What do you REGRET most over the years of hunting
06-30-2008, 08:05 AM
#44
Giant Nontypical
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RE: What do you REGRET most over the years of hunting
It's weird that a lot of you guys wish you'd have started taking bowhunting more seriously at a younger age.
I kinda feel like I let a lot of my youth pass me by because I'd have rather been sitting in the treestand than doing anything else. Hell, I almost blew my entire college education because I'd have rather been camped out ina treestandsomewhere. I lost friends, girlfriends, grades took a hit, baseball schollie, etc... All because of my lifelong obsession with hunting rode in the front seat.It's materially affected almost ever facet of my lifestyle.
There aredefinitely days when I wonder what life would've been like if I'd have listened to my dad and NEVER picked up a gun or a bow. He warned me.
Obviously everything worked itself out - but I have no doubt that I'd be in a different place right now. . . Things would've definitely been different . . . I guess it's human nature to always wonder about the element of the unknown.
I kinda feel like I let a lot of my youth pass me by because I'd have rather been sitting in the treestand than doing anything else. Hell, I almost blew my entire college education because I'd have rather been camped out ina treestandsomewhere. I lost friends, girlfriends, grades took a hit, baseball schollie, etc... All because of my lifelong obsession with hunting rode in the front seat.It's materially affected almost ever facet of my lifestyle.
There aredefinitely days when I wonder what life would've been like if I'd have listened to my dad and NEVER picked up a gun or a bow. He warned me.
Obviously everything worked itself out - but I have no doubt that I'd be in a different place right now. . . Things would've definitely been different . . . I guess it's human nature to always wonder about the element of the unknown.
06-30-2008, 08:09 AM
#45
Dominant Buck
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RE: What do you REGRET most over the years of hunting
It's weird that a lot of you guys wish you'd have started taking bowhunting more seriously at a younger age.
I kinda feel like I let a lot of my youth pass me by because I'd have rather been sitting in the treestand than doing anything else. Hell, I almost blew my entire college education because I'd have rather been camped out ina treestandsomewhere. I lost friends, girlfriends, grades took a hit, baseball schollie, etc... All because of my lifelong obsession with hunting rode in the front seat.It's materially affected almost ever fact of my lifestyle.
There aredefinitely days when I wonder what life would've been like if I'd have listened to my dad and NEVER picked up a gun or a bow. He warned me.
Obviously everything worked itself out - but I have no doubt that I'd be in a different place right now. . . Things would've definitely been different . . . I guess it's human nature to always wonder about the element of the unknown.
I kinda feel like I let a lot of my youth pass me by because I'd have rather been sitting in the treestand than doing anything else. Hell, I almost blew my entire college education because I'd have rather been camped out ina treestandsomewhere. I lost friends, girlfriends, grades took a hit, baseball schollie, etc... All because of my lifelong obsession with hunting rode in the front seat.It's materially affected almost ever fact of my lifestyle.
There aredefinitely days when I wonder what life would've been like if I'd have listened to my dad and NEVER picked up a gun or a bow. He warned me.
Obviously everything worked itself out - but I have no doubt that I'd be in a different place right now. . . Things would've definitely been different . . . I guess it's human nature to always wonder about the element of the unknown.
06-30-2008, 09:41 AM
#46
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RE: What do you REGRET most over the years of hunting
I’m along the lines with Fran. I skipped out on a LOT of things growing up because I wanted to be in the woods & streams all the time. From probably mid July on, I’d bug the crap out of my Dad to go looking for deer probably 4 of 5 weekday nights, if not every night as the season neared. And now that I think about it, I’m not even sure I was old enough to hunt much of that time. I was one of the fastest kids in my high school, but I didn’t dare play football cause it was during the fall. I didn’t play much baseball cause it took away fishing time. But I did manage to run track. College weekends in the fall were spent in a tree instead of tired and hung over from a night of partying.
I chose to apply for jobs that would let me have time to hunt. I ended a TON of social outings early, knowing I had to get up for hunting/fishing. Had I not been so into it, my life would surely be different, but honestly I don’t really wonder about it at all.
I chose to apply for jobs that would let me have time to hunt. I ended a TON of social outings early, knowing I had to get up for hunting/fishing. Had I not been so into it, my life would surely be different, but honestly I don’t really wonder about it at all.
06-30-2008, 10:18 AM
#47
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RE: What do you REGRET most over the years of hunting
ORIGINAL: BigJ71
TG78,
I don't regret anything and if I had to do it all over I'd probably end up doing the same things (hunting wise). I'm just humbled and in awe every time I get to go hunt. Sure there are hunts I'd have liked to go on that maybe I could have had I pressed the issue but then I would have missed something at home, with my family and no hunting is worth that. I love to hunt and go at it with as much enthusiasm and earnest as anyone but I know it's place in my life and it will always be secondary to my family and friends.
No, I don't regret anything I'm just happy to get out and hunt when I can. There will be a time and a place for everything. If that happens to include a hunting trip or two...or three
down the road, you can be I'll be on it. If not, I'm ok with that too.
TG78,
I don't regret anything and if I had to do it all over I'd probably end up doing the same things (hunting wise). I'm just humbled and in awe every time I get to go hunt. Sure there are hunts I'd have liked to go on that maybe I could have had I pressed the issue but then I would have missed something at home, with my family and no hunting is worth that. I love to hunt and go at it with as much enthusiasm and earnest as anyone but I know it's place in my life and it will always be secondary to my family and friends.
No, I don't regret anything I'm just happy to get out and hunt when I can. There will be a time and a place for everything. If that happens to include a hunting trip or two...or three
down the road, you can be I'll be on it. If not, I'm ok with that too.
06-30-2008, 10:23 AM
#48
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: What do you REGRET most over the years of hunting
I've only got two regrets and they're about equal. I would like to have hunted more often and I wish the hundred or so I helped get started hunting was about a thousand or so.
06-30-2008, 11:53 AM
#49
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Southampton Pa BUCKS CO
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RE: What do you REGRET most over the years of hunting
I regret not shooting 5" lower on the 15 point N/T buck I wounded and never did find a long time ago. I did find out that a shotgun hunter in gun season walked up on the 15point monster and ended its suffering from my choke of a shot. That Buck stillkeeps me up nites[
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06-30-2008, 12:21 PM
#50
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Barbour Co., WV
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RE: What do you REGRET most over the years of hunting
The only thing that I kinda regret is some bad ill-advised shots. All deer we're recovered, and I'm learning from them so not a totally regret. Sometimes wish I woulda hunted more in High School because I haven't had that amount of time since.