How does everyone get through the winter?

[Terry Green]

By living in GA and hog hunting year round    

[K.S.TRAPPER]

Help everbody else fill there tags that need help, including processing.

 Fur season and waterfowl till spring, lot and lots of coyotes! Love trapping, calling and putting up fur.

Already hitting the river and catching Wipers! Never hurts my shooting I can pick a bow up anytime I want and shoot it but usually wait till them nice spring days just feels good then.

I'm very comfortable with my style of shooting and longbows, wood arrows and there and my performance no reason to go changing anything and screwing it all up.

Tracy

[stagetek]

My job still keeps me busy, but enjoy some fair weather ice fishing (not too fair weather), I'll fix up, or make arrows. I'm now refinishing two Wing Thunderbirds. And...looking forward to turkey hunting in April.

[acolobowhunter]

fly tying using the feathers, hides, etc from animals I have taken - waiting for spring fly fising and spring turkey hunting.

[Walt Francis]

I take my girls Addie:

 


And Molly:

 


Out into the mountains and woods and listen to them sing:

 


 

Sometimes…..they even have something to sing about:

 

[Walt Francis]

Other times I whittle on sticks:


 


Of course the girls are there to help:

 


Even though Molly sometimes thinks I “Bite off more than I can chew”:

 


Still, other times I go to school to learn from the Masters:

 

[ron w]

Walt......my how the girls have grown. Beautiful looking hounds!!!!!

[longbow fanatic 1]

Jealous, Terry. Beautiful pics, Walt! Great responses everyone. If I ever get bored, I can find new hobbies and encouragement by all here!

[kat]

I shiver alot.

[TruffleShuffle]

Chase women, rock out on my guitars, ride motorcycles, pursue more ladies, etc...

[JamesV]

Mostly sit by the fire and stay warm. No heat in my shop, so no bows, but the wife says NO bows until after the garden is in anyway. Run the squirrel dogs a little. Piddle with a few knives for give-aways to friends. Play on the computer some, TV, 2 whiskey drinks in the afternoon. Oh, and I am the cook (wife does the dishes, somewhat) 3 meals a day cuts into my relaxing time. Also the wife has scheduled a 10 day cruise at the start of turkey season and I have to tag along.

James

[mlsthmpsn]

Originally posted by JamesV:
No heat in my shop, so no bows

No heat?....in Mississippi?      

I work in my shop down to about 0°F (granted, not a lot of wood stuff unless it's plywood). I use a little $15 garage sale propane convection heater to take the nip out of the air. Below that and tools get hard to hold on to without gloves and old electric motors don't like to run as well as they need to. My drill press stops turning at altogether -20°F.


My goal for this year is to get my dad's shop cleaned up and organized...1200 sq ft, 75,000 btu natural gas heater, and a big wood stove. Now to find where all my time ran off and hid!

[tracker12]

Head to GA for a hog hunt first off.   Do most of my serious scouting this time of year.  Shoot daily, fish on a nice day (crappie) and get ready for turkey season.

[last arrow]

Going in to camp for a night.  Going light weight with just the buddy heater rather than the generator to run the furnace.  No luck calling in   some coyotes.  Unfortunately, couldn't find any snowshoe hare to chase, to many coyotes I think.
 
     

At camp, just enough snow to not be able to drive in to camp.  Usually there are 2 -3 feet on the ground this time of year.  Love the lake effect snow.

   

[Bladepeek]

Same way bears do. I sleep a lot more.

[Doc Nock]

Try knee replacement...sure makes the time fly by while you wile away the winter trying to move!   :eek:    

[Bowwild]

Walt,
That first pic of the Dog is wonderful!  I haven't had a dog around the house since ours died win 2009.  I miss him so much.  I enjoyed watching the Westminster Dog Show...

The impacts on travel; kennel, hotels, airlines, etc. just so much more difficult with em.

Mine thought he was a Grizzly Hound (a.ka. West Highland White Terrier - Casper). I didn't try to convince him otherwise.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I like to cook and last year when I was house bound due to weather I made projects like haversacks.  This year I squirrel/rabbit hunted/Scouted at least once per weekend.  Soon it will be shed antler hunting/scouting.

Sometimes I go to an indoor 3d. Play with the horses and sometimes shoot in my basement.

I join a bowling league in the winters also to help break up the week and work on mental focus.

[Friend]

1. Primary scouting for later season patterns

2. Establishing set-ups and plans for future set-ups

3. Refining ground game

4. Daily shooting

5. Strategizing, planning for farm game enhancements

6. Over-seeding

7. Foodplot feathering

8. Hog hunting

9. Indoor practice

10. 3D events

11. Turkey hunt preparations

12. Completing home projects in order to be free during hunt time

13. Dreaming

14. Volunteer projects

15. Additional support to family and others

16. Active on Trad Gang

17. Working with and introducing others to the traditional way

18. Conversing with others on hunt topics

19. Endeavoring to continuously improve as an individual

20. Mentoring      


Research, read and don’t watch TV... The list goes on and on….never a dull moment…imagination creates boundless opportunities…anticipation fills any void

[Danny Rowan]

Don't know have not had to deal with winter since 1989.