What is your personal hunting goal this year???

[Budog56]

I have six (that I can think of right off but sure there are more) that are trad related the first one being by far the top with the other ones bunched up a ways behind.

1)Get permission to hunt on the land I grew up on and set up my friend and fellow tradganger up to get a great nebraska buck.

2) Get my first big game tradkill ( preferably a big muley,then a whitetail but anything will do).

3) Get my effective shooting range from the 15 yd range I'm at up to 20 yards.

4) Get in much better shape to make hunting more enjoyable and to maybe help me be able to do it a few more years.

5) Try my hand at making a knife or two.

6) Start saving a money for a hunting trip..ANYWHERE hopefully with tradgangers.

[Alex.B]

goal#1: step out of my house, go huntin', and have fun  
goal#2: sit still for more than just an hour  

[Brian Halbleib]

It will be pretty tough to top last year but I have some unique opportunities this year and I hope I can make good on them. My home field hunting has suffered the last few years and I'm looking forward to doing more of that with my close friends this year. Hope to catch more of the memories on film too, already got a good start with my Canon GL2 in Texas last month.

I'd really like to stick with just one bow and get incredibly good with it, which means shootimg more too. I just can't seem to stop building them though    :D  

-Brian
 www.bowyersjournal.com

[Over&Under]

Triple up for the first time - turkey, deer and elk...

jake

[John3]

To hunt hard, but have fun doing it. To enjoy nature and the people I will be in camp with. To "do it right" when it matters.

John III

[Doug S]

#1 To take a branch antlered bull elk w/ my longbow.
#2 Fill every tag I have.
#3 Enjoy the heck out of myself.
#4 Take my kids hunting alot.
#5 Make all shots clean kills.

[Hatchet Jack]

Shoot my first Trad deer! I WILL DO THIS!!

Hatchet Jack

[Walt Francis]

My hunting goals for this year are:
1.  Tree a mountain lion that is large enough my hunting partner, Lenny Brown, will shoot it.  He has turned down two this year and there are only twelve days left in the season.  (Fresh snow this morning but no new tracks  :(  ).  Also, to tree, photograph, and then release a dozen cats next season.
2.  Take an antelope with the Little Delta Bow in late August.  
3.  Take a turkey, bear, and elk, using a selfbow, cane arrows, and Doug Campbell trade points.
4.  Make a selfbow that I like a much as Pigger, my old one who is now retired.  However, if I fail to make a good one, Pigger will act like Michael Jordan and Garth Brooks and come out of retirement for one last season      
5.  To enjoy myself perusing the above goals, even should I fail to kill any animals.

[bohuntr]

I want to shoot a deer with the Little Delta Bow and it is coming my way. My other goal is to go elk hunting with my buddys and help them call in and cut up and haul out a couple of big bull elk. I was lucky enough to shoot a nice bull last year and I would love to help my 2 elk hunting buddys do the same this year!!!

[Rob DiStefano]

I'm truly looking forward to git back down to the South Georgia woods with my bestest huntin' buddy ever, and loose a shaft solidly into that wily 6 pointer that never wanted to stand still for me last Fall.

[hormoan]

One has already came true, go on a hunt with other Trad gang members. Texas sweat was my best hunting trip ever.
Two is to go back and hunt pigs with Curtis and some buddys.
Three is enjoy the summer shooting with friends around Grand Rapids and going to Comptons.
Forth will be hope to see ya all somewhere on the trail.

                  Brent

[Missouri Sherpa]

Number one goal is to get through all of my hunts without anyone getting hurt or breaking down on the road trips.

Another goal is to help a couple of buddies with their first archery elk kills.

I will have elk and antelope tags in Wyoming, elk in Colorado, and 2 or three whitetail tags in Iowa that I would like to get filled before I tire out.  I am working hard at being in better physical condition than I have been in several years.

I have never been hog hunting or exotic hunting and would like to try my hand at that before this time next year.  If my schedule can accomodate it I would like to go on a tradgang sponsored hunt next winter or early spring.

[pseman]

My first year hunting traditional so my only goal is taking my first deer with my LB. Doe, buck, big rack, little rack, no rack, it doesn't matter. Got to do a lot more shooting though or my deer is gonna have to run over me to be in my effective range.

[jonesy]

Improve shooting, fill the freezer. Jonesy

[LCB]

I'll turn 38 this Sept, and will finsh a 20 yr career in the service of our great country. As luck would have it I will go out the door with saved vacation the second week of Oct, and continue getting paid until 31 Dec. I've missed many hunting seasons over the last 20yrs, and I'm going to try to make up for that this year. My only expectation is to enjoy life.

[SteveMcD]

My personal goal is to certify as many young hunters as possible. It would be a great peace of mind knowing that when I can no longer pull back a bow.. that there is plenty of the next generation out there passing it on.  

[Mechslasher]

i started my goal last year when i killed two squirrels with stone points.  this year i hope to kill a deer with stone.  while i'm at it, i would glady welcome the opportunity to kill a fox or coyote with stone.

[just a bit outside]

I just want to learn to shoot better! That alone would be enjoyment enough for me.

[tamure]

My goal is to take my first big game animal.

[BobCo 1965]

My goal as always it to hit what I'm aiming at.