What to do when you grow tired of the hunt?
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Saltydog235
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This is what I do when not hunting:
SPEMack618
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Also, I do thoroughly enjoy a good golf game.
Which can be like hunting. Spending thousands of dollars on the right clothes and equipment. The endless search for the "perfect" round (golf ball).
Knowing the one guy who is better equipped than you but that you can out shoot.
Knowing the one guy with the bag he bought at the pawn shop that out shoots you.
Walking. Everywhere.
Camaraderie.
How good the girls look kitted up.
How good the beer tastes after the end of the day.
Which can be like hunting. Spending thousands of dollars on the right clothes and equipment. The endless search for the "perfect" round (golf ball).
Knowing the one guy who is better equipped than you but that you can out shoot.
Knowing the one guy with the bag he bought at the pawn shop that out shoots you.
Walking. Everywhere.
Camaraderie.
How good the girls look kitted up.
How good the beer tastes after the end of the day.
I am a full time guide for my wife..plus my G-son has started hunting too.... It's kinda exciting right now....Plus I started doing more fishing....I will be retired soon..so I expect to fish and hunt more....I'm gonna get back into bowhunting and also do a good bit of squirrel hunting like I did when I was younger....
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YARDDOG(1)
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Love bow hunting,, did'nt even use the rifle this year ; )
Y/D
Y/D
nightowl64
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go fishing!
Brotherbadger
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Try something different. Hiking, fishing, camping, ect. I do whatever I can to get myself outside more often.
Strafer Gott
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I join the sandwich hunt. It's a very easy hunt. No really!
I have hunted for the last 5x years. Reloading keeps me going. Squirrels have recently renewed my skills out to a good distance. Head shots of Corse. Taking the grand kids out is also great. And there is nothing like a limit of Walleye out of 60' deep five mile an hour current. But Reloading and punching bug holes in a target is probably my most favorite challenge.
Art Eatman
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For me--now a certified Olde Phart--it's not tiring of hunting so much as a far more relaxed attitude. Same as the other Olde Pharts I watched during my own eager-hunter years.
A change in relative importance, I guess. Less about the chase and the shot, though they're still there, and more about the companionship around a campfire and some focus on passing along one's knowledge to a younger generation.
I can't do those ten to fifteen miles in a day's walking hunting, anymore, but I can darned sure hunt the campfire!
A change in relative importance, I guess. Less about the chase and the shot, though they're still there, and more about the companionship around a campfire and some focus on passing along one's knowledge to a younger generation.
I can't do those ten to fifteen miles in a day's walking hunting, anymore, but I can darned sure hunt the campfire!
603Country
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That's well said, and I'm also taking (usually) a relaxed attitude toward hunting. Also, I'm lucky enough to live where I hunt, so no big production is required for me to go hunting. I grab a rifle and walk to the back whenever I want to. It's coyote season now, and that season never closes, so the 223 remains on call.
Saltydog235
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I too live in a place where I can enjoy the outdoors merely by traveling basically to my back yard. I still get that anticipation before every season. Once hunting season is over, I get ready for fishing. With two young sons who are just beginning to learn and do it, I get more excited about their experiences than I do my own. My oldest boy is going to be 7 staring the fishing season, I cannot wait for him to have his first go at a full offshore trip. And next deer season, I'm going to have him ready to squeeze a trigger. We've been looking at youth rifles a good bit lately.
wild willy
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I like to hunt and I like to fish if I'am hunting somewhere and I need a little break I go fishing.
georgianative
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Just take a break. Wait till you get the itch.
Mentoring a kid would be good too.
Mentoring a kid would be good too.
5 years . Waite till you start mesuring time in decades . If I were to tire of hunting I would start doing some sierous soul searching to see whats wrong with me . Sometimes I do just decide to stay home but ofcorse I work 60 hours a week and pick what I do in my spare time closely .
Thats a ugly hog in that trap .
Thats a ugly hog in that trap .
lolI used to love shooting competitions, from turkey shoots, starting around 21 yrs old (1 shot per target @ 100 yards) to various handgun and rifle competitions, terminating with .22 Rimfire Benchrest. Haven't competed for a couple of years now and don't miss it.
I love to hunt, but being almost 71, find that it's more enjoyable to teach my grandkids and others to shoot well and hunt. I've helped 5 grandkids learn to shoot better just last fall and two went on to get deer on Youth Day. A third entered Army training and did very well there. Another of the 5 joined the high school shooting team and is doing well, despite physical challenges. Also I got three adults into shooting the past year.
Teaching others to shoot is quite rewarding, and I like to do gunsmithing work as well, but don't do it as a business, just for the fun of making guns better.
We've had a home in the country for 10 years now and I love walking out back, either to shoot or hunt, especially hunting coyotes, but don't do it at night.
My advice is to get a new gun, do some shooting, handloading, and hunting with it. Find new friends to go hunting/shooting with, and take in some gun shows, etc.
I love to hunt, but being almost 71, find that it's more enjoyable to teach my grandkids and others to shoot well and hunt. I've helped 5 grandkids learn to shoot better just last fall and two went on to get deer on Youth Day. A third entered Army training and did very well there. Another of the 5 joined the high school shooting team and is doing well, despite physical challenges. Also I got three adults into shooting the past year.
Teaching others to shoot is quite rewarding, and I like to do gunsmithing work as well, but don't do it as a business, just for the fun of making guns better.
We've had a home in the country for 10 years now and I love walking out back, either to shoot or hunt, especially hunting coyotes, but don't do it at night.
My advice is to get a new gun, do some shooting, handloading, and hunting with it. Find new friends to go hunting/shooting with, and take in some gun shows, etc.