What Age were You when it started to Change how you Hunted?
10-11-2012, 05:28 AM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: MICHIGAN
Posts: 2,568
I'll be 66 soon. I also am a diabetic on inslin for a couple years now. I stopped bow hunting a few years back when My hunting partner died. Just not the same bow hunting and no one to share the day with that under stands.
As for the rest of deer season I rarely miss a day hunting. I am very picky usally have the buck picked out long before the season starts. I cut my own fire wood and hand split it for the house and deer camp. Me and my remaining dog goes for a long walk every morning and evening. I shoot more critters with my camera than any thing else. I carry a camera in my truck too, makes my hunting season all year long.
Al
As for the rest of deer season I rarely miss a day hunting. I am very picky usally have the buck picked out long before the season starts. I cut my own fire wood and hand split it for the house and deer camp. Me and my remaining dog goes for a long walk every morning and evening. I shoot more critters with my camera than any thing else. I carry a camera in my truck too, makes my hunting season all year long.
Al
10-12-2012, 05:44 AM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Northern Chautauqua Co. N.Y.
Posts: 2,976
I'll try and sum this up a little better.....I like hunting the colder weather and the rut for bow season. Since our bow season started 2 weeks earlier this year I'd still be waiting for the opener and doing stuff around the yard to get ready for winter, wich Im still doing. Once the beginning of november rolls around you wont catch me anywhere but in my tree stand, I love the rut.
Once rifle season opens in the 3 week of november I'll also be out every day (execpt in the pouring rain) with my MLer in hand. I'll still drag out my own deer and refuse the 4 wheeler and enjoy the company of others and fill my freezer.
Nothing gets me more pumped up than seeing a nice big set of buck tracks in the new fallen snow when temps are close to Zero.
(BP)
Once rifle season opens in the 3 week of november I'll also be out every day (execpt in the pouring rain) with my MLer in hand. I'll still drag out my own deer and refuse the 4 wheeler and enjoy the company of others and fill my freezer.
Nothing gets me more pumped up than seeing a nice big set of buck tracks in the new fallen snow when temps are close to Zero.
(BP)
10-12-2012, 05:53 AM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Northern Chautauqua Co. N.Y.
Posts: 2,976
I'll try and sum this up a little better.....I like hunting the colder weather and the rut for bow season. Since our bow season started 2 weeks earlier this year I'd still be waiting for the opener and doing stuff around the yard to get ready for winter, wich Im still doing. Once the beginning of november rolls around you wont catch me anywhere but in my tree stand, I love the rut.
Once rifle season opens in the 3 week of november I'll also be out every day (execpt in the pouring rain) with my MLer in hand. I'll still drag out my own deer and refuse the 4 wheeler and enjoy the company of others and fill my freezer.
Nothing gets me more pumped up than seeing a nice big set of buck tracks in the new fallen snow when temps are close to Zero.
(BP)
Once rifle season opens in the 3 week of november I'll also be out every day (execpt in the pouring rain) with my MLer in hand. I'll still drag out my own deer and refuse the 4 wheeler and enjoy the company of others and fill my freezer.
Nothing gets me more pumped up than seeing a nice big set of buck tracks in the new fallen snow when temps are close to Zero.
(BP)
10-12-2012, 01:32 PM
#24
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Navarre, Florida
Posts: 108
I'll be 66 soon. I also am a diabetic on inslin for a couple years now. I stopped bow hunting a few years back when My hunting partner died. Just not the same bow hunting and no one to share the day with that under stands.
As for the rest of deer season I rarely miss a day hunting. I am very picky usally have the buck picked out long before the season starts. I cut my own fire wood and hand split it for the house and deer camp. Me and my remaining dog goes for a long walk every morning and evening. I shoot more critters with my camera than any thing else. I carry a camera in my truck too, makes my hunting season all year long.
Al
As for the rest of deer season I rarely miss a day hunting. I am very picky usally have the buck picked out long before the season starts. I cut my own fire wood and hand split it for the house and deer camp. Me and my remaining dog goes for a long walk every morning and evening. I shoot more critters with my camera than any thing else. I carry a camera in my truck too, makes my hunting season all year long.
Al
10-12-2012, 02:04 PM
#25
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 41
Welli turned 50 last April and up until this year I too had never missed an opening day of Bowseason but this year I had t admit to my self that my shoulders just would not let me bow hunt any longer! : (
I have just totaly wore them out as you see, sence I was 15 I have shot archery every day of my life thats right I had made it a habit to shoot at least 1 hr. every day. I use to shot Pro many a year ago. NOW I am going to get me a crossbow as it is now leag. here in my state he whole archery season. : )
Getting me a Barnet BUCK COMMANDER 365 fps. WOW
But as we get OLDER we have to slow down well just a little. LOL
I have just totaly wore them out as you see, sence I was 15 I have shot archery every day of my life thats right I had made it a habit to shoot at least 1 hr. every day. I use to shot Pro many a year ago. NOW I am going to get me a crossbow as it is now leag. here in my state he whole archery season. : )
Getting me a Barnet BUCK COMMANDER 365 fps. WOW
But as we get OLDER we have to slow down well just a little. LOL
10-12-2012, 03:50 PM
#26
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: IndianaKY
Posts: 244
In my second (current) marriage, we had 3 kids in the first 5 years. I went from hunting everything all the time, to one, maybe two long weekend to 5 day hunts a year. I am 48, and generally feel like crap most of the time, but I would feel a WHOLE LOT BETTER if I spent more time in the field
10-12-2012, 04:21 PM
#27
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Chippewa Falls WI
Posts: 914
I had my eccalibur all ready to go last year never used it noting even strung and our season is 6 weeks old. No place to hunt no one to hunt with any more. I think I will sell it all. Gun season coming I cant even get interested. My get up and go just got up and left.
Last edited by Johnmorris; 10-13-2012 at 09:24 AM.
10-12-2012, 06:37 PM
#29
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
When I was young, I could hardly sleep when deer season opening day approached. And I used to hunt as hard as my work would let me. Then after I retired, I spent a lot of time hunting everything. I have a great friend that used to hunt with me, ride wheeler, go fishing, etc.. but he had a stroke. And after he stopped hunting, I kind of lost the love of it. I still went, but really did not care if I got anything. And if the weather was bad, then I just went home. Then the mass deer herd shooting started in the State and soon there were no deer in my area hardly. Then I really lost interest. I would wait for a good snow and try to walk one up. But with the knees going out more often, and other health issues.. I really have lost the drive. I still enjoy hunting, but now on my terms.
10-14-2012, 05:24 AM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: MICHIGAN
Posts: 2,568
Loosing a hunting, fishing and just plain good friend is tramitic. In my case it effected my fishing and bow hunting, I just don't go, or much. The love of being out doors and seeing wild life has kept me in the firearm mode of deer hunting even in the rain and wet sticky snows. I have 4 of these on our UPPER deer camp for those nasty days.
Just put on a slicker, tuck in the rifle, camera still and movie underneath and climb up in the blind after a short walk. My father in law who stopped hunting when his partner died (his dad) enjoyed the movies and thought it was neat to see the deer laying under a bush down range stand and shake the water off like a dog, turn around and lay back down.
I have two of these in the back yard and woods at home in the Lower. I have a third in the front yard too.
Then there are the 3 portable ones I can set up when I get access to a parcel to hunt. I hardly use the Ameristeps any longer zippers tend to freeze up in a rain followed by a cold snap or a wet sticky snow then a freeze.
One I took to a canvase shop and had them install a flap over all the zippers. Cost almost as much as the blind to have just one done.
Al
Just put on a slicker, tuck in the rifle, camera still and movie underneath and climb up in the blind after a short walk. My father in law who stopped hunting when his partner died (his dad) enjoyed the movies and thought it was neat to see the deer laying under a bush down range stand and shake the water off like a dog, turn around and lay back down.
I have two of these in the back yard and woods at home in the Lower. I have a third in the front yard too.
Then there are the 3 portable ones I can set up when I get access to a parcel to hunt. I hardly use the Ameristeps any longer zippers tend to freeze up in a rain followed by a cold snap or a wet sticky snow then a freeze.
One I took to a canvase shop and had them install a flap over all the zippers. Cost almost as much as the blind to have just one done.
Al