How much annual leave do you use deer hunting?

I just planned out my calendar, and I've got 54 hours set aside so far for the upcoming season. But that is only through Jan. 2, and I know that I'll be taking some time in late January. Probably to the tune of another 27-30 hours. Of course that all depends on if the deer walk by my stand early in the season. What really helps my calendar is that every other weekend for me is a three day weekend.

Sure would be nice to be like Shaw (did I really just type that? ) and have a gagillion days available and take off the entire month of November.

So how many days do you guys take off for hunting each season?

Shoot, I don't ever take off to hunt. I work M-F and every other weekend. What's this leave thing you speak of?

I take off the first week of rifle season. Come up the Friday before and stay til the following Sunday evening. Usually its only three days vacation along with the two holidays for Thanksgiving. If I shoot one early then I will just go home and hunt the holidays and weekend. I can't remember but one year I did not kill one by Thanksgiving. Don't want to bust two in November when the best is yet to come. I don't take any time off for the month of December and just hunt the weekends for some doe meat. In January, from the beginning til February 10 I will take as many days as needed to get a chance at filling my last two slots with a couple good bucks. I try to coordinate those days with what the deer are doing so I don't waste my vacation days. Usually I end up taking around 6-8 days off but I am off weekends too as well.

None.

It all depends on if I have places to hunt. This year I will take 2 weeks off for Illinois and Kentucky, a week for Mississippi, and maybe 2 weeks for Alabama (if I ever find a place worth taking off for).

I usually take the 2nd week off in January and hunt in Selma. Then a handful of days in the beginning of Feb. if bow season comes in during a weekday I'll take that day off depending on the weather. If it is 80 degrees, it's hard for me to want to go in the deer woods.

I take off when my son is out of school for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I miss the prime deer killing time, but it is worth it to be able to spend the time in the woods with my son.

Usually about 10 - 12 days total. I plan to be in the woods as many days as I possibly can during February based on what I saw this past season.

I usually take a shift or two for the Buckmasters Life Hunt in January.

I started this year with like 180hrs or so...I'm down to 114hrs...I know for sure Thanksgiving and atleast a week if not longer for the Christmas shutdown.. the good thing is I get off at 2 and my lease is exactly 6 minutes from the back gate of the plant and 15 mins from the house

10 days or so.

Just depends on how it's going and life...but I took 75 hr last deer season...that's about the norm I'd say...

I save mine all year just for hunting season. Probably take at least 30 days.

You mean people actually work during deer season?? Never meet a Brick mason,painter, or oil worker that did!

3-4 weeks

7-10 days paired up with off days. Most of January gets sewed up. Last season I hunted one day before January 8th. Then it was waked open.

3 months,im out of here come 0ct 28 and ill be back feb 1 for tax season spenders.

You mean people take off work to hunt deer.

3 or 4 just depends on the weather. May not take off any. I'm lucky enough to be 10 minutes from my stands so I get to hunt about every weekend wether it's deer or ducks

Id be fired if I worked for someone. Thank God im self employeed

I get a total of 24 vacation days a year. 4 to 5 days of it are used for our summer shutdown. I use 15 days during bow season. When we did our vacation rounds this year I lucked up and got the first 3 weeks of November. I wasn't able to get the 3 days we have to work the week of Thanksgiving though. I'm off from Dec. 24 through Jan. 2 also, that's all paid holiday for us.

Since I've pretty well given up competitive archery, I'm not burning vacation days traveling to or preparing for tournaments anymore.

I'm just glad I don't have to work Christmas this year. I'll probably hang over a few hours for some folks with kids, though.

It depends on how my season starts. I like to have at least 3-5 does on the ground before Christmas. I'm real picky about the antlered ones though. I I shoot one early in the season, my next one will be larger than the 1st. The same applies for the third one too. I'l shoot an old mature buck before I shoot a young in. They're harder to hunt.

Used to take about 3 weeks, not all at once until I started turkey hunting and now I'm just a casual weekend warrior for the deer, just not as exiting as turkey hunting IMO, but I sure used to get after them

140 hours vacation plus I work rotating shifts. My wife says I hunt to much! Read last years archery forum that's when my phone would work. Been doing the same thing every year since 1995. One summer vacation a year the rest is hunting vacation. She knew it before we got married.

I'd rather work.

30 - 35 days every year.

None

I work 12s so I already have 6-8 days off in a row. Normally I work 2 extra a week before Christmas then take off my last 2 days of every pattern during January. Only problem is were short staffed so pto is being denied-been trying to go catch a few fish. Hopefully by hunting season we will be staffed again and I can burn some of the 300 or so hours I have saved up.

I have over 120 days I can take at my discretion and I plan on using these days to receive another year of retirement. I never take any time from work to hunt. I have always been fortunate enough to "get it done" on my off days and after school. I am fortunate I get to hunt close to the house so I have no travel time involved either.

I have 186 hrsand I work 7on7off so it gives me a total of 5 week off straight. I will take most of January and the beginning of feb and stay at camp.

I take the week after Christmas to hunt with the kids. Then the last 2 weeks of the season. Every other weekend in between.

Not much, hogs get all of mine.

i work 1-2 days / week during deer season. Except opening week of bow season, muzzleloader and rifle season and two weeks during peak of the rut when i use my leave

When I retire, I will live at deer camp.

I usually take the last two weeks of the season off.

I take 2 days off every 3 years when we get drawn for LBL to deer hunt and that is it. I usually take somewhere around 15-20 days during turkey season though.

I work 12 days on and 2 days off. This past season I took off days 11 and 12 of my stretch both times in January to get a 4 day weekend. That's all I was able to take off last season bc of work. Hunted almost all of the every-other-weekends I had off though.

10-12 days or so....

My step dad hates when deer season comes..Cause I'll take about 4 vacations

I carry over 440 a year get another 208 middle of January I use a little during season

Theirs only 365 days in a year!

I figure he's talking hours, which is still alot of time when you have that many!

Your right. Im just messing with him. 648 hours= about 26 days. Thats pretty good.

Wouldn't that be 81 days?

Most people only work 2000 hours a year if full time. That's a crapload of leave.

648 hours would be 27 days off for me.

I work with people that don't have a single hour of leave of any kind. I have a years worth of sick leave yes over 2000 hours. I don't take a lot of leave because my son is in the military and is deployed a bunch. He got shot up in December 2007. I used leave then and that is why I save my leave now. I never know.

I have 6 weeks scheduled from August thru January for hunting...got about 247 days on the books.

I am self employed so I take off the whole hunting season.

Last year I took 32 I think. This year I have close to 40 days off scheduled until jan 31. We get 30 a year and we can carry over 80 i think. I have like 70 now and should still have about 30 after season is over.

the whole month of January.

I took around 80 hours last year

80-100 hours

I work for myself, so I don't get "time off". I just leave when I want to and go hunt.

Probably only will have 20hrs paid vacation left by then, SO ill use every bit of it, And hunt before and after work also and every weekend except the week my new child is born in december. I hunt ALOT, even working full time, Ill hunt 25-30 hrs a week constantly all season long, rain, sleet, snow, dont matter

You only missed one weekend of hunting after a new child? You're a braver man than I am!

Na I'll probably take 6-7days off and stay at home, this will be the first child I had that will be born in deer season, my other two were summer babies, so it worked out good. I'm glad he is coming in mid December and not January lol