I'm just wondering how you all balance work and hunting. I recently got a new job and I don't know how much I will be able to hunt now especially because I work at a butcher shop that also processes wild game.. I will be dragging everyone else's deer in but I won't be able to get out and hunt.. Any advice??
Tough, we all have to work to hunt but finding the balance is what we all strive after. Hang in there brother, where there is a will, there is a way.
Yeah find a new job lol . i have no advice for ya sorry . I would say anytime you have make sure your in the woods. my jobs the other way around I get paid to hunt and and take care of a farm that i hunt .During the spring , summer i get paid to train hunting dogs feild trial labs and shoot ducks from 7am to 2pm then i put the dogs up and take care of the farm till 7pm mon to fri .So i can scout while i work and check cams and then fall hits and i dont train anymore just farm and hunt and take care of things untill the owner returns in the spring from florida. And in the summer on the weekends i work part time at a bow shop by my house.
i teach... So its weekends and holidays for me mostly. I will take maybe 3 days during the season.. 1 day when we go to mountains for annual squirrel hunt and then 1/2 days during bow and gun season. Luckily we will be able to hunt sundays for the first time this year so that will give me a few extra days and then i get an extra few days forThanksgiving and Christmas Break. I would say plan yoru days the best you can. If you can make it a long weekend by taking a monday or friday, or even two days if holidays fall on the right day to make it a 5 days weekend.
I burn 3 weeks of my vacation per year on hunting. 4 this year, but that's special. I travel to hunt so no other way to do it.
There is not really advice we can give you other than to find a new job or get out when you can (maybe slow weekdays you can sneak out). Good luck and I hope you find time to get out some! I work an engineering job for an airline that allows me to work 4-10's with the flexibility to pick the 4 weekdays I do work. That will give me at least 2 days (Pa) or 3 days (Oh) at a minimum per week.
I know a couple of people that work for the local butcher and they have killed some nice bucks . I don't think that the butchering of wild game really affects their time in the woods until rifle season . Good luck !!
I hear ya buddy I work 5-3 mon-fri so I'm a weekend warrior and Christmas and thnaksgiving break of course!
I work construction so don't work much during hunting season so can't really give much advice other than get that job ha ha Sent from my SM-G900R4 using Tapatalk
Hunting hard doesn't always mean hunting a lot, some times it's beneficial to stay out of the woods. So make the best of the little hunts you have, and it could help you in the end. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I work in the school system in NYC, only days off are Sundays for me, but every once in a while I`ll take a vacation day, sick day, well you get the idea. We have to do things we love for ourselves just as much as we do things for our wives and kids. Whenever you get a chance to go bowhunting, go! Best of luck. PS Dont quit your job, its rough out their!!!!!!
You cant hunt at night , so ask if you can work at nights during hunting season or come in early mornings and skip out to hunt afternoons.
I work your typical office job 8-5 except Fridays when I get out at 3. I hunt Friday evenings and Saturday's. If you enjoy it, you just go when you can.
Im in college and my last class on firdays is at 11 so i could be in the stand back home by 3 or in fargo on public land by 2
I don't have much chance to hunt Oct-Jan. so I try to hunt every 4-6wk in the off season. Sept Elk in CO is my big finally. Work and family always come first though but the fact that my wife and I are fortunate to own our own business helps. That and the fact that I'm sleeping with my boss
Learn to design and cater your hunting towards your job. I hunt a lot of field edges because we hunt after work. We have all of our farms set up with quick access and stands that are close to the roads so we can hunt them after work
