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Team 7 Thread

bowhunthard88 said:
Same here! We have a 1.5 year old and a second one expected mid-March lol. I primarily get weekends, read Saturdays, but we'll see because the wife wants to hunt this year too...
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Good luck! Going from 1 to 2 put a big damper on my hunting time. I had to get a lot smarter about choosing my days and making sure I was always present at home. My daughter was a super easy baby, wife had no problem handling her solo. Son arrived he was the clingiest, whiniest baby you could imagine and leaving her at home with him and a 2 year old didn't work out quite as well. But I chipped away getting out when I could and killed a great buck on the last day of the archery season the year he was born.

Now they are 3 and 5 so it's getting a little easier to be away. I have daycare pickup I can't hunt evenings 2 days a week and I still try to limit having wife having to do solo bedtime. So I mostly hunt mornings and a few evenings selectively when the planets align. Once daylight savings goes away that helps for evening hunts as I am home for bed time.

I really need to embrace that this season as we have the tiebreaker on the way next spring. I wanted to be done at 2, needless to say I lost that negotiation.
 
bowhunthard88 said:
Same here! We have a 1.5 year old and a second one expected mid-March lol. I primarily get weekends, read Saturdays, but we'll see because the wife wants to hunt this year too...
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Congrats!

Looks like you are only about an hour from me. I've hunted up in the water gap area a bit. Not so much lately since we had a kid.
 
redsquirrel said:
Congrats!

Looks like you are only about an hour from me. I've hunted up in the water gap area a bit. Not so much lately since we had a kid.
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I grew up in Newton, NJ and then got married and moved a half hour west! Prior to this year, my butchering setup was in NJ and so is my favorite taxidermist... I still work in Newton, NJ.
 
elk yinzer said:
Good luck! Going from 1 to 2 put a big damper on my hunting time. I had to get a lot smarter about choosing my days and making sure I was always present at home. My daughter was a super easy baby, wife had no problem handling her solo. Son arrived he was the clingiest, whiniest baby you could imagine and leaving her at home with him and a 2 year old didn't work out quite as well. But I chipped away getting out when I could and killed a great buck on the last day of the archery season the year he was born.

Now they are 3 and 5 so it's getting a little easier to be away. I have daycare pickup I can't hunt evenings 2 days a week and I still try to limit having wife having to do solo bedtime. So I mostly hunt mornings and a few evenings selectively when the planets align. Once daylight savings goes away that helps for evening hunts as I am home for bed time.

I really need to embrace that this season as we have the tiebreaker on the way next spring. I wanted to be done at 2, needless to say I lost that negotiation.
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Well, at least you got to “negotiate” a while:)
 
What would you do?
It’s currently 1:50 and been raining since 11 and about to quit in the next half hour. The temp is 55 with a north wind of 10-15. I feel like I should leaving to get into a tree now.
Problem is I have to pick my kid up from school and wait for wife to get home. Realistically wouldn’t get into a tree till 5.
The last thing I want to do is blow out deer that are already up and moving.
Would you gamble and try and sneak in or wait till morning?
 
St.CroixArcher said:
What would you do?
It’s currently 1:50 and been raining since 11 and about to quit in the next half hour. The temp is 55 with a north wind of 10-15. I feel like I should leaving to get into a tree now.
Problem is I have to pick my kid up from school and wait for wife to get home. Realistically wouldn’t get into a tree till 5.
The last thing I want to do is blow out deer that are already up and moving.
Would you gamble and try and sneak in or wait till morning?
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Having your kid walk home and leaving your wife a note probably wouldn’t go over well would it?
 
St.CroixArcher said:
What would you do?
It’s currently 1:50 and been raining since 11 and about to quit in the next half hour. The temp is 55 with a north wind of 10-15. I feel like I should leaving to get into a tree now.
Problem is I have to pick my kid up from school and wait for wife to get home. Realistically wouldn’t get into a tree till 5.
The last thing I want to do is blow out deer that are already up and moving.
Would you gamble and try and sneak in or wait till morning?
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The answer is always to hunt lol. Realistically, that's your decision... I would either hunt and take my time getting in while watching my wind and being super stealthy, or I would choose to hunt a different location. You know better what you're up against with local patterns and terrain! Maybe stay on the fringes vs. going "deep".
 
St.CroixArcher said:
I see to potential outcomes if I was to do that.
1. My hunting season would be over.
2. I’d be able to hunt every day because I’d be living in a tent in the woods.
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My wife said I shouldn’t give advice.
 
Anyone out trying to put points on the board.

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5 more days and a wakeup here until the season comes in. Another month until it gets very good.

My old farts baseball team just got knocked out of the playoffs. Not saying I was rooting against us but winning would have meant 3 weeks to come of choosing between hunting or playing baseball and when you're part of a team there's really not much of a choice more an obligation.
 
My stupid dog found one of them. I called my wife from the tree told her I had one down and another I needed to find. I asked her to bring me the cart, knife and a tarp. Yeah I wasn’t a good Boy Scout. She is kind and brought the stuff and brought our dog. We start following blood. Fairly crappy trail. Wife and dog go off somewhere I didn’t see where because I was looking for blood. Ten minutes later my phone rings. It’s Mindy she says “can you come over her”. First I say why then where are you. She tells me buddy found my deer. Saved me a lot of work.

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