Rick Richard
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Oh yeah.
What do you guys do in the off season?
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Play lots of golf and take a tour around the U.S. on a motorcycle. Or go to the library and check out a good book or books.Who doesn't get just a little sad when hunting season is over? Springtime for me can be somewhat depressing, perhaps its the colorless and winter torn look of the high-country I love to play in. But spring also is a new beginning of a whole new type of activities, as it begins to warm up and green begins flourish through the hills, there is still much to do. It might be shed hunting or hunting spring varmints, but here is a little project we did on what to do in the off season:
Off Season Activities
Who doesn’t get just a little sad when hunting season is over? Springtime for me can be somewhat depressing, perhaps its the colorless and winter torn look of the high-country I love to play in. But spring also is a new beginning of a whole new type of activities, as it begins to warm up …...coldboremiracle.com
Off season? If I am having an "off season", I just practice a little more.
Seriously, I do hate to see the hunting seasons come to and end, but with bird, small game, medium/large game and then spring turkey, it is a fairly long hunting season. Then there are fishing, various shooting sport comps, fun at the ranges, shoots with friends, time to play with another wildcat, build, hand-gunning, reloading, bullet casting, swaging, varmint shooting, etc, etc. Maybe spend more time catching up on all the unread hunting and shooting magazines, books, etc that I neglected during the hunting seasons, or write an article or two.
Oh, yea, a lot of post and then pre-season scouting and planning.
Then there are forums like this and others to share and learn decades of knowledge and experience with and from other guys and gals who have the itch.
Seriously, I do hate to see the hunting seasons come to and end, but with bird, small game, medium/large game and then spring turkey, it is a fairly long hunting season. Then there are fishing, various shooting sport comps, fun at the ranges, shoots with friends, time to play with another wildcat, build, hand-gunning, reloading, bullet casting, swaging, varmint shooting, etc, etc. Maybe spend more time catching up on all the unread hunting and shooting magazines, books, etc that I neglected during the hunting seasons, or write an article or two.
Oh, yea, a lot of post and then pre-season scouting and planning.
Then there are forums like this and others to share and learn decades of knowledge and experience with and from other guys and gals who have the itch.
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There's an off season.Who doesn't get just a little sad when hunting season is over? Springtime for me can be somewhat depressing, perhaps its the colorless and winter torn look of the high-country I love to play in. But spring also is a new beginning of a whole new type of activities, as it begins to warm up and green begins flourish through the hills, there is still much to do. It might be shed hunting or hunting spring varmints, but here is a little project we did on what to do in the off season:
Off Season Activities
Who doesn’t get just a little sad when hunting season is over? Springtime for me can be somewhat depressing, perhaps its the colorless and winter torn look of the high-country I love to play in. But spring also is a new beginning of a whole new type of activities, as it begins to warm up …...
Fall hunting in Montana starts in September and ends in November (well, now if you're unlucky enough to still have a tag you can get a week in December to hunt with a ML), I try to get down to AZ for archery deer and javelina in January. Usually any free time spent between MT rifle and AZ archery is spent waterfowl hunting. After that's over there should be enough ice on the lakes that it's time to start drilling holes and catching fish. Right now is my longest off-season, when the ice is unsafe and I'm waiting for spring bear and turkey, I use this time to get stuff ready for the garden and spring chickens. Spring bear starts in a month and that leads into late-spring or early-summer, where it's either catching fish on a fly rod or spinning and bait casting rods all summer. Summer usually also consists of a lot of loading ammo and testing loads and doing my best to shoot as much as possible. That takes me all the way to September when archery elk gets going again. Where's the off-season? I need a couple of extra months to relax.
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Sealesniper
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I fish, Turkey hunt, fish, fish, crab, work on the farm, and did I say fish?
RUFUS-6.5x284
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Plant summer plots, yard work, target practice, reload ammo, camp on weekends, support the kids in base & soft ball and WHAT ever the wife wants.
Lenny Foffa
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That's an interesting question. I'll continue to hunt pheasant and trucker Partridge at my Rod and gun club until the first weekend of March. Then I put my 28 gauge over under away and start getting ready to open up our house at the Jersey shore where I keep my Corvette and my boat. I will get to the range at least two times per week and shoot a target rifle or a big game Rifle and my 22. Then get down to the beach for Friday Afternoon. I can shoot on Tuesday prepped my cases Tuesday night reload on Wednesday shoot again on Thursday prep my cases Thursday night finish loading Friday morning and then head to the beach.Sometimes if I have the energy I will shoot Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.
Benman73
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This is what I do. Plus a whole lotta shooting.
Think I'll sit on the deck with my long bow , call his stupid @#s up into the backyard, move out into the woods and take pictures! I live about 200 yards from a federal wildlife refuge, 8000 acres and there's 4500 acres of girl Scout land to the East. It all used to be a military base and paper company land, its Crawling with game animals.
Get ready for the next season!
