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RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
What sucks is, my name is Kyle....and my dad's buddies...
well...they call me Gomer, or Pyle. Either way it sucks, and it shows thier Age[:-][8D] I'd like to think I'm neither[&:] |
RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
You're not confused. He was a cross-over....and maybe the original!
Heck....rumor was...he might also have been a cross-DRESSER!:D |
RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
Access to land plays a part also. The more land you have to hunt the more you (SHOULD) learn.
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RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
ORIGINAL: gri22ly Access to land plays a part also. The more land you have to hunt the more you (SHOULD) learn. |
RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter I was just wondering. Does a hunter HAVE to become better at the end of each season based purely on time in the woods? Does each and every hunter learn more each year they are in the woods? Just being in the woods, deer encounters, the surroundings, seeing sign, etc.... does one automatically become a better hunter on the last day than they were on the first even if they don't know it? Or is it up to the individual to apply what they see and make themselves learn from it? Is it a passive learning approach or aggressive? Just curious on your thoughts. |
RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
Its like a game of cat and mouse for me the first year on a new property..I feel like a lost puppy.[&:] MOTOWN (chris) said once that hunting bucks is like a game of cat and mouse where the hunter is rarely the cat. (If I messed that up, MOHO...I apologize). That's cool. |
RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
ORIGINAL: TEmbry ORIGINAL: GMMAT Sorry Trev. I know you hate to hear this....but you wouldn't WOULDN'Y understand....lol (probably never heard of "Gomer"). If you're as old as I am.....it's funny. Gomer was a real piece of work! 1 thing I have learned, you can have the plan, improve your hunting habitat, improve your entrance and exits to your stands. If you are boneshead and do not plant any corn, you get what you deserve:D I have 60 acres of nasty cover i planted, and hands down I'll take a cornfield over them. Big bucks in SLP MI love corn fields. 1996 2 mature bucks shot next to corn field 1997 1 mature buck shot behind corn field 1998 1 mature buck shot behind corn field 1999 1 mature buck shot behind corn field 2000 buckless 2001 1 mature buck shot behind corn field 2002 1 mature buck shot behind corn field 2003 buckless 2004 1 mature buck shot behind corn field 2005 2mature buck shot behind corn field 2006 1 mature buck shot walking out of corn field 2007 seen Mr mass all year had corn 2008 did not see diddle and no corn Anyone see a pattern? I may be disking up a CRP field in the spring, for corn:D A season of dinkers and you shoot a dinker on steriods:eek: |
RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
there are alot of things that make you a good hunter its not just time spent it is knowledge of the animal you are hunting. Time spent scouting and many other things
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RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT Its like a game of cat and mouse for me the first year on a new property..I feel like a lost puppy.[&:] MOTOWN (chris) said once that hunting bucks is like a game of cat and mouse where the hunter is rarely the cat. (If I messed that up, MOHO...I apologize). That's cool. |
RE: Do you HAVE to get better?
ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter I was just wondering. Does a hunter HAVE to become better at the end of each season based purely on time in the woods? Does each and every hunter learn more each year they are in the woods? Just being in the woods, deer encounters, the surroundings, seeing sign, etc.... does one automatically become a better hunter on the last day than they were on the first even if they don't know it? Or is it up to the individual to apply what they see and make themselves learn from it? Is it a passive learning approach or aggressive? Just curious on your thoughts. I know a few hunters who are brilliant and only into their first decade in the woods.. and I know more hunters who are long past their 2nd decade and still don't understand what they're doing. The later.. seems.. most common. It's like anything.. there is a HUGE difference between knowing and understanding. A dude/dudette who has been hunting all year on a new piece of land might know where the deer have been traveling (based on his/her experience).. but that doesn't mean they understand. So to answer your Q.. It's not impossible to hunt an entire year and learn nothing. But the hunter will likely "know" something different. It's the understanding that seperates the men from the boys. So to speak. |
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