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Liv4Rut

Liv4Rut

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with the anticipation of the season getting stronger and stronger each day, i was wondering how many of you guys that have hunted 5,10,15,20+ years still get all excited about the opening morning, you have a hard time sleeping, hunting is the only thing on your mind, just waiting for that first morning to get there. you stay up checking and rechecking you gear, anticipating the morning of how good it will be. ive been hunting deer 11 years and i still get like that every year on opening morning, whether it be deer, duck,goose, elk, or turkey. it makes me feel like when i was nine years old again cant sleep at all. then as the season goes on and you let the lungs out of a few does out and get the itch out of your system, sleep finally arises and you can focus on that big buck. i was just wondering if this feeling ever dies off?
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The feeling is still as strong as it was 20 years ago, if not 10 times stronger. If you enjoy it as much as I do, the feeling never dies.
 
I would guess that if you ever lose that feeling you probably won't hunt anymore. For me, I hope I never lose my love for the outdoors and hope it continues to feel as it did on my first bow hunt in 1979.

It may sound crazy to you, but I know a few guys that used to feel exactly as you do but now don't even go to the woods. I have asked them what changed, and they really don't give me a straight forward answer.

I don't see that ever happening to me, but stranger things have happened.

Good luck to you opening day!
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For me, it's not so much about opening day as it is just for the season in general. As the days get shorter and cooler, I start getting my gear ready. I'll go out the second or third week on some scouting hunts but I guess I'm kinda like the bucks, I don't get real fired up until the just before the rut kicks in. My big weekend is pheasant opener .... pheasants in A.M. then head south for deer and turkeys Saturday evening, Sunday, and maybe Monday if I still have tag(s) to fill. Pheasant activity always seems to stir things up!! Then I get to do it all over again for late muzzleloader!

Threebeards
 
i'm sitting in bed, sitting in the car, sitting at work, just about anywhere, anytime i'm thinking about where i'm gunna sit opening day. where i'm gunna sit in november...damn, i got it worse than i did when i was 9.
 
If that feeling EVER goes away you will probably be done hunting. 3 wks til early muzzle and I can't think of anything else right now!
 
I don't think so. My father is anxiously awaiting his 41st season. I am only a decade behind him.

It is something that is part of us. I sometimes wonder if we would have been the trappers and mountain men of the pioneering days of this country.

I try to imagine this spirit trapped in a body that can no longer go to the woods. I'm sure many of our fathers and grandfathers have faced this.

I try never to take what we have here for granted.
 
I'm similar to threebeards, but I get geeked up for the opening week of bow season and then I go through a small low then it hits me about October 20th and my wife sses it in my eyes and she knows at that point she becomes a hunting widow for the next 60 days or so. I have been bowhunting 20 years and the feeling gets stronger and more intence every year. It was great when Nugent had a talk show in Detroit, he would start with his morning hunt everyday and then some hunt music and Fred Bear stories after a couple hours of him he would have you beyond excited for your next hunt. I have a bowhunter party every year and a bunch of guys come over with thier mounts, sheds and pictures. Then we break out the bows lay down some money and have a shooting contest. Then we eat a hella of a lot of venison, talk some serious crap about this years kills and watch Michigan whoop who ever they are playing that particular weekend and have a FEW cold ones.
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The party is this Saturday and that gets the ball rollin'. If you are in the Michigan area stop by it's a good time. I can't wait till 10/01/03.
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Nonres
 
Nonres must not have been a very big party last year when they played Iowa as Iowa put the smack down on the Wolverines!!
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Just a little joke as I'm a big Iowa fan. Yes there is nothing like a morning sit and then a little Iowa play by play on the radio in our hunting cabin as you try to squeeze in a little afternoon nap before the afternoon sit. Have a couple deer bologna sandwiches with a cold Dew and you my friend are the happiest man on earth. Then we usually have a few local bowhunters stop by the cabin after dark and let the
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flow and let the stories grow because it is bow season in Iowa. And it doesn't get any better than this!!!
 
I haven’t lost the feeling after 20 years and that’s tough when you live in Michigan (the official if it’s brown it’s down state). Going out of state every November for a couple weeks makes up for it though.

About 3 weeks ago I laid in bed for about 2 hours trying to fall asleep but I all I could think about what we needed to do to improve the habitat on our property. Do you guys do this, my alarm clock has never failed in at least ten years but I still set two for opening morning, just in case?

Rattle them in, unfortunately I was at that game last year and it was %&$& embarrassing! I’ve never seen a Michigan team get beat like that before.
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At least it turned out that Iowa had a pretty good team. I wish they would have played Ohio St. and kicked their butts. But like Notre Dame last weekend, I think the Hawkeyes will find out in a big way that pay backs are hell! Good luck two weeks from Saturday because we remember last year very clearly.
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Hey Nonres, nice picture, who's stand did you shoot that buck from?
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Tim
 
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