He's the reason I started keeping a journal, taking more pics, and trying to start keeping a running total.Warren Womack, the legend!
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He's the reason I started keeping a journal, taking more pics, and trying to start keeping a running total.Warren Womack, the legend!
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where in nc are you from? I grew up in Bath, NC! I live in Chocowinity now!62yrs old bowhunting exclusively scine 1988 killed roughly 200 deer with bow,got a couple p&y deer and about 20 nc trophy class bucks,won Wyoming outfitters biggest antelope by bow 1 year with a p&y speed goat and killed 6 turkeys with the bow including one with the recurve this year.Best of all have been inducted into the nc bowhunters hall of fame!
I don't want to turn this into a competition, but I'm really curious.
I just added every one I can remember up and so far I'm at an even 20. For a broke 25 year old I'm not too disappointed, but I definitely want that number to go up. Of course, I killed my first when I was maybe 7? So I'd like to think I neglected a doe or two. Sometimes mine and my dad's kills run together too since we hunt so much and I clean the majority of his deer lately. But I know for sure I've accounted for 20.
Let me know:
How old you are
When you started
How many seasons
Where you're from/where you generally hunt
And how many deer you've kilt!
This might be a fun summer post!
I have never killed a deer outside of Alabama and hunt primarily public, btw.
He's the reason I started keeping a journal, taking more pics, and trying to start keeping a running total.
Great topic for a post @Nutterbuster. I'm always jealous of you more southern guys with generous bag limits. I'm old enough to remember when Michigan's limit was one antlered deer per year regardless of method. Now the limit is two antlered deer per year regardless of method. There are additional opportunities for antlerless and farm block permits but I believe I've only killed two antlerless deer in my life.
I agree though it might be interesting to include "saddle kills". Personally I have to admit I am still shut out on the saddle front. Hopefully looking to change that this upcoming season.
lots of big whitetail and elk in the northern half of Idaho. The whitetails have slowly been migrating south. I've seen I few in the Cascade/McCall areas we usually hunt. From about Riggins on up they are everywhere.Whitetail is a passion I wouldn’t give up, but sure wish I was closer to some elk opportunities!
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I concur heartily with this post. Its funny how our outlook changes as the years wear on. I find now my tags (representing opportunities to hunt) are more valuable to me than the deer I can put them on.40 years old
Started age 12
Every season since
WI
Good lord, I dont know how many. I just dont know I have killed much less since having kids.
I will add my goals have evolved. Early on it was kill everything. Then it was bucks. Then Mature bucks. Now it is more about new terrain, the challenges, and memories with family and friends. I enjoy seeing the journey in those I mentor.
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I should add the work involved is a factor where I hunt. If I felt inspired on a day and got miles back in rough country small bucks and does are very safe, probably even cow elk. 100 yards from the road it's more of a decision. If I'm going to kill myself getting it out I have to really want the animal. I like meat for meat, but not if I have to fight mountains and fallen trees for miles for it.I concur heartily with this post. Its funny how our outlook changes as the years wear on. I find now my tags (representing opportunities to hunt) are more valuable to me than the deer I can put them on.
Great topic for a post @Nutterbuster. I'm always jealous of you more southern guys with generous bag limits. I'm old enough to remember when Michigan's limit was one antlered deer per year regardless of method. Now the limit is two antlered deer per year regardless of method. There are additional opportunities for antlerless and farm block permits but I believe I've only killed two antlerless deer in my life.
I agree though it might be interesting to include "saddle kills". Personally I have to admit I am still shut out on the saddle front. Hopefully looking to change that this upcoming season.
I should add the work involved is a factor where I hunt. If I felt inspired on a day and got miles back in rough country small bucks and does are very safe, probably even cow elk. 100 yards from the road it's more of a decision. If I'm going to kill myself getting it out I have to really want the animal. I like meat for meat, but not if I have to fight mountains and fallen trees for miles for it.
If I looked at it like that I would never hunt. The terrain here is tough in hill country. Especially for a solo hunter. I just don't drag full carcasses out anymore
One of my lifelong hunting buddies (one of the boys from my previous post) lives in Wilmington now and rubs the limits in to me but he still comes back north for a week or so every year to hunt with us and hopefully take home a "full size" deer as he calls it.The bag limits down here are nice. In NC were allowed 2 bucks and 4 does per season. But I do miss hunting those big Indiana deer.
If I looked at it like that I would never hunt. The terrain here is tough in hill country. Especially for a solo hunter. I just don't drag full carcasses out anymore
I don't drag either, and I will pack a huge elk or buck out of anywhere (that's what I go into those areas hoping to find). But a purely meat animal, something I have shot lots of times before, I'll pass on often. The truth is I feel a little sad anytime I kill a deer or elk. I love hunting, but I'm ok passing on animals I don't really need or don't tick off a bucket list/aren't what I was dreaming about all year. Being miles in just makes me more likely to pass on those animals.
Btw Murph, one of the areas I like to hunt is climbing 3000 feet and 3 miles in just to get to the area you start really hunting. It becomes a factor no matter how dedicated you are to getting that doe.