beginning of septmeber i will be preparing fields to get ready for deer season. then do a little dove hunting. mid-september i will be going to alaska for my first trip to hunt caribou. i will miss the TN bow opener on the 26th hopefully i will be packing out some caribou meat and i wont even think about hunting back home! once i get home i will hunt TN through early january then hunt alabama through the 31st of JAN.
Been to Florida twice this year so far, plan on Montana Fly fishing for 3 weeks, other than that it looks like NC deer hunting is all ill do this season.
I'll be staying in my home state and hunting locally mostly on the weekends.
No out of state plans this year, going to spend 10 days in Papa Bears ole stomping grounds at the Mason track in Grayling and just hunt behind the house.
Home state of Ohio for this year.
But looking at a 2013 trip for Javelinas down south.
Not going away this year, just local and the Adirondacks. Next year I may be going to Missouri for a week. I have a friend out there who is getting me hooked up on his place! So this year it will areas with low deer density but very familiar!
Hog hunting at the bacon strip,
Flyfishing Wyoming in a couple weeks. Bird hunting South Dakota in November. Everything else here at good ol' Missouri home.
Gonna hunt alot at home and spend a week in Missouri on Kenny McKenzie's lease.
Im gina go up north here in Cal the Eureka area and hunt blackmail with the Stalker. I just ordered 52# limbs from South
Looks like in state for me, but I am expanding out into the very limited public ground that is near our property. I am also going to try hunting off the ground for the first time, so that will be a new experience as well!
Nothing extraordinary. I'll be hunting my regular areas around home, but also was invited to hunt some private property in Missouri during deer season this year.
I will spend a lot of time at my hunting lease this year chasing the local critters. No plans to hunt out of State or take any trips.
If I draw my elk area, I will be hunting them about 20 miles from home. Whitetails, turkey, and maybe antelope all within 10 minutes from the house.
Deer hunting in Michigan, maybe Bear if I draw a tag. Georgia for hogs in feb. with the HH gang, and probably back to Ray's in SC at some point. Seeing as how I'm retiring in 2 mos. I'll have plenty of time and hopefully enough cash for my trips.
Bear in Maine in Sept.
Bear in Maine, deer in SC.
Bear in Ontario 1st week of September. Then just whitetail hunting near home.
Going to really concentrate on getting my first trad kill this year. I've been shooting for two years now, but I've been in the field only a couple of times, mostly because I have not been entirely comfortable/confident until now. It's on this year!
Also, planning a trip to Nebraska this year ... a little more "target rich environment" if you know what I mean.
Anyway, GOOD LUCK GUYS!!!!!!!
I'm going to try for my 2nd Bear in N.Ga. There has been a big one seen in my area that will go between
400-500 pounds.
Will deer hunt here at home as well.
I would like to get out west again for Elk before I get too old and out of shape.
I have several thousand acres I haven't finished exploring yet. So, I'll be some where out there. Maybe once or twice by my Dad's place if I have time. What will I be shooting at? If it is in season, I'll take any shot I think I can make.
Hunt around home as usual.
Hope to make it back to IL again for a week of deer hunting
Head to TX for hogs/javelina during winter - maybe with the Wensels
This year could be my most ambitious of bowhunting since I started in 1970.
My son and I are hunting Africa in early August. Then I'll commence my standard hunting season in Kentucky beginning Sept. 1st. When the World NASP tournament concludes in early October I'll make some trips to Indiana.
Did two hog hunts in SC so far this year and going on a 11 day DIY back country Elk hunt in Colorado again in September. It is going to be a good year.
Deer/turkeys in middle and east Tennessee and maybe deer/hogs for a weekend in South Carolina
9 days after roosevelt elk in washington state early september, then back home to hunt whitetail in the river bottoms.
i didnt draw anything anywhere so just wyoming for me, except for birds and maybe deer in south dakota. doubt ill go anywhere else this year.
Just deer locally. With all the fires, we'll see.
May go for antelope, still kickin it around with my bro....
Other than that, maybe hunt some little bucks here in No MO, don't have the 4 pt rule anymore in this area....
Here is a pic for David from the last week of May on the lease.... :D
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Nothing really set in stone at this time....
Would like to head to GA for a hog hunt maybe August/September; October will see whitetails here in VA; Also, hope to get in on the Sika hunt again this year at Chincoteague NWR in October; November will be dedicated to whitetails up through about Thanksgiving. I usually take a break for a couple of weeks and hunt some around Christmas and New Year's.
Virginia has also started a winter turkey season that hits around the end of January.
Plan to do some small game hunting this year too.
February to March will probably see another trip to GA for hogs. And, of course, April will be turkey time!
Hopefully have a date with one of these guys.
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bowwild: africa sounds awesome
kennym: ooooooo nice picture!
I was invited on a fall bear hunt in NH. I would like that if it pans out.
Then its WI for a week to visit family and give a few days in the woods in old haunts. Then NY for deer, Hopefully with friends.
I will be hunting deer elk and MT. Goats close to home this year. I think its going to be a good year for me.
I'll be spending lots of time at my camp this fall. Next year it's back to Quebec for moose :jumper:
Fits the budget and vaction time better to go every other year. Even though i go in my mind.....
Pigs at Fort Stewart everytime I can manage to go. Bear in North Ga. the first week or so of Bow season then Deer and pigs on the local WMA`s around home.All with God Willing of course.RC
usual whitetail and turkey hunting, would like to get some more bowfishing in and go on a another hog hunt this year
I'm planning on SW Nebraska on Sept. 15th. Then home to IL for whitetail, pheasant and maybe turkey. I'm entering that mentoring mode with my son so my IL season will be more about him than me. Can't wait!
-Jeremy :coffee:
Be moose hunting in Maine if I draw a tag on June 23@5PM Eastern time
Keep em comin guys
I have two trips to Ray Hammond's planned, one in Oct and another in Feb. Other than that I'll be trying to find a deer here in PA.
Last week of june - Bear
First part of July - Carp
Aug 3-13 BC for goat
Aug 18-24 back to Saskatchewan for elk/bear
mule and whitetail Deer in Saskatchewan for sept/oct
Wtdeer with friend from BC in early Nov.
pheasant in SK -in Dec.
I moved to Illinois 4 yrs ago just for the deer hunting. So if I go anywhere this season it'll be across the road to try some private land..although that may require cranking the truck. So I'll probably just hunt Shawnee National Forest on this side.
I'll be happy have a normal year of local hunting for birds & deer.
Deer at home in Illinois, hogs in Oklahoma.
Solo Backpaking for Elk for 2-3 weeks in Colorado, then Michigan deer & turkey. Then anything else that I can hunt with my longbows!
I went to Australia on a red deer hunt in March and am going to Colorado for elk in September so I guess I fit in the "out of state" category for this year.
Bisch
Staying home and hunting Colorado like usual. Taking vacation first and last week of elk season and my normal days off in between I will hunt, work 12hr shifts and only work 7 out of every 14 days so should get in about 3 weeks of hunting, if we tag early then we will go on regular vacation stuff and visit friends, kind of makes me not want to tag out early. Then hunting deer from early October to end of December or so on the plains. Should be a fun year.
Staying home. Two tags each for different areas. One starts in July the other starts last week of September and continues to Dec. 31.
I'll be staying in Idaho for Turkey, Elk, Bear, and Deer (muley/whitetail)...but am really trying to line up a hog and/or javi hunt somewhere south of here!
Travis
Backpacking into a wilderness area here in CO for elk, every weekend then a nine day trip to finish the season if nessasary. I also have an either sex plains deer tag that runs from Oct through the end of the year. Got to take my boys rifle hunting for elk as well, I'm just guiding that one but will have my bow with me for any squirrell or grouse we run across. I just finished a new osage bow too, cant wait to harvest something with a bow I actually made.
Adam and I will hunt Elk in NE Utah just south of the ID border. Coupla' scouting trips in the summer and then Hog hunt here in CA through the fall and winter.
Im going to try to make a South Carolina hunt for hogs after talking about it for a couple years. Maybe to Ga a time or two as well. Definately Texas for the Solana hunt. Finally, I am going to try to give my home state a better effort than I have in years past.
Delaware, Maryland, and Pa deer and also taking the dogs out late Jan. & Feb for rabbits.
I'll stay close to home again this year as usual.
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I'll stay close to home again this year as usual.
Sam, we need to share a camp together some time, man. Find us something to explore half way or something.
Going to Texas in November for hogs, deer, and Javis but the rest of the days will be spent in the Missouri deer woods. Can't wait.
I will hunt mostly private land near my home and the Uwharrie Game Lands one mile from my home. I work for four days then off four days, 11 hour shifts. Most of my days off Sept thru Nov will be spent in the woods.
I will stay at home. My new lease starts behind my home. It's 3000 acres. Loaded with turkeys and a few trophy deer. Its nice to be able to walk out your back door and be in good hunting. A few of the members on the lease have some brutes on game cameras. The lease borders Lay Lake and has plenty of hardwood ridges and bottom land that is loaded with whiteoaks.. It also have some cutover at different stages from 1 year cut to five year cuts. Deer love these cutovers. We planted some biologic spring/summer mix as well as corn. We are going to plant radishes and biologic winter grass. We are also thinking instead of a 6 point rule to 8 point rule. Most everyone are for some big deer to shoot. We can kill does for meat as they need thinning out to get a good buck/doe ratio. Its the best lease I have been in in years.
Other than a five day trip to the adirondaks at a good friends place I will be in the local woodlots and public land.Hopefully I can squeeze some hog hunting in if I visit the inlaws in Fla
If I can mend myself, which has been 7 months of misery now...I'll shoot for a black bear in Maine with my 3 kids, then local whitetails.
I'll stay in Arkansas and hunt mainly in the Ozark Mts. I'll be bowhunting an area I haven't hunted in 15 years and renewing an old friendship that was foolishly allowed to slip away. I cut my teeth bowhunting this area and in one month I managed to miss six deer. That was back when I thought I had to shoot a 60# recurve. I was seriously overbowed and had much better success after I dropped 10-15#s.
Ross
Bear hunting in Maine ,3rd week of Sept.and then deer here in Ill. starting Oct.
Pete
I'll be hunting deer, elk, and antelope close to home. Maybe try for a lion as well.
Might head to Nebraska for whitetails, and have a javi hunt planned in Texas.
Good luck all!
Gregg, I can be talked into it EASILY. Got any iseas? I like Florida!
Unless something drastic happens, I will be heading to Nebraska in Oct. on one of the PBS hunts. Concentrate on mule deer and merriams, but depending on which camp I head to, I may even have a chance for antelope.
Been in NM in January, hunted turkeys here, as well as deer, bear, elk, antelope here, and on the fence with florida and south dakota.
Colorado elk in early Sept. Then Deer,Antelope,Turkey and whatever else has fur or feathers in Nebraska the rest of the season!!
No out of state for me this year,vacations locked down month of Sept and Oct. Maybe next year
McAlester AAP in Nov. Wyoming Elk in Sept.
Hog hunting with Ray Hammond in August. Deer in VA and NC this Fall. Life is good!
Mule Deer close to home, lucked out and drew unit 76 for elk, both in September. Hopefully get a leftover whitetail tag for the eastern part of the state in Nov. AZ in December for coues deer. It should be a great year.