Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Mr.Magoo on February 08, 2007, 12:24:00 PM
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I'd guess big game season is over for most of us by now. Looking back on last year, what (if anything) are you going to do differently this year?
As for me ... I found myself setting-up too close to deer this year and was busted several times when trying to set-up a shot. Also decided multi-blade heads aren't for me and will "stick" with a good 2 blade.
How about you?
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Seems like not long ago I was answering a thread about this for last season. For starters, I will try another part of the mountain I have been hunting. Hopefully I will get out and scout more than last year. :knothead: All of my learning was during the season, and all though I had a lot of fun. I wish I knew more of what was happening before hand. The other thing I hope to do different is to actually get out more since my kid will be in school longer. :bigsmyl:
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Quit letting deer walk by me and fill my tags before it gets cold. Hunt with more primitive made clothes and equipment.And to take more pictures this year of areas set ups and game.
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Staying on the ground, I'm done with treestands. I'm going to do more hunting in remote areas and away from suburbia.
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Well,I'm going to use my own built bow, or one of them, that way if the bow takes a crap like it did this year it will be no-ones fault but my own.
Then a little more quality scouting, and when the time comes... slow down a little, enjoy the hunt, and try to get a friend or two to come to Indiana to hunt with me.should be a great year!
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Everything, I am moving to colorado in june. The hunting is way different than the tree sitting of the midwest. I have alot to learn.
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Probably let more does walk next year. Shot four this year and although it helps to get kill experience with the recurve, I'm going to try and get some antler.
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I plan to hunt from the ground more, do a little more still hunting. Switch from manufactured camo clothes to wool and flannel. Hunt more areas then just on my property. Oh yea, do a couple deer drives right before rifle season.
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Spend more than 4 hours total hunting for the season. Last year we moved to our farm right before the season....in reality I spent about as much time in the woods...but doing farm/conservation/TSI/foodplot stuff rather than actually hunting. I enjoyed it as much just less meat on the table taken with a bow as opposed to a "quick" gun hunt to fill the freezer.
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I'll still use a treestand, but I'll probably hunt from the ground a little more too. I found that last year once I'd hung a stand I was inclined to sit it even if conditions were not ideal for that stand. Next season I will be quicker to move to "plan B" and hunt the ground from a better location for the conditions of the day.
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I need to put more effort into becoming either scent free, or get better at reading the trails/winds when it comes to stand selection for a given day. I always plan & hope to scout more but do not always follow through.
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Quit passing up on the First day what I would take on the Last Day :knothead:
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Well, since I am not a Hunter, dont everybody throw things at me all at once now :scared: , I have NOTHING Against Hunters, its just not for Me....But I Do LOVE The Woods, I will Strap on my "BIG KNEE BRACE" and Do MORE Stumping and Plain Old GET-OUT-OF-THE-HOUSE Stuff!! :thumbsup: :archer:
I WILL finish and Shoot the Dryad Glue Up and Shoot it. I gotta make me a Reasonably Inexpensive Tiller-Tree yet, and the BIG THING: Score Myself a Riding LawnMower!!! :goldtooth:
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Me and My hunt buddy are gonna get in away from the roads, thick brush and swamp wading if that is what it takes to get away from other hunters; where the true monsters live...
BD
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Scout harder and longer, didn't get much time to scout last year and it really shot me iin the foot. I will spend alot more time on the ground, slipping and still hunting.
Also wil stay all day long hunting no matter how hot it is, during bow season.
Later
Jason
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Shoot a deer! Pat
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Kill a deer with my recurve!!
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SCOUTing,,
and I don't mean harder - because you have to have done it to do it harder.
Stop walking in Private or State land and going eny meny miny mo.
Balancing family life is priorty and now with my son now able to bowhunt, I can spend sometime with him in the woods prior to hunting.
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Go back to my longbows instead of trying to hunt with a recurve. :)
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What Vance said ! I say the same thing evey year but still seem to pass.
Bill
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Hit what I'm aiming at.
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Spend more time hunting small game with my longbow....the ultimate bowhunting high.
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I'm going to hunt exclusively with my old 1967 Bear Grizzly,She turns 40 this year!!!!!
Cedar arrows tipped with Bear Razorheads carried in my backquiver. I'm going to step back in time!!!!! :archer:
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Try to get a decent Mulie!
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I am going to get off the beaten path a little further. I am planning on getting WAY further from the roads and other hunters. Work a little harder. I also plan to get my son out more this year. He loves to hunt with Dad, I just don't take him out more than once or twice a year (he is only 8). Next year he will be in my camp a lot more.
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There are a few things I wil try doing next year:
1. Enroll my son in eunter education courses since he will be turning 10 this spring.
2. Try to suffer less from buck feaver.
3. To kill my first traditional archery deer.
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Secure more hunting ground, its getting scarce around these parts.
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Couple of things:
1.Get my stepson into archery.(done)
2.Go back to 2016s. (done)
3.learn to sharpen a Grizzly.(done)
4.Donate my time to the local Scout troop.
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1. Scout more
2. Sit stiller
3. Watch the wind more
4. See deer more than twice
5. Become a better hunter ;)
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I know what I won't do again this year, GET MARRIED. and I thought my mom was bad about me spending money!
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I'm going to shoot cedars and heavy heads exclusively, get a ghillie suit and a ladder stand to add to the mix, and practice more!
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Follow through....don't now a thing until the arrow is sticking in the ground on the other side.......
Also, try some 190 grain Ribteks on those stiff Ash arrows I have.
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Stick with one set-up and pass on a few more doe. I filled all three tags this past year with doe, which I certainly don't mind. But I'm saving one tag out for a nice buck this year. Also I switched between three bows over last season. I still did good, but missed a couple shots that I shouldn't have.
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This year I will not let a eight point buck walk away from me. But then again I will never forget that feeling,
But I don't think I'll need to remember it twice !
Carl.
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Hunt for elk, Lord willing!!! :bigsmyl: :pray:
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Get a deer.
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KILL A MOOSE!!!!!
Moose be warned!!!! If you live in the boreal region of Alberta, you are on my list. You can run but you can't hide. This is the year!!!!!!!
I also want to kill a Bear with a bow I built myself this spring.
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You ever see one of those whopper "Bow Zone" deer Brian? Ever since I read a few articles on that area, I have been fascinated with that place.
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YEP!!!! Never drew down on one with my bow though. I am so obsessed with killing a moose, that I have almost ignored those monsters!!!!!
BTW - I live in the bow zone!
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Oh you lucky dog!!! Someday I'll have to pay you a visit. Good luck on the moose. Be sure to post some pics when it happens!
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not spend the most of the season recovering from back surgery... quit my job so I have more time for my bow
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Get permission to some more places. Get established stands BEFORE season starts. Take a deer either off of the ground or from a tree (without a stand). Take a hog with a flint head.
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LMAO!!!!!! I hear ya shootrmn! I had a job with a 2 week paid vacation for the last 6 years. Over the summer I switched companies and lost my vacation time. I thought it would have been no big deal, that was until deer season started. Weekends and rainy bad weather is what I had to salvage the season with. My current employer wouldn't even give me time off when I had a burst in my plumbing. Needless to say the employment search is on!
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Stay healthy! Missed almost the entire 2006 season! I am really looking forward to October 2007!!!
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Switch from a longbow back to a recurve. Not bad mouthing longbows, it just takes more time to get good with them and with work and school this fall I won't have the time to devote.
I've had a fear of heights and this year I'm getting myself over it and hunt exclusively from a treestand. I hunt high pressured deer on public land and its about impossible to get close enough to them on the ground to get a shot.
I might switch to shooting wood arrows too but thats kind of up in the air at this point.
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Scout earlier.
Build more blinds.
Hunt more often.
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Get my first traditional kill. Have as much fun if not more than I had this year. Hersh
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For me it is a matter of getting even more "traditional".
Weapon: This year I plan to only hunt with a selfbow and arrows I make from scratch. I can't knapp so I will still use my Zwickey broadheads. I want to hunt this way for small game, turkey, waterfowl and big game.
Gear: I dont want to use anything else modern. No lighters, matches, binoculars, gps, etc. (flashlight ok for safety & tracking). Fire piston or fire drill are ok.
Clothing: Instead of camo I will only hunt in wool plaids and animal skins. Footwear will be mocs and mucluks. No man made fabrics.
Hunting Methods: As usual I will only still-hunt and stalk. Float hunting in canoe also ok.
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Scout more, hunt more. I have a large creekbottom that is WORK to get in and out of down a steep bluff. I am going to set up blinds down in there this year and hunt them.
Hunt more. I am going to British Columbia and then to Africa this summer. I am going to hunt hard. I do not want to wake up in 30 years and say "I wish I had taken more hunting trips". I decided that you only go once, make good memories.
I am also going to Compton in June. No way I am missing this again.
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I'm hopin to kill an Ontario Blackbear, this september, with 5 other Tradgangers!!!! PLUS, hopefully, kill an antelope out near Douglas, Wyoming come august!!! Both bowhunts of course, and I've never hunted either species!!! I cain't wait!!!
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Hopefully pull a femal bighorn tag. Shoot the 170 muley that kicked my butt all last year. Get another crack at the 70 plus speed goat. and scare lots of elk again :thumbsup: