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Post by Buckfever on Oct 10, 2006 19:04:19 GMT -5
It's strange. I had put in for 2 hunts with 2 hunting partners and only drew 1. The one I did draw will be an excellent rut hunt. I have access to a federal property from the year before and there are some great bucks on there and I'm on a real good one, but I find myself more interested in starting all over on a new property that I can hunt with that buddy of mine that didn't draw.
And there's no way in hell that I would have done this before, but it is more important to me to share the experience with him out there. Now I am still very focused on buck hunting, just not to the exclusion of my buddies anymore. Where as before it was a solitary endeavor and while we shared the stories and such, they all knew that I pretty much I hunt alone.
I don't feel that I need to hunt alone anymore. As a matter of fact no matter where I hunt, I no longer feel that other hunters are a factor. So that's part of it. But definitely sharing the experience has entered the equation of what I get out of it.
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Post by Buckfever on Oct 21, 2006 1:05:54 GMT -5
So today I got out there with that buddy of mine, I had shared the aerial photos and the location that I liked and he wanted to go in with me, even though he'd hunted the park before and had a "spot".
Anyway when we get where I wanted to go the sign was good and I was like yeah go in here. I'm like yeah I 'll go up a ways.
Long story short he knocks down a good sized forky.
He came over afterwards so we could use my hoist and I showed him how I skin it out and cut it up. Took us 45 minutes.
I was so happy for him I can't tell you. Really one of the happiest hunts I've had in years.
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Post by eshoremd on Oct 21, 2006 1:54:59 GMT -5
i like hunting alone and hunting with someone else. hell sometimes my buddy ricky and i will set up 50 yrds apart. im just as excited to watch him shoot one than i am if i did. and then i dont have to gut it. congrats to you buddy george. i didnt see a darn thing this morning and i stayed till 12ish. hardly even many squirrels.
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Post by Twanger on Oct 21, 2006 19:43:58 GMT -5
I really like hunting with a group. We go our ways in the morning, meet up at noon, swap stories and hunt some more. The gents from Vermont came down for early ML season, and it was alot of fun hunting with them. The youngest, a young man of 14, took his first deer ever this year - a nice 90-100lb doe. It's nice being a part of something like that.
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