exhausted from the season
 

Don't get me wrong I love to be in the woods everyday if possible but when the season finally ends, I have mixed emotions. It a very sad time for me but on the other hand its a much needed rest. I'm a single man so I stay in the woods at least 6 days a week after work and weekends. Sometimes I tell myself " I think that I will just stay home after work" but by the time I punch out, it's game on. Just wondering how many others is in the same boat? How many days a week do you go? Oh yea, and after the season ends and before it starts back again, that's my time for some scouting. Got to love it!

I'm exhausted too. I think I'll be a little relieved when its over; I always feel obligated to hunt because I only get so many opportunities to do so. I sometimes end up hunting when I don't have the energy for it.

Yea you wouldn't think that just sitting in a stand or blind would be so exhausting. Sometimes I give myself headaches from scanning the woods so hard LOL.

Yep I know the feeling! Getting up early to be on the stand and never getting to bed early enough! Would'nt trade it for the world!

Not a day goes by that I don't bitch and moan about getting up at 4am to hunt but amazingly I do it every time. I have the hardest time getting up for work at 7am but when it comes to hunting time I spring out of bed. My grilfriend thinks I am crazy but if you don't get it, then you don't get it.

Old hunters always say "You have to be in the woods cause you can't kill sh*t laying in bed!"

Even with a good thing . . .
 

you can always suffer some "battle fatigue." The worst type can be someone who works in the outdoor hunting and fishing field, and then on their day off will go fishing or hunting. You toss a fishing line, while thinking of the bar codes of the latest products that came into your shop. For some it's merely a fishing lure; for some it has a bar code. And those bar codes can catch up with you.

I always take three weeks off in a row and hunt everyday except Sundays. Not allowed in VA. Those three weeks are very exhausting but i always hate to see the season go.

I'm with all you guys. Love to see it come in and hate to see it go out. I wish that it was in year round but I have no idea when I would rest. And turkeyslayer75, It is funny how its hard getting out of bed to go to work but when it's time to hunt, no problem at all. Also true that you can't kill em in the bed. I love it and if I couldn't do it anymore, I'm not sure what I would do. Well I hope that everyone has a great and safe season.

I feel the same way. I dont get to hunt as much as you do, but I get out probably 4 dagyys a week until the time changes, then its weekends only. We have one more weekend of our ml'er season, then back to the bow until the end of the year. but I will probably be done after this coming weekend, even if i dont fill my tag. Its been a long season.

I'm bumbed out.Lost job in July.Threw off whole season.Haven't been out yet.Usually, when the season ends,I feel alittle relieved,but just as quickly start thinking about and planning for the next one.Job interview tomorrow w/one other prospect.Will salvage what I can.Rabbit,squirrel and extended turkey in Jan.Will be good to get out w/a gun.

Game Stalker,
Good luck on your job prospect! I hope it works out for you!

Game Stalker allthough I dont know I'll say a prayer ya. Good luck hope you get the job.

Dont know where you are. But if your ever in SW Fla? let me know I'll take you hog hunting we can hunt them year round.

I'm sorry to hear about the job situation too Game Stalker. We've been out of work for half of the year ourselves. Good luck with the interview and I'm praying that the economy gets better soon. Sure is a lot of people out of work these days.

So you haven't been working or hunting? What have you been doing?

If I lost my job in July, I'd be hitting the job search extremely hard for a few months. If I didn't have a new job by mid October, I'd be tempted to take a break and just hunt for a whole month.

As for me, I've been hunting hard and working hard since October 1. Saturday is a full moon, and also the last day on which I can shoot a buck because I'm out of town the last two weekends in December.

Given that its a full moon, and the last two full moons I hunted I got completely skunked, I'm very tempted to just stay at home. Its over an hour drive each way for me to hunt, not to mention getting up at 4 am in order to be in the stand before first light. But I know if I don't go hunt, I'll be kicking myself all day.

Thanks,everyone,for the comments.What resources I did have were used to survive and look for work.I've been going hard at it,burning resources w/no luck.(Yet)Even the temp services have nothing going on.
One interview yesterday and today.I'm a positive person.Things will turn around.Hopefully soon.

I was lucky. When I was "downsized" from my engineering job a couple years ago I was 62 years old so I just retired. Still hits you when you go from an engineer's pay to social security check and a couple small pension checks. Then this year my working wife broke her hip and she's been on disability. But I still hunted every day! God will take care of ya! Don't sweat it.

You got that right. The last 2 years we've been only working about six months out of a year. I pick up some odd jobs here and there and my income isn't enough to take care of the bills but somehow God takes care of it. If you would look at what I take in and what I pay out it would leave you scratching your head. Not sure how God does it but he does. And stonewall, You really need to get out there Saturday it being your last chance at it this year. I'm sure you will though.