What is your biggest bowhunting weakness?

My weakness has always been looking for new adventures. I used to chase all around the country. It never really was about killing anything, (good thing!) it was more about seeing new places. I loved to travel.

Now, being back here in WI, I'll be concentrating more on the family land. 640 acres to do as I please. Didn't have much time to hunt it this past fall, but learned a lot about it. I really hadn't hunted any of it for many years and my family added a few new pieces since I last hunted there. I'm basically learning new land.

This year I'll have more time to concentrate on the crops and food plots. Plenty of bedding on the land, it just needed some food. I'm really looking forward to this next year.

 

My biggest bowhunting weakness is fly fishing.

 

I get the Fever when ever I know I'm going to shoot. Not just buck fever but even on does. I need to learn to calm my nerves so I can think clear. Easier said then done for me though.

 

My weakness has to be closing the deal. In the last three years, two opportunities blown by bad shots. One high over the back and one into the shoulder, both less than 35 yard shots. Just reviewing a thread yesterday has brought me to the belief that Im lifting my head as I release, not unlike a golf shot that gets topped. Or is it that Im weak in my self composure at time of release? Second weakness is when too pull back. I always seem to draw too early and then have too hold too long.

 

Rationalizing a conveinent hunt over going to a better spot that requires more effort

 

Juggling family, work and hunting.

Also buck fever. Doesn't matter if its a doe or a Big Buck. Able to calm myself down but still the nerves get to me. Then I second guess myself should have shot or not.

The one other thing that I need to work on is not being lazy when it comes to looking for property. Will have to change this year as I may be loosing my property I have hunted for the last 5 yrs.

 

my weakness is morning hunts....the only day i went morning was opener day....i need to stop being lazy and do more morning shifts...lol

 

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Being less tolerable to adverse weather conditions than I used to be

I fidget too much, always have. Comfortable or not, I fidget.

Not being agressive, whether it's in regards to scouting new areas, looking for permission to new places, or hunting better spots.

 

No longer having the Income I had 3-4 years ago , before the Housing bust.

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I need to focus on preseason work more, specially securing more places to hunt. Having a limited area I end up pressuring too much the proprieties that i am sure have a mature deer near it.

Check that...while the above is true it isnt my biggest detriment to my bow hunting....That fact that I am too serious/focused on what i think is success...I dont have fun anymore. At one time I used to just enjoy hunting...now I seem to push so much that I only enjoy succeeding. I lost something along the way and I need to find it again.

 

This year it was checking trail cams to often. I am letting them sit awhile longer now. I was careful about how I did it as far as scent and entering and exiting, I just went more than I should have.

They are addicting

 

1. My inability to do the legwork THIS time of year to gain new ground and scout existing ground.

2. My "perfect scenario" mentality with regard to shooting doe. I honestly could have shot around 15-20 different doe throughout archery, rifle, and late season (around 60-70 shot opportunities) that I passed because I had a variety of reasons why (too warm, busy evening planned after the hunt, didn't want to botch a chance at a buck coming by later while I'm cleaning a doe, etc, etc). I ended up being too picky, and with no meat to show for it, and my property NEEDS a few doe taken.

3. Other than that, I'm really improving a lot of my other weakenesses, and although the lack of deer taken this year doesn't show it, I'm putting myself in more positions every year to take quality deer.

 

Relying too much on the good spots from past success, and waiting for it to happen. Instead of venturing out somewhere else and making it happen.

 

My biggest problem is that I lose touch with reality. I stop worrying about my responsabilitys. All I want to do is hunt. It consumes my life. Which is ok to from my view but my boss, family, friends, and especially my girlfriend don't like it much.