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I'm starting to loose focus on work and everything else as my opener for Elk and Deer is 68 hours away...anyone else get this way right before season??? Like a kid waiting for Christmas...and it just gets worse the closer it gets.....always feel like a Football player waiting for kickoff at the Superbowl.....2 months of stalking the forest with my rifle and best gear.....time will be spent with good friends testing ourselves, and living out new hunting stories for future telling......game on!!!!!
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absolutly. my first archery hunt this year is going to be on monday(we dont have school for columbus day) I just cant wait!!!!!
I have the whole opening week of gun season blocked out......and plan to hunt the rut like that too.
Idaho, Yeah, i get the same way. My archery opened Sat. Unfortunately my neck of the woods is a bit more urban than yours, I still get excited about heading afield. Today it's blowing 20-30 but i'm still considering goin out! Good luck on you hunts.
i am at work right now. i should be busier but i can't keep from checking F&S periodically to read the latest additions.
ARE YOU KIDDING ! ! !
Bow opened here(Ark) 10/1 , I've been out and STILL can't concentrate at work !
Cant wait for Sat, trying out a new area and rifle, if nothing else the fishing should be good.
that is still the best part of hunting for me. I'll be entering my 45 year in the woods come Saturday. Muzzleloader in hand I'll be enjoying the sights and scents of a fall afternoon. Who cares if the deer cooperate!
Good luck Wolfman!
Never did hear back from you...
I get the same way and I'm extremely busy with work and studying for College exam right now. Just checking Field & Stream on my lunch break and back to work again. I be getting my break though on Oct. 30 for some fishing at Chesapeake with my family and friends. Good Luck to you idahooutdoors and happy hunting sir!!!
You bet idaho. I just got back to work from a 5 day hunting trip. I got a nice bull(pic on my profile.) but I haven't filled my deer tag yet. Hunt camp is the best part of the year...better than christmas for me. I'm back to work now but my mind is thinking about friday night when I get out of here and head out looking for a deer. It's just part of the fever i guess. Good luck hunting everybody.
>2 months
I hate you now [vbg]
huntnow, I'm with you. I'm at work M-F and must be at F&S 20 times/day to read articles, comments, etc. just to get my fix and pick up tips before I can get out for the real thing.
Elmer...Elk last about a month, but whitetail goes until December 1st in some units...a few muzzleloader hunts go into December...but we have Waterfowl and some upland birds until Jan 1st, along with predator hunting until march or so....
I'm sorry, I started reading this thread and my mind just sort of drifted for a minute. Did someone say something about a duck blind? No? Oh, never mind.
Armchair been duck huntin its been great but cant wait to try out this new deer area.
im a highschooler that goes to a school with alot of people who dont hunt. I only gun hunt(getting a bow next year) and all my friends that hunt have all bagged nice bucks this year already. well I lose all my focus but some how I keep my grades up so I can always miss some extra days for gun season :)
>Elk last about a month, but
>whitetail goes until December 1st
idahooutdoors, maybe I mis-understood? are you going to be off from work, in elk camp, for the entire 2 months?
No, still have to work and get the kids to school during the week...used to take almost all of it off, but being a single dad of a 3 and 4 year old put an end to that. This season I will get to hunt Fridays through Mondays, with 3 day work weeks, and will take a whole week off around Thanksgiving to hunt bucks in the snow.....unless I find a sponsor that wants a wolf mount, and will fund my hunting season along with an in camp babysiter...can always dream can't I....someday I will be in camp for the whole fall, would not mind it one bit....
You better believe I get like that! I usually get the itch in August and start shooting target practice, sharpening knives, and scouting. I can't sleep, I don't eat as much, and I spend nearly every hour of the day thinking about hunting.
read someplace where WA Mtnhunter said his neck was begining to swell. I noticed that my shirts are getting tighter at the neck.
I should show this thread to my wife. She thinks i'm not normal this time of year.
LOL you got to love it! You can turn grown men into a bunch of kids just counting down the days to be sitting in the woods and hunting! I never get any sleep the night before an opener Its the best feeling in the world!
I know what you mean. Spent all day today shooting AR's and muzzleloaders for my friend's at Ultracoatings inc. We have to shoot 3 in-lines 1000 times each in 3 days. The hands are getting sore from loading but it is a labor of love that will help tide me over until Nov 3 when 2 weeks of vacation kicks in to bowhunt the rut in KS and pheasant season.
Happens to me every year. Night before the season opener is the worst. Can never fall asleep.
Even Worse today...I am defenitly in the Rut..Neck is swelled, peeing on my own leg, picking fights with other guys.......eyes are starting to glaze over....keep thrashing trees and pawing in the dirt....
Gee Idaho, are you the hunter or the game....If you start growing antlers I wouldn't go to woods if i were you. It might be kinda dangerous. lol. I know what you mean though. Can't wait to get out there tomorrow night.
Don't get me wrong, I can't wait for deer season either, but I already spent one weekend in the "duck hole." It was the special early goose and teal season in AL, so of course we were covered up in wood ducks. Saw 30 or more the first day and better than 20 the next. We had two set down in the three decoys we put out, one of them while we were just standing around in the open talking. I didn't fire a shot all weekend, but if that don't light your fire, your wood's wet.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ! ! !
Bow opened here(Ark) 10/1 , I've been out and STILL can't concentrate at work !
that is still the best part of hunting for me. I'll be entering my 45 year in the woods come Saturday. Muzzleloader in hand I'll be enjoying the sights and scents of a fall afternoon. Who cares if the deer cooperate!
Good luck Wolfman!
Never did hear back from you...
Armchair been duck huntin its been great but cant wait to try out this new deer area.
im a highschooler that goes to a school with alot of people who dont hunt. I only gun hunt(getting a bow next year) and all my friends that hunt have all bagged nice bucks this year already. well I lose all my focus but some how I keep my grades up so I can always miss some extra days for gun season :)
No, still have to work and get the kids to school during the week...used to take almost all of it off, but being a single dad of a 3 and 4 year old put an end to that. This season I will get to hunt Fridays through Mondays, with 3 day work weeks, and will take a whole week off around Thanksgiving to hunt bucks in the snow.....unless I find a sponsor that wants a wolf mount, and will fund my hunting season along with an in camp babysiter...can always dream can't I....someday I will be in camp for the whole fall, would not mind it one bit....
read someplace where WA Mtnhunter said his neck was begining to swell. I noticed that my shirts are getting tighter at the neck.
LOL you got to love it! You can turn grown men into a bunch of kids just counting down the days to be sitting in the woods and hunting! I never get any sleep the night before an opener Its the best feeling in the world!
I know what you mean. Spent all day today shooting AR's and muzzleloaders for my friend's at Ultracoatings inc. We have to shoot 3 in-lines 1000 times each in 3 days. The hands are getting sore from loading but it is a labor of love that will help tide me over until Nov 3 when 2 weeks of vacation kicks in to bowhunt the rut in KS and pheasant season.
absolutly. my first archery hunt this year is going to be on monday(we dont have school for columbus day) I just cant wait!!!!!
I have the whole opening week of gun season blocked out......and plan to hunt the rut like that too.
Idaho, Yeah, i get the same way. My archery opened Sat. Unfortunately my neck of the woods is a bit more urban than yours, I still get excited about heading afield. Today it's blowing 20-30 but i'm still considering goin out! Good luck on you hunts.
i am at work right now. i should be busier but i can't keep from checking F&S periodically to read the latest additions.
Cant wait for Sat, trying out a new area and rifle, if nothing else the fishing should be good.
I get the same way and I'm extremely busy with work and studying for College exam right now. Just checking Field & Stream on my lunch break and back to work again. I be getting my break though on Oct. 30 for some fishing at Chesapeake with my family and friends. Good Luck to you idahooutdoors and happy hunting sir!!!
You bet idaho. I just got back to work from a 5 day hunting trip. I got a nice bull(pic on my profile.) but I haven't filled my deer tag yet. Hunt camp is the best part of the year...better than christmas for me. I'm back to work now but my mind is thinking about friday night when I get out of here and head out looking for a deer. It's just part of the fever i guess. Good luck hunting everybody.
>2 months
I hate you now [vbg]
huntnow, I'm with you. I'm at work M-F and must be at F&S 20 times/day to read articles, comments, etc. just to get my fix and pick up tips before I can get out for the real thing.
Elmer...Elk last about a month, but whitetail goes until December 1st in some units...a few muzzleloader hunts go into December...but we have Waterfowl and some upland birds until Jan 1st, along with predator hunting until march or so....
I'm sorry, I started reading this thread and my mind just sort of drifted for a minute. Did someone say something about a duck blind? No? Oh, never mind.
>Elk last about a month, but
>whitetail goes until December 1st
idahooutdoors, maybe I mis-understood? are you going to be off from work, in elk camp, for the entire 2 months?
You better believe I get like that! I usually get the itch in August and start shooting target practice, sharpening knives, and scouting. I can't sleep, I don't eat as much, and I spend nearly every hour of the day thinking about hunting.
I should show this thread to my wife. She thinks i'm not normal this time of year.
Happens to me every year. Night before the season opener is the worst. Can never fall asleep.
Even Worse today...I am defenitly in the Rut..Neck is swelled, peeing on my own leg, picking fights with other guys.......eyes are starting to glaze over....keep thrashing trees and pawing in the dirt....
Gee Idaho, are you the hunter or the game....If you start growing antlers I wouldn't go to woods if i were you. It might be kinda dangerous. lol. I know what you mean though. Can't wait to get out there tomorrow night.
Don't get me wrong, I can't wait for deer season either, but I already spent one weekend in the "duck hole." It was the special early goose and teal season in AL, so of course we were covered up in wood ducks. Saw 30 or more the first day and better than 20 the next. We had two set down in the three decoys we put out, one of them while we were just standing around in the open talking. I didn't fire a shot all weekend, but if that don't light your fire, your wood's wet.
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