I'd try to find a landowner who would let you use or lease their land, with permission to walk it year round, so you have a place to go, not just in hunting season. Go scout, check game trails watch wildlife etc. If you don't have the urge though, maybe it's time to take a year or two away, just to see how badly you miss it, if at all. Having partners that are keen about hunting is probably the best medicine. It usually rubs off. I'm the only local in my hunt gang, and the phone rings steady from the end of Sept, from the other lads asking about conditions, game populations and the shape the bush is in. This usually gets me in the groove too, because at times I've felt like the fun was going out of hunting for me also.
How to get the Urge back? I need help
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calgaryshooter
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- Calgary, AB
Maybe around hunting season we should put together a "take an interested newbie hunting" thread. Would be a good way for those of us (like myself) who want to hunt but have no one to go with to get a mentor in this area. Hopefully it would also encourage those who might be thinking of dropping the sport due to lack of hunting buddies, etc.
After 20 years, I am loosing the urge too. However, I have two new hunters join my camp (they are new but not young). I put them as shooter in deer drive and let them do the tracking with me following to guide them. My enjoyment now is seeing their excitement in hunting.
I am also setting up food plots for the deer. Another way of enjoying a different aspects of deer hunting. I am fortunate to have my own 40 acres right next to thousands of acres of crown land.
I am also setting up food plots for the deer. Another way of enjoying a different aspects of deer hunting. I am fortunate to have my own 40 acres right next to thousands of acres of crown land.
Thanks
You know I might just take some of this advice. I looked in the gun safe today and saw a very unused 17 HMR and my father in law has been complaining about how the crows and magpies chases all of the nice little song birds away from the farm. Snow will be gone soon and the crows will return.
Wish me luck
You know I might just take some of this advice. I looked in the gun safe today and saw a very unused 17 HMR and my father in law has been complaining about how the crows and magpies chases all of the nice little song birds away from the farm. Snow will be gone soon and the crows will return.
Wish me luck
Sask. Boy
Farms located in central Sask. I live in one of the best places to hunt in the country. Used to live in a small town west of Stoon and in the fall i could go for a goose shoot and be at work by 9 in the morning then go sit and wait for deer in the evening. Don't know how i lost that huntin feelin because the town, the geese , and the deer are all still there. But if i want it back I'm just going to have to make the effort. I'm still a gun nut though.
Farms located in central Sask. I live in one of the best places to hunt in the country. Used to live in a small town west of Stoon and in the fall i could go for a goose shoot and be at work by 9 in the morning then go sit and wait for deer in the evening. Don't know how i lost that huntin feelin because the town, the geese , and the deer are all still there. But if i want it back I'm just going to have to make the effort. I'm still a gun nut though.
powdergun said:
O.K let me get this straight,
You live in Saskatchewan and are having a hard time getting back into hunting and your family owns a farm
Real tough luck story
Here I'm dreaming of taking a huge Saskatchewan Whitetail and you have that opportunity every day during hunting season PLUS you can hunt those Monster Sask Mulies.
Here I thought you lived in a big city and had to travel hours to hunt, totally isolated from hunting altogether. Thats the picture I had in my head!!!
Pick up your gun and shoot stuff
Brambles
I know I know
Your right . I don't really have an excuse the old urge has just been fading. Last fall another hunter and his young son took a really nice buck on the family farm. I don't live there but when my father in law told me about it I wasn't even a bit jealous over it. ( Not that it wasn't great for that kid to take his first deer) Right then I knew I had troubles.
Right now I'm looking at a 190 mulie rack above my computer and between that and this keyboard talk i think things might be changing.
Keep it up guys the fire is starting to show a little life. I guess you don't know how good things can be till someone tells you how much of a bone head you are for not seeing it.
By the way Bramble see you are from the West Koot's. I grew up in Trail.
Your right . I don't really have an excuse the old urge has just been fading. Last fall another hunter and his young son took a really nice buck on the family farm. I don't live there but when my father in law told me about it I wasn't even a bit jealous over it. ( Not that it wasn't great for that kid to take his first deer) Right then I knew I had troubles.
Right now I'm looking at a 190 mulie rack above my computer and between that and this keyboard talk i think things might be changing.
Keep it up guys the fire is starting to show a little life. I guess you don't know how good things can be till someone tells you how much of a bone head you are for not seeing it.
By the way Bramble see you are from the West Koot's. I grew up in Trail.
powdergun, I reckon I should probably send you a pm, but this has so far been a public "healing" thread............
Like somebody said back on page 1 or so, life changes. We get older (beats the snot out of the alternative), interests shift, things that used to get our blood pumping barely raise a yawn. Perfectly normal.
When I was a young man, I lived to hunt and shoot. Then, in my late twenties and early thirties, I only got excited about hunting during the fall Ontario deer hunt, and was NUTS about fishing. Before my first son was born in 1985, I fished about a hundred days a year, sometimes more than once a day - like I would get up in the dark and drive an hour to fish steelhead, then fish steelhead again on my way home after work. Then my interest in fishing cooled off a bit and I am back into shooting and hunting again.
Let your body and your head tell you what is right for you. But don't turn the page until your heart tells you it is time.
Good luck, partner!
Doug
Like somebody said back on page 1 or so, life changes. We get older (beats the snot out of the alternative), interests shift, things that used to get our blood pumping barely raise a yawn. Perfectly normal.
When I was a young man, I lived to hunt and shoot. Then, in my late twenties and early thirties, I only got excited about hunting during the fall Ontario deer hunt, and was NUTS about fishing. Before my first son was born in 1985, I fished about a hundred days a year, sometimes more than once a day - like I would get up in the dark and drive an hour to fish steelhead, then fish steelhead again on my way home after work. Then my interest in fishing cooled off a bit and I am back into shooting and hunting again.
Let your body and your head tell you what is right for you. But don't turn the page until your heart tells you it is time.
Good luck, partner!
Doug
Rabadswompe
Regular
- Location
- Ferme-Neuve
mentor a new hunter! We need new blood. See thing through his (or her, I'm not ###ist) eyes and get the bug back.
Ahsan Ahmed
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Shot my first .22 as a 7 year old and got into hunting with shotgun/centerfire rifles when I reached 11.......migrated to Canada about 11 yrs ago and couldn't pick up for 9 years due to struggles to re-establish myself into a profession.
Slowly drifting back into it since last couple of years - limiting myself to bird hunting.....thought I had lost the urge specially in view of the fact where I live (read, NOT gun friendly big city ).
The fact that you need to drive over 3-4 hours to reach a suitable spot to hunt is further re-inforced by social challenges ex: permission to hunt private land (mostly difficult if not altogether impossible to obtain), numerous folks hunting a common spot of land leading to misundertstadings/verbal conflicts etc are at times a discouraging factor
Slowly drifting back into it since last couple of years - limiting myself to bird hunting.....thought I had lost the urge specially in view of the fact where I live (read, NOT gun friendly big city
). The fact that you need to drive over 3-4 hours to reach a suitable spot to hunt is further re-inforced by social challenges ex: permission to hunt private land (mostly difficult if not altogether impossible to obtain), numerous folks hunting a common spot of land leading to misundertstadings/verbal conflicts etc are at times a discouraging factor
