Do you work for your deer?
10-27-2005, 03:11 PM
#11
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: IA/MO
Posts: 742
RE: Do you work for your deer?
I eat,sleep,and breath deer 365 days a year and I think that ''YES'' I work for the deer I harvest. I am fortunate to have properties to hunt where there are some fairly large deer numbers but I don't find that it makes it necessarily any easier. One place I hunt has some large deer #'s and later in the season when food is scarce and they are bunched up you can easily see around 30 or so deer in one field in the right area. Alot of folks around that area feel that it makes that particular area easy to hunt but man are they wrong. There are sure enough alot of well used trails to set up along,but if you don't have the "know" and don't have any clue as to what the deer are doing at a given time you could spend alot of deerless hours sitting over these deer highways. We see tons of really nice bucks around there in the summer and once season hits they have vanished. It takes alot of scouting and understanding to get on 'em and we hunt it every year.
10-27-2005, 08:42 PM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: Do you work for your deer?
No b/c I don't really view it as work but rather hunting!! Personally the anticipation of the hunt to me isdarn nearasfunas the hunt itself. I spend far more hours scouting/preparing than I do actually hunting. I am fortunate to live in a great place to hunt deer and while many don't scout or work at it to extensively, I wouldn't have it any other way. Hunting season is a year around thing for me(just ask my wife
), always something that needs to be done andgame are always changing as the landscape is ever evolving. I also hunt many locations and species, while the stuff closer to home gets the most attention I still make my trips elsewhere. I also enjoy just going out searching, a drive with the kids or fam in the country is a regular outing for us. We find neat things (sheds, old homesteads,etc), they learn about nature, spend time as a family, etc. There are much worse places to spend my time andI think of it as when one season closes a new one begins!
I sure won't pass on lady luck either but believe I make my own luck by the time and effort I put forth...getting a good deer don't come by being in the wrong spots very often:>!
), always something that needs to be done andgame are always changing as the landscape is ever evolving. I also hunt many locations and species, while the stuff closer to home gets the most attention I still make my trips elsewhere. I also enjoy just going out searching, a drive with the kids or fam in the country is a regular outing for us. We find neat things (sheds, old homesteads,etc), they learn about nature, spend time as a family, etc. There are much worse places to spend my time andI think of it as when one season closes a new one begins!I sure won't pass on lady luck either but believe I make my own luck by the time and effort I put forth...getting a good deer don't come by being in the wrong spots very often:>
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