How much effort does it take for you to get time in the woods each fall? Do you negotiate with bosses, work extra hours to "stock up"? Do you have to promise jeweleryand sweet talk the misses?

Or do you just keep you same routine and if time is there to hunt you do, but you don't go out of your way to juggle things and scramble to find extra time.

same old same old, my work schedule allows plenty of hunting time. 3-dark on weekdays and all day on most weekends.

It is more with 2 boys trying to get out. 1 really likes hunting and the other is on the fence. They both have bows
we practice a lot. I take them out on scouting adventures but with both playing fall soccer its a challange.
I pretty much have fridays to myself because I work 3rd and am off and they are at school. Certain evening
I am set and mornings but it makes for tired nights at work but well worth it.

Morning pumpkin and sunshine

Own my own business, so I work hard most of the year then take time off as much as possible in the fall. I average about 2-3 weeks off in hunting season (sometimes 4 weeks). As far as the misses, well she married me knowing my hunting addiction and after 24 years, she is used toit. I so occasionally give her a gift when I go on long trips to hunt, just to tell her I appreciate what she does back home. I also take my boy a quite a bit when I'm close to home, whch gives her a break.

It's just the wife and I and she knew when we met that I was passionate about bowhunting and she's never questioned it. I told her when it comes to October/Nov that I was in the woods every daylight hour that I was not at work. She's fine with that. She owns her own business, a hair salon (sometimes I wonder if that wasn't the right business for me to go into to), anyway, she books herself extra hours etc...

My work affords me 4 weeks vacation now plus 4 days and I usually have 2 weeks saved when it comes to archery season.

I get off work at 4:30 weekdays and can be descented and in a tree by 5:00 before the time change and have had tremendous success doing this.

There usually isn't a day in Oct/Nov except Sundays off course that I'm not in a tree.

that was me and my older brother...obviously you know who was on the fence, but you have to keep including the one thats on the fence (not that you don't already) but best times are when its me my bro and pops

I "work" for huntin time cause I usually try to get a few hours in the AM, which makes me late. By the time it's time to leave I am so excited I leave earlyso you get the gist.

for me its a little different. im in college. i love to hunt more than anyone i know...theres nothing i rather do....but school work does come first. what i do, is use hunting as motivation to get my work done. i wont let myself hunt if i have school work to be done for that week. i just rather have it all done so i have no worries and know i wont be getting behind or anything...do the same thing for weekends...but thats usually where i slack off..friday evening and all day saturday are gaurenteed hunting time...i got all my life to hunt...right now im at college...i still get out alot so its not a big deal.

yeah sorry forgot to include i ain't got no misses

I save all my time for bow season usually, with the exception of one or two days off during spring turkey season. I unfortunately have to drive though.........my closest stand is 1.5 hours from home at my buddies place, and my place is almost 4 hours from home.

I will often sneak out of work at noon on a Friday though to get into a tree on Friday. To maximize my hunting time, my weekends are spent living out of my car it seems. Luckily my best bud and hunting partner is there with me for the whole thing though and we have a blast on our road trips. We leave directly from work with the car already packed from the night before, drive the 4 hours to my property in PA, hunt Friday night, Saturday morning and night, then after dark pack the car back up and head to his property in NY so that we can hunt all day on Sunday too.

We have to work hard to get the time we hunt, but last year I managed to be hunting every Saturday and Sunday there was a deer season open from the last weekend in Sept until Jan 15. I also put 27,000 miles on the car in the process between the hunting and general work at our camps in the offseason............thats the only place I drive other than to work and work in only 9 miles from home.

I save all of my vacation time. One week for turkey season, one week for deer season. I'll come in early some days too so I can take off early on Fridays.