Any Vacation Left?
 

Here in NYS the gun season starts on Saturday so I thought I'd go shoot my handgun a bit before then. Not that I haven't been shooting all summer. So I head over to my fathers land which is past my bowhunting spot. (kinda weird but I have one landowner that will only let me bowhunt and another that will only let me gun hunt). So I do some shooting and then head home around that magical time of the last hour of day light. I'm driving past the bowhunting land and spot a deer in the field that ajoins the property I hunt so I turn the truck around. As I'm turning around abox truck slams on his brakes, I look and there is a huge body deer standing next to the road. Now I'm headed in the direction of the field where the first deer was way out in the field feeding. I see the deer that almost got hit by the truck walking away from the road and it has to be a dark horned130" 8 point which for this area is damn big. So he trotts off as I go by to check the other deer. I pull over and get the binos out and the deer that is in the field is a nice 6 that will be really nice next year. I watch him for a while and then continue to head home. Still driving past the bowhunting land I catch a glimpse of a buck chasing a doe up a hill next to the road. It's a different buck with white horns. Looks to be about a 110" 8 that I think I saw opening day and not agains since. Sorry this took so long but I have 4 vacation days left and I have a feeling that 2 of them are going to be taken tomorrow and friday. There must be a hot doe or two somewhere around there. The 6 point kept looking in the woods as he was feeding and didnt pay much attention to me until I drove away. Well time to go see the lady for a bit and contemplate what I'm going to do tomorrow. Hopefully I just talked someone else into skipping work to hunt the best part of bowseason with me. Ill let you guys know if I score on anything. Good luck to all.

Josh

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Hope you connect. any day hunting is better than working. I just burnt the last of my vacation days the last couple weeks. I get my fifth week starting Jan 1 for 20 years of service and as usual will use atleast two weeks for deer hunting.
Dan

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I still have 32 hours vacation and 5 days person leave. I will get another 40 hours vacation second week of Jan and another personal day then also. Biggest problem is that we are busy enough they will not let me take any time off unless scheduled 2 weeks in advance.

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Nope no vacation left here. I work in a hospital and due to low census I have no vacation left to use. Had to use it to get a good paycheck. That is a trade I hate to have to make. Wish some people would get sick around here LOL.

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I don't have any time left so its weekends for me. I am fortunate to have 4 days over Thanksgiving to hunt as well as Dec. 22-Jan. 2nd off with pay. So if I don't fill my last buck tag during the rut I'll have a lot of late season time to hunt food sources.

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I've been off since Oct. 27th and will go back to work on Nov. 27th. If need be I'll still hunt after work and on weekends.

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I'm finishing up my 3rd - and final - week of vacation to hunt the rut. We had frost and low temps every day for a week leading up to the start of my vacation. My vacation started and we had temps that hit the upper 70's the first two weeks and set new records. This week, it's upper 60's with 4" of rain expected today, high winds and currently - a tornado watch! This same scenario has played out for 3 of the last 4 years. The only year it didn't was '04 - the WINDY year! I go back to work Sunday night and the forecast is for calm, dry weather with temps in the high 20's and low 30's. It figures.

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I've got 2 weeks of vacation left. I'm taking the week of Dec 4th off to hunt with NYBH. (Or without him if he don't show);)

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Man, you guys are killing me. I hunted every day from 11/3 to 11/12 and took off 40 hours of work in there, and now I only have 2 hours of vacation. I need to start buying lottery tickets or something because all this work is really cutting into my hunting time.

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I have 35 days of vacation left but need to get it down to 30 days before the first of the year. This is a problem I greatly enjoy!! I will take a few days off after rifle season and get back into archery.

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I have about 110 hours of vacation right now. I burned all of my personal time when my daughter was born in June, and it hasn't built back up much yet. I will be taking 24 hours next week in addition to the 2 holidays that I get for vacation. Then I will be taking about 48 hours around christmas, in addition to the five holidays that I get (1 birthday, then 2 christmas, then 2 new years).

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Ok, in continuation to the saga. I get in the stand this morning a little later than I had planned. I initially intended to take today (thursday) and tomorrow off. I get a call from my boss last night after my post saying that we have a lunch meeting. So, I head to the stand with my cell phone in tow and plan on sitting until 10 or so. In upstate NY it hit 71 degrees today. Not ideal weather. The fog is rolling through the creek bed that I'm guarding. I see nothing until about 8:45. I look over through the woods to the edge of a hay field and theres a deer. A quick look through the binos shows that its a buck. A nice 8 point but not any of the others that I saw last night. So this would be the best buck I've taken with the bow so the heart starts to race a little. I grab the grunt tube and give it a shot. He picks his head up and starts heading my way. So, being 23 years old I've been bowhunting for 9 years and have never had a buck come to a call. Heart rate just about triples. He comes in to 54 yards and hangs up looking for the source of the call. Its pretty thick behind me but he must have figured that there was nothing there. I'm up about 35' in a climber so I doubt that he saw me, but he seemed to lose interest and walk away. I thought maybe try a snort wheeze. He must have gotten his butt kicked recently cause he wanted no part of that call. So after he left the area I had three does come by with nothing following and then I had to head to lunch. There was enough excitement to warrant me telling the boss that I felt a cold comming and didn't think that I'd be at the office in the morning.Hopefully I've got some nice pics for you guys tomorrow. Good luck to all.

Josh

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Got one this morning. Going to retrieve him now. SHould have some pics later.

Josh

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My vacation is already planned out and used up (all except for sick time and comp time)

Vacation (Nov 20 - Nov 28) Gone... Outta here... Going hunting in the mountains of VA at deer camp.
Vacation (Dec 4th) Gone again, out hunting...

Still need to use - 11 hours comp time, 5 days sick time.

Butch A.