How Does One Define a " Successful " Season?

[dublelung]

I always loved being outside weather it be turkey hunting, deer hunting, playing paintball with friends or walking or riding my bike.

After my car accident in 2001 I lost all of that and after 17 years God gave it back to me, I enjoy every minute I am out there, I enjoy the sun coming up and how God uses his paintbrush each morning, hearing the birds in the early morning light, seeing squirrels and chipmunks frolicking in the trees and on the forest floor, I enjoy seeing deer that are just getting their antlers in the woods and in the fields moving silently about. I enjoy the time out there with friends and making new friends. I enjoy the walking that I could not do much of but can now do more of. I like driving there in the early morning when the air is crisp and fresh smelling in the nostrils and the smell of the foliage as it starts to green up and the smell of the soil both fresh and after it has been trodden on.

All in all I think any hunt that can end without serious injury to self or others to be a successful season. I still have never gotten one but I pray one day God will gift me one
and truly look forward to it.

I agree with most of the above post says and that to me makes for a very successful season. To stay healthy enough to be able to go out into the woods and watch it come alive and be able to go home and do it all again is successful. To enjoy the time afield with my children or grand children is a successful feeling. Last buy certainly not least stepping on a gobblers neck and hearing those final wing flaps is also successful. Bundling them all together into one day is a bonus.

[cracker4112]

If I get to go and hear a few gobbles the hunt was a success.  If that happens more often than not, the season was a success.  Usually that includes some turkey nuggets.  This year was a success for me down here, especially watching my son kill his first bird, and getting a good friend a first bird as well.  Those were more fun than the one I shot, by far.

[NCL]

For me most of what has been said about health, being outdoors, and the chase/gobble. If the kill is the mark of success then I am in the bottom profile, partially due to my personal restrictions, some bad luck, and the ability to absolutely make the wrong choice/decision. I have also mostly only hunted marginal property which also adds to the equation. With all this said I am already counting the days until the 2020 and dreaming about what might be. Fortunately, Old Gobbler is available to fill the void until the end of March next year.

[Ozarks Hillbilly]

As others have said just being able to be out in the spring woods and watch it come to life in the morning. Getting to play the game with a wary old gobbler or two. Getting to tote him out of the woods is just icing on the cake. This season was a huge success to me, I was able to call in my oldest sons first Gobbler. At 32 he thought he wanted to try turkey hunting I think he maybe hooked now.

[tha bugman]

I keep this right above my picture of Megatron...

[Chordeiles]

I keep this right above my picture of Megatron...

Haha! That's great!
I need to print that out and put it where I'll see it every day.
Pretty much sums up my season this year.


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[hush]

I hunt public land in GA. A successful season is finishing without getting my kneecaps shot off, turkey or not.

[ejhandler]

Agree with a lot that's been said. I always enjoy listening to the woods wake up especially if that includes some gobbling. Just getting to interact with a bird is a success in my book.  Walking out of the woods with one over the shoulder is just icing. At my current state, my top priority every time I enter the woods is to learn something new. And hopefully someday I will be accomplished and confident enough in my ability to join a mentor or youth hunt program and pass it on.

[troutfisher13111]

There are so many things I enjoy and would consider a success, but overall I think my personal success meter is driven mostly by time spent out there doing it.

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[Jester87]

Just being healthy enough to hunt is a successful season for me. There are so many who are unable to. I hurt my back and didnt do much for a year while doing physical therapy. Working to get better so I could hunt again kept me motivated. Life can change in an instant and I count my blessings every time i'm out there. Being able to share the experience with someone else and teach others is double success. I had a friend who wrote me "enjoy and live life like every day could be your last. Take nothing for-granted." He killed himself the next day. I've lived by those words ever since.   

[Turkeytider]

Only one bird this season, but he put on a show I'll not forget. Fortunate to be blessed with the health to get out with friends and into some beautiful woods. Yep, a successful season for me.

[jonhaga]

Time in the woods, time with family & friends who share the same passion, and the stories that come along with these few weeks of fun!!! Encounters and Harvest are bonuses in my opinion.