Who is planning vacation days for the season?

[sethf11]

I have 13 days left to use this year. I'm planning it all now and spacing it out this year instead of taking a huge block together.

How do you guys do it?

I have weekends off (which is good and bad) so I'm going to take some fridays, few around Halloween, November 9-13 and a few other extras in there.

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[chrisw]

I'm off November 8-22nd. And off probably 14 other days throughout the season with my normal schedule. I always take the last 7-10 days of archery and first 3 of rifle off.

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[turkeyfeathers]

Off all 3 for youth season  Opening day of gun and most of that week, last day of gun, first day of ML, last day of ML and a bunch of regular days off to hunt. My usual line up

[Steuben Jerry]

Always take the first week of southern zone rifle season and the Friday before. It's become a family tradition of sorts, especially with a big Thanksgiving dinner mixed in most years.

I'll take a day or two around Halloween and a couple of days between the 6th and the 16th. 

Our youngest daughter is due with her first baby (and our fourth grandchild) near the beginning of October. She bow hunts and rifle hunts with us so that's a bit of a curve ball.   

[Buckmaster7600]

I have to work 3 days between oct 28 and nov 28.


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[BizCT]

I'm only allowed to take off 2 days in November, so I'm off the following in addition to holidays/weekends.

October 2,3, 30, 31

November 6, 20

[stubby68]

Off from opening day of southern zone gun season to first of January. Every year.

[sethf11]

Off from opening day of southern zone gun season to first of January. Every year.

Wow!! What do you do for work?


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[Fletch]

I am off every Friday in November and the last two days of late ML. Also off a couple days in the beginning of Oct for a hunting trip to NC. I have a bunch of days so i will take more as I see how the season and weather goes.

[BizCT]

On a side note, when is the next HuntingNY.com beer/bar meetup?

[Paula]

I always take the first week off of shotgun, I also took day off for rabbit with the dogs this year

[sethf11]

I just think that the opening week of gun season in southern zone is about 5-7 days too late and you miss primetime. I know more people are in the woods moving deer around but I think that previous week is a little better.


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[bugsNbows]

My wife and I will be up at our cabin from late October through all of November. 

[stubborn1VT]

I'm off all 16 days of VT rifle season.  I will take 5-7 days off during bow season, and work half days around weather fronts.  If the freezer isn't full, I will take off days during muzzleloader/ late archery.  Self-employed.  All the benefits and and all the headaches of being your own boss.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

I am off November 1st through 3rd (and hunting that weekend) .  Then I am off the whole week of Thanksgiving. Then the rest of the Fridays of gun

[Doc]

Ha-ha-ha ...... every day is a vacation day.

[Billdogge]

Off a lot in November!

[Buckmaster7600]

I'm only allowed to take off 2 days in November, so I'm off the following in addition to holidays/weekends.
October 2,3, 30, 31
November 6, 20

You need a new job!


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[BizCT]

You need a new job!


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6 weeks vaca, I can't complain. Just limited in busy season (Nov and Dec.). I usually only hunt 1/2 days Sunday so I can watch football anyway


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[Paula]

1 hour ago, sethf11 said:

I just think that the opening week of gun season in southern zone is about 5-7 days too late and you miss primetime. I know more people are in the woods moving deer around but I think that previous week is a little better.


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Oh well I will change my vacation on your opinion. Lol

[stubby68]

2 hours ago, sethf11 said:

 

Wow!! What do you do for work?


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Nothing between those times. I do not ask for time off I take it.  I have a host of back problems from work that could let me never work again and on there dime,so they never say anything.

[sethf11]

Oh well I will change my vacation on your opinion. Lol

Also depends on which weapon you like best. I'm a die hard bow hunter so I prefer the peak of the rut with the bow.


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[Paula]

I don't bow hunt

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[wolc123]

1 hour ago, sethf11 said:

I just think that the opening week of gun season in southern zone is about 5-7 days too late and you miss primetime. I know more people are in the woods moving deer around but I think that previous week is a little better.


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Spot on there.  Veterans day is always the peak of the rut (Sat Nov 11).  I put in for that Friday off, two more days earlier in October for northern zone crossbow/ML season, and a half a day for Friday of the last weekend of late southern zone ML season.   Hopefully, I will be tagged out by then.      

[sethf11]

Spot on there.  Veterans day is always the peak of the rut (Sat Nov 11).  I put in for that Friday off, two more days earlier in October for northern zone crossbow/ML season, and a half a day for Friday of the last weekend of late southern zone ML season.   Hopefully, I will be tagged out by then.      

Sounds about perfect for timing.

I look back every year at all my trail camera photos. I have found out 3 major things by looking back and studying the photos.

First, the October lull is a myth. I have bucks moving in October.

Second, hunt more afternoons, those bucks do move mid-day between 11am and 1pm.

Third, the big bucks are moving around Nov 10-14th. There are bucks I have never seen before then that appear on camera. That is the time to sit all day. They are on the move and they are at all different times. Get in the woods, pick a trail and sit still. The bucks will come wether you have been on them all year or not.


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