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Author Topic: What will you do differently this year?  (Read 4177 times)

Offline shootrmn

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #40 on: February 09, 2007, 01:05:00 PM »
not spend the most of the season recovering from back surgery... quit my job so I have more time for my bow
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Offline KyleAllen

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #41 on: February 09, 2007, 01:28:00 PM »
Get permission to some more places. Get established stands BEFORE season starts. Take a deer either off of the ground or from a tree (without a stand). Take a hog with a flint head.
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Offline Arwin

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #42 on: February 09, 2007, 01:29:00 PM »
LMAO!!!!!! I hear ya shootrmn! I had a job with a 2 week paid vacation for the last 6 years. Over the summer I switched companies and lost my vacation time. I thought it would have been no big deal, that was until deer season started. Weekends and rainy bad weather is what I had to salvage the season with. My current employer wouldn't even give me time off when I had a burst in my plumbing. Needless to say the employment search is on!
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Offline SteveMcD

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #43 on: February 09, 2007, 01:58:00 PM »
Stay healthy! Missed almost the entire 2006 season! I am really looking forward to October 2007!!!
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Offline SpikeMaster

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #44 on: February 09, 2007, 02:01:00 PM »
Switch from a longbow back to a recurve. Not bad mouthing longbows, it just takes more time to get good with them and with work and school this fall I won't have the time to devote.
I've had a fear of heights and this year I'm getting myself over it and hunt exclusively from a treestand. I hunt high pressured deer on public land and its about impossible to get close enough to them on the ground to get a shot.
I might switch to shooting wood arrows too but thats kind of up in the air at this point.
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Offline BaldingEagle

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #45 on: February 09, 2007, 02:15:00 PM »
Scout earlier.
Build more blinds.
Hunt more often.
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Offline Hersh

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #46 on: February 09, 2007, 02:38:00 PM »
Get my first traditional kill. Have as much fun if not more than I had this year. Hersh
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Offline Old Ways

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #47 on: February 09, 2007, 08:21:00 PM »
For me it is a matter of getting even more "traditional".

Weapon: This year I plan to only hunt with a selfbow and arrows I make from scratch. I can't knapp so I will still use my Zwickey broadheads. I want to hunt this way for small game, turkey, waterfowl and big game.

Gear: I dont want to use anything else modern. No lighters, matches, binoculars, gps, etc. (flashlight ok for safety & tracking). Fire piston or fire drill are ok.

Clothing: Instead of camo I will only hunt in wool plaids and animal skins. Footwear will be mocs and mucluks. No man made fabrics.

Hunting Methods: As usual I will only still-hunt and stalk. Float hunting in canoe also ok.
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Offline John3

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #48 on: February 09, 2007, 11:11:00 PM »
Scout more, hunt more. I have a large creekbottom that is WORK to get in and out of down a steep bluff. I am going to set up blinds down in there this year and hunt them.
Hunt more. I am going to British Columbia and then to Africa this summer. I am going to hunt hard. I do not want to wake up in 30 years and say "I wish I had taken more hunting trips". I decided that you only go once, make good memories.

I am also going to Compton in June. No way I am missing this again.
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Offline fireman_3311

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #49 on: February 10, 2007, 01:44:00 PM »
I'm hopin to kill an Ontario Blackbear, this september, with 5 other Tradgangers!!!! PLUS, hopefully, kill an antelope out near Douglas, Wyoming come august!!! Both bowhunts of course, and I've never hunted either species!!! I cain't wait!!!
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Offline wifishkiller

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Re: What will you do differently this year?
« Reply #50 on: February 10, 2007, 01:50:00 PM »
Hopefully pull a femal bighorn tag.  Shoot the 170 muley that kicked my butt all last year.  Get another crack at the 70 plus speed goat.  and scare lots of elk again   :thumbsup:
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