Post by: Arrow on July 19, 2011, 09:18:37 AM
Post by: jackelope on July 19, 2011, 09:27:35 AM
Post by: Woodchuck on July 19, 2011, 09:35:30 AM
That is not an effort to piss you off but seems to ring true in a lot things. :twocents:
Post by: jackelope on July 19, 2011, 09:38:27 AM
If I may quote what a very wise individual on here once said. " those who want it bad enough will find a way, those who don't will find an excuse"
That is not an effort to piss you off but seems to ring true in a lot things. :twocents:
Then maybe my family and trying to get ahead in life a little is my priority right now and not hunting. IF you want to get ahead you've got to bear down for a while and do it at some point. Now seems to be that time for me. That doesn't piss me off if your concern was aimed at me. I would not disagree with your statement at all.
10 days a year in the woods doesn't seem that bad to me anyway.
:twocents:
Post by: Woodchuck on July 19, 2011, 09:45:06 AM
Post by: elkoholic on July 19, 2011, 11:42:48 AM
Post by: Instinct on July 19, 2011, 11:43:11 AM
Post by: BurleyDog on July 19, 2011, 11:51:00 AM
Post by: DoubleJ on July 19, 2011, 11:55:09 AM
If I may quote what a very wise individual on here once said. " those who want it bad enough will find a way, those who don't will find an excuse"
That is not an effort to piss you off but seems to ring true in a lot things. :twocents:
Hey that was me!! I guess I'm wise now :dunno:
Post by: Arrow on July 19, 2011, 11:55:35 AM
Believe me I would drop a legal deer in our Elk GMU but we rarely see any deer where we hunt. I also agree late season is better time to hunt deer but there again we don’t have as many GMU’s to work with as we do in the early season. :twocents:
Post by: Tony on July 19, 2011, 12:00:49 PM
Post by: yakimarcher on July 19, 2011, 12:04:22 PM
Post by: Woodchuck on July 19, 2011, 12:14:47 PM
Oops, sorry, thought it was someone else. No you are not wise. :chuckle:If I may quote what a very wise individual on here once said. " those who want it bad enough will find a way, those who don't will find an excuse"
That is not an effort to piss you off but seems to ring true in a lot things. :twocents:
Hey that was me!! I guess I'm wise now :dunno:
Post by: rtspring on July 19, 2011, 12:23:53 PM
So I work my butt off all year so that I can go hunting and not worry about any other issues.. This year I will spend 60 days consecutive up in the hills. After 20 years in the service it is about ME TIME......
Post by: akirkland on July 19, 2011, 12:30:34 PM
Hunting is my only real hobby,HELL YA!! AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE :yeah:
So I work my butt off all year so that I can go hunting and not worry about any other issues.. This year I will spend 60 days consecutive up in the hills. After 20 years in the service it is about ME TIME......
Post by: dreamingbig on July 19, 2011, 12:32:48 PM
If I may quote what a very wise individual on here once said. " those who want it bad enough will find a way, those who don't will find an excuse"
That is not an effort to piss you off but seems to ring true in a lot things. :twocents:
I only get 3 weeks vacation and if I took it all for hunting I would end up in divorce and my daughter would miss me. I guess I don't want it bad enough.
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on July 19, 2011, 12:48:31 PM
Got the wife and kids bows of their own, wife is getting a float tube also, getting to the point I need to do work around the house to get any "me" time now...If I may quote what a very wise individual on here once said. " those who want it bad enough will find a way, those who don't will find an excuse"
That is not an effort to piss you off but seems to ring true in a lot things. :twocents:
I only get 3 weeks vacation and if I took it all for hunting I would end up in divorce and my daughter would miss me. I guess I don't want it bad enough.
Post by: DoubleJ on July 19, 2011, 02:09:58 PM
Oops, sorry, thought it was someone else. No you are not wise. :chuckle:If I may quote what a very wise individual on here once said. " those who want it bad enough will find a way, those who don't will find an excuse"
That is not an effort to piss you off but seems to ring true in a lot things. :twocents:
Hey that was me!! I guess I'm wise now :dunno:
Lol
Post by: RadSav on July 19, 2011, 08:56:22 PM
what about bow hunting the later season for deer and focusing on elk early?
:yeah:
Bust your hump and get that elk down in the early season. Then go WT rut huntin' since your on the dry side.
Post by: nontypical176 on July 19, 2011, 09:25:15 PM
Gotta do what you can, make time, burn both ends of the candle and just keep on keeping on.....Hunting is good times.
Post by: huntnnw on July 19, 2011, 10:52:33 PM
I also made decisions in life with my job and hours to accomodate my passion... I am lucky enough to work a 7 on 7 off schedule.. From sept 1 st to dec 15th I have 65 days off :chuckle:
Post by: Bean Counter on July 19, 2011, 11:26:36 PM
I suppose an alternative route for a young professional like I was would be to throw yourself at your career for a few years and let your income take off. Then later a higher salary that you've rightfully earned would allow you to afford a guided hunt or two a year.
Post by: jstone on July 20, 2011, 09:09:59 AM
Post by: seth30 on July 20, 2011, 09:14:14 AM
Hunting is my only real hobby,Brother I have 14 in now, and looking foward to the magic 20 year mark so I can get some ME time in :tup:
So I work my butt off all year so that I can go hunting and not worry about any other issues.. This year I will spend 60 days consecutive up in the hills. After 20 years in the service it is about ME TIME......
Post by: rtspring on July 20, 2011, 09:24:50 AM
Man I feel for you, the Navy is getting harder and harder every day with this PTS BS. Just read the Navy Times yesterday and it looks like the cuts are going ot get a heck of alot worse..
I can feel the end is near for me, 71 days left..
sorry for the thread jack :IBCOOL:
Post by: Sumpnneedskillin on July 20, 2011, 09:40:25 AM
Hunting is my only real hobby,Brother I have 14 in now, and looking foward to the magic 20 year mark so I can get some ME time in :tup:
So I work my butt off all year so that I can go hunting and not worry about any other issues.. This year I will spend 60 days consecutive up in the hills. After 20 years in the service it is about ME TIME......
That's what I thought! Between the job, sports and the honey-do I have less time now. I know you'll think I'm off my rocker but I miss those long quite duty days and the long quite underway days. I definately don't miss the BS duty days or the drill til you drop underway days. No real worries except deciding which crappy entree to have for dinner. Braised BBQ beef cubes or chicken tetrazini?
I went from having 60 days of leave on the books and getting 30 days a year to having 0 on the books and getting 10 days a year. Puts a little crimp on the hunting time.
I did get to spend part of my terminal leave hunting but also had to deal with the appointments, packouts and job search during that time too.
Post by: pianoman9701 on July 20, 2011, 10:40:20 AM
Just wondering what everyone else is doing when it comes to Elk and Deer hunting in this state? After years of modern hunting I really enjoy bow hunting and don’t want to go back but this state is making it difficult to do both deer & elk in the same season. Elk hunting is my passion so I always take a week off work but I also like to deer hunt with a bow. Years past the early season ran out until the end of Sept or at least the 25th which gave us another full weekend after elk just to hunt deer. I know deer opens Sept 1st which give us 7 days before Elk but it always seems harder to get out Labor Day weekend and I don’t live in an area where the deer population is high so work nights are out.
OK, here's what you do. Get the regs book out and open it to the section on Archery deer. Find the unit(s) that you want to hunt and the corresponding dates that hunting is open. Repeat for elk. Then close the regs and look down. Grab just below your Johnson. You'll find two dangling objects there. Those are your nuts. Now that you've established that you're a male human being, use them to help you decide that you need to find a way to hunt as many days of both seasons as possible. If you don't find anything there, you're a female human hunter and probably already very committed to the hunt to begin with! See you in the woods.
Post by: piledup on July 20, 2011, 01:31:47 PM
If one day I'm feeling good about elk, I go for elk. If I'm feeling for deer, then I go for deer. :twocents:
Post by: huntnnw on July 21, 2011, 11:08:41 PM
Post by: seth30 on July 22, 2011, 09:12:03 AM
seth30,We have been losing a lot of good guys that dont deserve it, now the newest trend is ERB where they are going to ax 3000 personal. :bash:
Man I feel for you, the Navy is getting harder and harder every day with this PTS BS. Just read the Navy Times yesterday and it looks like the cuts are going ot get a heck of alot worse..
I can feel the end is near for me, 71 days left..
sorry for the thread jack :IBCOOL:
Post by: seth30 on July 22, 2011, 09:22:17 AM
I know Im going to miss those leave days and port visits, but I sure am not going to miss JP5, Simple Green, PD680, stripping and waxing, and beef cubes :chuckle:Hunting is my only real hobby,Brother I have 14 in now, and looking foward to the magic 20 year mark so I can get some ME time in :tup:
So I work my butt off all year so that I can go hunting and not worry about any other issues.. This year I will spend 60 days consecutive up in the hills. After 20 years in the service it is about ME TIME......
That's what I thought! Between the job, sports and the honey-do I have less time now. I know you'll think I'm off my rocker but I miss those long quite duty days and the long quite underway days. I definately don't miss the BS duty days or the drill til you drop underway days. No real worries except deciding which crappy entree to have for dinner. Braised BBQ beef cubes or chicken tetrazini?
I went from having 60 days of leave on the books and getting 30 days a year to having 0 on the books and getting 10 days a year. Puts a little crimp on the hunting time.
I did get to spend part of my terminal leave hunting but also had to deal with the appointments, packouts and job search during that time too.
Post by: pianoman9701 on July 22, 2011, 09:43:08 AM
what gets me are these guys that hunted alot before they met so and so and now they cant hunt cause the wife says no..hell no..u my friend married the wrong person
No kidding there. When my wife and I first met, the very first discussion we had was that I take 10 days every year to go bow hunting, I hunt geese from November through March, I hunt deer and elk on the weekends during the late season, I turkey hunt, I train for hunting, I shoot all the time, etc. There is no discussion on this topic and she's on board.
Post by: Todd_ID on July 22, 2011, 10:03:31 AM
Bottom line is that I hunt too much, and that's a :bdid:
Post by: buckfvr on July 22, 2011, 10:26:30 AM
Post by: pianoman9701 on July 22, 2011, 10:58:35 AM
It does boil down to priorties...people who want something make it happen..u cant compare to someone else who hunts more than u..u don't know their situation and every situation is different. I am divorced and have a girlfriend now... I lay it out to them THIS doesn't change I hunt and fish.. I never want to hear once about how I am gone too much hunting or fishing..u can join me or be happy but this is my PASSION! and its not replacebale, but u are.I will never again in my life worry about or deal with woman and their drama..keep it out of my life.
I also made decisions in life with my job and hours to accomodate my passion... I am lucky enough to work a 7 on 7 off schedule.. From sept 1 st to dec 15th I have 65 days off :chuckle:
Both my hunting and my wife are irreplaceable, but only because she's clear about my hunting commitment. I wouldn't have married her otherwise and she goes along happy with what I love.