When will your "hunting" vacation be this year?
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03-26-2008, 04:00 PM
#42
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 7,208
RE: When will your "hunting" vacation be this year?
September 19-27th for elk!
Then tenatively I'm looking at making long weekends out of october 24,25,26 and november 14,15,16. Sandwhiched between thoseI'm offOct 31-nov 5.
Plus every weekend of october & november and some scattered afternoons during the week
Then tenatively I'm looking at making long weekends out of october 24,25,26 and november 14,15,16. Sandwhiched between thoseI'm offOct 31-nov 5.
Plus every weekend of october & november and some scattered afternoons during the week
03-26-2008, 04:39 PM
#44
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Eureka, MO
Posts: 1,519
RE: When will your "hunting" vacation be this year?
ORIGINAL: mobow
OH MAN!!! You're right!! I looked @ the calendar wrong, it does indeed open the 15th!!! GROOVIN!!!!! Ok, now I gotta go re-think this a bit..... Thanks for pointing that out, I had temporary blindness or something...
ORIGINAL: wallhangr
Don't plan that Nov vacation yet, the MO website says opening firearms day is the 15th!
I'll be off the first week of Archery Season in September and another 2 weeks in November
ORIGINAL: mobow
This is a rather interesting fall. Being a leap year kinda messed me up a little, and the second full moon is late this fall, Nov. 13. I can't take off the 1st of any month due to inventory responsibilities, so I can't take my "normal" week off. Also, MO's rifle season is early this year, opening on Nov. 8. I don't rifle hunt, but I will go some w/ my bow, but I don't take that week off like most people I know do. Also, with it being earlier this year I think the artillery will take out a few more bucks than average. So I had a real delima as when to take off this year.
I decided on Oct. 27, and Nov. 5-11. Looking @ quicksilver's poll, that looks to be the right time.
So how about it? When are ya'll taking off work this year, in the hopes of dropping that buck?
This is a rather interesting fall. Being a leap year kinda messed me up a little, and the second full moon is late this fall, Nov. 13. I can't take off the 1st of any month due to inventory responsibilities, so I can't take my "normal" week off. Also, MO's rifle season is early this year, opening on Nov. 8. I don't rifle hunt, but I will go some w/ my bow, but I don't take that week off like most people I know do. Also, with it being earlier this year I think the artillery will take out a few more bucks than average. So I had a real delima as when to take off this year.
I decided on Oct. 27, and Nov. 5-11. Looking @ quicksilver's poll, that looks to be the right time.
So how about it? When are ya'll taking off work this year, in the hopes of dropping that buck?
I'll be off the first week of Archery Season in September and another 2 weeks in November
As for me. We always have what is called fall break at the end of October. We get a thursday and friday off, so I have a 4 day weekend. For the past 3 years I have shot a deer during our break. Then I usually hunt every weekend until december.
03-26-2008, 04:43 PM
#45
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: When will your "hunting" vacation be this year?
ORIGINAL: PreacherTony
Yaknow David, He does bless me with deer meat ..... I don't get to hunt NEARLY as much time to hunt as I used to before I gave my life to Christ, but my success has shot up 1000%. I used to get deer on average of 1 / year ... now I usualy drop at least 2/year in half the time ...... I pray for venison ... and I love to make it for people ...
ORIGINAL: davidmil
You know... it occured to me that with your connections with the big guy above, you should beable to just pick a day somewhere around the 9th-14th of Nov and come home a winner. Maybe you should work from that direction. Pick it and pray harder for food for the larder. Praying for big horns just seems wrong somehow.
ORIGINAL: PreacherTony
Being a teacher of a private Christian school, chosen days off are difficult ... I will try and get any morning or leave early throughout ALL of bow season ....
ORIGINAL: mobow
This is a rather interesting fall. Being a leap year kinda messed me up a little, and the second full moon is late this fall, Nov. 13. I can't take off the 1st of any month due to inventory responsibilities, so I can't take my "normal" week off. Also, MO's rifle season is early this year, opening on Nov. 8. I don't rifle hunt, but I will go some w/ my bow, but I don't take that week off like most people I know do. Also, with it being earlier this year I think the artillery will take out a few more bucks than average. So I had a real delima as when to take off this year.
I decided on Oct. 27, and Nov. 5-11. Looking @ quicksilver's poll, that looks to be the right time.
So how about it? When are ya'll taking off work this year, in the hopes of dropping that buck?
This is a rather interesting fall. Being a leap year kinda messed me up a little, and the second full moon is late this fall, Nov. 13. I can't take off the 1st of any month due to inventory responsibilities, so I can't take my "normal" week off. Also, MO's rifle season is early this year, opening on Nov. 8. I don't rifle hunt, but I will go some w/ my bow, but I don't take that week off like most people I know do. Also, with it being earlier this year I think the artillery will take out a few more bucks than average. So I had a real delima as when to take off this year.
I decided on Oct. 27, and Nov. 5-11. Looking @ quicksilver's poll, that looks to be the right time.
So how about it? When are ya'll taking off work this year, in the hopes of dropping that buck?
03-26-2008, 05:28 PM
#46
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Indiana (southern)
Posts: 6,146
RE: When will your "hunting" vacation be this year?
I took April 24-27 for turkeys and Nov 6-9 but these are combined with normal days off giving me13 days off in Aprilin a row and 13 in a row in oct-nov.
03-26-2008, 06:59 PM
#49
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location:
Posts: 1,324
RE: When will your "hunting" vacation be this year?
I've taken the week of Nov. 10 off. So that should actually allow me to hunt Nov. 8 - 16 'full time'.... Beyond that just some weekends - unless I can sneak a couple more days of vacation in there somehow