How much time do you get to spend hunting ?

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I am curious as to how much time you fellas spend hunting. For many it may be one single long weekend all year others it may be every day all day from Sept to the end of December.

For me I can manage a couple of evenings a week for the length of the season. I am very lucky to have good hunting less than 30 minutes from the house. Weekend or longer expeditions are out for me due to a variety of reason.

How much time can you guys squeeze out of a season ?
 
Turkey -- about 15 to 20 days unless i'm tagged out

Bear -- 6 days

Deer -- 7 days muzzleloader, about 40 days total bow

Moose -- 7 days every other year

small game -- whenever I can but usually 10 days

Coyote -- 10 days or so

Duck and Goose -- about 7-10 days

Crows -- 1 day

Thats about it for the year but I would do it everyday if work and kids didn't stop me.



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Geese... all season long. I work at a golf course with goose issues.
Deer, well i hunt VERY colse two work, so i get to hunt about 3-4 hrs every day of deer season until i have my two in the freezer. usually an hour or two before and after work... being my own boss helps as i can go to work when i please.

Lucky me... most of the time you can find me ripping around in this;
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With my partner ridin' "shotgun". This stevens 350 has taken down quite a few geese close up and is my primary deer gun as it's all im alowed to use in the gulf islands. It's really the only gun i own that has any practical purpose, and i carry it with me every day. Awsome gun! 18.5" barrel with cylinder bore muzzle and decent rifle sights.
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this is my first hunting season. 5 trips this year so far 3-4 days a peice. first trip was spring bear. that was the last time i got to pull the trigger on my 30-06
 
I usually take a few days in spring for beaver hunting
About one-two days per week in summer hunting varmints like gophers and crows.
starting September to the end of December I hunt at least one day every week for something or other, big game, birds and fur. Some weeks I hunt all week. Probably average three days per week all fall, not all of those days are full days.
In winter I mostly just hunt coyotes and rabbits, and only a couple days per month.
We have a lot of local opportunity. This year my list of animals / birds specifically hunted so far included:
Beaver, bear, muskrat, crows, magpies, ground squirrels( gophers), ducks, geese, cranes, snipe, pheasant, huns, sharptail, spruce grouse, ruffed grouse, ptarmigan (in BC) whitetail, mule deer, moose, elk, coyote, fox, and probably something I have forgotten. I like to hunt! I have taken at least one of all of them this year except no deer, no fox, and no cranes.
 
bear and small game all season long , moose about a week up north, then 14 days for rifle season deer hunting, then finish off the rest of my season bow hunting. i can basically hunt whenever i am not at work. I could hunt at work if i really wanted to as i'm a tree feller and the wildlife i see everyday is unbelievable, but it's not my property that we're cutting on right now. the owners hunt it themselves.
 
I get out a minimum of two days a week for real hunting and get out at least 2 hours each day when I take my Pups for a run in the bush,it amazing who's the girls can smell grouse.
Cheers :cheers:
 
mikeystew said:
Geese... all season long. I work at a golf course with goose issues.
Deer, well i hunt VERY colse two work, so i get to hunt about 3-4 hrs every day of deer season until i have my two in the freezer. usually an hour or two before and after work... being my own boss helps as i can go to work when i please.

Lucky me... most of the time you can find me ripping around in this;
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With my partner ridin' "shotgun". This stevens 350 has taken down quite a few geese close up and is my primary deer gun as it's all I'm allowed to use in the gulf islands. It's really the only gun i own that has any practical purpose, and i carry it with me every day. Awsome gun! 18.5" barrel with cylinder bore muzzle and decent rifle sights.
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I drove around in one of these this year at Copper Point, but unfortunately was not able to take a shot gun with me.
Great job though.

Cheers:cheers:
 
Not a lot. The exception this year is I got 3 days this fall to hunt buffalo and bear and I'm going to indulge in the Saskatchewan Non-Resident whitetail season. Maybe get up North to Sachs for muskox if the stars align properly (which the frigging things rarely do!).
 
I've set aside 1 week for gopher shooting and 1 week for deer and It's the same 2 weeks every year. I've found that's the only way for me to make it work. Otherwise, when I used to say "I'll see what happens around work." guess what happened? That's right, WORK!:mad: So now work revolves around those two weeks.

I have to make a third week for moose.........:(
 
Two weeks a year, average, this last few years, before that far less, a few days a year. Last year was a good one, roughly 3 weeks of hunting, this year is slower, spent just over a week hunting this year so far, hopefully will add another week to that. Like many of the Northern/small town guys in the forum, hunting is only 15 mins from the door step, in fact, sometimes right off the doorstep at our acreage which we lease (so I won't hunt there this year). It's hard to tally hunting days when any old day can be a hunting day, where you go out before sunrise to sit on a field for an hour and a half, then continue with the day if nothing was to your liking. Was supposed to hunt Bison in an organized hunt with the work guys this year, but my wife has been all too patient already what with a 6 month old at home. Next year I hope.
 
So far this fall 6 days.

1 hunting ducks with a friend, 1 hunting deer by myself, 1 hunting deer with my daughter, and 3 days hunting deer with another GunNutz. :cool:

In November I plan on spending a week in Region 7 hunting mulies during the rut. :)
 
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