Goals for the season?

[hill boy]

To have opportunitys and capitalize on them.Take my soon to be 5yr old little girl and enjoy every second to it's fullist  

[rascal]

Well if things go my way Ill be shooting a new stick this year (less wheels and such) but other than that I will stay the course I have set for years.  I will either take a mature buck or no buck at all, does fill the freezer as well anyhow.  We have a pretty liberal season here and Im not the only member of my family to hunt so Im never pressured to take an animal just for meat either.
If I have to make a goal then here it is ... Ill spend lots of time in the woods, its good for my soul.

[bentpole]

No goals here Dave. If I don't have to work on a Saturday being in the woods on a Saturday morning and having the woods wake up around me is good enough for me.If I see game well that's a big plus. If I get a shot off a double plus if I wack one WOOOFAAA!!!

[Gator1]

My goal:

Is to make a camoflouge blind out of a Pink Play Tent that got destroyed by my 2 1/2 year old. I'm gonna camo it up, and set it up at my buddies farm..

I want to take my little girl with me, and what I would consider a huge success, if we could sit quietly for 30 minutes, and see some wildlife.. A true bonus, would be deer within 50 yards..

[Mike Orton]

Hunting for me is as much about camaraderie as it is about putting an animal on the ground.  Both are important but neither is essential to the satifaction of the hunt.   Hunting is what brings harmony to my being...

This year I have a new destination in mind, Salmon, ID where Trad Gangster Brian Krebs has volutereerd to show me where the Western slope of the Continental Divide seperates Montana and Idaho.  This invite will allow me to continue with an annual commitment I made to myself years ago to show at least one person a year what wilderness elk hunting is all about.  I'll be taking Chuck Rosario, aka Mr Chuck of the Trad Gang on his first elk hunt, although he is both an experienced and successful archer and bowhunter.  We'll put in two solid weeks hunting those critical last two weeks of September where we'll try to time the elk Buggling, music to my ears and soul.

This year I'm additionally blessed with a one week whitetail hunt in N.Y. State with an old friend.  Normally he meets me out west for our annual humbling event by the elk but due to family commitments needed to stay to keep the home fires burning...something about a teenaged young man needing a bit extra supervision this year.  So I dig a bit deeper into the travel fund and go to him this year, fully worth the investment to maintian that relationship..  And who knows, perhaps I'll find a suicidal whitetail willing to walk in front of my broadhead....  

[John3]

This season is a bit different than those past.
I need to get alot of Does killed, I have far too many. That being said I need to kill at least five does, and I want a Missouri "book" buck. I am not a trophy hunter; but I seem to let the smaller bucks walk at least for the years Missouri has had the point requirements. My other goal is to kill an Arkansas black bear and then take a huge whitetail in Kansas. I let a 160"+ buck walk by at 7 steps last year in Kansas.... Not this year if I am given the opportunity.

John III

[PrairieHawk]

I'm just hoping that I actually get to hunt! I just started the Physician Assistant program down here in Wichita-gonna learn how to "lay hands" on sick people. Bet my recurve is praying for the same treatment! I'll sneak out one way or another!

[bretto]

Going Elk hunting with my 20 year old Son. Had both knees replced last Dec. had'nt felt like I could do it for the last 5 years. And to hopefully take a mature whitetail from the ground this season at home.( Buck or Doe ) Does'nt matter.

[Recurve50LBS]

I have several goals I'd like to accomplish this season.
1. Having my son Andrew pass his archery hunting safety class and have him hunt with me. He's taking the shooting portion with a long bow.  
2. I've met and made a couple new friends this spring so I'd like to get a chance to hunt with them a few times.
3. I'd like to hunt with a few of my old friends this year too.
4. I'd like to see my son get a chance to take a shot on a deer and bring the meat and memories home with us.
5. I'd like to take my first deer with traditional gear. I think this will be year number 4 but who's counting. I'm having a ball!

[JEFF B]

my goal this year is to arrive safe in the usa. and to get my very first whitetail deer with a knapped head. and have a go at some tree rats and do a bit of fishing etc etc as i am only a meat hunter i am not after real big deer i only take what i can eat. if icant eat it i wont take it. and the most important thing is to be safe in your bush as i would think it would be differnt to ours. and to meet as  many virgiain people as poss and if some other out of towners come by that would be cool as well meaning trad gang family.  

[kennym]

Stayin home this year   :(  (not a goal)  Hope to get to hunt with a couple of my boys and bros and friends.

Other goals-a couple of those longnecked does and theres always that 180" buck I'm waitin patiently on!    

And I wouldn't shoot one on the last day I passed on the first unless it felt right when he came along........

[Stone Knife]

Spend as much of the season in the woods as i can. I want to take a deer with my Howard Hill Redman. I'll stick with that bow this season.

[snag]

To try and put myself in situations to have more opportunities. All the while enjoying every minute of it! We wait all year and prepare for this time...I want to make the most of it.

[VinnieB]

my goals are to kill a deer with my new longbow. i'm holding out for a big one on private land and at least a forkhorn on public.

[John Krause]

I gotta be the luckiest guy in the world. This past April I realized a life long dream and was able to purchase 160 acres of timber in S central MO. Not a big buck place but it is pretty wild and has deer and turkey and squirrels. I hunted it late season last year a little but never got a feel for the place (well a little maybe) I will have five ladder stands up and two portables by season.

The wife just loves the place and she works so hard that it is a great place for her to relax, so I gotta get her down there a bunch. My old high school buddy has an adjoining 90 with an older house on the place.

Would be thankful for an opportunity at some deer and wish for swift, clean kills, but just getting out is fine.

Come spring I would like to put a little 12X14 hunting shack on it with a little tent size stove. The son in law is real handy (I ain't)and great help. I have conned him into helping me build it. He is not much of a hunter but grew up in the sticks so I think I can slowly work on him. A few years down the road maybe a 3 or 4 acre lake on the place. Did I say I was the luckiest guy on earth?    

 


 


Hope to invite some fellow Tradgangers down the road to hunt. Anybody up for that?  

Hope it don't sound like braggin...just a dream

[Larry247]

John, I think thats great!!! I've got my dad's farm here in wv 120+or- a few and a little pond full of bass, catfish, and bluegils. And yes-have bow will travel. Maybe you can come out here sometime. any tradgangers. welcome..  

[Bowshot]

Try to fill a Moose tag- waited 5 years for that, chase some sheep and elk, hit some geese flying by, watch my nephew shoot a doe, try to hunt at least 20 days each in Sept, Oct, Nov, maybe have a couple of deer to eat, and hunt a few days in Dec chasing cats. My daughters can maybe rattle a deer in for Dad, they get a kick out of that, they won't shoot a deer but have no problems eating them.

Terry

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

I just hope to have fun, stay safe, spent time with some old friends and let maybe fill a few deer tags here and there.

[Artur]

My goal is to just enjoy sending arrows to the target, whether I hunt or not. That, and improve my accuracy.

[Tom Leemans]

My girlfriend has inspired me to keep a journal in the deer/squirrel woods this year. I've told her of all the things you see/experience while hunting and she said it would make a great read.