Are you going in TOO deep..?

[Doc]

18 hours ago, Elmo said:

Sometimes I feel if I don't hike deep enough than it simply wasn't enough of an adventure for me.  I didn't "escape" enough.

I tend to climb my way deeper onto and even over the hill for this reason. I do want to get in deeper just to enhance the quality of the hunt. I don't want to listen to the cars streaming by. I don't want to hear the neighbors arguing. I don't want to listen to the neighbor's do barking its head off. I don't want to hear car doors slamming. I head up to a very picturesque area that we call the "Dark Woods", a very dense, old-growth hemlock woods around a very deep ravine at the rear of my property. It is just a very nice quiet and very "wild" looking area that is completely different from the thickets and swamps down around the house.

I do it simply because it enhances the hunt regardless of whether I am successful or not. As Elmo said....there is something to the idea that I have "escaped enough".

Edited November 12, 2016 by Doc

[Chef]

I read the title, and my mind totally wandered off...


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Come on we all know that's a problem you don't have


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[shawnhu]

Come on we all know that's a problem you don't have


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Little do you know, I'm an anomaly.


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[Merlot]

My friends and I used to push deep into the property to hunt. We basically pushed the property of the deer onto neighboring properties. With age came wisdom and we hunt closer to base lodge and not push so much.

[airedale]

The areas I hunt I get to know pretty well so actual distance never much came into play as long as I thought I could get any Deer I happened to be lucky enough to take out of the woods by myself if need be.

I try to evaluate the weather (mostly wind) and the hunter pressure of an area I hunt and will head to a place in my mind that will provide me with the best chance of seeing a Deer in range to take a shot. Sometimes it could be a fairly close walk, other times I would take a hike.

Al

Edited November 12, 2016 by airedale