To hunt or not ?

[Blackstick]

I guess I disagree with everyone else. I just will not hunt under those conditions. The biggest reason is I process deer my self and very slowly. I’m trying to learn to be faster about the process and last year I did make gains, but I’m still not there yet.

[bornagainbowhunter]

I also process my own deer... I would be hunting!!  Next Friday is the day for me too.  I will be like the mailman; rain, snow, sleet or shine...

[cbCrow]

     What was the question.

[Mudd]

I have skipped a couple of afternoon hunts just because of conditions just like that.Then there have been times I just wanted to go so badly that I went knowing full well I had no intention of dropping the string on anything.

I am not going to take the chance that if I were to put an arrow through one that it would get lost because of heat spoiling the meat before I could find it or the rain washing away the sign, again leaving me with spoiled meat before I could get to it.

There will be other days!!!

Quirky!! huh? But I am what I am.

God bless,Mudd

[Brian Krebs]

I have not written about my hunt this year; because early on I fell end over end and rolling for a hundred yards down a mountain; broke some ribs; busted myself up pretty good; and could not even pull my bow back for a week.
 I have eyes - used them to find an elk trail; which at one point crossed a road. The elk were using it in daylight every 5 days.
 Knowing this I waited for that next rotation - and on the fifth day: I got to my stand -- and  the road had been freshly graded; and the grader and a bulldozer and its trailer were parked right on the trail.
 Its a long road...to pick that one spot to park.

I have permission on private property for hunting deer and elk; and the owner took off for a trip; and the neighbors let loose dogs; flattened a tire( cut off the stem) gunned the engines on their vehicles as they drove by; yelled and screamed ( yes screamed) in an effort to keep me from killing 'their lawn ornaments'.
 Oh yeah - this is land connected to National Forest land and is 150 miles from what people would call a city.
 Deer were feeding in a weed infested old pasture; and that got all cut down and the deer and elk stopped feeding on it.
 Another hunter saw me walk into an area and spent the next three days walking all over it from dawn to dusk. He saw elk and deer running off (from their beds); but never got a shot; or sat down for over 5 minutes ( by his own admission). That moved the animals out of that planned opportunity.

 He was happy to have seen some elk and deer.

 A tree fell in the forest smacking my treestand over my bear bait off the tree and into stand heaven.
 The bears though are feeding on every fruit tree down low on private land. In the dark.

 Wolves are keeping all animals on edge. The animals go down to private land and hang out there because they won't be hunted there- until the opener of rifle season when they brag about shooting deer and elk from their windows and porches.

 Weather has been hot; the animals are moving at night with the full moon.

And you want to turn down a chance to hunt - WHY again please ????????   :confused:

[Bowwild]

Wind in Kansas - you bet!  I moved there in 1989, moved out in 1992.  Great state great wildlife department (but again, I'm biased).  I love to squirrel hunt also. When I learned that KS' squirrel season started in May and ran all winter I was escatic. However, my favorite days are windless ones so I can hear and see a squirrel move in the leaves.  The average daily wind in Newton Kansas is 13 MPH. Most mornings I would get up to go squirrely hunting and the wind was already going at it! lots of squirrels, almost no squirrel hunters, but pristine calm days were very rare.

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

Originally posted by Bowwild:
Wind in Kansas - you bet!  I moved there in 1989, moved out in 1992.  Great state great wildlife department (but again, I'm biased).  I love to squirrel hunt also. When I learned that KS' squirrel season started in May and ran all winter I was escatic. However, my favorite days are windless ones so I can hear and see a squirrel move in the leaves.  The average daily wind in Newton Kansas is 13 MPH. Most mornings I would get up to go squirrely hunting and the wind was already going at it! lots of squirrels, almost no squirrel hunters, but pristine calm days were very rare.

I was in Garden City for a week last October and the wind blew about 30 mph. every day.  I didn't think it ever stopped.  A guy that lives there said that it snows sideways because the wind blows so much.