hoosierhunter Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 About your hunting situation what would it be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted July 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 if you could change one thing Mine would be habitat management starting 15 years earlier. If I would have known then what I know now it would be a real game changer. I didn't start really dedicating myself until about 2005. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedicast Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Too open the eyes of the people hunting in my area. 9 out of 10 of them will pass a doe to shoot a 4" spike. Getting harder and harder to see a mature buck in the area I do most of my hunting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitetailfreak55 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Having my own ground to hunt and manage. The people I hunt off of only hunt shotgun season and kill any buck that gets up in front of them. They never shoot does so its very hard to get a good age group for the bucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted July 4, 2013 Report Share Posted July 4, 2013 The state I do all my deer hunting in............................ Pennsylvania. I'd opt for Ohio or Iowa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Posted July 4, 2013 Report Share Posted July 4, 2013 Location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted July 4, 2013 Report Share Posted July 4, 2013 About your hunting situation what would it be? Since you asked it that way...I would have dropped out of my former hunting club I was in years ago or never even gotten into it. Instead, I would have bought into an equity club about 5 miles from it. I'm on their waiting list now. Back when I 1st tried to get in it, ~25 years ago, a share was ~$15K...now it's ~$75K if and when someone decides to sell their share. It has great turkey hunting and they've been on a mature buck program for a long time. If you're talking just bowhunting, and mainly deer, I would have moved to the mid-west and bought my own honey hole. It wasn't that long ago when you could buy land in Iowa for $400 to $500 per ac. I was even bowhunting up their after 2000 and found myself scratching my head over buying a place for ~$1,000/ac. To say the least, it would have been a great investment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted July 4, 2013 Report Share Posted July 4, 2013 Availability of land to hunt... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowhunter97 Posted July 4, 2013 Report Share Posted July 4, 2013 Where i hunt. I'd rather be in the midwest then down here in FL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 I'd go back and change a few scenarios with one friend in particular and a few with my family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 Probably would have taken advantage of an opportunity on a purchase several years ago that we passed on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 Would not change a thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WStreblo Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 if you could change one thing I would make shooting a doe before your allowed to mash a buck a law here in Ohio. It's true Ohio has great deer but the younger generations feel its below them to shoot a doe or even burn their buck tag on an old buck that has poor genetics. I've talked to 12yr olds who won't take a doe because a pro hunter they follow never kills one. I just feel like they are in for a long career of beating the woods and eating tags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted July 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 if you could change one thing I one buck rule is great. In 2011 & 2012 I took two management deer that were very aggressive and running others off. Squirly was 6.5/143 and Wide 8 was 4.5/138. Both times our other deer moved back in within 10 days of them being gone. That's also part of sound management taking out deer that you need gone even when more desirable deer exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohiobucks Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 Would not change a thing Same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhine16 Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 if you could change one thing Would cut MS three month gun season in half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 over a decade ago I should've talked to my dad about other family members hunting the property and certain guidelines we followed to be set into rules and certain places that should be off limits for sanctuaries. hunting was a lot better when it was only he, my uncle, and i. it's to the point that other family take the hunting for granted and shoot whatever they want despite any said rules. nobody freaks out on anybody because in the end family is more important than deer. if it could be something unrealistic... it would be to have my own very large tract of land and the means to keep it. another would be that I would change NYS game reporting so that reporting and harvest data isn't really based on the honor system. I believe many tag their deer but many my not take the time to report it. I've hunted other states where your take has to be reported or recorded in some way to get a carcass tag to be legal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 The only thing that I would change is that the kids who own the ground that I hunt on to stop coming up to cut firewood and ride dirt bikes once bow season starts. There's nothing worse than getting up at 3:30 a.m. and driving an hour and fifteen minutes for a rut hunt, only to have someone start up a chainsaw 2 ridges over at 8:00 a.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyman Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 I would turn the clock back 34 yrs and buy prime Illinois Whitetail habitat for about $300 an acre. If you would have told me when i graduated from high school that what would have been considered at that time to be "scrub" timber ground would now be selling for $3000 to $5000 an acre, I would have laughed you back to the stone age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted July 9, 2013 Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 Having my own ground to hunt and manage, crop, etc. We have a fairly sizeable plot of land (1300 acres) but we have too much family, friends, and people walking on for me to do anything of value with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burkef1 Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 I would change the amount of time spent in the field...... More time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scbasshunter Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 if you could change one thing I would extend South Carolina's season through Feb 15 so we can hunt in some cold weather. It would have to be archery only though after January 1st (End of season now.) so too many deer won't be harvested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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