When you're not bowhunting, what are you hunting?
11-28-2008, 12:52 PM
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Posts: 3,465
RE: When you're not bowhunting, what are you hunting?
My main passion is Spring Turkey Season...it takes a front seat to even Bowhunting. I used to do literally every type hunting available, and still do most.
Spring Turkey (usually try and hunt 2-3 states a year, not sure if it will work out this year[&o])
Summer- Bowfishing (got the right boat finally, amazing fun for those who have never gone)
Fall- Bowhunting (just starting in the going west scheme, AK this August)
Winter- Waterfowling and occasional predator calling (I'd like to get into the predator side more this year)
I hunt year round, for everything from fish to deer, and everything in between. But a bow or gun in my hand, drop me off on a lake or farm somewhere, and I am in hog heaven.
Besides hunting, I spend my time with Family and Friends. I go to the occasional party, but that is about the extent of it. I have class, close ones, and I have hunting....I am happy this way.
Spring Turkey (usually try and hunt 2-3 states a year, not sure if it will work out this year[&o])
Summer- Bowfishing (got the right boat finally, amazing fun for those who have never gone)
Fall- Bowhunting (just starting in the going west scheme, AK this August)
Winter- Waterfowling and occasional predator calling (I'd like to get into the predator side more this year)
I hunt year round, for everything from fish to deer, and everything in between. But a bow or gun in my hand, drop me off on a lake or farm somewhere, and I am in hog heaven.
Besides hunting, I spend my time with Family and Friends. I go to the occasional party, but that is about the extent of it. I have class, close ones, and I have hunting....I am happy this way.
11-28-2008, 12:57 PM
#12
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Random Lake, WI (yes it\'s a real town....)
Posts: 163
RE: When you're not bowhunting, what are you hunting?
I hunt everything cept bear thats on my CP licence ( Conservation Patrons....covers almost all fish and game stuff )
I have 2 more years to get my kill tag for bear.
I wish there was somewhere to hunt hogs and elk around here...I' going to go after some cow elk later this year or early next year....I aint above laying a double arm smackdown on a cow...
I have 2 more years to get my kill tag for bear.
I wish there was somewhere to hunt hogs and elk around here...I' going to go after some cow elk later this year or early next year....I aint above laying a double arm smackdown on a cow...
11-28-2008, 02:12 PM
#14
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Kodiak, AK
Posts: 2,877
RE: When you're not bowhunting, what are you hunting?
Sitka blacktails
brown bear
mountain goats
reindeer
caribou
moose
black bear
fox
turkeys
In varying order depending on what trips I can get together around work, $$$ and partner's schedules.
brown bear
mountain goats
reindeer
caribou
moose
black bear
fox
turkeys
In varying order depending on what trips I can get together around work, $$$ and partner's schedules.
11-28-2008, 04:13 PM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 314
RE: When you're not bowhunting, what are you hunting?
My year just follows the season:
CrappieFishing- February through August
Turkey Hunting - April through mid May
Squirrel and DoveHunting - LateAugust till bowseason opener
Bow Season - Mid September through late November
Duck Hunting - December through January
Predator Hunting and Bowfishing - Mixed in here and there
CrappieFishing- February through August
Turkey Hunting - April through mid May
Squirrel and DoveHunting - LateAugust till bowseason opener
Bow Season - Mid September through late November
Duck Hunting - December through January
Predator Hunting and Bowfishing - Mixed in here and there
11-28-2008, 05:08 PM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Allegany County Maryland
Posts: 1,977
RE: When you're not bowhunting, what are you hunting?
Turkey and Rabbits!! Ohhh and trout fishin(huntin if thats what you wanna call it)
In all honsesty I am about burnt out on Deer Huntin and would much rather go bunny huntin more but I dont want to be trampling through the woods disturbing everything while the bow season is still in!! It's all fair game after two weeks when the rifle season gets done!!!!!!!!!
In all honsesty I am about burnt out on Deer Huntin and would much rather go bunny huntin more but I dont want to be trampling through the woods disturbing everything while the bow season is still in!! It's all fair game after two weeks when the rifle season gets done!!!!!!!!!
11-28-2008, 05:23 PM
#20
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin/Michigan
Posts: 9,679
RE: When you're not bowhunting, what are you hunting?
This year I started chasing Rabbits, Squirrels, Pheasants, Turkeys and Deer with the Longbow. I gun hunt for all of the above and have been predator hunting for the last 3 years pretty hard, I like it just as much as deer hunting. I'm hoping to take a Coyote with the Longbow in the next few months! I KNOW I'll be whacking a few Coyotes with the .204 in the next few weeks, can't wait! Thats what I love about hunting with a Longbow, I'll never know what I'll be hunting at any given moment. I'll start out for Deer then on my way to the stand I'll get sidetracked with a rabbit or two, kinda cool!