What do you do off season?

Earthdog · April 20, 2010, 02:57:00 PM

We don't have off seasons,,,,I just have a serious lack of money,,,so I shoot in my back yard a lot,vist local clubs and shoot competitions.
We do have a local herd of Fallow deer,plus Rabbits,Hares an Turkeys,all in or around the farm lands and property I live on,but I'm not big on shooting small game an the Fallow are "to me" not truely wild animals because they live in a semi protected environment,so don't have any real value as a "hunting" animal anyway.

stickbow2442 · April 20, 2010, 03:01:00 PM

Theres an off season for archery?

April 20, 2010, 03:04:00 PM

Wait.

Ragnarok Forge · April 20, 2010, 06:05:00 PM

Bowfish, Coyote hunt, target shoot, 3-D shoot every weekend I can. Shoot 3-D at the club, hunters and target league at the local archery shop. Trad archery is a life style for me. Throw in camping, fishing, stump shooting, bladesmithing and working, family, etc.... I am amazed I ever sleep.

Bowwild · April 20, 2010, 06:49:00 PM

I also shoot nearly every day. I shoot indoors in inclement weather and outside: personal 3-D range, open commercial 3-D range, and I try to go to 1-2 3-D shoots per month. Bowhunting turkeys now,white-tail deer and elk this September through mid-January. Cacciatore, because of the bow pics you posted on the Phenolic thread I bought a new LH, Blactail Elite yesterday -- 62", 47#'s. VERY ODD how I got it. Fellow ordered it more than a year ago. He changed his mind. Norm sent it to Footed Shaft for retail. I bought it from the Footed Shaft. It is coco footed with Mryrtl I(riser and limbs). EVen has checkered grip. I would have ordered: 60", 48 pounds, coco and myrtle footed the same as this. I feel like this bow was actually ordered for me! It is due to arrive tomorrow. Thanks for the tip on the Blacktail Elite.

Ground Hunter · April 20, 2010, 06:51:00 PM

What everyone above me said!!! H

Keith Zimmerman · April 20, 2010, 06:53:00 PM

Fly Fish, Shoot in my yard, and chase groundhogs with my bows and flintlocks.

KentuckyTJ · April 20, 2010, 07:02:00 PM

What is a "Off Season" Felix?

Apex Predator · April 20, 2010, 09:22:00 PM

I could never live where there is an "off season"! You need to move south!

LimbLover · April 20, 2010, 10:00:00 PM

There isn't an offseason. That is what is great about traditional bowhunting. I'm bowfishing right now.

Jack Whitmire Jr · April 20, 2010, 10:05:00 PM

Musky fish and bowfish for carp. Do a little trurkey hutning!

Jack

thunder1 · April 21, 2010, 03:15:00 AM

Well usually just make the wife and kids crazy. But this past winter I found a gentleman farmer who has a heated pole barn. He was nice enough to let us use it to shoot in.

Bonecracker · April 21, 2010, 08:42:00 AM

NO mountains to climb in South Georgia so I do alot of my workouts at the local football stadium doing stadium stairs, ride my road bike around 50-80 miles a week, fish down on the coast quite a bit, shoot my bow in the back yard or go stump hunting as there are no trad guys in my small town, play a little golf, and last but not least, pull my old boat down to the Keys for a week of flats fishing!!

BobW · April 21, 2010, 10:00:00 AM

easy - my "Honey-Do" list that wasn't touched all hunting season....

year round, man, you guys got it made......

Chris Shelton · April 21, 2010, 10:50:00 AM

there are always varmits to chase

. I hunt groundhogs, carp and 3d's. And shoot as often as I can, I find that hot weather stops me from bakeing in the sun, so I sometimes shoot in the rains?? Call me wierd, we have a pavillion in the back yard, so you dont get really wet, but the air is nice and cool

! I am almost as in love with fly fishing as I am with trad bowhunting, there are always fish, cold, hot, rain, snow!

Plus that and I think after Curts turkey challenege we will all be making gillie suits, lol

bigiron · April 21, 2010, 08:31:00 PM

shoot 3D, drink beer & play golf & fish a lot.

the force · April 21, 2010, 09:55:00 PM

I shoot alot of indoor 300 rounds, some 3ds and field shoots and chase ground hogs around.

jonsimoneau · April 21, 2010, 09:57:00 PM

I hang new stands. Try to gain access to new areas. Scout public land. I work alot so I can take a little time off during deer season. Then I mostly just wait for deer season!

gobbler10ga · April 21, 2010, 10:01:00 PM

You mean theres an off season ???????????

Terry Green · April 22, 2010, 10:43:00 AM

"Off Season.....We don't need no stinking off season!!!!"

Hunt hogs year round....

Evidently, you didn't heed to Bohunting Tip #1 on The Bowhunter's of Trad Gang DVD.