does being in the contest change anything for you?
07-15-2008 | 01:19 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: East Central, Ohio
RE: does being in the contest change anything for you?
Doesn't change anything for me except the excitement of coming home after a long day hunting and getting online to check and see if any of my teammates did any good. I passed up around 10-15 bucks last yearthat were just not what I was looking for and it will be the same standards this year. Last year was tag soup!![:@][:'(]Hopefully Mr. Right will show up this year....
I did miss one that would have been in the high 130's, but hopefully he stuck around and will be bigger this year.
I did miss one that would have been in the high 130's, but hopefully he stuck around and will be bigger this year.
07-15-2008 | 01:22 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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From: Dover, PA USA
RE: does being in the contest change anything for you?
Nope not at all for me.......I could wind up with anything from the first decent legal buck to walk in front of my longbow in PA to God knows what could walk by in Illinois.
Or the other way around.
I hunt the same way in both states but in spite of what happened last season I realize the odds are in more in my favor to kill a big buck in IL ,so I could be one of those guys who tags a 75" buck for the contest here only to shoot a much bigger one later on that I can't use for a contest score.
Don't matter to me as long as I'm with good friends and having fun.
Or the other way around.
I hunt the same way in both states but in spite of what happened last season I realize the odds are in more in my favor to kill a big buck in IL ,so I could be one of those guys who tags a 75" buck for the contest here only to shoot a much bigger one later on that I can't use for a contest score.
Don't matter to me as long as I'm with good friends and having fun.
07-15-2008 | 01:31 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: does being in the contest change anything for you?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I thought you were advocating "DOES" to be in the contest by the thread heading....lol.
MAN....I was ready for the midwest guys to start the mortar barrage, again!
I thought you were advocating "DOES" to be in the contest by the thread heading....lol.
MAN....I was ready for the midwest guys to start the mortar barrage, again!
07-15-2008 | 01:32 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Southwest Ohio
RE: does being in the contest change anything for you?
ORIGINAL: GregH
The HNI contest only changes one thing for me. It gives me a chance to share hunting stories, successful or not, with the good people on this forum. It seems to make my loner style of hunting not so lonely, if that makes any sense.
Disclaimer: I just got home from knee surgery and the drugs haven't worn off yet!
The HNI contest only changes one thing for me. It gives me a chance to share hunting stories, successful or not, with the good people on this forum. It seems to make my loner style of hunting not so lonely, if that makes any sense.
Disclaimer: I just got home from knee surgery and the drugs haven't worn off yet!
07-15-2008 | 01:32 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Buffalo Grove, IL/Bristol, WI
RE: does being in the contest change anything for you?
Contest won't change anything for me. I am still a rookie hunter so if I am comfortable and would be proud of the shot I am definetly taking it. Afterwards I will think of the contest!
07-15-2008 | 01:33 PM
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Typical Buck
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From: Caddo Mills, TX
RE: does being in the contest change anything for you?
Changes nothing for me. I will probably shoot the first 4 1/2+ year old buck that I see. Where I hunt he may score anywhere from 100 to 160. It the age of the animal that matters to me.
-john
P.S. The contest it a great way to "meet" some great people.
-john
P.S. The contest it a great way to "meet" some great people.
07-15-2008 | 01:38 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Southwest Ohio
RE: does being in the contest change anything for you?
ORIGINAL: TX_Hoghunter
Changes nothing for me. I will probably shoot the first 4 1/2+ year old buck that I see. Where I hunt he may score anywhere from 100 to 160. It the age of the animal that matters to me.
-john
P.S. The contest it a great way to "meet" some great people.
Changes nothing for me. I will probably shoot the first 4 1/2+ year old buck that I see. Where I hunt he may score anywhere from 100 to 160. It the age of the animal that matters to me.
-john
P.S. The contest it a great way to "meet" some great people.
07-15-2008 | 02:53 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Northwest suburbs, Illinois
RE: does being in the contest change anything for you?
Never changes anything for me personally.
But it has produced some friends over the internet.. and I always look forward to checkin' out who shot what.. especially when its a former teammate.
The contest is real good for HNI.. and for hunters really. It gives everyone something to look forward too on an almost daily basis. I'd like to see it get bigger.. and become perhaps the largest of its kind in the world (or just Georgia).
But it has produced some friends over the internet.. and I always look forward to checkin' out who shot what.. especially when its a former teammate.
The contest is real good for HNI.. and for hunters really. It gives everyone something to look forward too on an almost daily basis. I'd like to see it get bigger.. and become perhaps the largest of its kind in the world (or just Georgia).