What have you done this year to prepare for the 2014 hunting season?

[burmjohn]

Have you added new stands / blinds? (Post pictures!)

 

New Bow / Gun / Xbow?

 

Practiced for weeks on end?

 

Do you have any crazy rituals?

 

What have you done this year to prepare for the 2014 Hunting season?

[NFA-ADK]

Shooting my bow since January. 

[Elmo]

Performed all my husband duties.

[518BowSlayer]

bought a 30-06 for me and a 243 for her now that we can use rifles in Albany county

[gfdeputy2]

Practicing daily with the Bow, Hiking, working foodplots, bought a new Doublebull blind, checking cameras, setting stands / Blinds

& most of all going nuts waiting for the season to start 10 days to go for NH

[Borngeechee]

Been doing dry firing drills and picked up a few things to cover what's needed for the hunt.

[Mr VJP]

Same thing I do every year at this time.  Start doing more exercise and getting into the best shape I'm in all year.  Summer is lazy time for me and I get soft.  But by October I'm back to 6 feet of pure muscle weighing in at 190 pounds!

 

Been doing it for decades and can still do it at 58.  I'm afraid if I don't do it one year, I won't be able to do it the next year.

 

My hunting is very physical, I hunt alone, using no quads or the like, using climbing tree stands and hunting the Catskill mountains, sometimes in deep snow and covering miles of terrain every day.  Dragging a good buck out of the woods alone is a chore in itself.  

 

I was always into fitness, from high school through college and then continued working out from there.  These days I don't run any more because I prefer low impact cardio, like a bike or swimming.  Someday, when I can't physically do it anymore, I will not do it at all.  It's really the only physical exercise I get outside of a gym anymore and I love it!

 

For me, hunting does a body good!

 

[tcosmic]

_{Walkihg and hiking a lot in woods similar to where I hunt. Shooting the bow pretty much every day.}

[landtracdeerhunter]

Rub my bow, firearms, and complements on the hides from the previous years harvest. The luck slides over year after year. 

 

[genesee_mohican]

Since the first of the year I've done miles,and miles of hiking/scouting, running 3 cameras for fun, relocated 4 stands, trimmed all others out. Everything has been sighted in and I'll continue to practice until end of the season, then start in again with scouting in January.

 

 

 

 

[turkeyfeathers]

In preparation for this years deer hunting I've packed on 20 pounds of craft beer for insulation. Hope my hunting gear still fits. 

[Jmythngdmb]

Decked out my Pathfinder with a shelf for my gear, under that shelf is space reserved for my lone wolf climber and game cart. Thus I have easy access to the cart and climber even if my truck is full of other stuff.

Installed power inverter to power microwave, so I can have a hot meal/coffee if I choose.

New arrows for my fiancé, (pink/black) to match her bow, she is very excited, both our bows paper tuned, and precisely sighted.

Separate air tight containers for outerwear, base layers, and accessories. (No more digging thru bibs and parkas to find that elusive glove.)

Been shooting for months already, bunch of stands are set, cameras out.... Man will Oct 1st ever get here!?

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[joesnextoy]

Got a 270 and xbow

 

Started shooting my bow in july, but only made it out like 4x

 

Next week heading to range to site in new rifle and xbow

 

Sucks living on LI ..... can't just go shooting in the backyarrd

[Borngeechee]

New Savage model 11 in 270

Edited September 12, 2014 by Borngeechee

[G-Man]

rebuilt several stands and built a 67 ft long bridge to get access to the east end of the property. not to mention 5 acres of corn, 3 acres of turnip, 2 acre of clover, and an acre of winter rye.

Edited September 12, 2014 by G-Man

[Sogaard]

I'm using a new bow for the first time in almost a decade, so I'm practicing whenever I can.

 

I've also always used a climber, but this year I put up a 2 man ladder stand on my favorite tree so I could take my sons up with me.

 

 

[Dom]

I got permission to hunt private land in Sullivan County near swan lake.Going up in the morning to place ground blind.I have no rifle so my shotgun is what I will be using this season,still choosing what 1 to use 12 20 or my trusty 16 guage