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Post by Sandbur on Aug 10, 2017 5:09:02 GMT -6
Has anyone else experienced changes in their goals for hunting season.
I no longer have any burning desire for early bow season. Heck, I don't even want to kill a deer with a bow. I like to bow hunt around mid week at Halloween to see some rutting action.
Rifle season I thoroughly enjoy (it used to be bow season was my main interest).
I don't really need to kill a big deer or any deer as long as we have some quality venison to eat. Of course I will kill him if I see him, but I would rather let my daughter hunt the best stands. My wife said she would like to kill another nice one, so her and my daughter will have to decide where to go for rifle opener.
I just want to have quality time hunting and get some good venison.
Have your goals changed?
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Post by smsmith on Aug 10, 2017 5:39:34 GMT -6
I'd say it's more my drive or intensity that has changed. I still only want to shoot bucks that are head mounters, but I don't drag my ass out of bed as often to get in a stand. As far as venison goes, I don't much care. I prefer beef, pork, or chicken and my wife doesn't like venison at all. "Filling the freezer" would be my dead last reason to deer hunt. I hope to fill my tag with a bow and not have to co-mingle with the boys in orange/pink.
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Post by sd51555 on Aug 10, 2017 5:58:13 GMT -6
Not recently. I've come to terms with the idea I ain't getting a deer every year. I think I've narrowed it down to 11 years since I've shot a deer. I was ok for a long time not getting a deer, and then this year, I started getting hungry for venison. Not hungry enough to shoot any of the twin-rearing does or a fawn or yearling. But I do have a heightened interest in getting a basket buck for the canner this year.
I do struggle sometimes with getting out in the stand on the harshest mornings later in rifle season. Not very often I don't go, but sometimes I get there late and come back early. What I'm looking forward to most is some time on stand near my plots in October. I've never sat a brassica plot when there were actually brassicas in it.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Aug 10, 2017 6:01:27 GMT -6
I have never really had the big urge to kill deer, but I sure like to sit in a tree all day filming them for some reason. I never hunted for 25 years, just started back hunting this past 6 years. So my drive is at a peak right now, But not my sex drive for some reason anymore! LOL!
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 10, 2017 6:14:01 GMT -6
I can remember the preparations I used to do for scent control and bow hunting. I finally decided I didn't want to do it any more. I might do a few things, but not the elaborate procedures as before. Our vet clinic used to have meetings for farmers. I can remember one farmer saying he wasn't coming to any meetings as he all ready knew how to do a better job than what he was presently doing. Kind of the same thing for me. I Used to spend more time on foodplots. I used to have a goal of only a trophy buck. I decided I don't want to do either any more. I guess you learn time on earth is limited and I'm going to spend the remainder of my spare time doing things I want to do. Kind of like foggy going golfing. IT'S A GOOD THING HE GOLFS AS HE CAN'T CONTROL HIMSELF WHEN RAIN DANCIN'. He just overdoes it. Too dry or too wet. He was a poor student from the start!
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Post by smsmith on Aug 10, 2017 6:17:09 GMT -6
Why do what you don't want to do (hobby wise anyway)? The longer I'm on this planet, the less things I do that I don't want to do. The less I care what other people think about what I do or don't do too
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Post by Foggy on Aug 10, 2017 6:38:31 GMT -6
I can remember the preparations I used to do for scent control and bow hunting. I finally decided I didn't want to do it any more. I might do a few things, but not the elaborate procedures as before. Our vet clinic used to have meetings for farmers. I can remember one farmer saying he wasn't coming to any meetings as he all ready knew how to do a better job than what he was presently doing. Kind of the same thing for me. I Used to spend more time on foodplots. I used to have a goal of only a trophy buck. I decided I don't want to do either any more. I guess you learn time on earth is limited and I'm going to spend the remainder of my spare time doing things I want to do. Kind of like foggy going golfing. IT'S A GOOD THING HE GOLFS AS HE CAN'T CONTROL HIMSELF WHEN RAIN DANCIN'. He just overdoes it. Too dry or too wet. He was a poor student from the start! Art.....I'm gonna show you one more time..... web img
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Post by Freeborn on Aug 10, 2017 7:06:34 GMT -6
Why do what you don't want to do (hobby wise anyway)? The longer I'm on this planet, the less things I do that I don't want to do. The less I care what other people think about what I do or don't do too Agree with this, sometimes it does not make my wife real happy but life changes.
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Post by nhmountains on Aug 10, 2017 7:21:10 GMT -6
Why do what you don't want to do (hobby wise anyway)? The longer I'm on this planet, the less things I do that I don't want to do. The less I care what other people think about what I do or don't do too I've told my wife that many times over the past few years. She agrees entirely. Im looking forward to the day when I can wake up and do bat I want to do every day. Or at least half of them.
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Post by batman on Aug 10, 2017 7:21:32 GMT -6
Why do what you don't want to do (hobby wise anyway)? The longer I'm on this planet, the less things I do that I don't want to do. The less I care what other people think about what I do or don't do too Agree with this, sometimes it does not make my wife real happy but life changes. Feel free to use my line Jerry "You can have half now, but you will never get it all later"
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Post by jbird on Aug 10, 2017 8:19:42 GMT -6
Change is the only constant. I know my goals and the like have changed some since my kids have started hunting. Sure I want a big deer, but I will work much harder to get my kids a deer. I also used to rush out for the bow opener and now I wait until Halloween or so. I also like hunting with my kids much more than I do hunting by myself. Yes taking the kids can be a pain in the ass, but I really like sharing the time with them. Same thing goes for fishing. Taking the kids and lowering the expectation and simply seeing the "fun" return to it is awesome. It's simpler hunting/fishing in a sport where grown men seem to have sucked the fun right out of it because of the pursuit of the "trophy".
I used to stress about scent control or being in the tree by X time and hunt every day possible in the heat, freezing cold and just be miserable or hunt all day long. Now - especially when the kids go.....it's back to being a true hobby. Sure there are days I "fight" to go hunting.....but on some of those other not so prime days.....I can be more open to doing other things.
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Post by buckvelvet on Aug 10, 2017 8:24:07 GMT -6
Everyones at a different point in their lives thats what makes the world go round. Part of it also is where you live & how you learned what you do know now.
I'm only 33 but I side with lots of you older gents (I just mean closer to retirement or post). I've lived in this small farm town (2010 census said 285 people lived in the village) my whole life. I started deer hunting with a family that the dad never land of his own to hunt so it was always permission given or state-land. They didn't always see deer so when they did, it was going to die. The part i loved about it was the deer camp, great people sitting around telling old hunting stories, the funny things that happened at camp or during the season, that's what I loved best.
We don't have lots of even pope & young bucks here (though some are killed every year). Michigan is known for its HUGE hunting community, our orange army I would bet would out number many stats 3 or 10 to 1 depending on hunter participation. In 2010 I lucked into some family land on my wife's side to hunt, I have a small hunting group and all of them have killed bigger bucks than me & its not even close. However they are only there because of me, i'm the only 1 in the group that actually has a right to be there. However this all goes back to how I was raised, better to give than receive, etc, etc...
I don't care if someone shoots a doe, a spike horn, or some 180 12 point. As long as the hunter enjoyed themselves and I can see the excitement on their face, that's the point of going out in the first place. Hunting to me comrodery, I care not for how many or how big of a deer anyone shoots.
We have MAPR's here now and the it seems to have made a lot of angry folks into very very angry folks. This is probably why (among a few bad apples I've run into) i have soured on the QDMA and will never support the organization ever in my life time. Michigan hunting was and has been always about tradition not a small interest group, however i digress.....
I will still go out in the woods, enjoy it to its fullest extent regardless of what rules the government imposes on me.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Aug 10, 2017 9:22:12 GMT -6
I never set goals anymore. I just end up disappointing me and everyone around me.....
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Post by Satchmo on Aug 10, 2017 10:01:45 GMT -6
I never set goals anymore. I just end up disappointing me and everyone around me..... Same here Mo. I still do quite a few project every year, but I've come to the realization that I will NEVER get to everything that I want done. I know I will never get as much help as I'd like, so I just try and keep it fun and be happy with what I do get accomplished. Keeps my stress level down.
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Post by riggs on Aug 10, 2017 10:17:59 GMT -6
I just love to hunt. I will hunt anything and anywhere because it's part of my history from the most primitive of times. All the other self created issues that go along with hunting are only there because are brains are too complex for the simplicity of the hunt. When I question things I always try to revert back to a simpler time. You either hunt or you don't, turn off your mind and do what you know you love.
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