So as the title implies, what are your goals for the 2010 season? For me personally, this is my "All Out Balls to the Wall" season. I will be going to school next year a will probably be doing very little if any bowhunting for the next four years. I plan to hike further, go deeper, and hunt harder than I ever have. Opening week of bowseason will be devoted to hiking 7+ miles in for spot and stalk muler deer. After that, three solid weeks of chasing elk. After elk season, providing I still have my deer tag, it will be nothing but stand time for some mature whitetails. I'm looking for more of a substance season, than a killing season. I want something to help fuel me through school and I know a good season will help.
to maximize my season by hunting as many days as possible,try not to let poachers get to me.fill the freezer and enjoy the season! i hope we all have good seasons i am dying for it to get here my heart was thumping watching ted nugent tonite i am pumped!
At this point, I would like to have a fun and safe hunt with my daughter in Africa. She is celebrating her tenth year of life on safari. She'll be using her trusty crossbow to, hopefully, bring down an impala, blesbok, springbok, steenbok, duiker, warthog, zebra, and wildebeast. Dad will be using archery tackle on cape buffalo, red heartebeast. white/black springbok, and possibly a hippo. This trip takes place the last two weeks of July. I would like to bang a speed goat with stick and string via spot and stalk when I return. Wyoming and Colorado are on the schedule. Pronghorn will be my priorty until September 18th. On this date I hope to aid several elk hunters with their successful arrow launching endeavors. I f I personnally never kill another elk, I'm ok. But, I would sure like to see several gents return home with happy faces and antlers. I'd like to gather a fall turkey and a few whitetail/mule deer. I have hunts planned in Alberta, Colorado, Illinios, Nebraska, New Mexico, and South Dakota. Eight points or better has always been my standard. I see no reason to change now. The remote possibility of arrowing a moose in Alberta exists...I'll take it if it comes. If I get the chance, I'm going to sneak in a mt. lion hunt. I wish everyone the best!
Mind set is same every season... hunt hard to my abilities..hunt safe...enjoy the harvest..share with family and friends!
To take this (as of now) ghost buck that I will be hunting for the first time this year. Although I had an encounter with him in 2008 as a guest on the property. (Which I am now leasing). I have no idea what on earth he looks like... whether he has 100" or 150" on his head right now... but the impressions in the earth he has left behind have been nothing short of jaw-dropping. I've nick-named him "Crop-Circle" on account for his EXTREMELY large beds.. this deer must push the 350 mark... and I'm on his trail. It's been a fun spring... and continued yesterday with more good news on this whitetail. I just need the right wind.. and a little luck.. This... and to get Justin on film killing another buck... and buddies Wayne or Brian an opportunity at a solid buck. But hey... I have a daughter about to spring from my wife.. so as long as she and mom are healthy... I don't care about anything else. Word.
I'm going back to my roots. My buddy that got me into Bowhunting hasn't really hunted much over the last 4-5 years and I went in another direction. I miss the good ole days where hunting was more fun and being spent with great friends. We picked up a property last year with huge potential but I didn't get it set up until November. I know of at least three deer over 150" in the area and hope to get a crack at one. Next weekend I might have the luxury of a forum super moderator stopping out to scout a few stand locations on the property with me and hope to be setup with a better strategy. I also have a call to make this week to see if I can still hang stands a mile from my house, which also has great potential and hunting close by. That property is within the range of a legendary deer that should still be around this year. If I get lucky and tag out early I hope to get up to Wisconsin to hunt with friends or might film friend's hunts while burning the 4-5 weeks of vacation I have to blow on hunting season.
For Johnny or myself to kill Brasky on film. At only 4.5 last fall he was a stud......I can't wait to see what he looks like this fall. A little pic JZ made last fall....
To finally just let go and hunt for the first time in my life. I finally pulled this off during turkey season so maybe deer season can go the same. This may sound silly, but OCD runs rampant in my veins...so letting go is huge.
Hunt the entire season with a recurve. Kill my first deer with a recurve. Kill a 3.5 year old buck or better. I am confident due to the scouting I performed from January through March, and from the thousand arrows a week I am shooting. KILL or be killed...LOL.
I have several good goals....First, I'd like to have a successful hunt in Colorado resulting in a big GRIN on my face as I stand over an elk I just punched an arrow through..... After that, I'd like to get my nephew in position for his first ever kill, an archery kill at that, then I'll focus on getting a nice buck, and I'd also like to sneak out w/ my soon to be 6yr old daughter with the crossbow if I can get her set up to a point she shoots it well enough, and help her get her first kill on one of the several deer that occasionally cruise through our woods. If I can accomplish just one of those goals, I'll consider it a successful season, get more than one, and I'll be very happy, if by chance the Good Lord blesses me enough to accomplish ALL of them, I'll be floating on a cloud for a good while.
Pretty simple goals for me this year. #1 is to get in the stand more times. I only got out about 6-7 tiimes last year. I did get to tag a decent 8pt with my recurve but I just didn't hunt as much as I wanted to. #2 is to tag a deer or 2 with one of my vintage recurves...I think that'd be pretty cool
This year I want to shoot a massive 8-pointer or above im going all out... if you wanna shoot a big one you have to walk the small ones.. Then im going to Mich.. in search of a wild boar I could arrow with my Blackice...Then its time to pull out the Victor Traps....
Well since I just joined a new hunt club with 2500+ acres one of my goals is to learn properties. I know its gonna take years to accomplish that goal. I'll be heading to Illinois again this fall and my goal is a 140"+ buck. I'm also hoping the trip goes off without a hitch.
