I have been a little annoyed with how busy I have been between working, school and other things this year. I probably got out between 15- 18 times this year. Not whole days, but still got out. I know that is pretty good, but I'm still feeling like it should have been more. Help me out here and let's here how much you have been out. Thanks.
A lot of it depends on work load and family obligations. This has been a pretty good season so far. I have hunted all or part of 19 days. Our bow season runs through December, so I will get a little more hunting in.
Well, let me get to counting.
Between this year (zero) plus last year (zero ) that equals zero in two years.
Those numbers are respective of actually getting out with the sole intention of hunting and harvesting.x
I take my 4 and two year old in the woods with me alot and if a deer is silly enough to let me get close enough ill shoot them,
Mostly its just planting the seed in my children by stumping and small game huntigg
I'm very fortunate to get 5 weeks of paid vacation every year & I take it ALL during hunting season!!!!! I've been "off" every other week,since the begining of Oct. :bigsmyl:
(I've spent 22 days in the woods so far...)
However, That being said..... Working 6-7 days a week, 2-4 double shifts a week, sometimes going a month or so without a day off.....
It makes for a LONG year!!!!!!!!!! :deadhorse:
Not enough anymore
Just bought a much larger home with lots of projects
Add a 55 hr a week job and it doesnt leave much time
But ive learned lately that its quality more than quantity.
I work various shifts and days of the week so don't get out as much as I'd like. :(
That and a VERY busy 12 year old daughter... :rolleyes:
I typically hunt every weekend in Nov. October I'll usually hunt 3 out of the 4 weekends. I take nearly all of December off (shotgun season here), then January I'll typically hunt 2 weekends. My wife is really good about it, but the rest of the year I have to be really attentive to the things she needs done.
being self employed I get no paid vacation days. But I live to bow hunt so I take two weeks off in the fall. One in Colo's elk season. then another in Oct for an out of state white tail hunt. plus weekends all told about 20 days..
Joe
Being self employed, and this is my slow time of year, I get out five days a week, sometimes both AM and PM. Our season started Sept 16 - Dec 31. And I need every day I can get. We get four tags, and I still have four left. :banghead:
Been working 6 days a week since August just trying to survive, so for the first time in 30 years I have completely missed the Pa. archery season. Oh well, there's still the late season and small game right?
So far i've been out tweleve days including 1/2 days hunts. Our season opened october 1st and closes December 31st so it looks like i'll get a few more days to hopefully score.
Self employed here too...............24 days/year if I am lucky.
We have a long archery season in Maryland. I usually a 1 or 2 day a week early season after work and most Saturdays. We can also hunt a lot of Sundays. By the end of Jan wen our season ends I have had more than enough days afield.
Between work and two teenage daughters I still manage to get out once or twice on most weekends, season opened October 1st. Hoping to continue until the end January 1st, unless I tag out (2) before that.
I need to find a spot closer to work or home...
Somewhere between 30 and forty days, if you count half days as a day :) .
Hunt every weekend, almost, got a saint for a wife!
hunt about 9 days for vacation in November, save the rest of my vacation days for the Saint (mentioned above).
They shut us down for a full week over Christmas and New years, so I hunt most of those.
Whoops, left out turkey season in the Spring, add 12 more days.
I think I may have to buy the Saint a new halo for Christmas :)
Thanks for helping me keep perspective. I know I'm pretty lucky, but just wasn't recognizing it. For you guys trying to plant the outdoor seed with your kids, keep it up. I try to do the same. For you guys struggling to work and make a living, I feel your pain. Making a living isn't what it used to be in this country. Nuff said. Happy Thanksgiving.
Self employed also which a lot of people think you do what you want when you want. To mean it means responsibility to my customers to get their job done on time and also long hours to do the work, bids and paperwork.
That being said I have had about 10 - 12 full days to hunt and about 12-15 evening hunts of a couple hours each. Had 1 weekend hunt with one of my sons and that was a great time
3-4 days a week. Working shift work gives me a lot of time off.
Not much at all, some weekends in October but now its work 7 days a week. I'm a self employed (means do it yourself) Electrician . Most of my work is at a ski/golf resort in NW lower MI so a lot of work is scheduled for the dead times when neither is happening AKA fall & spring. The fall projects are winding down so I'm hopefull for some late season time in the woods.
Eric
I work 45-50 hrs a week but get to hunt at least 3-4 sits a week.RC
3 full days so far and 4 half days I work nites and 58 hrs a week.
LarryDawg
5 days if I'm lucky, still need to pay bills so work is priority number 1, kids activities number 2 and house work number 3. Can't do full days either and even when I hunt I still have to answer emails on my phone.
Being self employed I shut my business down for the month of November. Have to work my tail off the other 11 months to make this happen. I manage 12 to 15 days in addition for scouting.
Season started Oct 1st. I've been out 56 days since then. Work 40 hour weeks as well. Just make it a point to go out every night after work that I can.
I hunt when I can. I seldom hunt where I really want.
My wife and I share a vehicle. Even if I take off of work, I still have to drive her to work. If I do that I would have to get to my stand about 10 AM and then be out again by 2 PM. Not the best system but.....
I stil have managed to log about 100 hours in the woods this fall. The down fall is in less than Ideal places. so far No deer killed. Very few seen in the last month. But for right now, I will take what I can get.
I got out more than usual this year thanks to the government shutdown.
I looked in to things like this from hunter surveys about 10 years ago. The average hunting trips per bowhunter was 23.
Until last year I would usually get in 25-30 hunts per season (season is more than 120 days). Last year only 7. This year I'm at 15 so far. I quit at 7 last year because I had two deer with my curve and wanted no more. This year I have only one Doe so far and still have my antlered tag.
I took quite a few days off during the rifle season here. It ended this past Sunday and I'll be going out again soon.
As many here who are their own boss know, the work doesn't get done while I'm in my trees. Bow hunting has always been a very high priority in my life and my wife of 35 years knows it is a big part of what makes me right with the world.
30 to 40 days fall season Sept 1 to Jan 1 - most either am or pm I am getting too old to do both.
That is mostly deer w a little hog or bear opportunity. Grab days or groups pf days as I can winter hogs - then spring turkey sometimes w hogs then stingrays we have this down to just a couple a trips a year now was crazy 5 months wide open when we developed it. We fish just a few days a year but when we do it is epic.
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I had maybe 6 days spring turkey and a whopping total of 1.5 days in the deer woods so far :banghead:
16 days so far since Oct 1. That is with some vacation days. I can't hunt close to home this year so all my days are full days. I have missed some time out because of having to be home for part of a day or day and haven't been able to justify the travel expense for a half day hunt. I had a lot of warm, wind, and rain those days. I went, but it was real slow and I was not able to get out parts of those days.
I used to have a little spot behind where I worked, and one not to far from there near my home. I also had flex hours so at one time I used to get out at least part of 30 days by now
I have not been out this year, and it seems that the last few years I'll get out 5-6 times. With young ones at the house it can be tough to get out. We also just started a new business the first week of October, which is for sure the wrong time of year if you plan on deer hunting!
Work and kids and four years of a bad economy, busy this year and making up for lost time.
One day so far this year, has never happened before. I hopefully get a couple after muzzle loader guys get done here.
My idiot supervisor screwed me out of taking my vacation during the hunting season this year. I have managed to take two Saturday hunts this year.
No, I'm not bitter. Just royally whizzed. :mad:
Killdeer :deadhorse:
I only hunted Saturdays and Sundays. I did have off for Columbus Day and I took a personal day to get some extra time in the woods.
For fall deer hunting I got out 3-4 evenings per week after work plus Saturdays. I work 2.5 miles from home and can be in the woods behind the house in 15 minutes after I leave the office.
I do the same all summer during groundhog season.
I probably hunt roughly 30 days a season.
I was only counting deer hunting. I'm also an avid squirrel hunter and spring turkey hunter. Those days are unto themselves.
I've recently started bowhunting again after almost a 30 year hiatus. I get 6 weeks vacation a year, but need to balance that time among family obligations, as well as being an avid dog trainer / upland bird hunter and participating in the traditional PA rifle opener as well. All together, about 14 days of bow hunting, including turkey and small game. This winter, I'll be taking my bow along on late season pheasant hunts with my dogs, so that will add another 10 days of short (2-3 hour) hunts. I rarely get out full days for anything, but cherish every opportunity I have for any hunting. Deer hunting isn't over yet, and I'm already thinking about spring turkey!!!
This year I've been out hunting 6 full days and that was on my Wyoming Antelope hunt, in which I was unsuccessful. I hope to make it out for 3 - 4 days before deer season ends but the time is getting short.
Last year I didn't get to hunt at all. And in 2011 I spent 10 days afield.
It's hard to make it happen sometimes but I do my best to get out.