Exactly how I feel. The only thing I know is work by butt off. Work harder than the next guy. Put more time in than anyone else. Like jeff said maybe not as efficient as others, but the only way I know how to do it and I like it. In a weird kind of way I want it to be hard. I honestly wouldn't want to be the guy that does no work, grabs his bow heads to the woods with the one day he can hunt that week and stumble on a nice buck.
Thats interesting and something I've given a lot of thought to. To be honest it seems like work some days. There are days when I wake up and really don't feel like going but feel like I have to. Like I'm going to my job or something. And obviously as the season goes on it wears on you more and more. Wake up one morning after hunting 100 or so hunts in a row and 400 hours on stand. About 4 degrees out, 20mph winds, snow squalls and you have a wicked bad cold. Grab your climber and head out around 4:30am! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh God I miss it lol. Days like that is when I question what I'm out there for. But the thing is, even though the journey isn't "fun" or seems hard at times, if the end result and ultimately reaching your goal brings you that much satisfaction that you can deal with the hard times for the grand prize then so be it. I guess that's what goes through the back of my mind. "It will be all worth it" I tell myself.
Landon. im giulty of saying just that on a Heartland Bowhunter DVD/National TV when I won the dream hunt with them. BUT it is what it was, we worked our nads off to get it done. It was supposed to be a three day hunt that turned into four. It was from before daylight untill 1.00 everyday with no lunch in between. It was either hunting, scouting or building blinds and I also hepled with carriying some of the camera equip, THATS WORK in its self I can see that what most of what you see/here is the real mcCoy and then there is Allen Warren :D
bloodcrik, I know what you went thru, you did work for that. It wasn't like you got in a blind and in 20 mins of getting light your guide hit the cal 5 times and a longbeard just strolled right in at 15 yds and it was over...I have no issue with either, I just don't like it when they say they Hunted Hard for it...when you didn't...I have killed lots of deer that I didn't work or hunt hard for, but I damn sure didn't come out of the woods telling everyone it was a hard hunt...in fact, one of my best bucks by a bow was simply a 10 min scout job and an hr hunt and it was over...I appreciate the deer and the buck, but I didn't wok hard for it or hunt hard for it...
LMAO, the opposite of "HARD." :p I know what you are saying about the "I've hunted so hard..." statement that is pretty overused. The definition comes into play of what hunting hard is. Even the guys that went to a big comfy outfitter lodge and had all their meals cooked for them while they decided what stand to drive their Bad Boy Buggy to in the morning still put in some work. I can see where it's a bit insulting to the guy that spends countless hours offseason scouting, working a full-time job, and then putting in a ton more hours on stand to get a crack at a deer (note deer, not buck) to talk about how HARD it was to wake up and sit in the stand someone else picked out and hung, but hey, they are still putting in the work to do it. It matters not to me, what they do isn't my life so I just gotta keep doing my thing to make my hunts as good as they can be. And it is hard work to me, and damn worth it.:D
well I wanted him to give his definition of limp...I mean sometimes hunts are just plain easy...I know that. But what Im saying is....well you get it HuntingBry, you know what Im saying and it doesn't change me what the other guy does, I just find it insulting and humorous all the same...
