Do you get better as the season goes on?
 

Last year I was so excited about bow hunting I got out in the stand so early that I couldn' t sit still for the rest of the evening. It was hot and there were mosquitos. I ended up getting busted a few times. As the season went on I got more patient and was able to sit still longer and had more oppurtunities.

Just wondering if anyone else experienced this. I feel like I' m too excited in the early season and as the seaon goes on I become a better hunter, become one with the woods more.

Does this happen to you?

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Probally why I always miss on opening day.:)

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YUP, sure do. That' s why I' m always glad for crop damage season... it gets the process started. Another thing, I get more comfortable climbing UP. Early on 15 or 16 feet looks high enough. Later in the season I don' t feel right until I get over 20.

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Most of out permanent stands are 18-20 feet, if I' m climbing it is at least 25, usually 30. I don' t usually get antsy anytime during the season unless I haven' t been seeing anything. Nothing more disheartening than to sit for 2-3 days and not see any deer[:' (]

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The last few years....my first few as a bowhunter, I haven' t seen many deer.... I believe that there aren' t many deer, on the public land I' m hunting...as far as, deer to hunters. I' d say that I don' t get better as the season goes on, but....more used to not seeing deer...instead I watch the birds, squirrels.....and an ocassional bobcat. Sometimes if it' s been several weeks w/o a deer sighting, I' ll bring a book. No bad outdoor experiances.....just different from the original plan.

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Yep, I retune my patience as the season goes on.....by the time RUT rolls around I have developed the discipline and patience to pass on smaller bucks in hopes of THE BIG ONE showing up running a doe.;):D

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Not me:)

On public land I pull out all the stops early ,and try to get one buck down as quick as I can. IMO every day I or another hunter steps into the woods the odds go down. And the more more we use a stand or similar routes through the woods we just educate them buggers:)

Sure, the rut is a brite spot in the season - a clean slate as you will.

I have relied on those magic Rut weeks to bail me out before, but I try not to do that as much.

Besides I have a Looong season - and I get tired, hard to get up, to cold, to wet...etc, etc.

But come the opener I am all piss and vinegar:D

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In some ways yes, some no. I get my " routine" down the longer into the season I go, but I also can get lazy the longer the season drags on depending on how many tags are filled.

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I' d say I am at my best the first few days of the season, and then when the rut comes along. Nothing like exitement to keep you patient and observant.

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I tend to get sloppy as the season goes on. I am more focused at the beginning, and then I start to get lazy.

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I think i am better around mid season then at the start of close to the end

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I' m at my best the first week or so then I start slacking till rut comes then it' s game on again

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Well I am probably a bit too intense the first week of the season, but for the remaining 3 months I become more relaxed which to me allows me to sit longer and stiller. Towards the end of the season I will admit that there are days I feel hunted out. I get off work every day early enough to allow me to hunt every afternoon if I wanted to, but I don' t want to wind up divorced so I only hunt 3-4 days a week.;)

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voz, are you serious!? You don' t see deer for three weeks at a time!? It says your from texas. I thought there was alot of deer in texas. If I didn' t see a deer in three days I would suspect a mass die off had just occured.

Guys, I get better as the season goes on. My movement threw the noisy forrest floor improves the most. I forget less things as the season progresses. My body becomes used to getting up so early. My eyes can pick up movement better as the weeks drag on. Squirrels don' t sound so much like deer after the first week. The only thing that gets worse and worse is the non hunter people you know complain that they have' nt seen or heard from you.

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VOZ? Whats the deal man? You go weeks without seeing a deer? That depresses me, I must truly me blessed with good deer hunting. Better luck this season!!