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

This one would be fairly easy.(my back yard):sniper:
Not sure how ethical (or safe) taking this one would be.(my wife would kill me):p
The archery butt would make range finding a snap. (17yds from my back door to the buck):d
Our area is swarmed with deer.
This one moved on after the snow fell.
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flyr said:
This one would be fairly easy.(my back yard):sniper:
Not sure how ethical (or safe) taking this one would be.(my wife would kill me):p
The archery butt would make range finding a snap. (17yds from my back door to the buck):d
Our area is swarmed with deer.
This one moved on after the snow fell.
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I would tie this guy up till next deer season.
 
I wasn't raised in a hunting family but it was always a dream of mine. My FIL is a seasoned waterfowel hunter. His younger years it was wadding through swamps up to his armpits, but now it's more drive the truck into the field and set up. I've spent the last 2 years hunting this way, but I feel like I'm lacking something. So I've observed and listened to all his tricks and tips. Next season I want to go off on my own. My budget is low and really only have public land available. So it will be hard work, but I can't wait.
 
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I wasn't raised in a hunting family but it was always a dream of mine. My FIL is a seasoned waterfowel hunter. His younger years it was wadding through swamps up to his armpits, but now it's more drive the truck into the field and set up. I've spent the last 2 years hunting this way, but I feel like I'm lacking something. So I've observed and listened to all his tricks and tips. Next season I want to go off on my own. My budget is low and really only have public land available. So it will be hard work, but I can't wait.
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Where are you located?.... I do some water and wader hunting for waterfowl....
 
Interesting thread. I shot a nice buck this year on the third day of the season, from an elevated free-standing platform stand with a comfy blind on top, after sitting for only a couple of hours that day, and only about a dozen hours total for the season. A neighbour commented on how easy my hunt was and I thought "Well, yeah...after I spent lots of hot sweaty tick-infested hours this summer bringing all that wood out there and building that ^&*(*(#%$%$& thing, it did get pretty easy after that!" I love walking while on a hunt, and spot and stalk or tracking hunts are clearly my favourite; if I travel anywhere to hunt that's the only way I want to do it. But most of my hunting takes place at home, on my own land or on that of neighbours with permission. You want to still hunt on a one-hundred-acre parcel? Knock yourself out...but don't expect much success after the first one or two days when you stink the place up by moving all through it. Stand hunting is a necessary evil.

Guided hunts? Again, nobody's denying that doing it entirely yourself makes for a richer experience. But practicality rears its ugly head again; you are hunting in another province...or another country...or another continent...and you have a very limited time span into which you must shoehorn the entire adventure. Even if you assume that there is no legal requirement for you to have a guide (and of course there often is...) do you really want to spend most of that time scouting out the area and getting a basic knowledge of the game? I don't...I want to spend my hunting time hunting.

And let's face it, as we age our abilities begin to diminish. That shouldn't mean that we need to give up hunting, but we may need to lessen the physical burden a tad along the way. No sin there. Jeez, if you've been hunting all your life, it damned well should be getting easier for you...otherwise, you haven't learned much. :)
 
I'm 60 as of yesterday, I like to hunt alone, far from anyone for a week or more.
The ATV gets me to the camp, after that I'm on foot.
We use the same camp for the gang that moose hunt, and we have a couple of guys that are getting to the ATV everywhere stage. However, we also have an 84yr old that walks every day to one of the furthest out watches.
Thankfully, hunting can be enjoyed by those of varying ability within their limitations.
I hope I'm like that 84 yr old guy when I get to that age, but I've been a farm equipment mechanic for much of my life, and I've beat up my body pretty badly.
So, I enjoy pushing my limits, and trying new things. After more than 40 years of hunting, I've hunted a lot of different territory, and a lot of different methods. Dogs, tree stands, ground blinds, stalking, driving. Long range, and short range. They all have their merits, and I've taken some very nice game doing each. Never ever stop learning.
Everyone should expand their hunting if they can, you have no idea what you are missing.
 
In my opinion, it is fairly simple..... And I dont look down on anyone who hunts legally within their means......

There are many reasons people don't do difficult hunts..... It may be due to age or ability, it may be due to work or family constraints or it may be due to laziness (and that is fine)....

We are hunting and my experience tells me one thing... you will get out what you put in..... and success rate relates to work....

That being said, we all have a place in the hunting world..... hunt legally , hunt ethically and fill your boots
 
I like dropping them right on the road if I can
Wen I was younger I hated the old guys with there motorhomes and fancy 4x4 now I'm that guy its better to hunt smart not harder
You bon't need much equipment to go hunting , I managed a long time with a old 22 ,303 Brit and a trapper Nalson packbord
I won't evan bring a tent or s!eeping bag man I would really stink badly after two week of hard hunting sleeping onder tree's dealing with rain and bugs you young guys have no clue how good you got it
 
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im an old fart also....getting smart in the ole age though..........anytime a deer is down..we radio in the young bucks with there fancy quads and other gear to come and help out..
we call them the clean up crew
 
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