When do you throw in the towel for this season?

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We use to have a 1 buck limit in this end of the state and no doe, season ended real early years ago and wife was happy, went to 3 bucks and the famous words of I hate deer season lol, after almost 38 years she has quit saying it lol. the older I get the less drive I have to kill them, don't get me wrong I will layem down but the season is long and I have had years I didn't shoot nothing, all part of it. If and when CWD gets here I probably will never shoot another 1, small game and fishing and honey do's in between
 
Prioritize what you want to do, I find that I usually can make room for most I want to accomplish for the season, this time I am looking for one more for a friend, and possibly one more for myself but not locked in to doing so. if I can get out I will, otherwise there is always next season.
 
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I have actually begun to enjoy hunting later in the season more than ever, mainly I think just because it seems to be more cold outside. It's just hard for me to justify the work it takes to "have to" quickly process a deer in the warmer weather.
 
Id say the second you don't enjoy being out there, take a break for a week or so. Ive definitely been burnt out before and thought Id probably end the season early. I'd take week or so off and get a bunch of other stuff done and then all of a sudden, id get the hankering to get back out there. I just don't like the finality of saying the whole season is done. Just take it week by week.
 
As much as I really don't want to be, I am probably on pause until the week post Christmas. That sounds worse than I meant it. The pause is exactly what I want. We are always really busy with family Christmas obligations and there is no place I'd rather be than spending time with my girls. I just wish I had another week I could wedge in before Christmas.
 
If I'm not in the mood to go, I stay home. Kind of simple, but so am I.

I'm done on bucks, but a couple of friends keep pulling me to the woods to help put them on deer. Whenever I think about not going, which has been quite a lot this year, I try to remember how long it is until next Fall. I might take a doe or two for a friend to keep it interesting.
 
Jan 31 is when I'll hang it up for this season. I may not go every chance I get, but I will get out when I can and other obligations allow.
 
December is when I usually kill my best bucks. I'm grinding it out till the last day. I should already be done but I screwed that up. Deer hunting for me is a year around thing. If I'm not hunting I'm scouting, prepping, planting, trying to secure permission on new places, running trail cams, etc..
 
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I usually hang it up after the rut however if I seeing mature deer moving I will get out. Our biggest deer on the farm was killed on the last day of the season in a food plot several years ago.
 
I have spent all year waiting to deer hunt. I am riding it out to the last weekend if I can. Then once season is over I am already thinking of next season and things I would do different. The last few years family and having kids has reduced my time in the woods quite a bit but I know my time is limited with them and once they are older I may have more time to hunt but not with them.
 
Got a tag left. Will be after them not as hard. Kind of cut out mornings pretty much. Love morning hunts so won't cut them completely. But I will say our standarded is decently high through the season it gets very high now. With season so close to ending it'll take a giant I have no idea about which is very possible. Or just a hand full of deer I'd shoot. Our biggest scoring deer is off the hitlist he has a shot to do something special and we will do our best to try to get him there.
 
When the regulations makes me lol.

Every year I can't stand knowing the season is coming to an end. I got to take my best friends grandson last year for the January Juvenile and that extra two days was awesome! I hope I get to again this year. My grandson is 2 and I tell my daughter weekly that 3 is the year to introduce him lol.
 
We could use one or two more minimum this year. Still trying to stay out of the woods on both properties. One big one on the further property that is closer to my sons. It would be either boys biggest if they can outsmart it.

We self limit our harvest on both properties and where I live is done unless #1/#2 shows up. For here, these mature bucks are not local but I expect a 3 or 4 large buck presence every late December & January. As others have been mentioning prevailing winds will make a difference on if the young does they will pursue will be on my land or neighboring properties. Late chasing either brings them on OR off the property. This is the most interesting time of the year for us...

I may try Yanali WMA later this week if the boys don't score.
 
Great question for this year, I hunt hard through the season and usually look forward to first weekend of January so I can hang it up and get some rest. But this year we can go till January 31. I suspect that I will ramp down over next few weeks and not hunt as hard.
 
You answered your own question. It's been an unusually tough season yet you stuck with it and got it done on a great buck. That's a win, not hardly throwing in the towel. I'd say if you're contemplating it enough to ask then your heart is already there and you just need some affirmation. I'll give it to you. Congrats on a hard earned success this season, and good luck next season! Now go enjoy your family.
 
My wife surprised me a few days ago when she said she wants to hunt, so it's not over here even if I wanted it to be.

However, the last time she went out and sat in one of the blinds she got bored so I'll need to make sure she brings a book...and an extra chair because being quiet in a deer blind with her sitting on my knee didn't work out too well. ;)
 
I found that I hunt hard from bow season through the first couple of weeks of rifle and then I'm done. I rarely hunt in December. Usually after the first few cold snaps I'm ready to do other things. This year I took 3 in 7 days leaving 1 buck tag still in my pocket. I decided to go back to work and picking up OT for the rest of the year. I also mainly hunt small tracts of public where I don't run cameras or anything of the sort to pattern deer.
 
I haven't hunted since I got back from Oklahoma. That was 5 days of pretty much dusk til dawn hunting

But here in unit CWD, we still have nearly 8 weeks left. And I always see good bucks come back home mid to late january.

I'm just restin' :)
 

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