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re: Ever want to give up hunting but....
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:05 am to SkintBack
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:05 am to SkintBack
My days of walking up to 2 miles on NWRs to rarely get a shot are over. I did enjoy it at the time, but no longer have the desire and other things have taken that time. If I get the invite to the private place that happens some, and spend a long weekend bowhunting there, I am deer hunting fulfilled. No ragrets.
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Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:10 am to LSUDUCKMAN67
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Why don’t you give up on the public land and find a lease where you can spend more time and you don’t have to go full bore.
Nah.
I have a private lease and family land that I never hunt because I simply enjoy the run n' gun style of bowhunting on public more.
That may change as I age, but right now, I crave the challenge, even if it does wear me down sometimes.
This post was edited on 11/29/22 at 9:11 am
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:33 am to LSUDUCKMAN67
Nah, private leases and box stands ain't me, I would rather fish instead. Also 200 acres isn't enough to contain me, hell 500 acres isn't enough. I have 150 acres of prime hunting in Concordia Parish to hunt whenever I want, but I killed an 8 point there years ago and it was like ordering a biscuit in the drive thru, didn't raise my heart rate at all.
I hunt a different spot each day. The chase is the part that gets my motor going. Especially when I find something I think very few people have found, or are willing to go to. And then when I'm sitting on the edge of a thicket and bam a deer pops out at 20 yards it's validation that I was where I needed to be. I'm not about filling 6 tags, not about corn, or comfortable box stands, or having it "easy". It's about that chase, me against the land, outwitting them slick mfers. I'll hunt public until I can't hunt anymore. There are SOME days when I'm over it, but that only last until I wake up the next morning then I'm ready to do it over again.
I hunt a different spot each day. The chase is the part that gets my motor going. Especially when I find something I think very few people have found, or are willing to go to. And then when I'm sitting on the edge of a thicket and bam a deer pops out at 20 yards it's validation that I was where I needed to be. I'm not about filling 6 tags, not about corn, or comfortable box stands, or having it "easy". It's about that chase, me against the land, outwitting them slick mfers. I'll hunt public until I can't hunt anymore. There are SOME days when I'm over it, but that only last until I wake up the next morning then I'm ready to do it over again.
Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:05 pm to SkintBack
Since I moved to Texas I don't even consider what I do hunting. I walk about 50 feet to my storage room and sit in it and look in my back yard at my 2 feeders, hell still close enough to the house to pick up WIFI. It's more filling the freezer.
Posted on 11/29/22 at 2:25 pm to mtb010
I don't see the appeal of hunting a feeder or corn pile, I don't think I'll ever do it. I can see how those who do it get tired of sitting in the box and being disappointed that the big one didn't just walk in front of them like a video game. I'll stick to the woods, scouting, different spots based on wind and time of year. Not seeing so many that it numbs me to it, so the excitement still hits.
Posted on 11/29/22 at 7:47 pm to calcotron
You don’t have to hate one to like the other. Midwest rut hunt this year was single digits and teens every night, wind blowing 20 mph for 7 days, packing all my crap through the woods. I’d go again tomorrow, but it makes me appreciate the occasional invites I get to ride a side by side to a heated box stand and eat breakfast burritos over a food plot.
Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:53 pm to bigbuckdj
I don't think I hate it, I just don't think it would be fun and I'm not sure it's really hunting. It's just shooting. "Been watching the cam, they usually come around 8...but let me hit this button on my phone app to throw the corn...yep here they come. Let's see if the big one shows up and just watch a bunch of them eat in the mean time." My buddy who does this in Houston sends videos of them watching deer at the feeders all the time, they hardly ever shoot anything because of weird lease rules. I don't get paying to ride around and look at deer.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 9:07 am to calcotron
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I don't see the appeal of hunting a feeder or corn pile
It all depends where you live and the land that you are able to hunt. I live in south Texas and it's nothing but private land and hunts that cost too much around here, so the only hunting I can afford and have time to do is on my little piece of property and I wouldn't see a deer if I didn't hunt over a corn feeder. I've hunted in the river bottoms of Mississippi, also hunted in Central Alabama, and in Arcadia Louisiana. I would much rather go climb a tall oak tree with a climber in any of those areas then hunt over a corn feeder in my back yard, but time and proximity don't allow it.
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