Ever want to give up hunting but....

Hardly anyone hunts back in the woods these days. On Public land they do but private leased land its a different story.

Lol ive been hunting plenty, esp in evening and decide not shooting unless it an absolute stud bc i dnt feel like cleaning it

Maybe you have been hunting too much or have killed too many?
I had a stretch where just because of work I was able to put in over 52hunts one deer season and was starting to feel like I didn’t like it. Shot a real good 9pt on like hunt 53 and realized that I was so focused on trying to kill that I was missing in on just the simple things.
I then had a stretch where work didn’t allow me to make several openers and now just the excitement of the opener is like a new hunter.
I told my wife I’m 46 and if I’m lucky I only have about 30 openers left in me and I’m going to do my best to never miss one of them!!

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Maybe you have been hunting too much or have killed too many?

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Ha! Definitely not the case! I think it is because I get so little opportunity to go these days that when I do go I want to kick the door down and go full bore so I can make it count. I don't really have that solid padnuh to go along with me. I have my dad who will go, but hunt 100 yards from the road (and kill some dinks) and a couple of flakey friends. So I'm usually alone. Good thing I love nature and noticing unusual trees and shite out there most walk right by.

Passed up a lease this year because of how difficult the conditions were to even get a gear out if I did get one down. 1 mile swamp run, no fourwheeler access, and then a 300 yard canoe run with a deer? I'll pass.

I still enjoy being in the woods but enjoy the prep as much as the hunt . The tractor and dozer work give me more pleasure than the shooting of a deer. I enjoy that but it’s more fun for me to change the land for the better so my family has better chances.

Like I said, I mostly hunt box stands and 90% of the time it’s just me and my son hunting on family land that’s been in our family since before the civil war. It’s been split up and mostly sold and all we have is 80 acres left. He’s 18 now and we like to come and sit around the camp, hunt, talk about history and mostly just enjoy ourselves.

It’s just a bonus that it’s easy hunting and we see plenty of deer.

Got halfway into a last resort public swamp and forgot how much further 100 yards is in gumbo mud up to your thighs, waders, decoys, and a sled. bout halfway I was wishing I stayed home. Back in the day it would have been nothing, got too used to boat or fourwheeler to the blind and hunting water that is drained most of the year.

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Ever want to give up hunting

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No

No man

shite no man

I know what you are saying there! I'm not as mad at them anymore myself. Where I do most of my hunting they are midday movers mostly, and then right before dark. So I used to walk out there in the pitch black, get up in a tree and by the time 7 am rolled around I felt like I had been in the stand forever.

Now, mostly because I've adopted the theory of only hunting the most recent sign, I head in right at gray light with no flashlight. Kind of scout my way in and then hang and hunt. Sometimes I'm done at noon, sometimes I'll stay all day. If I come out at noon or 1 I head back in about an hour and a half before dark. It's been more enjoyable I find. My deer sightings have gone up.

I have a couple of what I call 100% stands, I only want to make the trek when I wake up feeling 100. I went to one of those Sunday but only felt about 60% lol. Broke my own rule and had to suck it up.