How much of a hunter are you?
12-18-2013, 05:15 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Saxonburg Pa
Posts: 3,925
How much of a hunter are you?
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?
12-18-2013, 05:30 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Rapid City, South Dakota
Posts: 3,732
1. yes
2. retired
3. Spend much of the off season hiking, but don't really scout everywhere i could end up hunting, because it is so far. Much of the off season i play tag with deer on public land close to home. When i have a tag in hand, i drive many miles to get to public land, and go hunting, without scouting much.
4. hunt public land only
2. retired
3. Spend much of the off season hiking, but don't really scout everywhere i could end up hunting, because it is so far. Much of the off season i play tag with deer on public land close to home. When i have a tag in hand, i drive many miles to get to public land, and go hunting, without scouting much.
4. hunt public land only
12-18-2013, 06:00 PM
#3
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
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?
Being retired, I hunt when and as much as I want.
I take a walk through my woods every day. If you call that scouting. And I like to wander game trails. I have permanent tree stands. So I don't put them up anymore.
And I hunt private land but do sometimes wander out onto the Federal Forest.
12-18-2013, 06:19 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 1,181
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 yes, and I take at least a week for fishing.
#3- it depends. If I have a super good tag I scout every weekend before the hunt for about a month.
#4- public land only.
I have friends that own land and Idaho has plenty of Access yes land but I don't hunt private. I used to ask but every time I did I got the same thing. I used to let hunters on but they shot my cows or my irrigation lines, or what ever. Then I had to sit through a two hour lecture on how hunters are the worst SOB' in the world. Or I ran into the land owners that think I should pay 100 dollars to hunt the barren plowed field. I am sic of land owners and I won't hunt their land if they ask me to. I lump them in the same heap that they lump me into. I haven't hunted private land for at least 10 years and I don't want to. Not even for the biggest buck or bull in the world. Ron
12-18-2013, 06:22 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 1,181
When I was younger, I used to hunt ever possible chance I got. But the older I have got, then the more I have cut back on my hunting. Mostly due to health.
Being retired, I hunt when and as much as I want.
I take a walk through my woods every day. If you call that scouting. And I like to wander game trails. I have permanent tree stands. So I don't put them up anymore.
And I hunt private land but do sometimes wander out onto the Federal Forest.
Being retired, I hunt when and as much as I want.
I take a walk through my woods every day. If you call that scouting. And I like to wander game trails. I have permanent tree stands. So I don't put them up anymore.
And I hunt private land but do sometimes wander out onto the Federal Forest.
12-18-2013, 06:33 PM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Australia
Posts: 144
I hunt most weekends 12 months a year for big game, plus at least 2-3 weeks of my annual leave as well. During that time I also try to squeeze in ducks and quail during their seasons. Scout red and fallow deer but while they're growing antlers sambar are hard so its year round bone down this way 
Depends on what I'm hunting as to whether its private or public.
It keeps me sane!
Depends on what I'm hunting as to whether its private or public.
It keeps me sane!
12-18-2013, 06:35 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia / West Virginia
Posts: 4,906
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?
) and baseball, and a daughter in MS sports... I don't have nearly the time that I used to. I still hunt a good amount, but not like I used to. I'll get back to my old ways eventually, just right now this is the situation I'm in...and I'm good with it. Wouldn't trade it for a second. 2. I take 1 week specifically for hunting every year, opening week of WV rifle. We go to our cabin. Since I work for myself, I have the ability to go whenever I like..just have to schedule it in.
3. See #1, used to be a ton...now, not as much. I have alot of stands already set up that stay out all season. I just started game cameras this year...love it. Got 2 nice bucks showed up in the past couple weeks right behind my house
4. I hunt private only. I own land where I live in VA, and we have a big farm where our cabin is in WV.
12-19-2013, 03:10 AM
#9
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Comance county, OK
Posts: 11,408
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?