Post Archery Season Depression
12-18-2006 | 08:03 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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Post Archery Season Depression
Symptoms:
Waking up at 4:00 a.m., while your alarm is set for 7. Staring sadly out the window, wishing for one more tag, one more day...
Packing up your hunting gear for the offseason layover, and gettingall stinkin' depressedabout it... Doing that final scent-free wash and packing everything away air-tight... It's like you're burying your huntin' dog or something... I even had a briefdiscussion with my lucky hat, and told him not to fret while he's living inside that tupperware bin - better days lie ahead.
Cleaning your guns for the last time in '06, and again... gettingall depressedabout that...
Weekends just aren't as fun anymore...
Discussions with your hunting buddies begin with the words "Next year..."
Working on all those honey-do's that you've been procrastinating on for the past 2.5 months. grrr...
Hunting shows are just a tease.
If anybody has a cure, please let me know.
Waking up at 4:00 a.m., while your alarm is set for 7. Staring sadly out the window, wishing for one more tag, one more day...
Packing up your hunting gear for the offseason layover, and gettingall stinkin' depressedabout it... Doing that final scent-free wash and packing everything away air-tight... It's like you're burying your huntin' dog or something... I even had a briefdiscussion with my lucky hat, and told him not to fret while he's living inside that tupperware bin - better days lie ahead.
Cleaning your guns for the last time in '06, and again... gettingall depressedabout that...
Weekends just aren't as fun anymore...
Discussions with your hunting buddies begin with the words "Next year..."
Working on all those honey-do's that you've been procrastinating on for the past 2.5 months. grrr...
Hunting shows are just a tease.
If anybody has a cure, please let me know.
12-18-2006 | 08:13 AM
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Boone & Crockett
Joined: Oct 1998
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From: Hughesville, PA USA
RE: Post Archery Season Depression
Yup, since the end of Oct but I did get to sooth the soul in NC thanks to Jeff but the return home was a somber one, I knew it was over for another year minus spring gobbler.
12-18-2006 | 08:18 AM
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Nontypical Buck
Joined: May 2006
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From: Southwest Ohio
RE: Post Archery Season Depression
Yes,I wait all year for 2-3 months of hunting. Then it just all starts over again. I am not a big turkey hunter, so I won't be excited again until August. All I have been doing is researching possible future hunts. If only I made enough money to be able to travel and hunt June-January I wouldn't be depressed nearly as much 
12-18-2006 | 09:08 AM
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Nontypical Buck
Joined: Feb 2006
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From: Jacksonville, IL/ Huntington, WV
RE: Post Archery Season Depression
Sounds to me like you need to find a second hobby. How bout bass fishing. Come Aug. and Sept. I'm ready to hunt. Come Jan. Feb. I geared up for fishing season.
12-18-2006 | 09:14 AM
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From: Morgan County, IL
RE: Post Archery Season Depression
Nothing to get that depressed about, it happens every year. There is something I could occupy myself with outdoors any week of the year.
Yeah, and spend all summer sitting in a boat getting $hitfaced,...er, I mean bass fishing.
Yeah, and spend all summer sitting in a boat getting $hitfaced,...er, I mean bass fishing.
12-18-2006 | 10:14 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Spring Grove, Pa. USA
RE: Post Archery Season Depression
Just keep hunting.Waterfowl seasons are usually open as is small game.Come March,you start shooting groundhogs and do some bowfishing for carp.May brings spring gobbler.The 3D season should be be going along pretty good by now too.There's plenty to do