#2010954 - 07/29/10 11:48 AM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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BSK
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I don't have kids, but if I did, and they were interested in deer
hunting, they would be "in the woods". Not in a "shooting house".
I know kids and things have changed now days, but my Daddy took
me into the woods and showed me things about deer. I never
complained, because I was fascinated with deer and the world
they lived in.
It all depends on the child's age and personality RKenney. When my daughter was 4 or 5, she had to have coloring books or something else to entertain herself while hunting, and a shooting house was best so she could move around while we hunted. Once she got to 7 or 8, she could sit still long enough to hunt from an open stand. I have never used any type of shooing house or permanent blind, never had the chance to really, so I guess I'm with Rkenny on this one....If my son needed entertaing while we were trying to hunt than we just quit hunting for a little bit and done some thing outdoors that he though was entertaining.
What my daughter wanted to do was "go hunting with daddy." Childhood is too short to miss an opportunity like that. So we did go hunting, and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. We would talk quitely in the shooting house and create special times she still remembers and talks about to this day. I would never have wanted to miss the moment she was sitting on my lap while I shot a doe with my MZ out of the shooting house. It's one of her favorite stories to tell to friends and family.
As she's grown older, and still wants to go hunting with daddy, I've been introducing her to the more successful--but also more difficult--aspects of deer hunting, including being exposed to the deer and the elements in an open ladder stand. So far, she's still enjoying every minute of it and begs to go. Someday I hope to introduce her to the most difficult deer hunting of all--stalk hunting.
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#2011039 - 07/29/10 01:21 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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our shooting houses are in "prime" mature buck areas, and that is nice because during the rut, I can sit all day long without my scent going everywhere.The more comfortable i am, the longer I can sit, and the longer i can sit, the better my chances are of killing a mature buck!
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#2011252 - 07/29/10 06:40 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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I ALWAYS go to the deer, nothing will make me hunt where I dont have confidence, regardless of comfort or lack of, never even consider it when choosing a stand site, ts always based on RESULTS!
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#2011386 - 07/29/10 09:02 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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MRUTVOL
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I will have to side with BSK on this one.
Back when my son hunted you had to be 10 before they could go deer hunting and shoot one so he was closer to being ready for it than he would have been at 6 or 7 but even then he had moments he did not cherish being out hunting, such as the morning it was a big fat ZERO on the themometer!  With some young kids you have to be careful and not turn them off to the sport or they will lose interest real fast. I sometimes think we as parents push our kids to early to enjoy the things we enjoy, just assuming because I like it they will too. A 6 or 7 year old kid can be very fragile to the elements and shocks of hunting. By shocks I mean the blood and sometimes less than quick kills. JMO
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#2011460 - 07/29/10 10:24 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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RKenney
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MRUTVOL,
When deer season gets here, there will probably be even more
"just talking about it". (ha)!
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#2011554 - 07/30/10 06:21 AM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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Bottom Hunter
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Rowdy.......my original question INCLUDED a general statement about how some people do have success from a box blind.
The last post was a scenario that INCLUDED the fact that you or another hunter had actually hunted a box blind for two seasons and had no success and asked if you would leave the comfort of the box blind to gain success.....
two different things.
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#2011564 - 07/30/10 06:33 AM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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[quote=Bottom Hunter]I'll just say that all I have ever done on here is try to spark conversation and get people posting.....
please feel free to not comment on any threads that I start.....
there is a simple thing that every poster can do to make this forum much better. That simple thing is to comment if you have something to add and do not comment if all you have to add is ridicule. To disagree with a thread is fine, but to simply ridicule the poster because you don't like him or her or simply to try to anger someone or be funny is simply childish and wrong, IMO.
My intent is to put things on here that I believe people will discuss. I thought that was what we are all doing here?
sorry if I was wrong.....I'll leave the thread starting to BSK and others that seem to only be the ones that start GOOD or IMPORTANT threads.....
thanks for explaining it to me so I can understand it.
Sorry for rambling on and annoying everyone....lol......
again...thanks
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#2011581 - 07/30/10 07:21 AM
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A couple years ago I was able to get a great deal on 6 box blinds and we set them up on our main farm. We also have 16 ladder stand and each have some lock-on's and climbers so we can use anything at any time, we are not stuck at any one place.
The ice storm we had here in Kentucky a couple years ago changed the entire woods at all the farms, what used to take 10 minutes to reach one of the ladders now took 25-30 minutes. The deer also had to change where they went and how they got there, they changed their patterns. We also lost several ladders to falling limbs and trees.
The last 2 years the box blinds have really come into place since we did most of our hunting from them in the fields then. We all have scored several times in the box blinds and last year one of us got his biggest buck ever.
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#2011607 - 07/30/10 08:15 AM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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It all depends on the child's age and personality RKenney. When my daughter was 4 or 5, she had to have coloring books or something else to entertain herself while hunting, and a shooting house was best so she could move around while we hunted. Once she got to 7 or 8, she could sit still long enough to hunt from an open stand.
With some young kids you have to be careful and not turn them off to the sport or they will lose interest real fast. I sometimes think we as parents push our kids to early to enjoy the things we enjoy, just assuming because I like it they will too. A 6 or 7 year old kid can be very fragile to the elements and shocks of hunting. By shocks I mean the blood and sometimes less than quick kills. JMO
And that's why I didn't push my daughter to hunt. If she wants to go, I'll take her. If she doesn't I won't push. But she certainly BEGS to go.
I was also concerned about exposing her to killing/death/blood too early. Yet it didn't seem to bother her in the least. She watched me shoot a doe when she was 5 or 6, and then I taught her how to blood-trail that deer. She loved it and was amazingly quick to pick it up. In fact, she found that doe faster than I did! She even loves watching the gutting process. I turn it into a biology lesson. She wants to handle all the internal organs and ask questions about what each one does.
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