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Is your season going to plan?

My season didn’t get off to a good start. Weather started really warm, and has now turned rainy. I shot a doe, but didn’t recover it.
This season is testing me, but I’ll grind thru it. I took up bow hunting because I love the challenge of it.
 
Blacksmith said:
Being Retired I Put in a lot of Time this year. My Season has Been the Best I've Ever Had. The Only Thing That Worries Me is Running Out of Tags Before Winter. I Love Hunting in the Snow but Usually Don't Have Tags Left by Then.
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Do they force you to start innappropriately Capitalizing Every Word when you retire or is that a function of reaching your 80th year of life
 
BTaylor said:
I have hunted the first three weekends wearing a heart monitor becuase the ol ticker caught a funny tick. They(the smart fellows, electrophysiologist) have mostly decided I have a nuisance condition and am at no risk of catchin a dirt nap from heart related stuff but want the results from this monitor to be sure. First one said something about maybe needing to be put on a beta blocker and I told him to piss off, I aint taking pills. He thought that was funny, guess he thought I was jokin. At least I can still climb though. Just sometimes have to reconnect the wiring to this pita contraption. I guess the point I am taking too long to get to is adjust and keep doing you until they fit you for a box. Huntin season aint no time for mopin or fartin around with some medical foolery. We got deerz ta kill.
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Take your metoprolol so you can be around for your family for many years like a good boy and quit your whinin' my brother
 
BackSpasm said:
Take your metoprolol so you can be around for your family for many years like a good boy and quit your whinin' my brother
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I dont know what that is you are referring too but my plan is to keep taking my generic flintstone and my vit. D supplement. They called today and asked me to take a baby asprin until the results of this 30 day monitor are in and read. I trust Bayer aspirin so I am going after work to pick up a bottle.
 
Good question sir. Plan was to put 3-4 does in the freezer in October so I could buck hunt only in November. Then put 3-4 more does in the freezer in December. So far so good. 3 deer in the freezer. Except making a bad shot on one doe and not recovering her. I will say pressure on the local public is at an all time high. I’ve already had to to start going to my later season spots where the deer go after a lot of pressure.
 
Slabzilla73 said:
Herniated disk surgery October 30th, so no it hasnt gone according to plan. Cant climb above stick high so its been tough. Neck brace for 3 months after, should look cute in the woods. Gonna have to camo it out it guess.
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Went turkey hunting with my neck brace on from a broken neck. Threw the biggest facemask I had over it lol
 
I’m probably at an all time low time in the woods for how far we are into season. Busy year for me this year. I sat for 21 minutes in my saddle on opening day and killed a buck, went on a bear hunt the next weekend and had a sow and cubs at about 30 yards. That’s it so far. Pretty close to plan as I know I’ll have some time open up in November and December so I’m just biding my time with some meat already in the freezer
 
I juggle w the family but do put in food plots through the spring and summer, it’s a passion but also a butt kicker. They look real good this year. But the Ohio DNR bought the property across the river - the best bedding area in town - and put a hiking trail through it. We’ll see if and when they lottery it for hunting. I checked it out a week ago and met a renaissance fair cosplayer wearing plastic antlers and a frog on his head, filming himself for the gram, in what used to be an awesome hemlock section full of rubs. Maybe it’s a coincidence but I usually have 1-4 decent bucks to target and so far this year there’s 0. Maybe that bedding area was more important to my area than I realized, will see. So I’ve worked hard for 7+ years to create superior habitat and this year was the first sign of a big step backwards.

Edit: I think there’s a pretty big difference between buying a parcel adjacent to public land, vs having the public land arrive next door.
 
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My season is not at all going to plan but in a good way.
I usually get a few sits in if not more before I ever see anything in the woods and even then it’s a dinky doe or something that I end up tracking for half a day in the pouring rain. Instead, first sit of the season I harvested a nice doe and a beautiful buck. Weather was perfect and they both dropped within sight. I should probably just stop hunting right now.
 
elk yinzer said:
LOL.

Fine. Fine. Everything is fine. Not having a mental breakdown at all.

I made a pivot alright. An on-the-fly pivot at full speed while playing baseball last weekend and my knee is wrecked. Lol.

I'm attempting to rehab to do anything I can to get out there in some gimpy capacity for the rut but the past couple days have been a painful regression and my mental outlook is not the best it's ever been presently.

I'm happy for you guys, not trying to pout. Please don't pity me, it's not life or death. Tis only a flesh wound. Definitely living this season out vicariously through you guys while sorta dying on the inside.

I'm finding this very all-consuming and struggling to even get my essential work and parenting done though. That's even tougher than missing a hunting season. Gotta drag myself out of that one.
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Praying for ya brother! Don’t let it beat ya!!!
 
Exhumis said:
My season is not at all going to plan but in a good way.
I usually get a few sits in if not more before I ever see anything in the woods and even then it’s a dinky doe or something that I end up tracking for half a day in the pouring rain. Instead, first sit of the season I harvested a nice doe and a beautiful buck. Weather was perfect and they both dropped within sight. I should probably just stop hunting right now.
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So happy for your success this season so far @Exhumis!
 
neonomad said:
I juggle w the family but do put in food plots through the spring and summer, it’s a passion but also a butt kicker. They look real good this year. But the Ohio DNR bought the property across the river - the best bedding area in town - and put a hiking trail through it. We’ll see if and when they lottery it for hunting. I checked it out a week ago and met a renaissance fair cosplayer wearing plastic antlers and a frog on his head, filming himself for the gram, in what used to be an awesome hemlock section full of rubs. Maybe it’s a coincidence but I usually have 1-4 decent bucks to target and so far this year there’s 0. Maybe that bedding area was more important to my area than I realized, will see. So I’ve worked hard for 7+ years to create superior habitat and this year was the first sign of a big step backwards.

Edit: I think there’s a pretty big difference between buying a parcel adjacent to public land, vs having the public land arrive next door.
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Frog antler head guy needs to lay off the "shrooms" a bit no?
 
My seasons are always disjointed and chaotic due to a full time job, two kids in school playing sports and other commitments and factors….. mostly probably my fault for a variety of reasons including procrastination of things like firewood…. Blah blah blah. I also tend to get into “analysis paralysis” and usually am not aggressive enough. So I’m slowly changing that and trying to push the envelope a little more than is typical of me. I do scout quite a bit during the off season and have a number of locations to keep
Pressure off. My trail cam game has picked up considerably over the last two seasons and I’m getting more aggressive with moving cams more frequently to try to identify buck bedding to try and fulfill my ultimate goal of patterning and killing a pre-rut mature buck. My problem is “consistency” seems to be a relative term. In terms of daily movement. I would say most of my ability to pattern is down to every few days and trying to match when to hunt and when the buck will move through I’m never 100%. I will say I’m probably the most dialed in I’ve ever been early season but how dialed in do I need to be is my conundrum to pull the trigger. My greatest concern each hunt is either buggaring non targets or not seeing anything in a sit then scaring things off getting out!
 
neonomad said:
Felt like meeting a video game character. Nice enough guy, but wouldn’t hire him to plumb a sink in.

That used to be the most tore up hemlock section as they staged to cross the river toward Ag…. now it’s ruined forever! Ruined!
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Maybe rig up some fishin line so you can shake a bush next to the trail and play this audio on a bluetooth speaker at max volume.

 
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