How much of a hunter are you?
12-19-2013, 03:38 AM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
1- Do you try and hunt every week say October threw January? Deer, small game, varmints, etc?
If I can. Problem is, the U.S. Navy often decides they have better things for me to do than hunt every weekend. But if I'm in the USA I'm usually hunting every chance I get
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
Well, let's see, I have hunted CO, WY, MT, CA, HI, NE, KS, TX, FL, AL, VA, PA, NH in the USA. I have hunted British Columbia and Sask in Canada. I have hunted South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Cameroon in Africa. Does that count?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
Lots of time scouting but I don't use tree stands or game cameras. I still hunt and track. I'm more concerned about knowing where they are moving and where they are feeding and I'll do the rest one step at a time, unguided, by myself.
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
Both. I hunt private land, state land, national forests, national wildlife refuges and military bases. If I can legally get on it, I'll hunt it.
If I can. Problem is, the U.S. Navy often decides they have better things for me to do than hunt every weekend. But if I'm in the USA I'm usually hunting every chance I get
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
Well, let's see, I have hunted CO, WY, MT, CA, HI, NE, KS, TX, FL, AL, VA, PA, NH in the USA. I have hunted British Columbia and Sask in Canada. I have hunted South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Cameroon in Africa. Does that count?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
Lots of time scouting but I don't use tree stands or game cameras. I still hunt and track. I'm more concerned about knowing where they are moving and where they are feeding and I'll do the rest one step at a time, unguided, by myself.
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
Both. I hunt private land, state land, national forests, national wildlife refuges and military bases. If I can legally get on it, I'll hunt it.
12-19-2013, 03:45 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 1,607
1- Do you try and hunt every week say October threw January? Deer, small game, varmints, etc? I try, but it never happens. When I was younger and single, I hunted 200+ days a year. Just cant make that happen now.
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work? Generally yes, 1 week a year to go to CO and 1 for here. The rest is on the weekends when I can find time.
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season? Again, not near as much as I used to. I do run multiple cameras which keeps me entertained. I hunt from the ground primarily so hanging stands has never been a time consuming effort for me.
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly? In CO and TN, private. In VA, public.
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work? Generally yes, 1 week a year to go to CO and 1 for here. The rest is on the weekends when I can find time.
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season? Again, not near as much as I used to. I do run multiple cameras which keeps me entertained. I hunt from the ground primarily so hanging stands has never been a time consuming effort for me.
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly? In CO and TN, private. In VA, public.
12-19-2013, 04:18 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: arkansas
Posts: 3,163
1- Do you try and hunt every week say October threw January? Deer, small game, varmints, etc?
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
1. yes from the start of bow season until through march. Feb and march is mostly squirrel and the conservation goose hunt.
2. I take a week for muzzy hunting and the opening week of gun season.
3. I plant and maintain food plots on the places that I hunt every summer. I have 7 game cams that I put out around the first of July and take up the end of Feb. I have ladder stands for the permanent places that I hunt and have 2 summits and 1 API if I choose to hunt in different locations.
4. Private mostly, I hunt 3 different farms one is in the river bottoms in the delta. Its flat land where rice, soy beans, corn, and peanuts are grown. The other two farms are hill ground, rocky with poor ground, cattle are raised here. One of the hill farms the north and west borders is a WMA (public ground) I do some bowhunting on it every year.
12-19-2013, 04:30 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Onslow County, NC
Posts: 1,856
1- Do you try and hunt every week say October threw January? Deer, small game, varmints, etc?
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
2. Never needed to
3. When not out fishing (Windy days) will head into the woods for a bit check the areas out and check trail cams. Last season been scouting for a bit areas i never been to before, always better to have more areas.
4. Public land but the land is only opened when the base determines it so some days you may find all areas closed and you got nothing to do.
12-19-2013, 03:28 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Saxonburg Pa
Posts: 3,925
12-19-2013, 04:18 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,392
1- Do you try and hunt every week say October threw January? Deer, small game, varmints, etc?
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
Then it's bunny time till Feb. Turkey in May. Then fishing till Aug.
I'm always looking whenever I'm in the bush and if I feel the need to move a stand I do. I usually set up/ move two or three stands each year.
I hunt Public land only so getting away from the crowd is paramount.
Somewhere in between all of this I visit with my wife.
HA
12-19-2013, 04:32 PM
#17
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
12-19-2013, 06:33 PM
#19
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 5,062
1- Do you try and hunt every week say October threw January? Deer, small game, varmints, etc?
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
2- Do you take multiple weeks of vacation for hunting if you work?
3- How much time do you spend scouting and putting up tree stands, putting out cameras etc prior to hunting season?
4- Do you hunt public or private land mostly?
1- The only thing I hunt for is deer. Our bow season starts around the middle of September, and I hunt every chance I get thru the end of the year. So YES, I do hunt every week during those months.
2- I take maybe a few days off for vacation if I am working. My job is pretty flexible, so I usually have some time off anyways.
3- My hunting spot is about 15 acres, and I run 4 trail cams year round. So that is my scouting. I have hunted this spot for about 10 years, so I pretty much know it like the back of my hand, and I dont like to pressure the deer there, so I try to stay out unless I am checking cams. I do try to get out as soon as the snow melts to do some shed hunting, and to just look around. I have 6 ladder stands, that stay out year round. I might move a couple of them thru out the year.
4- Private Land.
