We just had to make a cut.
What we have now is lots on a couple different lakes. One in a campground with our big camper where most of the family camps and one secluded primitive camp only accessible by boat. That is where we spend our spring/summer free time. We have 20ish family members doing the same thing so we all get together there every weekend and we also have a small hunting shack in the family for the /fall/winters.
We are stretched about as thin as we want to be doing all that...its a lot of work between the boat, camper,golf cart,4 wheeler,mowing,keeping the hunting shack functional. Equipment spread out everywhere and trying to keep everything going is about all we can handle but we decided it was the best compromise for the enjoyment of our whole family and so far we really enjoy it. Good company, good food,good fishing, and good hunting.
Our big trip this year will probably be to southern MO for a weekend of trout fishing.
Plus I'm into the business side of hunting now leasing large pieces of land, splitting it up into smaller pieces and sub leasing.