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I know some duck hunters that do but it's only a 60 day season.  Our Deer season is 123 days long counting the gun season which you can legally bow hunt.  Mentally, physically, and financially I think it would be a huge challenge.  I wonder if anyone has done it......?

I think I could mentally and physically, but my finances wouldn't hold up. Unless I got 3 months of vacation.

Not for deer, I'd get bored.  Africa? BC? NZ? You bet I could.

I hunt nearly every weekend of the texas deer season, and as much as I love to hunt by the end I am ready for it to be over,I can only imagine what it would be like to hunt every day,
Larry

QuoteOriginally posted by Ladams:
I hunt nearly every weekend of the texas deer season, and as much as I love to hunt by the end I am ready for it to be over,I can only imagine what it would be like to hunt every day,
Larry

I agree, I hate to see the season end but it's almost a relief sometimes.

I use to do it when I was much younger. I made it a point to live where I could get to the woods after work during the week. I didn't actually hunt every single day of the deer season..(Georgia) but I would only miss an afternoon hunt or two.

When i was in my  late teens, early 20's I used to getout  just about every day when the season in a bow only area was 61 days long.  I got out of work early so I could manage.  I've slowed. Down a lot since.

I was 55 when between hunting for myself and guiding I went over 2 months.  It was brutal and I was completely burnt out by the time it was over and it wasn't even that physically challenging.  Short on sleep and sick of lousy food.  I was ready for it to end.

I average 6 days a week for our 3 month season. Its tough and getting tougher every year. Thank GOD I have an understanding wife! I work 2-10 monday through friday so I only average 3-4 hours of sleep a night. I hunt weekday mornings and all day saturdays, sunday mornings and spend sunday afternoons with my wife.

A few years ago I saw some data indicating the average bowhunter hunts 23 times per season.  

The most I've hunted in a given year were two back to back years in the early 1980's when I hunted 60 times per year during the whitetail season.

This past season I hunted only 7 times (2 deer was all I wanted) which is one of my all-time low numbers of hunts/season.  Normally, I'm in the 25-30 hunt range.

Since I'm retired and able to hunt a lot more, I'm spending more and more time in the woods. I didn't keep a tally, but I probably hunted around 60 days last season, counting Texas hogs, Wyoming turkeys, elk, and deer. A dirty job, but somebody has to do it. Then, there is camping and fishing in the summer. I am enjoying retirement.

You better have lots of spots to hunt if a guy was to hunt every day. I really think the quality of the hunts would go down with overhunting a spot.

I hunted 52 days one year (almost all in a row) but rarely hunted the same stand twice.

Would be nice to have the time to hunt every day though!

I have been retired for 5 years, I find I can hunt about every other day unless something comes up. When I do go daily I go in the AM one day and in the PM the next day. To get going early 2-3 three days in a row ain't gonna happen any more ....unless I'm on an Elk hunt or  deer hunt away from home. Any time out with a bow in your hand is time well spent!

This year from late Sept thru mid December I missed about 3 afternoons.. I don't hunt in the mornings as I have to work.

I do have a number of stands but they do tend to get burned out..

I am blessed to live close to an area I can hunt and that I can take the time to do an evening hunt.

It was kind of a slow season for me as far as harvests but I loved every minute of it and am ready for next season to start !

That is a lot of time in the woods, typically alone.  Not sure that would even be fun.

I need to get out more than I do, but not every day of the season.

ChuckC

If you had good hunting spots, & (lot's) of them to hunt,   maybe?  But if you had to sit a tree stand the hole time, & weren't seeing much game, let's just say (Gone Crazy)

I can only imagine western hunting that involved lot's of time a foot would make it much more (enjoyable/doable)

Turkey hunting everyday, (Limited blind sitting) now that might work too!

I can tell you, I've deer hunted a fair amount this season. I've had about 8 good shot opportunities on deer so far, dating back to Sept.

I've taken 3 of the better shot opportunities,   results 2 dead deer, 1 miss!     :knothead:    
Where I hunt it can be pretty slow, so around here            probably not everyday?

For me it's not an option, work get's in the way.


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Back in the late 80's and early 90's when I was in my late 20's early 30's I would go every day from Sep 15 until the time changed. Almost afternoons only. I would be burned out before the rut but I hated hunting with gun hunters all around. Now I get plenty just going on weekeds or a long weekend now and then. I love to shoot the bow for any reason not just hunting.

Hunting provides a great deal of enjoyment for me. I'd never what to push it to a point where I got sick and tired of it.

I've always hunted just about every day of the season. Until a few yrs ago when my health got too bad to allow it.

This is the first yr in a few that I'm not on the Injured Reserve List by now and if I can make it 8 more days I'll have hunted just about every day this yr.

When I don't hunt it's raining or real windy, etc. (that wouldn't bother me in the old days) It's raining now and I'm feeling guilty about not being in the woods. Hunt national forest 280,000 acres, so got more good places than I can get around to hunting.

Biggest problem I have with hunting so much is I'm not as intense and I pressure the deer too much making it harder hunting.

The most I have ever hunted was 89 days. It was great to do and I would love to be able to do it again.

I'm lucky to get 2 days a week in. I will hunt everyday when I retire or hit the lotto!

I too, in my twenties, hunted most days of the season, only missed 3 - 5 of a season that ran mid September - Dec., but about the only other hunting I did was a couple spring bear hunts for a week.  Now I find myself hunting turkey, elk, deer in other states, though I still don't hunt as many total days as I once did, maybe about 60 days now.  

Funny though, I wonder if there are any younger hunters who are hunting 80 - 90 days a year?

I Don't Spend Enough Time In The Woods!...  :(  ... I'd like for that to change, but... Life Happens.

... mike ...

I used to hunt a WHOLE lot, but over time, I have found that I just can't stay focused, both in the number of hours per day as well as number of days per season. After a month or so I get fidgety and careless very quickly. Consequently, I get very little usage out of my cold weather clothes, because I just don't hit the woods as often nearer the end of the season.

I came pretty close this season with more than 95 hunting days in the woods (Georgia has 110 day season). It was butal towards the end. Not sure I could hunt this much if I had to deal with the butal cold temps that some of you guys have.  I mean I loved every minute in that tree but my body started to wear down in late December. I wanted a break but with only a month left to duck hunt we are after that hard now. Luckily I get two weeks off in February before I start guiding for hogs and then turkey in March and bear in June. It is a tough life but a blessed one.

The only time I hunt multiple days any more is during spring turkey season. I am wore slap out when it ends. Usually loose around 15 lbs. If I miss a day of turkey hunting I feel terrible. It really wears on my 55 year old body but I love it!

i have done it multiple times when i was in high school. and just after. every day..... never missed one. its rough and exhausting...high winds, sleet, snow in blowin, rain. misery! lol and it never paid off until i got a rifle in my hands.

20+ years ago we actually had a pretty good deer herd in my part of PA. There was an incentive to get up early, brave the elements, and rush home after work. I hunted every day unless it was really dumping rain.

Then came the herd elimination program and the loss of a Pennsylvania tradition. Sure, there are pockets of huntable deer around, but not so much in my part of the state.

Now I go when I feel like it and the weather is nice. I haven't set an alarm to hunt a Saturday morning in many years. I figure if I'm not going to see anything I might as well be comfortable.

Groundhog hunting is another matter. I'm hunting almost every evening throughout the summer months.

I don't think I could hunt every day from Oct 1 to January 10 here in IA.  I don't have enough spots to avoid burning out, plus I'd need a few breaks in there to keep my sanity.  I could pry hunt every other day or 4 days out of a week realistically.

Depends on your job, hunting everyday of the season would be impossible with numerous professions. If you are not retired and financially secure, I dont see how it is possible.

Our hunting season is from august first to october 31, for most of our game. One of them, wood bison, we are not allowed to hunt with bow and arrows... And some are only lottery, like elk and deer. But for moose and caribou, it is 3 full months so I could not afford to be hunting every day...

I have often talked about staying in the UP for Michigans entire fall season, Starting September 15th through March. I think I will once I retire. I wouldn't hunt every day, but it would be neat just to participate in all of it....small game, trapping, deer, some fishing.

As it is, I hunt 3-4 days a week during deer season, and usually Saturday and Sunday for rabbits once deer season is over.

I've never came close to hunting every day of the season. That would be a 4 month span here in TX. My lease is too far away from my house to ever make thsat happen. Even if I was able to do it, I don't think I could. Getting up every morning for ther early hunt and getting to bed too late due to whatever would start to wear on me pretty quick.

Bisch