What are you looking forward to this hunting season

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Chuck R. said:
Sure thing, just let me know, I'll keep them fed till then. We're looking a pear flavored venison this year.
As I said in an earlier post, we're also going to be doing a couple WIHA drives this year. Of course all the young Army guys want to walk, carry heavy rifles and large rucks, so we're always short blockers...
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Pear flavored venison sounds very tasty,(and just a touch "Food Channel-y"...;))
As a youngster I was always a driver on the deer drives through the poison oak and manzanita brush. Stuff was so thick walking on top would have been easier. o_O
 
Just getting into my backyard treestand for a few early morning hours each day. 20 feet up can let you watch a lot of wildlife. Squirrels and chippies are great entertainment.

Walking the woods in the 3 areas I usually hunt, finding trails, older rubs, scrapes and tracks.

Shooting all 6 of my deer rifles leading up to the season. Developing loads for those rifles.

Checking my game cameras year round to watch the developement of a few decent buck.

Being healthy enough to still drag a deer ( although a bit more slowly now).

Bragging to my buds about how great the last batch of venison jerky was. Ha

Hope I can continue for a few more years.
 
One thing I forgot to mention which is always cool before hunting season is a new class of Hunter Ed students will get their certificates this weekend. If they pass their test.

I started helping instruct that class last year at age 71.

It's a little bit I can give back after taking a lot of hunting experience, pleasure, meat, hunting buddies and everything associated with the outdoor sports.

42 people signed up.
The other instructors ( 7 or 8) have combined teaching experience of close to 200 years.

Makes me feel like a rookie. Ha
 
Damn JMorris, that is a beautiful place. Looks like a honeymoon loft!.
I love seeing all the different wants and wishes.
Love seeing all the new hunting rigs new and old classics
 
Lots of good post on this thread.
I'm looking forward to taking my grandson back to Upstate New York for two weeks if squirrel hunting and trapping.
We come home here 40 miles north of Seattle then a week later I fly back to Upstate New York for a month of trapping and deer hunting. I stay at my brother's place in New York. This year we bought non-resident Pennsylvania hunting licenses and we each bought two doe tags there.
A friend from Anacortes WA. And his other half will be going back to New York with me for two weeks of deer hunting in New York.
Between them, my brother and myself we have we will have over twenty tags for New York and Between my brother & myself we have six deer tags.

It will be a productive season this fall.
 
At 68 years young, the fact I can still make it out to the woods for another year is what I look forward to. I Turkey Hunted every year with a friend for 35 years. Every first morning before the sun came up and the birds would gobble, we would give thanks that we could both still make it out. We would talk about what it would be like without the other sittin' next to us. He's been gone for several years now, and it's not the same. Now I think every first morning(deer, turkey, upland game, etc.) could be my last. While the kill is no longer the primary focus, I still make the most of it and relive the mountain of memories hunting has given me over the last half a century. Being able to take grandkids out and watching them become successful. means a whole lot more than any success I may have or have had.
 
The mansion that JMorris posted reminds me of one I saw in west-central Alabama. It was on a plantation owned by an old local family and they held 2 charity hunts every year to help the local Baptist and Methodist churches.
It had a flight of metal stairs with a center landing and the interior was rectangular with the long wall looking over a large food plot. It had electricity, a/c, electric range, heaters, a refrigerator and a TV. Important people were invited for an outing during football season where they could eat, watch the Alabama game, and maybe shoot a deer. (I climbed the stairs and looked through the window.)

Talk about a Man Cave or doghouse!
 
Armored farmer said:
I am looking forward for to hunting out of my new box blind that I finally got in the woods. It was three years in the making(due to an injury and too much work), but I finally finished it and got it in place.
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You see, my work stops when it rains. I can actually go hunting then.
No more hunting in the rain getting me and my gear soaked. I’ll be sitting in the blind brewing some coffee and maybe a pot of chili.
I probably won’t get any deer while doing that but hey…..it’ll be fun!
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I just like Armored farmer's the best. It just looks,well, right.
 
Tree rat and Dove came in Sept 1. I was supposed to go for Dove but work changed me from 3rd shift to 2nd shift messing up my schedule until the end of the year. I would have got off at 7am, back at 3pm-11pm, slept until 430am and back to work at 3pm. I passed. I want to go squirrel hunting but I hate cleaning them and usually gave my limit to a buddy when we went but he doesn’t want them either.

Archery season starts Sept 25th. I’ve gained a lot of weight #340 and don’t feel comfortable getting into some of these old hang on stands. I’ll probably either bow hunt the wood box blinds or sit on the ground and gun hunt come December. I have no permission slips signed yet either. Probably just going to eat up a ton of OT until the new year.
 
Looking forward to hopefully taking a mount-worthy buck with my new crossbow in a few weeks.
Also looking forward to expanding last year's goal a bit. I wanted to take 5 deer, each with a different gun, and I succeeded in getting 4 of the five. CVA Wolf, Howa 30-06, Win 94 30-30, and Rem 700lr 300wm all got success. I didn't get to try out my X-bolt Pro 300wm.
This year I need an extra deer or two for one of my neighbors. I've also got a new Ruger .308 to try.
So this year, the line up for gun season will be : Win 94 30-30, Amer. Predator .308, 700cdl 30-06, X-bolt pro 300wm, Savage 110 6.5cm.
After this, if opportunity allows, I'll finish up with either the 30-30, .308, Howa 30-06 or the 700Lr 300wm, depending on where I decide to hunt.:cool:
 
I signed my oldest 2 daughters up for hunters safety class today. We have been shooting the crossbow a bit. My middle daughter is getting excited. The oldest just wants to go watch. Either way it’s time with the kids so it will be good times.

AND I have a pellet grill now so I can try to match the old school barbeque pit smoked deer hams I used to get cooked at the local smokehouse. They had to quit when health codes and local regulations got to be too much.
 
Just being alone in the mountains. I scouted/camped for a week a couple of weeks ago, and it was really good for the soul. I don't have a Hotel Hilton like the Farmer, or a mansion in the sky like Jmorris (only in Texas...right?) but I like to find me a good spot where I can watch the trail, cook up some coffee on my little stove, eat and chill. I may even smoke a cigar, or my pipe-hawk. Later in the day I may stop again and cook a hot afternoon lunch. And I always carry a super lightweight high-tech ten-foot tarp, (weighs less than my pancho) so I can have a roof over my head if I need it.

Yep just being there is what I look forward to most. Been busy these last few days making sure everything is sighted in, and changing up my field gear a bit.

Also, been hunting with ML's for years, but this year I'm committed to, or weening myself off a modern side arm. I like to pack a cap and ball pistol, sometimes/often I do, but sometimes take a .22LR or my EL Patron/.45 Colt, or my Luger of all things. This year it will be all Colt Model 1862, or my Plains Pistol. Shot the Plains Pistol today, and dang that thing sure goes bang with a heavy load, and laser accurate besides. So I'm looking forward to that. Adds some spice to the adventure.

Yeah, hunting camp, I miss that, all my partners are dead from agent orange, busted up their backs from jumping out of perfectly good airplanes and now can't move too well anymore, or traded hunting for the beer bottle. (I'm not a non-drinker, and I like good whiskey, but I won't give up hunting, sailing, kayaking and motorcycling for it) And my son is too busy being First Sergeant in the Army, So now I'm "Lone Wadi" when it comes to hunting. But the solitude is nice too, and I look forward to that. I ain't complaining.
 
This will be the first year I can hunt rifle and alternative season.
In Oklahoma we ate wild pigs with venison and fish thrown in. Now that we're in Missouri it will be venison and wild pigs.
My wife plans in hunting while the boys are in school. I'll be taking them on the weekends.
 
Bfh_auto said:
In Oklahoma we ate wild pigs with venison and fish thrown in.
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I'm glad we don't have hogs in West TN, but it is on my list to go hog hunting somewhere. Maybe one of these days I could combine it with a deer hunting trip to TX, Ok, or somewhere.:)
 
Hugger-4641 said:
I'm glad we don't have hogs in West TN, but it is on my list to go hog hunting somewhere. Maybe one of these days I could combine it with a deer hunting trip to TX, Ok, or somewhere.:)
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I suggest doing it. I tried mine because of the higher success rate. But if your just looking for one or two hunting is just fine.
They're excellent eating if you quarter them into a cooler if ice water with about a pint of white vinegar for 24 hours. Drain the water. Refill the ice and let it sit another 24 hours.
It turns the stinkiest boar into good testing meat. I do the same to rutting bucks.
 
Bfh_auto said:
Now that we're in Missouri it will be venison and wild pigs.
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Someone here posted that Missouri doesn't allow wild hogs to be hunted. Something about making them smarter so the game dept. has a harder time of trying to eliminate them. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Missouri has plenty of fish. I caught some nice rainbows there.
 
I’m looking forward to getting out of the BS of the “real” world.
I’m finding, I’m needing, the grounding and solitude of nature more and more these days.
I was very fortunate to get a nice nine point late last season, but I did actually see a lot of deer.
Some of the things I love are, the lack of human noise, watching a squirrel climb over my boot, not realizing it’s me sitting there and not a log, chickadees landing in the branches close to me, the sound of the wind in the leaves, and the sound of them dropping to the floor of the forest.
The rising of the sun and listening to the woods wake up and also the setting of the sun and the change that goes along with that.
So many things!
 
Patocazador said:
Someone here posted that Missouri doesn't allow wild hogs to be hunted. Something about making them smarter so the game dept. has a harder time of trying to eliminate them. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Missouri has plenty of fish. I caught some nice rainbows there.
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MO only allows hog hunting on private ground. They do discourage it on their website:

When hunters shoot feral hogs, it complicates efforts to remove these pests. Hogs are social animals that travel in groups called sounders. Shooting one or two hogs scatters the sounder and makes trapping efforts aimed at catching the entire group at once more difficult, because hogs become trap-shy and more wary of baited sites. With their high reproductive rate, removing one or two hogs does not help to reduce populations. Anyone who observes a feral hog or damage caused by feral hogs should report it to the Department of Conservation rather than shooting the animal so we can work together towards eradication.
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https://mdc.mo.gov/wildlife/invasive-animals/feral-hogs-missouri

KS has outlawed sport hunting feral hogs hogs altogether, seems they don't spread as fast without folks giving them rides and dropping them off. No incentive to establish populations and the state has done a good job of hammering the ones that crop up.
 
Wolfshead said:
I’m looking forward to getting out of the BS of the “real” world.
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It has always seemed to me that the "real world" is the world you described in the quote below:
Wolfshead said:
I’m finding, I’m needing, the grounding and solitude of nature more and more these days.
I was very fortunate to get a nice nine point late last season, but I did actually see a lot of deer.
Some of the things I love are, the lack of human noise, watching a squirrel climb over my boot, not realizing it’s me sitting there and not a log, chickadees landing in the branches close to me, the sound of the wind in the leaves, and the sound of them dropping to the floor of the forest.
The rising of the sun and listening to the woods wake up and also the setting of the sun and the change that goes along with that.
So many things!
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The world where all of that "BS" you wrote about exists never has been "real" to me. Nevertheless, I hope you have a wonderful time, and you're able to completely escape the "BS" of that other world (whatever it is) for a while. :)
 
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