Life and Hunting " Small Rant Warning "

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As the season progresses every little frikken thing is getting in the way of hunting. Meetings, family obligations, appointments etc......... It is driving me crazy. On top of that my good hunting friend is going through the same crap as well and hooking up for a hunt is darn near impossible.

I prefer hunting with a partner ( Safer, more productive, and more fun) but hardly anyone around me hunts any more. Lots of friends but only one hunts.

Why can't things be like my younger days when a big bunch of us hunted whenever we wanted ( Legally of course ) without all the BS of life.


Rant over. How do you guys cope and find time to get out there ?
 
I'm in the exact same situation here. I finally had to find a new hunting partner with a schedule closer to mine for work and even now we can still only get out once a week but closer to once every two weeks.

It's frustrating but not much that can be done about it. Look forward to the days you can get out and make the best of it.

Happy Hunting!
 
I hear you!
I booked this week off specifically for hunting... Well lets see, it's now Wednesday, and I've gotten out once!

Seems like all the housework that needs to get done before the snow flies is multiplying at a massive rate...

Ah, hopefully this evening I'll get out...
 
That happened to me at the start of the month. Muzzleloader started here on October 1 and I took the end of the week and the start of the next week off. Didn't get out once.
 
Romancing the hell out of the wife a few weeks before to accumulate domestic air miles seems to help.

She knows what I'm up to but doesn't seem mind!
 
Sorry to say I have the trump card in this little pity party!
I finished one project mid september and knew I was starting the next one Nov 1, which gave me SIX WEEKS OFF to do some work on our new house and go hunting. Not a little hunting, a lot of hunting, the kind that would wear out Capstick in his prime. My wife was 100% supportive, saying I deserved a break........ well here I am with 3 days left in my break and aside from a handfull of daytrips here on the island I haven't gotten any hunting in worth talking about.
How is it that I have ended up with something important to do, a meeting, a houseguest or something else about every third day this whole time???????? :runaway: :mad: Why does [insert diety here] hate me so???
 
Solution: make it THE priority!

More important then meetings, more important then cutting the grass, more important then making an extra payment on the mortgage, etc.

Get your chores done before season starts, tell people at work (or clients, or spouses for that matter) that you are unavailable from date A to date B. Explain to your significant other how you become a nasty, foul, mean, and depressed bastard if you do not get out X # of days in the fall. For me this is not an empty threat, I become just horrible to be around if my plans get messed up during hunting season, and my wife agrees that I need to get out.

Life has a way of piling it on us when we get into our mid-late 20's. You need to take back what is important to you. If you are going to be a nasty, whiny, or #####y jerk when you do not get out, that is not fair to everyone around you. So is it selfish to want to be happy and fulfilled? Is it selfish to not want to treat those around you like crap because you are bitter about how you are living your life?

Just my opinion.

BTW, becoming self employed can help - or make it worse if you can not prioritize your needs.
 
hunting

I don't feel to bad now listening to you guys (?) I'm starting to plan next years hunt I'm trying to get up to Big Bob Quinn lake and sit there for two months. Going to do some fishing a little smoking and mabye some canning.
Mabye I'll take the boy along he's 12 so it might be good for him So I'll just sit back and listen to the crying.:D
 
When I was a teenager in the 60's, I would finish harvest, maybe work a bit of stubble, but then she was clear signal for hunting chicken, deer, whatever. I lived like that until I was 26. Even after that, I pretty much hunted whenever the chance arose. In 1996 I took a gov't job. Then I was on the seemingly mindless treadmill of "Oh gee, do I have that day off?", or some other horse$hit excuse to interfere. Now I am what is called a Reservist, and can work when I want to, or not work when I don't want to. So, guess what? Hunting takes priority! I have waited a long time for this, and am taking good advantage.:p
 
This thread is making me feel better, thanks guys!

We cancelled this years moose hunt due to some issues from last year, plus we didn't draw a tag. Our moose hunt is generally the first one of the fall season and sets the pace for the rest.
Now that there's no moose hunt, I'm in a state of "I don't know WTF I'm going to do", which is really a small part of it. I can grab the gun and go hunt out back....but there's also those "Life Factors" (wife, kids, inlaws, meetings, projects) that are getting in the way.

All in all.... you're not alone guys.

Maybe we can start a support group or something...
 
Yes I hear you.

I've put my foot down, the first 2 weeks on November are for hunting... thats it.

and October was split betewwn hunting and getting ready for hunting, with some misc house and home work mixed in.

Got to make it the priority.
 
Life has a way of piling it on us when we get into our mid-late 20's. You need to take back what is important to you. If you are going to be a nasty, whiny, or #####y jerk when you do not get out, that is not fair to everyone around you. So is it selfish to want to be happy and fulfilled? Is it selfish to not want to treat those around you like crap because you are bitter about how you are living your life?

Just my opinion.





Well spoken
 
Boombb said:
Life has a way of piling it on us when we get into our mid-late 20's.
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Wait for it ;)

early 40's and thinking whew I'm doing ok now...... except that retirement thing is not really that far off. :eek: I need to put more money away :(

Like I said make it a priority, I would love to hunt 2 months solid but I'll take 2 weeks and a few weekends.
 
My problem is not the family or my wife, as she wants me to go hunting and wants to go hunting with me next season.

The problem is this fricken island we are on with it's tiny deer that are stupid urban pests, but in the wild are elusive.

3 trips out to what should have been prime spots, and not so much as a grouse. :(
 
Pudelpointer said:
Solution: make it THE priority!

More important then meetings, more important then cutting the grass, more important then making an extra payment on the mortgage, etc.

Get your chores done before season starts, tell people at work (or clients, or spouses for that matter) that you are unavailable from date A to date B. Explain to your significant other how you become a nasty, foul, mean, and depressed bastard if you do not get out X # of days in the fall. For me this is not an empty threat, I become just horrible to be around if my plans get messed up during hunting season, and my wife agrees that I need to get out.

Life has a way of piling it on us when we get into our mid-late 20's. You need to take back what is important to you. If you are going to be a nasty, whiny, or #####y jerk when you do not get out, that is not fair to everyone around you. So is it selfish to want to be happy and fulfilled? Is it selfish to not want to treat those around you like crap because you are bitter about how you are living your life?

Just my opinion.

BTW, becoming self employed can help - or make it worse if you can not prioritize your needs.
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Agreed. My hunting is sacred. Work gets told a year in advance that I am taking 1 week for moose, 1 week for deer and a few scattered days for bow/black powder hunting. They can schedule around me as it is non-negotiable.

My family knows that I work the entire year for the hunting season. They know this is what I do. I still get complaints from the wife occasionally, but she knows that I love to do it and usually cuts me some slack.

I try to get the household chores done before the season starts, but if the grass is 6" long too bad - I'm going hunting.

Bottom line is that I can't hunt all year long so when the season comes I'm going out. I still don't get out as much as I would like, but usually I get 30 days of hunting in a year.
 
Calum said:
The problem is this fricken island we are on with it's tiny deer that are stupid urban pests, but in the wild are elusive.

3 trips out to what should have been prime spots, and not so much as a grouse. :(
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Time to move. I grew up on the Sunshine Coast, and although there is some decent BT hunting and lots of bears, there are no birds and you are trapped by that f'ing boat. I did not know how good life could be until I moved away. Now I can be hunting elk, sheep, deer, grouse, geese, pheasants, partridge, antelope, etc. in under 2 hours after leaving my house. AND I can leave at 3 in the morning if I want, no boat to catch.

Sounds like the only things worth hunting on the island these days is wolves and cougars.

I just had a friend move there; I told him that I hope he REALLY enjoys fishing for salmon, 'cause there wasn't a whole lot of hunting worth spending time on. He didn't believe me.
 
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