Anyone Else Excited About Hunting This Fall/Winter?

[warpedskydiver 0]

It is really cool outside right now and fall is approaching, the air is clear and crisp and I can smell all the leaves and late season flowers.

Deer hunting season is nearly upon us.

[billeisele 130]

deer season opened August 15th, it will be cool this week so time to hit the woods then Cordoba in October for some birds

Give one city to the thugs so they can all live together. I vote for Chicago where they have strict gun laws.

[warpedskydiver 0]

Damn that is early, I bet the meat would spoil very fast around then.

I know that it must be like Texas, carry huge cooler with ice in the truck.

Are there still ticks on them this early? I would think so.

South Carolina must have some nice hog hunting as well.

mmmmmmm pork!

[TrophyHusband 0]

i just moved to florida where the limit on deer is two a day. i can't wait to get out there, the only problem is that i don't really know where to go and i don't have much time to scout. can't wait for that backstrap.

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[steve1 5]

I used to be a hunting fanatic. I couldn't wait to get out in the mtns. to hunt.

Maybe I'm just getting old. I don't have the enthusiasm I once did.

I bought a couple of young mules this past summer. We also have three other horses. My game plan is to have a pack string that I can use hunting when I retire. I'd love to pack into the Bob Marshal and spend most of the season hunting, fishing, and just enjoying the wilderness.

I shot my first elk in the Bob about 40 years ago. It took two days of hard riding just to reach our camp. It was about 50 miles in. I haven't hunted there since. I'm anxious to go back.....

[Belgian_Draft 0]

When I was growing up I thought of nothing else. But a few years back, after filling my deer tag, I realized that there was no longer the excitement and anticipation that i once felt. Maybe this fall I'll pick up my .22 again and see if i can put together a tasty squirrel pot pie.
Yeah, I think I will.

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[steve1 5]

It seems like hunting has changed for me has changed a lot, over the years.

When we were kids we shot about anything that moved with our BB guns.

When we moved up to 22's, there wasn't a gopher that was safe in our county.

I killed my first deer at 12, hunting alone, with a 30/30 and there was no going back....I was hooked.

That enthusiasm lasted for another 30 years. I had a real itchy trigger finger. I spent a lot of time trophy hunting. It was too easy to shoot a little one.

Now, I feel like I've killed more than my fair share of game. I'll bet I've shot over a hundred deer. Many were big bucks. I made every effort to save all that meat, and it was eaten by my family.

Now, I'm really not into that. I still like getting out into nature, but I'm just not into the killing part. I shot two deer last year. It was mostly just for the meat. I didn't enjoy pulling the trigger on either one of them.....

I still enjoy seeing the excitement in my daughters eyes when they hunt. My wife too still enjoys getting out. So, that's a big part of what keeps me returning to the mountains or river bottom each fall.

[warpedskydiver 0]

It is the entire experience that I enjoy, being in the woods, tracking, weather, obstacles, using my skills, teaching others

Just withstanding Rainbo's farts in the hunting blind can be a challenge.

I have found that for someone 48years old I can still hold my breath a loooooooooong time!

That boy has me beat!

[FlyingJ 0]

I've had really great free and private places to hunt the last two years (that's as long as I've been hunting). This year my friends that provided access to those areas have moved and I no longer have the hook up without doing the public lands thing. It's not the end of the world, but it's a heck of a lot more hassle than just doing my own thing and doing it alone or with a buddy and not having to deal with a gaggle of other hunters.

I think duck hunting this year is going to be horrible unless we have a tropical storm stall over top of us in the next month. Right now even the largest duck ponds down here in coastal Texas are bone dry.

Killing threads since 2004.