I still have 2 more gobblers I can kill here in Tennessee and 2 in Kentucky but I just don't feel like getting out at daylight and walking the woods for 5-6 hours anymore. 2 reasons, 1 because I have already killed 2 and I feel like I have accomplished what I set out to do and 2 I feel like if I kill more turkeys this year that means less to hunt next year. Anyone else feel the same way?
not me!! when i go to bed at night all i can think of is getting in the woods the next morning.
i have been that way since i was a boy. hope that feeling never leaves.
I have to admit that I feel lazy sometimes as well but then my love for chasing gobblers drives me back to the woods. I just keep reminding myself that its just for a month.
Numbers never satisfy me, but after 3-4 hunts with no action or bird flopping, I do tend to get lazy.....for maybe a day. Then I realize I am going to hate myself after season is over for not going every minute that I can. Of course on the years I tag out early I am miserable the rest of the year.
I'm too obsessed with it to get lazy. Our season closer a week ago and I went to the woods Saturday to "see if that long-legged so-and-so at the lake will come in this time". Now, he has nearly a year to forget about it.....
Nope. Killum all or end the season trying!
Lazy is not what I get, but it does get harder to go when the birds are not wanting to play at all. They have all quit where I hunt and by that I mean not seeing or hearing anything. That gets old after 2 or 3 hunts.
MC, you should see your doctor. This info, plus you are a Titans fan...well man you need help!! :goofball:
I know where you are coming from. I like to sleep. Usually get they way on longer seasons like archery deer, don't have too much o a problem with spring turkey tho. I do get the more for next year thing..... That's why I can't bring myself to shoot a jake this year, seems like that is all I have seen, but can't pull the trigger.
If my son and I have not tagged out, I start losing sleep the longer the season goes on. So I might as well get out there early in the mornings and chase those thunder chickens around. The thing that depresses me is if I don't hear any birds, don't see any tracks or other sign. If I can just see tracks, and maybe some dust bowls or strut sign, I am good to go.
Quote from: MouthCaller on April 24, 2012, 08:47:35 PM
I still have 2 more gobblers I can kill here in Tennessee and 2 in Kentucky but I just don't feel like getting out at daylight and walking the woods for 5-6 hours anymore. 2 reasons, 1 because I have already killed 2 and I feel like I have accomplished what I set out to do and 2 I feel like if I kill more turkeys this year that means less to hunt next year. Anyone else feel the same way?
No.
I'm lazy from May 16th to March 14th. After that I'm wide open. As far as less turkeys to hunt next year, I've never been able to kill'em all so the next year the woods are full of the aggrevating critters again.
its not a passion...its an obsession :z-guntootsmiley:
i work 2nd shift get in bed bout 12 and get up at 430. then have to leave for work at 1230 and its killin me but NEVERSTOPCHASIN! :cowboy:
I did sleep in Saturday, the first time I can ever remember not going turkey hunting when weather permitted, but several days of 4 hours of sleep was taking its toll, and I had tons of other things to do. Today, it was raining heavily, so I kicked myself for not going yesterday! :)
I can get awfully tired, but just one gobble, and I feel like I'm 21 again!
NO. Don't get to turkey hunt as much as I want.
Nope. I've hunted everyday and I'm getting tired from lack of sleep but I know in 3 weeks its going to be over with so I keep on keeping on. The gobbling has died off this past week but it only takes that 1 day for one to get lonely :icon_thumright:
Tired? O yeah! Lazy no way.
Quote from: pullit on April 25, 2012, 09:02:56 AM
Lazy is not what I get, but it does get harder to go when the birds are not wanting to play at all. They have all quit where I hunt and by that I mean not seeing or hearing anything. That gets old after 2 or 3 hunts.
exactly how I am,I get up every morning that I am able to hunt,and I go,but it does sometime gets hard to go when you are not hearing or seeing anything
Quote from: surehuntsalot on April 30, 2012, 10:11:46 PM
Quote from: pullit on April 25, 2012, 09:02:56 AM
Lazy is not what I get, but it does get harder to go when the birds are not wanting to play at all. They have all quit where I hunt and by that I mean not seeing or hearing anything. That gets old after 2 or 3 hunts.
exactly how I am,I get up every morning that I am able to hunt,and I go,but it does sometime gets hard to go when you are not hearing or seeing anything
X 3,
I get up every morning about 3:00 anyway...but will very easily convince myself not to go...then feel sorry about it later in the morning.
Birds are doing nothing where I'm hunting and have just about walked my knees out up and down steep ridges looking and listening for more.
I been stuck on one gobbler for my whole season and I'd have left him from the second day if I could find another one.
After I get my first I get complacent. I like helping friends and calling them in just as much as shooting them.
My 12 year old son nailed his second bird the first morning. I nailed my Tom the 3rd morning. I took my friend out a few times and it was a no go. After taking a week or so off I'm waiting for my tag in 1 1/2 weeks or so. Hopefully a sweet spot in that the guy hasn't had people hunt it for a few years. Bow and gun hunting I saw birds every day. It's my friend's ex-wife's ex-boyfriend. But hey, it will work for me.
With my children's lacrosse, basketball, baseball, track&field, softball, and dance the short nights of sleep took their toll and I burned out. I'm feeling it again though. Oh yeah, plus I decided I'm not offering to take people out that didn't 'have the time' to sight in their guns.
Quote from: neverstopchasin on April 30, 2012, 12:09:02 AM
i work 2nd shift get in bed bout 12 and get up at 430. then have to leave for work at 1230 and its killin me but NEVERSTOPCHASIN! :cowboy:
I'm in the exact same boat, earliest I get to bed is 12:30 and I'm up at 4:30. On days where I don't get a nap work is miserable lol. I keep on going though :OGturkeyhead:
I dont call myself lazy because Im deperate!!! After my boy killed one,I cant buy a bird, so I still get up at 4 and still get disappointed, then get desperate again and the cycle continues.
I get up at 4:15 every morning. I hunt to 11:00 or 12:00 and thin go to work. I work 8 to 10 hr. and go home. Do it all over again the next morning. I am lucky to have a job that I can go in whenever I want to as long as I work the 8 to 10 hr. The only thing I wish is it would cool down about 10* NO I will hunt everyday if I have a tag. 2 more years I can retire if I am living. Thin I will hunt everyday until quitting time.
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