- I sometimes wonder how an animal the size of a deer (let alone one with a big rack) can maneuver into some of these thickets they bed in. - I really have no interest in planting food plots attempting to bring in more deer with them. I just want to work with what I am dealt and see if I can win a hand or two. - I do not obsess over my antlered buck to doe ratio or being able to know the difference between a 4.5 and 5.5 year old buck on the hoof. - I wonder how my reduced time to be in the woods this fall with impact my season? - Will my soon to be born son ever take an interest in hunting? - I think to much is put into "theory" (how to make it easier) and not enough into woodsmanship (becoming better). - Now I am all about big racked bucks (quite obsessed actually), but not all about having it (big bucks) pushed down everyone else's throats who may not be. We are all out there hunting for different reasons. I do what makes me happy and I hope everyone else does what makes them happy... Not what makes their neighbor, buddy or some association happy. - While chasing these whitetail I want to win some, I want to lose some and most important.... Have fun. Feel free to add your own random thoughts.
- I don't hunt because I have to, I hunt because I need to. - Success is not about how many Deer you kill, it is about hunting select deer and harvesting one of them. - I am a fourth generation deer hunter who might never have a child, who will I pass my tradition on to? - Hunting can put a bind on marriage, I often remind my wife that three months out of the year is nothing compared to the countless nights her friends spend looking for their husbands at bars all year long. - Many of my friendships started by chance through hunting, it is hard to find the quality of friends this sport has graced me with. - It amazes me how smart many mature bucks can be until November's rut, then they become one of the dumbest creatures on Earth. - People think does are stupid, I have been busted by more mature does than bucks in my time. - I have met a lot of self proclaimed deer hunting experts, few have ever impressed me and those that have I met here. - I am losing my best property this year and looking at my hardest season yet, yet I am less worried than ever before.
- I can't believe I've still got a half-dozen treestands still up... a couple of them on public land. - I'm wondering how much better I'll be able to move around and hang stands with a full round of P90X and a full round of P90X + under my belt come this November. - I wonder how many bobcats I can trap with a full season to go after them this year? - I wonder how many antelope I'll be able to pass looking for a solid P&Y contender this September? - Why didn't I have my Nikon camera with me last night when I took my boys fishing? - Is this the year I get "back on track" with another real nice whitetail? Or two? - One thing's for sure: if it isn't, I'm not pushing myself like I did last year trying to make it happen.
I wonder what a P90X is that Greg keeps refferring too.. But seriously. I wonder what would happen if we all, went to some, unknown piece of land and hunted for a week.. I wonder why it's percieved to be so difficult to kill deer off the ground, using God given nature as a blind. I wonder why some folks always make it a competition, when the Deer is the only real competition, and his/her life is the actual prize. I wonder why I hob-knob with the who's who of Bowtech on boards and fully support and recommend the bows, yet can't get a deal any better than the average Joe, off the streets. ( Sorry had to get that off my chest) I wonder if my Monster 10 point with the droptine made it through the gun season.
My big buck hunting is going to take a back seat to searching for and aquiring my own hunting land. I've hunted mature bucks for quite a while now and feel successful enough that I want to move on and tinker with my own land. I'll still hunt for mature bucks, but only the ones on my land. Who knows? I may not even get land this year but I am going to try. This is how I see myself finishing out my hunting career.
-Success can be how many deer you kill, if thats your goal. -I fail to see the fun of shooting deer from an elevated box blind over a Biologic field. -If shooting a spike makes you happy, have at it. I really don't care what you shoot. - It should be legal to permanently hobble anyone that drops a duece w/in 50 yards of your stand. Doing so in the stand would be grounds for a public caning.
-In hunting it seems ok to change the defnition of a word if you don't like the one webster assigned to it. -Sometimes the WORST day hunting is NOT better than a day at work. -The weather channel is useless. -Sometimes things happen out in the woods, and it's really not neccessary to pass those things on to the public, or anyone who doesn't absolutely need to know. -I don't understand a lot of what other people do, so I really don't expect them to understand what I do.
- Deer hunting has become less and less exciting for me over the last couple of years. I wonder if this is because I haven't killed a deer in 2 years, or if the reason I haven't killed a deer in 2 years because it doesn't excite me like it once did and I don't put my all into it..?? - Most of the hunters in my area annoy the crap out of me and I want to punch them in the face. Yes, lets all live up to every stereotype in the book. - I am not hardcore. - Why do I have to come into the office when the entire network is down? All I'm doing is playing on the internet. I can't get to any of my files. Why do I have to be here again?
I love bowhunting. It is something I would have a hard time living without. I love the challege of it all. I care not to judge you in your hunting pursuits, as long as your pursuits involve legal activities. Hunting is the most relative activity on the planet, in terms of how you define and judge success.
Will I get another crack at the big 10 pointer I drew back on 3 times last year and never released an arrow? Will I ever find a shed on my property???? Are my food plots coming up right now?
-I have no idea what this next season has in store for me (just like last season, and it turned out to be my best yet). Here's to another great fall in the woods....soon -Will I make the grade I need on this geology final tomorrow? (back to studying)
I ask myself these questions allot. Some I know the answers to, some I don't. Why do I care so much about the tradition In bow hunting? Is my daughter going to be by my side In the woods bow hunting along with me In her upcoming years? Will I take the next step and get more Involved In the P&Y Club? Will I ever get a chance at a B&C Black Bear? Cool thread Scott!!
Is it hunting if you watch the same deer grow for 5 years, and pass on him each year, until his rack is big enough and then shoot him?
As much as it sounds like deer farming, if it were free range, I'd call it hunting. To keep a deer patterned that well for that long says something about your hunting skills IMO.
-Why do so many of us take time while we're at work to read this site when we know we're just going to laugh our @ssess off and get in trouble?
-It's sad that as a guy from a big city, so many of my friends don't understand what I do and why I do it. I try to share with my friends, but they just don’t get it. I’m blessed to have the best of both worlds. -I wish I had mad shooting skills like buckeye. -In the woods and in life, success should be measured by happiness. -Jackie Bushman makes me want to vomit. So does Bill Jordan. -I wish I could shoot like Rob, too (and Crick –I’ve never met him, but I’ve heard the rumors). -I wish some of the hunting shows we watch would show more real hunts, rather than the typical over-produced, save the big one for the star who never screws up, high fenced, engineered animals BS that they feed us.
