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annika....I think you're taking me too literally. I'm talking about hunting the same animals....the same ways.....in the same places....over and over again. At some point....wouldn't it become redundant (no matter your success rate)?

I see me hunting them for years to come. I also see me LOVING each year. I'm just going to have to switch things up to keep it interesting. I've already decided a few things I'm going to do differently next year on the same gorunds I hunted this year. I also see the day when I hunt a LOT more (maybe exclusively, some day) with traditional gear. Maybe switch it up from year to year? Maybe hunt deer with one....turkeys with the other? Hnt from the ground? Hunt a single deer? Hunt different species, here (coyotes/fox/etc...)?

I'm not burned out (by a long shot). If anything....with my season drawing to a close in a few weeks.....I'm invigorated! Next year (and the rest of this one) holds many "unknowns".;)

Whitetails in NO WAY "bore" me. Hunting them the same old way....would lead me to burn out REALLY quickly.

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I understand what you are saying Jeff about hunting the same deer and the same land and the same way....I to look for new land and new ways to place stands on existing land to keep it changed up.. I like hunting my land and have liked it for 20 yrs, but it's probably b/c I have good deer here....

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I don't have the desire to go hunt anything but big whitetails. When/if that gets old, I will look for something else to get me as exited as whitetails do now.

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Jeff, that statement is really what the escence of this post is to me. That is to say, itshouldn't matter to Huck (and I'm sure it doesn't) what I think about shooting a Zebra because I am surehe gets as much satisfaction as I do from shooting a whitetail. Itshouldn't (and doesn't)matter to me if someone thinks hunting whitetails is boring or old hat because to me it isn't. All that should matter is that it's done legally and ethically and that the guy spending the dough is happy wherever that is.

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I would recommend a coues or desert mulies in Arizona

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ORIGINAL: StruttinGobbler3

GMMAT how do your posts always turn out this many pages of replies? [8D]I'm lucky to get a couple of pages on my posts.

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ORIGINAL: StruttinGobbler3

GMMAT how do your posts always turn out this many pages of replies? [8D]I'm lucky to get a couple of pages on my posts.

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ORIGINAL: gutshot

If you're talking about the hunting in Africa thread it's just that Africa has never appealed to me. Now if it was New Zealand for red stag or something like that I'm all in.

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ORIGINAL: dukemichaels

Oh just wait.. in about 6 weeks when all the seasons start to end.. it gets REAL interesting in here.

Lots of drama. Funny stuff is coming our way.

Can't wait to see who's on who this year. (not sexually off course).

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ORIGINAL: bigbulls

Jeff, I agree with you 100%. I honestly doubtwould spend25% ofthe time and moneyhunting whitetails as I currently do if my two kids didn't love to go hunting so much. I can honestly say that I get bored to tears and so incredibly frustrated sitting in a climbing treestand for hours on end waiting for a deer to walk past so I can shoot it.

IfI were able to afford to hunt other American species of big game like moose, muskox, bison, grizzly, etc...and animals abroad like Cape buffalo, red stag, kudu, marco polo sheep, ibex, etc... I would completelyforget about whitetails for ever. White tail deer just bore me to death.

It'sthe same assome people never wanting to venture out of their home state to see things like the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone, etc...

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