What are your archery correlated activities off season?
I shoot every single day and scout on the week end,build new arrows and sharpen broadheads.Full time PRO Bowhunter here.Damn,I also buy new bows.
I've got a great 40 target 3-d course here local that is set up year round that is the best one I've seen.just went there yesterday w/ Elknutz,good times, good practice, and good friends what more do you need.
I am fortunate not to have an off season from hunting in GA. We can hunt rooters year round but I do shoot every night at the house and get over club a couple times a week to shoot 3D's. Also do a lot of stump shooting while looking for pigs and shooting areas for deer season.
I'm lucky enough to live a 5 minute walk from my local range and shoot just about everyday. We also have hogs year round here in California, so our season never really ends either.
-Mack
i build bows/ arrows and shoot in my backyard in the off season so far, and scout hunting spots for the next year. soon im going to find a local club i can shoot 3d at, but right now work takes alot of my time.
Gets to damn cold to shoot outdoors during the Winter here so I usually pummel a sack full of bags in the apartment till Spring hits. Then stump shoot as often as possible and hunt the few rodents the Province allows, although they only let us hunt the ones I rarely see. Thank goodness for Bear season which started on Saturday. Now if only I had a bow.
Is there an off season?
I try to shoot everyday but during the summer the heat becomes to much so i shoot in my basement( 10yds ).
I am always tinkering with my trad bows and it makes the summer months pass a little faster.
Shoot, shoot and more shoot. Hog hunt, work on arrows, equipment, stands etc. mShoot some more, go fishing once in awhile and mow the grass.
Hunt woodchucks, carp and stumps and wait for the next season to open! Hunt squirrels and yotes From close of our deer season in december to close of yote season in end of march! april i'm out scouting turkeys for Our may season,june thru end of sept. woodchucks and or bow fish!
July and August are the only months nothing really going on, and we just shoot getting ready for whitetail.Scouting and trail camera operations from August through November. Sept/Feb Whitetail, fall turkey. March is usually travel to hunt South,ie Hogs. April/May Spring Turkey. June/July bowfishing.
I shoot a DART league from Jan-May. Make bunches of arrows for the 3D season. 3D shoots from April -Sept. Shoot everyday.Hopefully get some bowfishing in this year. Make spare strings and break them in...plenty to keep me busy
BOWFISH!!! :D
Fly fish my local stream. 3D and stump shoot.
I shoot a lot of indoor paper, field, and 3D. I also spend a bit of time bowfishing.
Off season???
I try to practice at least every other day. Hunt hogs, turkey season is in until the end of April. Paddle my kayak up the river and check for fresh hog sign, then go hog hunting. Deer season starts the 15th of Oct and lasts until Jan 31st. Bill
I think I have killed something every month of the year, I'm with HP, OFF season?!
this is a nonstop endevor.There are just different phases.Feb.is a slow month march-aug. re group buy bows, reup on supplys, an shoot alot of 3-d, scout, plan trips, save my money.Feb I ponder the season an think about what I may change the next year.the worst thing I ponder about in Feb. is the very painful misses.these expearances will make me a better bow hunter.I tell my self that all the best bowhunters miss.but it dosent make the pain go a- way however you do gain growth from year to year.
3-D
Dart Target System (virtual hunting, which has helped me pick a spot better than any other type of practice.
Stump shooting, which is some of the best practice in my opinion for learning your arrows flight path. Unknown distances make your brain focus and help creat that built in range finder.
Train in Mixed Martial Arts for conditioning. It really helps for elk season, maintaining a good diet, and keeping the weight off.
Paul
We don't have off seasons,,,,I just have a serious lack of money,,,so I shoot in my back yard a lot,vist local clubs and shoot competitions.
We do have a local herd of Fallow deer,plus Rabbits,Hares an Turkeys,all in or around the farm lands and property I live on,but I'm not big on shooting small game an the Fallow are "to me" not truely wild animals because they live in a semi protected environment,so don't have any real value as a "hunting" animal anyway.
Theres an off season for archery?
Wait.
Bowfish, Coyote hunt, target shoot, 3-D shoot every weekend I can. Shoot 3-D at the club, hunters and target league at the local archery shop. Trad archery is a life style for me. Throw in camping, fishing, stump shooting, bladesmithing and working, family, etc.... I am amazed I ever sleep.
I also shoot nearly every day. I shoot indoors in inclement weather and outside: personal 3-D range, open commercial 3-D range, and I try to go to 1-2 3-D shoots per month. Bowhunting turkeys now,white-tail deer and elk this September through mid-January. Cacciatore, because of the bow pics you posted on the Phenolic thread I bought a new LH, Blactail Elite yesterday -- 62", 47#'s. VERY ODD how I got it. Fellow ordered it more than a year ago. He changed his mind. Norm sent it to Footed Shaft for retail. I bought it from the Footed Shaft. It is coco footed with Mryrtl I(riser and limbs). EVen has checkered grip. I would have ordered: 60", 48 pounds, coco and myrtle footed the same as this. I feel like this bow was actually ordered for me! It is due to arrive tomorrow. Thanks for the tip on the Blacktail Elite.
What everyone above me said!!! H
Fly Fish, Shoot in my yard, and chase groundhogs with my bows and flintlocks.
What is a "Off Season" Felix?
I could never live where there is an "off season"! You need to move south!
There isn't an offseason. That is what is great about traditional bowhunting. I'm bowfishing right now.
Musky fish and bowfish for carp. Do a little trurkey hutning!
Jack
Well usually just make the wife and kids crazy. But this past winter I found a gentleman farmer who has a heated pole barn. He was nice enough to let us use it to shoot in.
NO mountains to climb in South Georgia so I do alot of my workouts at the local football stadium doing stadium stairs, ride my road bike around 50-80 miles a week, fish down on the coast quite a bit, shoot my bow in the back yard or go stump hunting as there are no trad guys in my small town, play a little golf, and last but not least, pull my old boat down to the Keys for a week of flats fishing!! :bigsmyl:
easy - my "Honey-Do" list that wasn't touched all hunting season.... :readit:
year round, man, you guys got it made...... :banghead:
there are always varmits to chase :) . I hunt groundhogs, carp and 3d's. And shoot as often as I can, I find that hot weather stops me from bakeing in the sun, so I sometimes shoot in the rains?? Call me wierd, we have a pavillion in the back yard, so you dont get really wet, but the air is nice and cool :) ! I am almost as in love with fly fishing as I am with trad bowhunting, there are always fish, cold, hot, rain, snow!
Plus that and I think after Curts turkey challenege we will all be making gillie suits, lol
shoot 3D, drink beer & play golf & fish a lot.
I shoot alot of indoor 300 rounds, some 3ds and field shoots and chase ground hogs around.
I hang new stands. Try to gain access to new areas. Scout public land. I work alot so I can take a little time off during deer season. Then I mostly just wait for deer season!
You mean theres an off season ???????????
"Off Season.....We don't need no stinking off season!!!!" :readit:
Hunt hogs year round....
Evidently, you didn't heed to Bohunting Tip #1 on The Bowhunter's of Trad Gang DVD. :biglaugh:
That hog hunting is a lot of fun that is for sure.
I shoot in my yard every day and try and take the kids to the fields to shoot.I like to get them used to the field.Other than that I fish and coach T-ball and baseball,and do what my wife tells me to do :scared: .How long till hunting season? :eek: :archer2:
There is no off season... LOL
Shoot in our league, then Spring Turkey season... Next comes more hunting prep in my 3D course at home. Scouting, building blinds and hanging stands. Think about "plan B" and change, build more... Walking in detail new ground and trying to gain access to more private close to home ground. Getting ready for out of state bow-trips. This never ends... There is not a single day that I do not do something or think about something related to bowhunting.. Yeah, this is the life.
John III
Sept-Feb Deer, upland game, water fowel, trapping
April-August scout, bowfish, hike, train the puppy
Year round keep them beetles fed with everything i kill...nothing goes to waste.
As long as there are feral hogs in Texas, I have no off season
Target practice, occasional groundhog hunting and a fair amount of fly fishing.
It really should be no secret to anyone what I do in the off season. I buy, sell and trade bows! :) :biglaugh:
Bill
I shoot, tune, shoot, shoot and shoot some more. I stump shoot, work on my permanent blinds, coach 4H Archery with the kids in this program 9-18 years old. I also build bows called warfs, etc, off older compound risers, put recurve limbs on them. I do this because I often find older broken compounds at junk sales for $10 or less, and add a economical $60 Samick limbs, with a little machining, and tuning make serviceable entry level bow, and the compound riser feels familiar to a new trad shooter, helps in the transition. Deer hunting and turkey hunting here in KY is 4 months in the fall, 3 weeks in the spring. I also do a lot of varmint hunting, coyote, fox, crow and woodchuck on farmers locally, gives me more acces to deer hunting when I help remove problem annimals. The rest of the time I spend eating what we kill, kill it and grill it, make bratwurst, summersausage, jerky.
I ride this as much as possible...I have her loaded up with my bow and arrows in the parking lot as we speak...heading to Whittingham in an hour :thumbsup:
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When I am not cycling or kayaking, I shoot in the yard.
Nise GS you have there Tim.
It gets real hot and hummid here in the swamp. I worry abot my recurves when the power goes out and the house heats up. I take a beater bow and bowfish and try to stay cool in the ocean. Rod and reel fishing is good, make up arrows and drink beer while I wait for the cool season. Airconditioning is a gift from above.
I shoot about every day. I have tennis balls scattered around the yard, 3 1/2 acres, and I shoot judos and bludgeons at them. I am improving. I've been at the trad thing for about a year now and just in the last few weeks am seeing real improvement in my skills. I am planning on a few 3d shoots. For sure plan to do the McAllister Army Ammo Depot shoot this summer.
3-d and bowfishing Try to keep shooting to when it is most important due to *@#!! tendinitis
The only off season for me is when I'm traveling. Neat thing about that, while I don't have my hunting bows, I am still at least teaching archery.
I start getting ready for the next season LOL
Make bows, make arrows, and shoot every chance I get. Since the end of the past season, I built my first take down recurve (don't shoot it worth a crap, but it sure is prurty) and I'm currently in the process of finishing up a longbow for a buddy. My first experiment with adding a snakeskin backing.
look for lost arrows...
One word, BOWFISHING! Seriously, I haven't started yet cause the waters still too cold for the fish to be moving a whole lot, but man, around mid May/June, fishing should be awesome!
Off Season?.....Off Season???
You mean there's an Off Season? :scared: :scared: :scared:
Geeezz.....glad I don't live there!!! :goldtooth:
Tell me about it. I live there and all I can say is thank god for carp.
I shoot just about every day. I have an indoor and outdoor range set up where I work. Got my boss shooten trad. also always out huntin up old bows.
hunt!