Getting Ready...

[Double-D-Team]

Well like in other post I've been getting ready for this up coming season. First I'm picking up my new 6.5 Creedmoor Ruger American tomorrow or Friday. I'm changing my game up and going lighter. Age has a lot to do with it but mostly I want it. Second going to spend more time a field learning. Turkey hunting is ok but it gives me more time to check things out.
Been offered a new area to hunt 80 acres private land and need to put boots on the ground, Mountain hunt. Last keep shooting bow, muzzleloader and rifle. This should keep me busy till season starts.

 

[killingtime 41]

Good luck more time in the field or shooting our weapons of choice only make us better. Especially when crunch time pops up. I've blown 3 opportunities in 5 years on some fantastic mature bucks. Over not being a better shot. Of course where I hunt I'm not shooting in a field. Back in the sticks makes things a little harder. But if I would have been shooting more in the off season that wouldn't have been a problem.

 

[Double-D-Team]

Good luck more time in the field or shooting our weapons of choice only make us better. Especially when crunch time pops up. I've blown 3 opportunities in 5 years on some fantastic mature bucks. Over not being a better shot. Of course where I hunt I'm not shooting in a field. Back in the sticks makes things a little harder. But if I would have been shooting more in the off season that wouldn't have been a problem.

I hunt hardwoods bow and muzzleloader season and depending on how many I have taken and what I'm seeing I move to the hay field powerline rifle season.

 

[fairchaser]

I appreciate your excitement but I'm still recovering from last season! I'm not even thinking much about turkey season yet. I guess if I had my own land it might be different. We can't even set foot on our lease until a week prior to the opener. But you go man! Keep us all excited.

 

[timberjack86]

Well like in other post I've been getting ready for this up coming season. First I'm picking up my new 6.5 Creedmoor Ruger American tomorrow or Friday. I'm changing my game up and going lighter. Age has a lot to do with it but mostly I want it. Second going to spend more time a field learning. Turkey hunting is ok but it gives me more time to check things out.
Been offered a new area to hunt 80 acres private land and need to put boots on the ground, Mountain hunt. Last keep shooting bow, muzzleloader and rifle. This should keep me busy till season starts.

You sir are eat up with it!
I hope your enthusiasm is contagious!

 

[Trapper John]

This will be my 30th year hunting the same plot of dirt. At this point I just know which tree to sit under.

Still fun, though.

 

[Double-D-Team]

I appreciate your excitement but I'm still recovering from last season! I'm not even thinking much about turkey season yet. I guess if I had my own land it might be different. We can't even set foot on our lease until a week prior to the opener. But you go man! Keep us all excited.

It gives an old retired man something to do. People tell me all the time I live deer hunting 365 days a year. Be sides family, church and coaching HS Softball deer hunting is my life.

 

[BSK]

This will be my 30th year hunting the same plot of dirt. At this point I just know which tree to sit under.

Still fun, though.

Just finished my 38th season on the same piece of ground. And I NEVER know which tree to sit under!

 

[Double-D-Team]

I don't know if I'll be able to say that. But blessed everyday and year i can hunt.

 

[Bushape]

I appreciate your excitement but I'm still recovering from last season! I'm not even thinking much about turkey season yet. I guess if I had my own land it might be different. We can't even set foot on our lease until a week prior to the opener. But you go man! Keep us all excited.

Why is that the rule???

 

[fairchaser]

Why is that the rule???

Ames Plantation is a working plantation and they have farming, cattle, field trials and research going on constantly. The extra traffic from hunters outside of the seasons causes too much congestion. I wish it wasn't so but it does give the animals a break.

 

[Trapper John]

Just finished my 38th season on the same piece of ground. And I NEVER know which tree to sit under!

I must admit, when I said that I didn't at all mean as far as deer movement. My motivations have shifted strongly towards meat acquisition and relaxation in the woods. My spots on my place are chosen more for the view and calmness. Occasionally I shoot a deer.

 

[Double-D-Team]

Peace of mind and enjoyment is what's it all about.

 

[Double-D-Team]

Got my rifle and it's a beauty. Can't wait for the snow to end and I can shoot.

 

[knightrider]

Got my rifle and it's a beauty. Can't wait for the snow to end and I can shoot.

Pics?

 

[deerhunter10]

I just finished my 28th year on one peice. And we have other farms for not as many years on them. It changes yearly and I love it. It's addicting as much as I love hunting now til October is my favorite I love the off season work more then hunting. I take a break in turkey season I love my turkey season and turkeys.

 

[Double-D-Team]

Pics?

Not sure how to do that but I'll try.

 

[Double-D-Team]

 

[BSK]

I must admit, when I said that I didn't at all mean as far as deer movement. My motivations have shifted strongly towards meat acquisition and relaxation in the woods. My spots on my place are chosen more for the view and calmness. Occasionally I shoot a deer.

LOVE that!

 

[BSK]

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Dang man! That's a good-looking gun!

 

[knightrider]

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That should do great , when we used a 6.5 creed, we used nosler 140 ballistic tips and hornady 143 eldx , every deer we shot just folded like a cheap lawn chair at fat camp!

 

[Double-D-Team]

Thank you. Have you ever pick up a gun and feel confident? I know it sounds weird but I love how this gun feels. It has everything I want. Muzzle break drop mag. cheek adjustment and limb saver recoil pad very light weight. Perfect for an old guy.

 

[Double-D-Team]

That should do great , when we used a 6.5 creed, we used nosler 140 ballistic tips and hornady 143 eldx , every deer we shot just folded like a cheap lawn chair at fat camp!

I like the 143 hornady old myself. We will have to see.

 

[BSK]

Thank you. Have you ever pick up a gun and feel confident? I know it sounds weird but I love how this gun feels. It has everything I want. Muzzle break drop mag. cheek adjustment and limb saver recoil pad very light weight. Perfect for an old guy.

Absolutely. The day I picked up my A-bolt II in 7mm-08. That thing is a tack-driving killer.

 

[whistlinwingman]

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Buddy of mine just bought the same gun. Very good looking rifle and a tack driver.

 

[Double-D-Team]

Absolutely. The day I picked up my A-bolt II in 7mm-08. That thing is a tack-driving killer.

Don't care for a 7mm-08. That's another story for another day. But glad it fits you.

 

[BSK]

Although I'm not exactly getting ready for hunting season, I AM getting ready for "management season" - the time of year when I do most of the habitat work on the property. And the worst part about that is the monetary costs. Thankfully, after our last timber harvest, we got the bright idea of placing the money from the timber sale in an interest-bearing investment account. Now, all of our habitat work is paid for. However, my 94-year-old NON-hunting father still controls the purse-strings to that account. The way it works is I put everything I do on my business credit card and then my father reimburses me from the account. However, investing and making money is what he really enjoys, and at times I think he seriously questions what I spend money on! So I'm in the process of writing a report detailing the full management history of our property - what we have done and why - including charts and graphs. I'm trying to explain to a non-hunter why we "do the things we do" from a scientific perspective. It will also help to explain to my hunting partners the management decisions I've made and why I ask them to collect such laborious levels of data.

Only problem is, what I originally thought would be 4 or 5 pages is now at 30 and still climbing!

 

[Double-D-Team]

You have confirmed my decision on my farm. With the storm Helena and all the down trees I've allow a timber company to come and get the trees for X amount per yard. My plan is to keep this money in a hunting account to allow for hunting and property management. That deer feed alone is pricey. But it allows good habitat as well. I can go behind the timber co. With the tractor and clean up behind them. I hope. Next year I plan to put in a small food plot with clover and not sure what else. About 2 acres. I will not hunt over it just to help my deer. Camera's 4 sure for inventory and pleasure. I'll be asking questions again.

 

[Double-D-Team]

Thanks guys, I think it will do the trick. Just ordered my scope 3X9X40 BDC VORTEX. This is a deer machine for sure.

 

[Ski]

Season never really ends for me. I'm year round doing something deer hunting related. Most of the time while I'm sitting on stand I am mentally planning the off season, and I get to work pretty much as soon as I'm done hunting. The slowest part of the year for me in terms of deer hunting is the month before archery opener. Other than killing a few squirrels for the skillet I try letting the woods relax a bit without me. Otherwise deer hunting is on my mind 365 days of the year.