What is your personal hunting goal this year???

[northern fisher]

Mine are to build my first bow
Take my first Ontario big game animal and just spend more time in the woods and on the water.also my first carp shoot and try to write more.

[B.O.D.]

1)  To kill a turkey from my new groundblind!

2) To see my good buddy Jake, take his first bowkilled animal.

3) To arrow a nice buck with my Mississippi Lake Longbow, then kill a freezer doe or 2...

4)  To kill a bear this Sept.

5)  To spend as much time as possible in the bush with my longbow(s)...if that chekmate Thunderbird  EVER makes it to me    !!! LOL

6)  To share some hunts with my kids and spouse out of the new blind.

7) Last but not least, to get my book about Flyfishing and Traditional- bowhunting Ontario published!
BD          

[Randy Morin]

I've been buisy building bows this winter...so...I'd like to...

1. Get a quick/clean kill on a doe with my Osage Selfbow that I carved from the quarter split Walt Francis gave me.

2. Get on a Turkey hunt or maybe a Bear with the Sheepeater Spirit bow that my friends Brent and Mark at Classic Bowhunting Co. built for me and I finished.

3. Take an Elk or Deer with the new Hybrid longbow I designed and built and am just now finish sanding and spraying. She's a peach.

4. Hunt with others more, or atleast camp with-em.

[PaPaFrank]

In no particular order, my goals this year are to be the best husband, father and friend I can be, get out and meet more of the great people on this site, spend as much time as possible huntimg and shooting...Remember to remain grateful for all of the wonderful blessings that God has put into my life...

[**DONOTDELETE**]

My goals for hunting this year is to make my first Traditional harvest a Roosevelt elk at 12 yards, with a bow i built with my own hands... I just started traditional archery less than two months ago.....I had never shot a recurve or long bow before then. I have just completed building my first long bow...Now i have to learn how to shoot it well. With with lots of practice, and determination, i hope to be consistantly accurate to 30 yards by september.

[Bowshot]

1. Hunt with my 16 year old daughter- her first year bowhunting. Starting with bears in May.

2. Help 3- 12 year olds (in-laws kids)  get the bowhunting bug. Starting next week with gophers, have grouse and deer on the agenda for Sept.

3. Get my wife shooting her long bow more.

4. Sept - Dec. Slip a cedar through a Bighorn ram, Bull moose, and then chase deer and elk. Cougars in Dec.

Terry

[joel smith]

1. Spend more time hunting with good friends

2. Get a turkey with Rover Gal Hope

[benderofwood]

I've been bowhunting for many years {30} and have been blessed to take many animals but most of them have come by the way of the compound bow [CONFESSION is good for the soul}; I love traditional bow and what traditional stands for so this year will be focused on shooting the recurve more and reading more books on our great forefathers and hopefully attend a traditional rendezvou where there is NO ONE but traditional bowhunters and share a weekend with good people who know what it is to have good,clean fun;  

[dudley152]

BigAl - Need a place to hunt in NNY? Sent you a PM.

[Chisler]

Finish building my first "home-made" bow.  Get serious about PA bear hunting: put in the time planning and scouting and get a bear with my bow, from the ground.

[Deer Slayer]

I would like to get back to TX and hunt with CK and Mark Horne again before years end....ANY species ...ANY part of TX. But if I had to choose one...probably like to redeem myself and get a hog!
 Would like to go on a hog hunt here in my home state sometime this year as well.

Hopefully get a deer in Washington state on my parents place towards the end of the year.

And Hopefully!..just be able to even encounter ANY deer within bow range here in SoCal, just to give me a glimmer of hope!!LOL Taken several with a rifle but never with a bow YET. But I will use any old excuse just to be able to get up into the mountains or hills....just to be there,... even if I never take another deer in Cali as long as I live. So many fond memories would have never been, had I not made an excuse to get out in the outdoors.

Mark

[madness522]

Being a new trad hunter I want to kill something besides time.  Be it a deer, turkey, squirrel, rabbit or coyote.  I am already the best time killer I know while hunting (only 2 deer this past season).

Perfect cutting the point tapers so they are uniform all the way around the shaft and look great.

Build the perfect back quiver.

Build some kind of side stalker quiver that is fuctional and not too bulky.

Find a friend that lives close and either shoot trad with them or convert them to trad.  Second to that is getting good enough with a recurve that I can out shoot a buddy with his compoud, the one that asked me if I was really going to hunt 'with that thing'.

[OzarkRamblr]

To hunt more and not let work get in the way.

[dposalski]

To go on my first hunts with my bow.

[The Vanilla Gorilla]

To be able to harvest my first critter with my OJAM selfbow!

Draw the tag and hunt pronghorn with the same bow. Maybe that'll be the first critter to fall to that bow!

[Aaron Proffitt 2]

While it may not sound initially like a hunting goal it is;
"Their is a big difference between making a living and making a life".
Maya Angelou
That pretty much soms up my hunting goals this year.Do less of one so I can make time for the other.

[Frenchymanny]

Have fun, connect with nature and friends, and be a better hunter, a better archer than last year

F-Manny

[The Ursus]

I figure I'll take it one goal at a time.  The first runner up is a black bear with one of my home made arrows, probably Doug Fir.  Currently, I'm torn between a couple of my old longbows and my new recurve.  I've been trying the last six years to get a bear but, as always, feel THIS is my year!!!  

Then it's on to Sitka blacktails, mtn goat, and possibly moose.

[WildmanSC]

Kill a nice buck and doe in IL while hunting with my son again this year.

Bill

[Bill Turner]

Take a whitetail with my longbow on some public land I'm hunting in Oklahoma.