With all the debate going on... I figured that something positive would be nice!!!
I am one of those fella's that must make a plan (Marine Corps ruined me that way) even if the plan is only going to be changed later...
Goals on the other hand, give me a vision and something to aim for and helps me put in the time and effort to achieve them...
I don't have any exciting plans... But with a baby due in early January... I need to stay flexible!!! Keeping momma happy will take a whole lot of work, but momma loves venison, so... My plans are to lighten up and have fun... Put a couple does in the freezer and keep looking for that elusive Pope and Young deer!!! I would love a nice high tined 8 pt!!! I am taking some time off pre rut and again during the rut, so let's hope I can put it all together!!!
My goal is to hunt well and not become lazy or any doubts and regrets for my choices... Not taking a buck that I should have let walk and not letting one walk I should have taken...
To take my 11 y.o. son out a few times... and hopefully let him experience the joy, peace, and passion that bow hunting gives me.. without trying to push it onto him... I used to take him with me on a rifle hunt or two a year when he was younger... But it has been a few years, and he has been out in the garage shooting his #20 glass bow with me and is getting fired up about bowhunting....
Another goal, is to attend some of the Traditional Bowhunters of GA events... INow if I can just get a few weekends off...
So those of you with some good plans, let me dream a little because this year is going to be hit or miss with momma and the kids...
I wish you all well this season!!!
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Best of luck with the new baby.
I have some rather lofty goals, but hey why not right?
I drew a good elk tag this year, and hope harvest a bull that scores over 300.
Other than that, I just have a goal to hunt smarter, and be more patient and enjoy the time I have in the mountains.
My goals for the year don't really apply to me.
David my nephew will picking up a bow and hunting this year. If he practices like he should. So my goals are as follows.
1) Teach him the beauty of the hunt without drawing blood.
2) Teach him the ways of the woods, that is tracking, reading sign, building blinds, the countless "why's".
3) Develope our mutual interest in hunting into a forum to talk about everday life and all it's pitfalls.
For me 1 and 3 are the vital ones, If I could have those accomplished this year we be my most succesful year ever.
QuoteOriginally posted by nc recurveman:
My goals for the year don't really apply to me.
David my nephew will picking up a bow and hunting this year. If he practices like he should. So my goals are as follows.
1) Teach him the beauty of the hunt without drawing blood.
2) Teach him the ways of the woods, that is tracking, reading sign, building blinds, the countless "why's".
3) Develope our mutual interest in hunting into a forum to talk about everday life and all it's pitfalls.
For me 1 and 3 are the vital ones, If I could have those accomplished this year we be my most succesful year ever.
As a newer hunter these goals come to mind. I am about to enter my second season and will not be able to afford a kill. This year I will have the blessed opportunity to watch and enjoy the wildlife around me. I will go through all the steps, but can't take a shot with the bow....only a camera. I can't wait!!
I am hopin to hunt at Rough Mountain this year for a whole week... :archer2:
Hogheaven :bigsmyl: 1st of October and maybe a roedeer hunt in Denmark.
Margly
At 68 years young I just thank God for I hope anaother hunting season. I am not a very good hunter with the recurve so I just ask that If I get a shot at a adult deer (doe or Buck ) that my arrow flys true. I shoot about 3 times a week and I no longer plan on shooting any deer over 20 yards and I use ground blinds. tree stands are for birds and no longer me as a hunter.
Good luck with the one on the way & congratulate the misus from the Slagle family.
I'm hoping for a better year than last with my bow in that I hope to have at least a decent sized Doe within bow range & I too hope that Lucky "the name my club have given a nice 8 pointer last year because he'd show his self but no one had a shot at him" crosses my path.
Made my bear hunt in AK and that was great...had plenty of plans until today...Wife's [ of 31 years ] health has taken a terrible turn and we got the test results today..
Looks like I'm going to be wanting to stay real close to home this fall and spend some "Good Time" with her... She would like to go to Hawaii and possibly one more cruise.
Gene :wavey:
I am leaning toward hunting with my self bow this year and only my self bow. Would like to kill a deer and turkey with it.
All bow kills to be with a longbow this year.
Well I plan to hunt the same way I did last time, I saw a lot of game and just could'nt put it together. This year I just plan to take my first good shot and not hope for better ones later. I also want to go out twice as much, last year the weather was somewhat foul but I still could have done more.
I plan to see deer and all goes well kill a few.And do this with sniper like accuracy.Other than that just beg the wife for forgiveness for hunting more than spending time with her. :thumbsup:
Prayers sent for you and your wife Gene. Enjoy your time together. God Bless.
Take the three new trad hunters I have been training to hunt, out into the wood and get them on animals.
Have some great hunts with my wife and help her make her first big game kill.
Hook up with Bjorn, Larry, etc... and have a great elk camp and some fun and exciting hunts.
Take Tricia to Australia in 2011 for three weeks and get some Chital, Rusa, and hog hunting done.
Most of all spend all the time I can in the woods enjoying nature and the hunting comraderie.
Personal goal - That big bull elk that gave me the slip last year! That boy has an appointment with a sharp stick with my name on it on opening day.
Well I have a hunt to WY for Mulies and Elk in September. I will be there a week...
Whitetails in Kentucky for the rest of the month of Sept plus a few other trips over there in Oct and Nov to find a good 'un....
Whitetails here in IL every chance I get. Have a real chance of taking a great deer here with new spots found/permission obtained/scouting underway.
God Bless you and your wife Gene.
I will opent the bow season here in KY on September 4th. I will go to Indiana (Attica) to deer hunt with my best friend 2-3 times from mid-October through early November. I have an invitation to bowhunt (1st time) on private land in Illinois with a friend from MS who owns and manages several deer hunting spots in the land of Lincoln. I should take him up on his offer (all I have to do is buy the NR tag) but if I still have buck tags in KY and or IN it will be difficult to leave one hot spot for another. I had been planning to hunt elk in either CO or OR in late September but I cancelled those plans last Monday. Oh, I have enough preference points to be selected on a WMA special hunt for the 1st weekend of November so I might be hunting then with my brothers from IN.
I have to stop hunting from October 4th-9th to conduct the 2nd World NASP Tournament at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Orlando, FL. Expecting 2,000 kids. Looking for 40 volunteers to be range officials. If you are interested, please send me a PM.
Thanks
Roy
Goals:
1. Take my first trad deer
2. Hunt "the driveway buck" if he made the year. Going to go look for him this weekend I hope. Nice tall rack. Likes to make a big scrape on the driveway of an A-frame where I hunt.
3. Get my daughter and/or son out hunting more
4. Hunt coastal NC on the invite of an old friend I haven't seen in 11 years
Plans (aka schemes):
They never end. Just drew up a plan for the driveway buck a few minutes ago. Figured the perfect blind spot, exit, entry, wind....Now I need to ask the land owner if I can make a brush pile this summer where I want to put the blind...
Other than that the schemes regarding wind and areas where I hunt are just non-stop. Focusing on blind spots this year to meet my #3 goal above.
Gene,
I posted before I saw your turn of events. I read your post to my wife. I pray that your wife's situation improves and you both enjoy many more cruises. My prayer will be added to the list.
Roy
looks like no out of state hunts for me this year with money and vacation time being short, so I plan on hunting local as much as possible, hopefully try to stick with one bow this year if thats possible.... last year sucked one goal is to make this year better learning from my mistakes from last year,
Gene,
I know we don't know eachother yet, but I also didn't see your post before mine. Prayers from me as well.
I may actually hunt this year(haven't had much time the last couple of years).....
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Made my bear hunt in AK and that was great...had plenty of plans until today...Wife's [ of 31 years ] health has taken a terrible turn and we got the test results today..
Looks like I'm going to be wanting to stay real close to home this fall and spend some "Good Time" with her... She would like to go to Hawaii and possibly one more cruise.
Gene :wavey:
I pray for you & your wife that the good lord will heal & protect her.
It's things like this that happen in life that make me feel blessed for every second I spend in the woods & waters with family & friends. We are blessed.....
We thank you for your concern and prayers... We have a "Hawaii trip" planned... 7 days on Maui, and our airlines, and room are booked as of today.
She's hoping for one more Southern Carrebian [sp?]Cruise.... Going to try and do that one also, depending on how she's able to do.
Again thanks for your concern, and best wishes to all of you this fall for sucessful hunts and adventures.
Gene :wavey:
Your wife is in Tricia and my's prayers.
Gene I am sorry to read about your wife's health issues.
I pray God will wrap His loving arms around you both, giving you His peace which surpasses all understanding.
His will be done!
I didn't harvest(kill) a deer last season but my plans and prayers are that I would enjoy my time in the woods as much as ever this year.
I look forward to Butch coming up for our second annual camping and hunting trip.
I'm also looking forward to the second annual "Bunny hunt". I'm hoping the winter storms hold off during that time this year so folks won't be afraid to make the trip. We had a blast last year.
God bless,Mudd
... take my old selfbow for a cool fall walk !
Plan start early here for me
be in Colorado middle of Aug for Speed goats
back home for a week then back to Colorado for Elk for 2 weeks. Back home to hunt Whitetail here hoping for big boy and then out to Maine mid Oct for Blackbear/deer Be ready for a break then start it all over 2011
Prayers for yall Gene.
I plan on getting after the deer hard this year.My goal is to spend at least 20 nights in a tent camping and hunting.I hope to kill some pigs but I also want a mature boar this year simply because I shoot less pounds now and want to prove you ain`t gotta shoot a heavy bow .RC
My #1 goal is to work on getting quality shoot opportunities. With 4 tags to fill 2 elk 2 deer and not alot of time/money to hunt I am hoping to just get out and enjoy time with family and friends.
Finalizing a muleback trip to CO for elk in late August, then it will be whitetails til Jan 15,2011
One of my main goals will be to stay on the mule this time! :bigsmyl:
I just hope I get to hunt!
Gene our prayers are with you and your wife and family!!!
I hope to take a couple of does off some family land to fill the larder. That shouldn't be a problem, if I can keep the trespassers and poachers away.
While scouting last February, I found a hidden spot on some public land that is harboring a pretty good sized buck. I found one of the best rub lines I've ever seen. There were about 30 trees in a 200 yard stretch. They were really torn up and a lot of the adjacent limbs were ripped to shreds.
Hope to make the Colo. archery opener for OTC either sex in 77, 78, and 751, Huntin' whitetail, hogs and small game down here in Ms...and continue my goal of 30 nights a year under the stars....Gene, my prayers to you and your wife.
My goal is to fill the freezer with enough venison so as to not have to eat hog meat until August of NEXT year! :p
The actual plan is to take a couple of does. early on and then settle in for the long haul for a nice buck. Florida has opened us up early so that us folks in the south end of the state can actually hunt the rut. Should be interesting! Last August I was almost run down in my driveway by the biggest buck I've ever seen in Florida.
But my real goal this year is to take my shots and make them. If it doesn't go as planned, then know that it wasn't the bow, or the arrow but it was me making the mistakes. This will be my second year of hunting trad and I missed way too many times to count last year. and I was blaming it on the gear. not on ME. I know better now.
If I make one more post on here saying that I would have killed that deer if I had a compound in my hand. I'd appreciate it if one of you would come down here and slap some sense into me. :D
And prayers for you and yours Gene. Cherish every moment
This sounds lame but i just hoping to get my first whitetail of all time, and i only have two months till opening day. Plus at that point i will only have been shooting my 50lb-28in Bear Montana for about three months. So i am just hoping not to make a fool out of myself this season!
I have one goal this year.
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My primary goal is to spend as much time during the fall, hunting whitetails in Michigan with my Dad. There is nothing like the color, smell, and overall feeling of spending time with my Dad hunting in the autumn woods.
Having been distracted in recent years w/various career and family obligations (children and caring for a Grandmother w/Dementia), my days afield have been few and far between. Now, with the stark realization that there are only so many fall hunting seasons left in my future, I am taking some time out for myself and am making bowhunting my #1 priority, with my wife's blessing. This fall, I have scheduled 2 solid weeks to hunt Bears in September, and 2 solid weeks in October for deer. My priority is not on taking an animal, but on spending time in the woods, enjoying nature, chilling out and reflecting on life. The days are passing far too quickly...
Same plan as last yr. Hunt Shawnee National Forest behind the house and try to kill the buck than made these rubs and a bunch more like them. Also would like to get another shot at a real nice 10pt. that should really be good this yr. He had a real good spread with long tines..just lacking on the mass.
No matter if I get a shot at those two...if they made it, I hope to kill a few does for the freezer.
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Since 1974, I have attended deer camp at a close friend's place. Last year he moved the camp to a later time, hoping it would be cooler. While this is fine, I still want to do the ritual camp out on the season opener weekend. So this year, even though I will still go to my friends camp later, my son and I are doing our own deer camp on opening weekend. That is my big plan for this year.
I have spent a lot of time (and money) upgrading all the stuff we need - mostly cooking gear, but I am really pumped about it. I am looking forward to opening weekend even more than ever.
Oddly, though I only bow hunt now, I still regard the opening of rifle season as the time to celebrate deer season. I guess that's because I have not missed "opening day" since 1964.
KILL DEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2010 goals are to kill about 5 deer. 2 for burger and 3 for webbs butcher block bacon, salami and chedder brawts.5 Deer= 10 loins praise the LORD.
You filling me?
Fill the freezer with my longbow.
See as much wildlife as possible.
Photograph hawks!
Oh... and I want to learn more about dendrology.
Not miss this year!!!!!!!!
When I go into the mountains in search of a buck this year, I don't care if I get one or if I don't. I'll give it all that I can, and hope to come out just a little smarter, and better than I am right now. I'll have 2-3 days max for hunting, and I'll try to make them count, but if I screw it up, I only hope to know what I did wrong so I can fix it for next year.
For the rest of the year, I want to start getting 6 in. groups consistently at 30 yards.
This year I am just trying to get out as much as possible. Bought a new house, recently lost my job and now starting my own business. So moneys and time will be tight for a while.
On a side note, while hunting this year I would really like to take a deer with my self bow.
I am crazy excited to get back out in the woods of Potter Co., Pa this year to hunt whitetail with my trad longbow for the first time ever... thanks to my Dad selling me a Horne longbow I absolutely fell in love with! So, thanks to Dad, and my brother helping to talk me into it, I finally made the switch from hunting compound to hunting traditional after my 2nd trip to Denton Hill last weekend! What an awesome trip that was!
Gene,first,so sorry to hear about your wife and pray all goes well.I saw my father today and hes not looking good.Hes 83 and has Parkinsons.I spent along time today remembering all our times together and all he taught me about hunting,fishing and the outdoors.
My season will start Sept.1 for Mulies and Whitetail and go until Oct.31.In the end of Sept. I'll break for a 1 week Elk hunt in Alberta with my son and his friend guiding myself and 2 Fellow Tradgangers from Arkansas.Should be a phonomenal season.
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KILL DEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't know there was a season for those birds! :biglaugh:
With a Baby due in late October and the recent move back to Ohio I don't know how much hunting time I will have. My goal is just to spend as much time as possible in the field. Going to try real hard to get my oldest daughter a deer this year also.
mine is simple for this upcoming season. i want to hunt harder & stay on stand longer. maybe even all day. i also want to try and get my first rabbit with a bow.
Well last year I let a lot of small bucks walk by as well as letting a few small does walk by and ended up not getting a deer. This year I'm going to work on getting some does first before the rut kicks in and then I plan on hunting a few new spots that i hope i can get a shot at a nice buck.
My goal is to try to take a nice buck in October (not an easy task!) And then to take a buck of 140 inches or better in November. This year I have access to some property that may make this an attainable goal. Can't wait for fall!
To get an Antelope killed spot n stalk in August with my longbow... I will hunt waterholes but I do have three tags and will get out of the blind and chase goats through the washes...
Come Sept. 15th to kill any unlucky does that I can and to only take a "mature" buck... 3 1/2 year olds or older. I know he exists and this year I'm set up properly.. We will see...
My goal is to spend alot of time in the trees, nothing better then being in the woods.
Only two goals.
1) Quick, clean kill(s) on anything I'm lucky enough to draw on.
2) A Mature moose in Oct. (see #1 above)
to kill the giant ten point living on my farm with my new Cascade recurve named Tourook
Gene- Prayers for you and your Missus :thumbsup:
Butch L