Just wondering if any of you fellas have been setting goals for yourself this winter for upcoming sesaons. Seems like most of us on here dance to the beat of a different drum, so here goes.
1. To make a self bow at the Tenn. Classic and hunt with it this fall!
2. To take a Turkey with a flint tip/wooden arrow that I make, flethced with Turkey feathers from my previous kills.
3. To take a deer, with a flint tip/wooden arrow that I make, as above.
4. To have as much fun as possible shooting trad., and interestet folks in the sport by attraction, rather than promotion, especially younguns.
These may not seem like big goals to some of you guys, but I beleive most of them to be attainable and yet challenging to some degree. Now everybody jump in and lets hear your goals for this year.
My goals are simple, sort of.
1. Make my own bow, which is started now.
2. Make my own arrows with stone points that I knapped and fletch with turkey fletching that I have now.
3. Harvest a deer or two or three with traditional archery start to finish.
4. Hang up my compound as I did with my guns.
5. Enjoy the time I have in the woods, harvesting or not.
My goal for my 2011 huting season is to kill whatever I'm hunting using my red oak board bow. I have taken my recurve apart and have put it away. I'm trying to shoot nothing else but my longbow and fir arrows. Good luck to those with their goals this year. Have fun!
-Jeremy :coffee:
Have fun!
Try to get 1st big game animal!
Draw an elk tag.
As for me, This will be my first year with trad gear in a long time, so mine are pretty simple !
1-Kill some does, get some game under my belt !
2-Im still going to be selective with the bucks,so I wanna kill a P&Y with a recurve.
3-Kill a Bear with a recurve
Being able to shoot again by Turkey Season!!
My goals for 2011 is to just get in the woods more. I have 3 kiddos ages 2,4 and 7. And finding the time to hunt the past yrs has been hard. But now my oldest has shown intrest so we are going to get out in a ground blind this yr and see what we can do.
Stock my quiver up with small game arrows and shoot a pile of squirrels during deer season. :banghead:
1)Spending more time with my son a field.
2)Experiencing his first trad harvest.
3)Building memories,
To take a DEER & Hog on Public Land in Texas..
Live to see 12-22-2012
Draw my first Turkey Tag and get it with my longbow. I'll then use the LW feathers to make some arrows. Turkeys are just getting a good start here in my part of Idaho.
Shoot a deer with a trad bow. My Grizzly or WARF bow which ever one I am shooting best by June so I can shoot it all summer. Watch my wife shoot a buck with her bow.
Build a bow for my nephew.
Make turkey wingbone call from this fall's harvest.
Take the time to remember whats really important.
Now that i've typed it I think they are in reverse order.
My first goal is to kill a lion this coming weekend.
Then a bobcat before season closes.
Then a turkey this spring.
Then a pronghorn in August.
Then a mulie and elk in September.
Then whitetails in Nebraska and Missouri later on.
Get out and have fun, get to hunt as much as I can stand and maybe have some success! And maybe to thin my collection of bows down to a few favorites!
I wanna go with Shedrock!LOL
Kill an Eastern turkey without a blind.Kill an elk and a Merriam's turkey without a blind.All with a longbow and home-made woodies.Maybe even kill a nice Michigan whitetail in early November...most of all get out as much as possible with my 10 year old daughter.She is very interested in my "obsession"...
i am also going to try and make my first selfbow at the classic.i want to do this so bad.i also want to take my first primitive deer with cane arrows and obsidian points.i have never had a mentor to help me along,but i am going to change that this year.good luck to you on all your goals this year,steve :thumbsup:
As I have just retired. My goal is to spend as much time in the woods as I did when I was on the job. Which works out to around 60+ hours a week. I am looking forward to it!
Hap
I got a pretty good deer hunting spot, so the goal is to kill a 150+ inch mule deer DIY spot and stalk on public land... we'll see how it goes.
The same as for the last 20 years. Kill and elk with my longbow :rolleyes:
My goal every year is to take 2 different species, not yet :)
Elk over 300, Bighorn sheep, Mountain Goat, mule deer over 170.
I want to get a moose with a bow I built myself.
Enjoy the hunt, Take my first animal (Elk, Deer or Antelope) with my new Shrew. Should be great. God Bless Don
Just enjoy being outdoors and the hunt. With luck a nice buck. If not, oh well, sill have fun anyway.
My main goal for 2011 is to get an Elk in front of my son's bow.
QuoteMy main goal for 2011 is to get an Elk in front of my son's bow.
Good goal! I plan on hunting as many days as possible with my son.
Kill my first hog.
Just to be here to do it - good Lord willing - :archer:
By main goal is to help my son get ready for his first year deer hunting traditional ony.
Get to as many 3D shoots as I can.
Kill my first traditional turkey.
Make up some kind of carrying device that will allow me to travel with the (1pc)longbow using my motorcycle.
Pretty simple really, just to spend more time in the woods. The last couple of years have really slowed down for me.
I'm going to try to change that. Again!
My goal is as my son gets his hunting license this February to teach him all I know, and to help him experience the fun and excitement of hunting and scouting and setting up. And have some awesome adventures hunting with him.
Simple for me!
1. Get my weight down to 170 lbs, so I can chase Elk better in the Idaho Mountains.
2. Take a Bear in the May hunt.
3. Take an Elk in Sept.
4. Take 3 whitetails this year.
5. Spend more time out west.
To be successful
Hunt for the first time in nearly 30 years.
to get a mature buck in range and get my first hog. its going to be a long summer....
To hunt from my kayak on some long range/couple,three day waterway hunts. Combine fall deer hunt recurve action w/speck fishing (supper at the camp)!
J
Pretty easy for me this year....to take my first whitetail with traditional equipment. I have recently picked up a recurve and have been super pumped every since. It puts a whole new level of fun back into the sport of archery, thanks to all for the helpful posts. JC
To shoot and hunt as much as I want!
To build a few bows,knap heads,make arrows
To draw a glory tag- Cow Moose/ Mt.Goat/Deer :pray:
To have my deer, elk and turkeys so figured out by the season's opener that it's too easy! :laughing:
1.) Get a deer (I had to use a nasty 'ol gun for venison this past season).
2.) Bloody either my Browning Explorer or Ben Pearson Hunter. Haven't decided which but it will be one or the other next season.
3.) Figure a way to best hunt the small brushlot on my property where I saw much sign but no deer.
Draw my elk tag (I should have enough points)
Kill my biggest bull
A bonus whitetail
Get out more!!!!
After a long hiatus away from my bow (1.5 years due to travel):
1. Shoot, shoot, shoot!
2. Practice up enough to get a deer come fall (it will be my first ever)
Pretty simple really... :)
To still be kick'n and physically able to hunt at least as I did this yr. and to aim lower.
Pretty simple for me..........
To get this shoulder fixed and be shooting my normal weight bows by the middle of June, Lord willing. I'm also looking VERY forward to bringing two of my grandchildren to Comptons this year. So.............if I'm not able to shoot, I can live it through them.
Winterhawk1960
If I can kill a turkey this year I'll be tickled! jason
Relax more and enjoy the little things.
Start writting in my journal more.
Try to keep things simple
I got my brother-inlaw to change to trad last year,so 2011 we will get him his first trad kill hopefully.
I,m Moving to Michigan in about a month.I need to learn how to hunt Whitetails. I can,t wait to get started.
Receive my new Endeavor from Dwyer longbows shoot every day then take Bear Deer Elk Cougar Coyote and any small game I can and have to much FUN!!!
Dave
Spend as much time as possible with my selfbow enjoying myself,and of course kill a few critters
1. Practice
2. have fun with friends shooting
3. practice
4. scout
5. practice
6. plan
7. practice
8. stump shoot
9. practice
10. hunt and take my first whitetail
Simple, I want to be so confident this year in my shooting. Year over year I have goten better. I need to continue.
Martin
rootin for ya Whawk!
Focusing in the game, I'd like to fill 2 antlerless tags and kill a decent 2 or 3 year old buck.
to not be stuffed with tag soup and cornbread.
Spend more time hunting with my son and daughter. Seems they grow up so fast.
To make meat shooting left handed.
I hope to spend more time in the woods. Both pre-season scouting and during deer season. And I'd like to do a little more small game hunting with my long bow.
I want to practice at home shooting out of a treestand. Yesterday I built a lean-to that I took to the woods, but at the end of Feb. I will take it to the house and start practicing.
1. Get my 5 and 3 year old daughters into shooting a trad bow
2. Get my first traditional kill (species dependent on where the army stations me next)
Just to be here to do it - good Lord willing
I'm with ya Bernie
I want to get a javelina and a hog next month and keep developing my skills with the recurve.
Enjoy spending time with family and friends.
Kill my first turkey with my recurve.
And hopefully a mature buck.
Get in better shape in preparation for a backpack hunt
Make a bow that will pull in 60-70lb range
Take 2 trophy white-tails, with my own self made bow one on my personal land, and one on public land (while at college)
Manage funds better
Apply for the first time for a sheep tag ( I realize 4 and 5 don't go together, but 4 is so I can do 5 :thumbsup: )
Find some sheds
Make myself more home in the woods, and be a better conservationist/game manager
Take enough wild game so I don't have to go the store for meat.
Learn how to use a mapping gps to its fullest potential
Complete my retriever's training so he will be a jam up duck dog
Relax and enjoy myself more :archer2:
Work on building my custom arrow business and to take a deer with my longbow this fall.
Mine are:
1) Spend more time scouting the public land
2) Take my first deer with the recurve
3) Spend more time shooting
4) Take a turkey with the recurve
I moved to a new area in August, so I didn't do a very good job scouting due to getting acclimated to a new job. I've found some decent areas now, so I need to expand on what I've found. There's over 13,500 acres of public land within 5 miles of my place.
lets see
Get fitter and stronger to improve my hunting and shooting further
Increase my knowledge
Kill a Buff with Longbow
Show some more people some cool adventures whilst hunting this season.
kill a big Fallow buck
list goes on and on actually, you'v always gotta have something to work towards
Hunting wise: work as hard as I can to help 16 hunters get mature bears this spring. That's pretty much it for now!
Life and family: "try" and become a better person every day, and father to my children. Probably wouldn't hurt to step up in the husband department either!
Javalina in March
elk(either sex)
mule deer -- I'll also have a Colo bear tag
2 whitetails please
My goal for 2010 was to actually call in and kill a Michigan coyote with my recurve.
Well, I was going to revive the goal for 2011, because it didn`t happen in 2010. I have come to the realization that it would be easier to catch a Sasquatch.
My new goal is to simply hunt hard and shoot straight.
To go on a pig hunt, and get more involved in the MLA.
My goals for 2011 are:
1-To be thankful for every chance I'm given to be in the woods.
2-To enjoy the chase and smile when I'm outsmarted--AGAIN.
3-To sit patiently in my truck outside my brothers house when he's 20 min. late for the 3rd. time and be grateful we can still hunt together.
4-To watch a sunrise and sunset with my recurve in my hand and thank my God for being as blessed as I am.
5-To never question or compare my choice of the animal I choose to take as my goals are just that ---MY GOALS!!!!!!!!!
The cinnamon bear that I saw and filmed on my bait last year. I would like to arrow a moose this year. As Manitoba said be a better husband and father to my family.
to get a couple whitetails with my recurve and finnaly give up and sell my compound.... all tradtional from now on.
maybe in the future id like to hunt with a self bow...
Speed goat, elk, and whitetail. The usual. I still have small kids so out of state adventure is out of the question. Oh and I want a Lynx toelke to hunt with.
PS oh lord won't you draw me a sheep tag? I've been a good man.....
To shoot my first mule deer. This will be my 5th year trying....those buggers sure have my number, but it's been a blast hunting them.
Get a shot at an elk this year (year #5).
Meet some of you fine brothers of the bow and stop being such a loner:-)
Practice a lot, and kill a hog and deer.
In order of importance
1) Enjoy it as always!
1a) Be able to shoot all year (no elbow pain)
2) Traditional harvest of a doe
3) Traditional harvest of a buck
4) " " turkey
5) " " squirrel and rabbit.
My goal this year is to do more hunting. Last year was not a good year as far as time in the woods. So in 2011 my goal is to spend more woods time all year. Scout, hunt, enjoy AMAP
to kill a bigger moose then the one i killed in 2007.
Learn how to shoot a trad. bow,
Have fun learning to shoot a trad. bow,
Hopefully, tag a deer with a trad. bow.
MY GOAL 2011
Going after a Bear with Trad gear.
Going to put as much time and work in to it as I have White tails for the past 37yrs, and enjoy it all. Good Luck to All
My Goal is to stick a whitetail a Hog and some tree rats in sept this year :deadhorse:
I used to set hunting goals. My goals were generally rather broad rather than narrow. For instance, one year my goal might be to hunt mulies in Montana. The next year it could have been to hunt elk in Wyoming. I never made it a goal to take a particular class of animal (a P&Y buck or whatever). But these days I pretty much avoid setting any hunting goals save one: to enjoy and savor every hunting opportunity that I have. Matters not to me if it's a two hour afternoon outing on a weekday or a week in the mountains. In 2009 my hunting plans (or "goals" if you will) had to be set aside due to the death of my son and then my mother. My 2010 plans were likewise discarded with the sudden death of my granddaughter followed by the fatal illness of a close friend of some 40 years. I might be a slow learner, but it finally dawned on me that while goals may be essential in most other areas of life, they are not necessarily essential to hunting (save of course honing the necessary skills).
I am not saying that others shouldn't set goals; only that for me the only goal is to enjoy every hunting opportunity that God gives.
become a better shot, and kill my first hog here in a couple weeks
My goal is, now that my left elbow went bonkers...broke it as a kid, to learn to shoot well enough left handed to hunt once again with trad gear.
Harvest a turkey and a deer with my recurve.
In the last 1-1/2 years i lost both of my favorite huntin buddys,my father and my older brother.I spend most of my free time helping take care of my elderly mother.My goal is to hunt as much as i can and be more thankful for what time i do have.We all dream of trophy hunts in exotic places but i realize the true trophys are time spent with family and friends regardless of whats hanging on the meat pole.God bless you all and hope you reach your goals.MISSING DAD PRETTY BED!
Have fun in my first season with a longbow. Hopefully takr a deer with it. Spend time with my son in his second season of bowhunting. Just enjoy time in the feild. I had a heart attack the 2nd week of December this year and hope to share a complete season with my son this year.
Shoot better and get a turkey with trad gear. :thumbsup: :archer2:
Shoot as often as I can with my two sons.
Get back in shape, and not round
Have fun
Shoot everyday
Have form become second nature
Place top ten in 3d tournaments
Hunt all of archery season with recurve
Call in some more moose
Harvest any game animal with recurve
Taking my first deer with a long bow.
to be able to be in the US this fall and walk the painted woods with my bow.
I started to say my goal for the year was to take a deer with a recurve, but the most important thing I could focus on this year is spending more time in the woods with my sons. With all the bad influences in the world let's not forget what is important, and maybe in the process I might have the opportunity to take that first recurve deer.
My hunting goals are as follows: Get an elk, muley or white tail. I got extremely lucky and stuck a a small bull(raghorn) last year but never arrowed a deer yet.
Our area in Northcentral Montana got hit with a flood in June 2010 that washed out numerous roads, culverts, bridges and some buildings. Because of this incident, I wasn't able to get out in the woods as much last year due to work commitments. Although I did enjoy the time that was spent in the woods. Hopefully this year will be different in that regard.
I wanted to hunt the US, my goals were to see Whitetail, Javelina and had always wanted to hunt Turkey but was just hoping to see those animals.
Well I saw them all in the first 2 days of my hunt passed on a Whitetail but got a Javelina and turkey. Turkey is the game I had always wanted to hunt so I was pleased.
I was lucky!
1.To take my first deer with my recurve.(third season)2.attend my first trad only shoot.3.Get my son and grandson involved!
My goal this year is to learn traditional archery well enough to hunt with the recurve for the first time.
Shooting 3d to help improve my hunting. Getting some instruction from a US Archery elite coach to improve my coaching ability for my students at the parks department. Taking my daughter to Maine to try for her first black bear and bowkill of any kind.