help me extend my season

[a3dhunter]

I am looking for ways to extend my hunting season this next year. I have hunts starting the last week of August archery in colorado, in September(archery in wyoming), and October(colorado rifle). Then Kentucky(rifle) and Texas(rifle) in November. Does anyone have any ideas for December or January hunting that would be easy to draw on mule deer or elk?

 

[GilaJeff]

Arizona archery deer in DEC & JAN, and New Mexico archery deer in JAN. I have both these tags this year.

 

[TFinalshot]

mexico for monster muleys!

 

[a3dhunter]

I can't afford mexico! I wish...

 

[sremim]

AZ arhcery deer as stated above, and they are OTC. Plus you can get a late cow rifle tag in CO.




It's Bush's fault!!!

 

[ICMDEER]

The Nebraska muzzleloader season is open the whole month of December. There are both muleys and whitetails in Western Nebraska, and access is decent.

Texas also has a December muley season in SW Texas. You can also take a javelina or hog at the same time.

New Mexico has the Jannuary archery season, too.

 

[deerhuntr4885]

6 months of deer hunting! Holy Cow! I wish I could get away with that. You must be single and rich! Either way, You are one lucky SOB.

Mike Henne

 

[idabigbuck]

Don't you have anything better to do than hunt all the time. What a slacker!!!

 

[Cornhusker]

Nebraksa muzzleloader starts Friday goes one month. A lot of deer still around. I'm going out Saturday. No magnification on scope allowed.

 

[a3dhunter]

Well, since I am catching slack about my hunting I will defend myself! LOL
I get 1 day off per week, one weekend a month off, and no holidays off--24 hours a day I am on duty. I now get 21 days vacation and 6 days of personal time but I can't take more than 12 days off at a time. I get the chance to schedule seven trips of at least seven days off by combining my vacation with my weekend off. I have more of a problem putting the money together for the hunts than anything else, so anyone feeling sorry for me can make donations! :7

 

[deerhuntr4885]

Where do I send it? You did not address the wife? Girlfriend? Special guy in your life? (Not that there is anything wrong with that.) HAHA...issue. How do they let you go for so many trips? I am just wondering what your secret is? How do I get a hold of that secret drug?

Mike Henne

 

[a3dhunter]

Mike the way you get away with it is---take them huntin'!
My wife has shot archery for 3 years and will start hunting next year. She will be hunting archery possibly on three of the hunts, Colorado elk, wyoming mule deer, and arizona mule deer. When your wife is truly your best friend it makes things a whole lot easier. I have a 23' travel trailer and that gives her the comfort she wants and provides a good camp even if the weather is bad, although the hail storm in Colorado this year put holes through the awning and knocked out my overhead vents. While I was hunting she went to Montrose and bought replacement vents. I didn't even lose any hunting time! I am truly blessed with a great wife! She did question me today as to where the money was coming from for all of this and I told her to get a second job! ;-) She just looked at me!

 

[deerhuntr4885]

You are my hero.

Mike

 

[a3dhunter]

Wow, I have been called a lot of things in my life, but never, never that one! }>
I am still wondering why it took me a year to put together my hunting like this, I am burning vacation right now that I could have used hunting!
Later
Jason

 

[JACKELOPE]

you are my hero also. might i suggest writing a book on how to keep your wife happy and hunt as much as you do. i would be the first buyer. i thought i was real lucky(i still think i am) to have a wife that loved to flyfish with me. fishing trips are real easy for me, but hunting is another story. she told me if i buy her a real big lense for her camera, she would tag along on hunting trips with me, but i'm not sure if she meant it. it might just be a plot to get the lense she wants.

 

[isayNUNYA]

My wife told me that since I hunt so much I better buy her something that goes from 0 to 200 on 5 seconds.

I bought her a bathroom scale. Now I just send her a check every month and hunt when ever I want!

 

[a3dhunter]

Okay guys, i am going to give you the true secret to this! It is tried and true and will definitely work! ;-)
First you find out what your wifes dream is, and the key to this is that it has to be something you can actually do! Then make it happen! It is that easy! Well, maybe not easy---let me explain.
My wife had this dream since she was a kid that she could work with at risk youth at a children's home and be a parent figure to those that were removed from teh home for abuse or neglect. She wanted to have a chance to show love to all the children that had not been given that love by their true parents. She wanted to show kids what it is to be loved for who they are and not what they do. Shortly after we were married I pushed her to do this, which of course meant I had to sacrifice also. This is the key!
My wife and I have been houseparents for at risk youth for 4 1/2 years. We started out with kids addicted to drugs and alcohol. We then moved to kids with severe behavioral outbursts and then to kids that were removed from the Los Angeles area and had been involved in drugs and gangs. A little over a year ago we moved to a place with more "normalized" kids. We have worked with both boys and girls at different times. We can now have up to 8 girls in our home from the ages of 10 to 18 years old. My wife and I love doing this but it is very draining. So I get the benefit of picking the vacations/hunting trips and she just wants to enjoy some quiet time away from the kids when we get it. On my elk hunt this last year, she bought a three day fishing license and went fishing while I was out hunting. When I got back to the trailer she had some trout cleaned and cooking for dinner!

Back to the key! The bigger the sacrifice the better off you will be. I just remind her every now and then about what I go through living with 10 females( forgot to mention even my dog is a female), and I get to add another hunting trip to the schedule!
The other thing that helps is that her and I have held off on having our own children, so when we have a vacation we don't have to worry about kids, the home we work for takes care of providing relief houseparents.

So I challenge all of you men to find out what your wife really wants and to make it happen! See what you get in return???

And for all of you saying "yeah right, it ain't worth it", I will be thinking of you this fall and winter when I am hunting!