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Whatever happened to the good ol days when dad wasn’t around much.SAME!!!!!
Whatever happened to the good ol days when dad wasn’t around much.SAME!!!!!
This Saturday is our opener and my daughter has a huge XCountry run all day that day. My wife works this weekend as well and although my kids are old enough now I don't need to be doting on them all the time, life just happens. Its killing me not to be able to get out but the weather is looking sucky here anyway so I'm probably not going to feel too bad. Plus I still have so many other things to do to get ready for winter. I burn wood so there's that.Whatever happened to the good ol days when dad wasn’t around much.
The first task on that list needs to be “write list of pre season things to accomplish” and then you can check it off when you finish your list so you have at least one thing accomplished!Ha! Every season end I make a list of pre season things to accomplish and then I promptly accomplish zero of those things. Maybe next season
I never get enough scouting in. Mostly I scout in late winter or early spring,I feel like summer scouting is pretty useless for me. I don't have much for fields to glass either. Most of the public around me is woods and very few have adjacent fields.
I do love to scout with my saddle on and the bow in hand though when the season opens and get real time intel on what's happening in the woods.
We all hear how important it is to get "boots on the ground." I heard it so much and from so many different sources that I knew darn well that it was the only way to up my hunting game. I think I spent somewhere between 12-15 days of pre-season scouting this year (Jan-early Sept), and although it's way more than I've ever done in years prior (a day at most right before opener), I'm still wishing I did a little more.
Do you feel like you did enough scouting this pre-season? What does "enough" feel like to you?
Thanks!
..an excellent point..I've got a few places I've hunted over the past 4 years and randomly on the third year I was like "how the hell do I get through here"... A large tree had blown down and all the undergrowth went bananas and I had to find a new way to where i like to hunt.Awesome question. I think it changes a little every year. Just looked back at my notes: 2 years ago I scouted 22 days (some half days and some full days) across 2 different pieces of public land. Man I felt ready for that season! This last off season I only scouted 8 days on the same 2 pieces and 4 of those were me actually turkey hunting, so slightly distracted. I felt equally as ready... until I actually started hunting. Then I realized all the little things that can change in one season. For me in TN that usually means bush hogging. Either an awesome thick area that held deer was bush hogged and now it holds zero deer or the opposite. The trails I use to get into places have not been hogged thus making it infinitely harder for me to get around. Nothing like walking 1 mile through briars. The deer I killed last night was in a spot I used to have an easy drag out of. Well, since I hadn't been in there all season, I didn't realized that the road was closed so I had to walk an extra 3/4 mile down a gravel road and that all the walking trails had not been bush hogged and were 6-8 feet tall with grass and briars. Was an interesting night.