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Author Topic: What are you going to do different?  (Read 1083 times)

Offline Rob W.

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What are you going to do different?
« on: August 28, 2011, 05:42:00 PM »
Just wondering what you guys are going to do different, try out, or change this year?

My main goal is to relax and enjoy my woods time more. I have a tendancy to hunt so hard early that I burn myself out a bit.

I'm also going to try stalking to my stand at first light as opposed to getting in in the dark.
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Offline USN_Sam1385

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2011, 05:49:00 PM »
Rob,

Relaxing and taking a more 'casual' approach to hunting was the best thing I could have ever done.

For a while there hunting became more like work than play. With me being focused on 'success' entirely too much. Furthermore, that 'success' was defined by the result of the hunt/ hunting season, rather than the experience.

Enjoy the ride.

Now; if I do not want to get out of bed, I don't. If I feel like getting out of the stand, I do. Etc.

It has actually improved my 'results' the less I seem to 'try'.
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Offline americanhunter7

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2011, 05:50:00 PM »
Gonna try...

1) Stalking vs. Always using a treestand.

2) To kill a deer with a wood arrow of my making. (So far all my trad animals have been with a carbon arrow...glad I've been able to take an animal with trad gear, but doesn't seem right without at least one or two kills with a wood arrow).

3) To make it to Deer camp with all of my fellow TG members in October at JWSF.

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Offline 3Feathers

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2011, 05:57:00 PM »
My goal this year is to take a deer on the ground
with a wood arrow and my longbow.Have taken 3 deer from a treestand.Now its time to do it the trad-way from the ground...............
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Offline adkmountainken

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2011, 06:01:00 PM »
going to concentrate on hunting ONE area and putting my time in.
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Offline KodiakMag

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2011, 06:05:00 PM »
Hunt more. I'm out of college now so I have more time.  :)
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Offline ALwoodsman

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2011, 06:08:00 PM »
This will be my first year to deer hunt with a traditional bow.  I have used a compound my whole life but I am more excited than ever about this season!  I am also going to try some new strategies on the way I approach and leave my stands, hopefully not to educate the deer as much as I have in the past.
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Offline joe skipp

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2011, 06:09:00 PM »
Shoot deer both right handed and left handed. Other than that, will change nothing that has worked over the years.
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Offline mcgroundstalker

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2011, 06:15:00 PM »
Gonna hunt instead of thinking or talking about it... Right Joe?

... mike ...
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Offline Seeking Trad Deer

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2011, 06:20:00 PM »
Remain flexible in hunting locations.
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Offline stevewills

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2011, 06:20:00 PM »
quit my job so i can actualy hunt more...ive worked 1.5 years without a day off that includes all the holidays more time with my family
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Offline jimmerc

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2011, 06:21:00 PM »
Going to hunt like I'm hungry!
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Offline swamprooter

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2011, 06:38:00 PM »
Actually going to hunt this year, last year I spent at Camp Red Cloud Korea. Chris
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Offline GRINCH

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2011, 06:45:00 PM »
Just try and enjoy the experience.
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Offline Bowwild

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2011, 06:47:00 PM »
1. I'm going to use a different bow.

2. Using a 90 grain heavier arrow.

3. The biggest thing for me this year is to try and finish my KY season by October 1st (2 deer) so I can concentrate on hunting with my best friend in Indiana. My buddy is down this year. His son went through a tough issue during the winter. He has a couple more aches and pains and even fell off a roof a few weeks ago (he's 65). He has also been dealt a pretty major change in his hunting property.

If I can be around for him to make fun of and laugh at and ease his pain, that'll fill my tag.
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Offline Charlie Lamb

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2011, 06:57:00 PM »
Going to have a sex change... figure I'll lose some bow poundage, but should be a lot more flexible.   :laughing:
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Offline fmscan

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2011, 06:58:00 PM »
A friend, Monkeyball, hunts from the ground and does quite well. He really sold me on ground hunting.  I bought an evolution leafy suit from BPShops and then got a Waldrop PacSeat, comfy,lightweight. So I look forward to moving more and being at eye level with the critters. Had a treestand stolen once, was very mad for half hour and decided to sit on ground and enjoy the morning... buck came along, hit the scrape and I got my first buck with trad bow. Will always remember being more satisfied cuz my next couple of bucks were from treestand and happy to have them but the one on the ground and my first was the best!
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Offline KodiakMag

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2011, 07:10:00 PM »
quote:
Originally posted by Charlie Lamb:
Going to have a sex change... figure I'll lose some bow poundage, but should be a lot more flexible.    :scared:  


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Offline Rob W.

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2011, 07:13:00 PM »
Charlie, you wouldn't have to worry about squirrel attacks either!  :bigsmyl:
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Offline jcar315

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Re: What are you going to do different?
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2011, 07:19:00 PM »
Going to gone into each hunt / sit with no preconceived notions about what the deer "ought" to be doing and listen to what the "are" doing.

Don't want to get "stuck" using the same stands that have been historically successful.

Going to hunt off of the ground a whole lot more and do more still hunting and spot and stalk when the opportunities present themselves.
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