2007 Plans?

[donk]

Ok,

Whats everyones plans for the 2007 hunting season?

Im going to try to draw a Elk tag. Its been 3 years since I have been back out west and im dying to get back out there. The Caribou hunt this year was incredible but theres nothing like having a bugling bull going to town right by you.

Im applying for Wyoming first. If I dont draw that (slim chance) then Im applying for NM. I may also try MT again (been there 2 times). I may think about Colorado over the counter but I want to take my son in and get away from the crowds.

If I dont draw ELk I will then try to move my vacation into deer season and hunt here in Illinois again. I have a couple points for Iowa but wont be able to apply there because I wont have my responses back on the elk tags when Iowa is due.


So whats your plans???



Don

[lockmaster]

Ahhhh..... the trait of a true hunter...as one season winds down, start planning the next one!! My plan is to just spend more time at it in '07. This year there have been so many "dampeners" on my hunting but if the good Lord sees fit to allow me another year of hunting, I certainly plan on making full use of the ability to be able to be out there.

[donk]

Lockmaster,

I think half the fun is planning and dreaming. I have a job where I have to put in for vacations in November for the next year. It stinks to do it so far out, but its nice knowing what weeks are locked in. I have a great wife and being with my employer I have a good amount of vacation time every year. With these two things (wife and work) I have 2 weeks I can use for hunting.

My 2006 big trip was the Caribou with dad. My 2007 trip will be with my 16 year old son out west if I draw a tag. He doesnt want to hunt but come along. My 12 year old wants to go (and hunt) but he will have his chance down the road.



Don

[BT]

I am in a rut

Same for me always ....pig hunt or two in the spring/summer with a few days in Maine to start off the deer season which takes place at home.

Last year here was bad and this year was awful so my big plans are to totally change my area and it's use in order to attract more deer to it.

That's my big goal....to rebuild my local area

[smj]

My big trip for 2007 is for caribou up in Canada in September. I want to shoot one with my compound, and I'd like to take a second with a longbow I build myself... I am thinking about trying to copy one of the native designs from up north for it.

My other goal is to get out a couple days for elk. Again, I'd like to take an elk with a longbow I build for the task - rather than a compound. How much other hunting I get to do I will have to see how it goes. I am starting to get some practice in this year to prep me for next year... We have been hunting rabbits with the longbows on the weekends when we can get out. Most of the time the little buggers are at full throttle, so while fun - you don't get all that many! (We have gotten some, however!)

(I just posted a bamboo/hickory I built under General Archery/Stick & String/Bamboo Hickory R/D - if you be currious!)

[deadeye]

We had plans for black bear but the elk trip to CO this year was too much. We have our deposits in for the same week in Sept.

I also have to apply for vacation time by the end of November. Makes it hard if you want to go on a hunt that depends on drawing a permit.

[Greg Krause]

I haven't stopped planning my future trips. I can't wait to get after the local stuff, such as carp and turkeys. I hope to be in Miami this summer for Gator and maybe in S. Carolina for deer in october. I really want to spend a week of all day sits, during the rut here in NY. i want to get serious about taking a P&Y here at home. As much time as I hunt I don't sit more than a few hours at a time.
2008 will be a year for another outfitter trip. depending on how funds are going and who I can con to go with me, we'll see what i do. I am looking for something like a "cheap" self giuded Kodiak island sitka blacktail hunt or a fully guided african plains game hunt.
I think '09 will be for Elk as that is when one of my friends gets done with college. he really wants to go.

[michihunter]

I have only one plan and that's to "create" more time to get out and get a deer. I've never went this long (it'll be 3 yrs)between deer in my 29 yrs of hunting.

[BT]

I did that one time Michi.

The first 4 years of my sons arrival on the earth.

Both had bad health issues and being only two years apart I only got 4 days in on each year for those years.

I did however get lots of time at home shooting

[Pete]

After Christmas I'm going to break in my present with a little squirrel hunting and maybe a rabbit or 5. Time constraints aren't an issue next year so that's one less headache. Two of my daughters have expressed an interest in bow hunting so I'll be planning spring turkey hunts from ground blinds for them. Depending on how they do will determine if we go into the deer woods together. I plan on going on an exotic hunt for Corsican ram around my birthday. My dad has quit hunting and taken up digital photography due to health issues and said he'd like to go with me and videotape my success (or lack of it, it's hunting). I'd enjoy that the most, I think. We're becoming great friends in our old age. When deer season comes around my best friend and I are going to NY to hunt the Adirondacks (Oneida Co, I think). His family is from that area and we'll have a private farm to hunt (about 200 acres). We tried last year but schedules just didn't jive. Maybe we'll get lucky with a whole year to plan for.