Shoot us a Big ol Nanny ron.... he still come....

I just can’t get excited enough to get my bow out and practice.

Will take my boys and hunt anytime they can.

Getting excited for deer season sure has changed over the years. Maybe it’s all the stupid crap rules and deer numbers steadily declining.

I have a buck on cam with a typical 4pt right side and 3 straight prongs on the left. I'd like to get him for a euro mount.

Slap a doe in the freezer with my bow
Track alot of deer with my dogs
Get my kids to go with me as much as I can

I've gone through this in the last 12 years. One afternoon I was in a shooting house reading a book, glanced up and saw a nice 7-point, watched it for a bit, shot it DRT with my rifle, went back to reading my book. I got more excited that day about squeaking in a couple of coyotes than shooting the buck.

I knew then it was time to do something different, so I focused on small game and getting back to learning some stuff about the woods. Stuff I took for granted or thought I knew, but didn't. It was fun. I've never been eaten up with "OMG, deer deer deer!!!" and never will be. They're just another critter to hunt. All the regulations and mandates and government bullshittery in the last 10-15 years has made it worse.

So, my advice would be to enjoy taking your boys and help them learn. See things through them and with them. You may regain the passion or it may be a life-shift for you. Either way, good luck this season.

Would love to see my wife get a good buck. Also if my son and step-son could get a deer this year that would be awesome too!

Dr. B

1. Have fun in God's creation.
2. Kill my first bow buck.
3. Don't get a 4wd truck and 4wd tractor stuck within a hour.
4. Kill a few deer in rifle season...over corn piles of course.

Get my 8 yo grandson on a deer.
Enjoy the woods.
Make some jerky for the family.
Camp out and go hunt.

Kill one good buck and enjoy the outdoors

Enjoy the outdoors and shoot some pheasants.

After my Pops passed I inherited his rifles a Winchester 30-30, and a Remington 700 30.06. I would like to kill a deer with these.

Enjoy my time spent in the stand
Would really like to kill a sho nuff goodun with my bow
Spending time with my wife and family at the camp
And get my dog a couple and enjoy watching him work tracking with the satisfaction that I trained him myself and my work has paid off

Take it as it comes, try not to turn it into work.
Hunt when I want.
Bowhunt more.

Man I need to post this on my wall. Seems like every year about December I start doing this.

I really miss the time just before deer season when I could grab my shotgun and a rod and hit the sloughs bordering our hunting club in the upper Escambia River swamp at daylight. Easing along catching more solid fall bass and crappie than I could count and shooting squirrels was so relaxing and so much fun. Wood ducks were on the menu too if the season was open. Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis ended all of that because 100% of the acorn producing oaks in the bottoms went down in those two storms. The bass are still there but not the squirrels and ducks. The bass aren't worth the effort because of the blowdowns and tangled thick jungle growth that took place after the hurricanes.

But my goal is to keep hunting those 5+ year old bucks.

What hunting use to be about and was a whole lot more fun. Would love to go back to those days or find a place I could still enjoy doing it at.

It can still be like that. Just have to find the right group of people. We have 6 people hunting on 300 acres but Really only 4/6 care about killing deer and we don’t really care that much. But the other 2 just come up there to get away from their wives and enjoy camp.

#3 is complete

I achieved all of these except the Bloody Mary recipe