How easy has your hunt become? Are you missing something?

I have passed on deer in the opening week as for me it is about the hunt and getting out, as someone mentioned, the kill is anticlimactic.

I feel like I am cheating myself by taking one at the start of the season. There have been years where I am still sitting on the last hours of the last day waiting for a critter that is not coming where this line of thought did not seem so smart though!
 
Same goes for all those hunters who harvest trophy animals by hiring an outfitter. Way easier to just be guided to a spot when all the leg work has been done already. No scouting, no permission to ask, no baiting to do, no cameras to take care of, no need to built a stand yourself. Just show up and pull the trigger.
 
Sometimes you're done in 10 minutes, other times you're eating "tag soup." You hunt hard and put in your time and let the chips fall where they may.
 
I usually put in a fair bit of time scouting off season. To me that is my favourite part. It is a slower pace with no pressure and no other hunters around. In my youth I hunted hard putting on miles and miles on my boots. Now I guess I hunt a lot smarter because my last two years I tagged out in less than an hour.

All game taken legally and under fair chase have equal value. Sometimes you walk for days sometimes you sit for minutes. There is no difference. Let's face it there is always a luck component to hunting as well as skill. Saying my deer is better than your deer because I walked ten miles to get it and you sat in your stand is just a waste of spit.
 
emerson said:
Once meat doesn't matter I will walk around with a rifle. Until then I will do whatever I can to put an animal down that is within the law.
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Some of the law is not right.

A man trying to just feed his family is NOT poaching. Very weaponized word imo.
 
For sport hunting I'd like to see a law where there are no loaded guns within 100 yds of a motorized vehicle. That would separate the men from the boys.
 
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I had the hardest hunt of my life this year walking close to a hundred km in total. Easily my most disapointing hunt to date. I find nothing wrong with riding an atv or truck.

Quit measuring your #### and comparying it to others. I ####ing hate that. Hunt your way, let your neighbour hunt his way.
 
S1de8urnz said:
I had the hardest hunt of my life this year walking close to a hundred km in total. Easily my most disapointing hunt to date. I find nothing wrong with riding an atv or truck.

Quit measuring your #### and comparying it to others. I ####ing hate that. Hunt your way, let your neighbour hunt his way.
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Yep.... I hunt to my satisfaction and nobody else's...... I have nothing to prove..... That being said, it means many miles a year, but that i smy way and it is not up to me to force it on anyone else....
 
If your hunt is all about walking, or all about sitting, maybe you should try a spell in the other mans boots, if you're able.

I do both, I love both. Walking many miles silently and always alert is not easy, but neither is sitting absolutely still in a blind for hours, and keeping your mind sharp while freezing your ass off.
Both can bring you sights that a non-hunter has no hope of ever seeing. Like while on stand having a barred owl fly in and perch 20 feet from you and stare at you, or while walking, having a big buck explode from cover only a few yards away. Or like this year, when a fisher snow-shoe chase damned near ran into me while i was walking.
Both require a different skill set, and a deep knowledge of the game you are hunting to be consistently successful.

If you are only hunting one way, give the other a try.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
If your hunt is all about walking, or all about sitting, maybe you should try a spell in the other mans boots, if you're able.

I do both, I love both. Walking many miles silently and always alert is not easy, but neither is sitting absolutely still in a blind for hours, and keeping your mind sharp while freezing your ass off.
Both can bring you sights that a non-hunter has no hope of ever seeing. Like while on stand having a barred owl fly in and perch 20 feet from you and stare at you, or while walking, having a big buck explode from cover only a few yards away. Or like this year, when a fisher snow-shoe chase damned near ran into me while i was walking.
Both require a different skill set, and a deep knowledge of the game you are hunting to be consistently successful.

If you are only hunting one way, give the other a try.
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I cannot endorse this enough.... I do both depending on time of day....

one of my fondest memories was sitting on a stand that had a small branch pile i created by trimming out shooting lanes.... I was casually watching the red squirrels and field mice scamper around it when, out of nowhere a huge redtail hawk swooped in at one of the squirrels..... it was a complete surprise to me and was an awesome sight.....

I have had pileated woodpeckers peck the tree I was sitting in and slow stalks have yeilded a sight of many critters i wouldnt see otherwise.... truly rewarding.....
 
As I age my knees are starting to go. Walking long distance or in tough terrain is beginning to get to get tough. Am I supposed to pack it in then ? I don't think so.
 
Interesting thread....
I know for me the Hunt includes a lot of armed bushwalking .

I cannot sit and wait as often as others especially hunters from other country's where the norm is to perch up in a stand and wait for the deer.

I've just got to walk around and explore or seek the animals, I guess when it comes down to it! I properly could sit for a lot less and see a lot more... But that's when I feel like I am missing something.


Thread has popped up at a good time! I'm currently on the edge of givin it away until winter again, the heat is keepin the animals bedded down an not allowing much time to hunt them legally, I do know I could just sit in the evening and properly have the elusive Sambar come out...

So yesterday I was waiting after I left 4 hours too Early, an thought about what I'm doing,what I love about it and how darn hard you gots hunt to find these deer, was it all worth it middl of summer.... Am I wasting my time where I could bbe elsewhere socialising with NYE just around the corner..


Some people only see success in inches , some only happy when blood is spilt and some get a great kick from just being out there and seeing the animal they are chasing.
This separates us as hunters, them and us under a broader umbrella of hunters. Your hunting camps will speak its own on this ,many people hunt with like minded moral led hunters.


I'm rambling, il leave it there
 
powdergun said:
As I age my knees are starting to go. Walking long distance or in tough terrain is beginning to get to get tough. Am I supposed to pack it in then ? I don't think so.
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No way.

I have lots of respect for people with real disabilities still finding a way to get out there and I suspect most do. The more pointed remarks are not directed at people such as yourself.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
If your hunt is all about walking, or all about sitting, maybe you should try a spell in the other mans boots, if you're able.

I do both, I love both. Walking many miles silently and always alert is not easy, but neither is sitting absolutely still in a blind for hours, and keeping your mind sharp while freezing your ass off.
Both can bring you sights that a non-hunter has no hope of ever seeing. Like while on stand having a barred owl fly in and perch 20 feet from you and stare at you, or while walking, having a big buck explode from cover only a few yards away. Or like this year, when a fisher snow-shoe chase damned near ran into me while i was walking.
Both require a different skill set, and a deep knowledge of the game you are hunting to be consistently successful.

If you are only hunting one way, give the other a try.
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Both of these approaches are the real deal imo.

I don't think either of these are what some of us are talking about at all.
 
madashell said:
Some of the law is not right.

A man trying to just feed his family is NOT poaching. Very weaponized word imo.
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You have anger management issues.... I suggest you see a councilor..... You haven't been a member very long, perhaps reading stories and acclimatizing yourself to the site is required..... otherwise I predict that you are in for a short stay...... You need to get to know the members....

As for hunting, you are delirious if you think we should all go back to sustenance techniques and even further delirious if you think anyone in this country truly "needs" to harvest animals to feed their family..... on an "out to lunch scale of 1-10', you rate a solid 27.....
 
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