I hunt all year round but take my bow off the hook for a doe and my one buck pledge....[up]...I am my own conservation

 

I've only been out 3 times since Dec 1. I killed 3 deer earlier in the year and I'm not that desperate for meat.

 

Usually when my wife tells me she hates me and I ruined her life. [smoke]

 

That's when I start doing all day sits

 

Usually by the second week of January if I'm still seeing antler.

 

I try to take 2 deer for my own family and 1 or 2 for extended family and friends. So far only shot two bucks, will try to take a broken leg doe I saw last week and call it quits. I hunt private land with no public areas around.

 

I'm usually done by the second Saturday in January. The landowner whose property that I mostly hunt always asks me to shoot a deer for him. This year, he wants an additional deer. So, I'm trying to shoot him a buck.

 

I hunt as many days as possible. Ideally I like to put 2-3 deer in the freezer each year, but even if I already have that many, I'd rather be in a tree or a blind than sitting on my couch watching TV. I wake up at 4:30am, work all day, have a wife and a baby, and have tons of other responsibilities and hobbies that keep me busy for 18-19 hours a day. When I get the time to spend a few hours in a tree, I'm doing it. As long as the season is open, dates on a calendar are 100% meaningless. I'll be in a tree

 

I'm assuming you mean for deer. I'll give it up after I knock 3 or 4 down, or before it turns real cold, whichever comes first.

 

Five deer is my "quota". usually 2-3 bow, 1 M/L, 1 shotgun. I like killing with all my weapons. I usually get it done by 6 day. The weather gets too unpredictable after that.

 

last few years with my son wrestling it takes up most of my weekends so after 6 day it becomes very hard to get out,

 

One doe or Buck is good for me. This year, all opportunities came and went by mid November for me. I hunted one buck hard and had a meeting one day but missed low from the excitement. I still had cams out in January but was only looking to see if he came back. One of those rut bucks that's around for a while than goes back home. Hope he made it. Went out a couple times after but saw nada. I'm good with it. Still had fun spending time in the woods.

 

I was done hunting Dec 22 in New York. Never did winter bow for Jersey. I have been enjoying Rabbit hunting, Trapping, and other things that i look to enjoy after the deer season.

I think Jersey season is a little to long IMO, there is no need to be killing Doe's this time of year.

 

I am not done until they bury me. I am out 12 months of the year, if not actually hunting something I am preparing for hunting by looking for sheds, scouting land and getting ready for the next season, I hunt Deer, Rabbits, Squirrel, Ground Hog, Turkey, Pheasant, Fox & Coyote in between I go fishing. Now don't you WISH YOU WERE RETIRED to with nothing on the agenda that you HAVE TO DO.[drinking]

 

Usually , I'd be focusing on predator hunting at this point , but I've got an empty freezer . Passed up a lot of deer with high hopes earlier this season , but mid November hit and deer vanished on the properties I hunt . Have not had a deer I would personally consider shooting infront of me since before Thanksgiving . Rookie move I guess .

 

You need to have some backup spots and never hunt the same piece 2 days in a row if you can help it. I personally put one in the freezer 1st thing in the season that way there is no temptation during the rut to shoot anything but my target.

 

I have 4 spots I hunt and spread my hunts across them evenly . Playing the wind as best as I can. Still dialing it in. I had a great season just being out there no matter what . I won't be making the mistake of passing early again though .

 

Made the same mistake. Finally got a doe last month. Next year, I will take an early doe and pass later. Hit one of my spots in Z51 last week to try and get a buck. Pulled camera. All bucks dropped, so I am done. I will be doing some scouting, that's about it.

 

I dont shoot more then I'm going to eat. I was out Saturday with no luck in Zone 8 but my daughter was the only one who got lucky back in September.

 

latest ever for me, I hunted last day of winter bow, but usually done well before then. The one z2 spot just happened to have 2 nice 8's still holding otherwise I would not have bothered.

 

Mid Jan. for me. I don't shoot more then two, on occasion I will take 3 in a season. I don't need to fill my freezer for the entire year, plus my friends and neighbors freezers too. That is what food stores are for.

 

In NJ I usually wait until the last week in January to take 1 or 2 does for the freezer because I like to hang them for a period of time.
Shooting a early season doe or a doe the last week of the season will result in the same deer numbers the following year. If you think differently please explain.

 

Typically I stop in January. However, the season is still open until Feb 20 in zone 9 (private), got two studs holding their antlers, & a buddy needs a deer. Therefore, I will go out one or two more times. Wish the ice was safer for fishing. BTW, I've never killed a deer this late before.

 

Play to the whistle!

 

I stop right at Christmas... I feel the deer need at least 9 months to settle down, and not be pressured. Think that would help also with fawn health as well as overall deer herd health but that's just me.

 

Aside from one morning hunt during winter bow, I haven't been out for deer since 6 day. Freezers have been full since the beginning of December. Most seasons I am usually done by 1/15 at the latest and that's only if I haven't shot what I need by then. Ideally, I like to have shot what I need for meat by 6 day and small game hunt through the rest of the winter.

 

I quit deer hunting when my freezer has meat in it, not before, most years that happens during permit bow, with all that I had going on the last few years I haven't been getting out much, this year I hunted in September and October in a new spot and didn't score, did not hunt permit bow or six day, so it was winter bow, my zone 2 spot I shot a spike, the new spot delivered a doe just before the storm, so now I have plenty of meat to get me into this fall season, now that I have the new spot dialed in I should be set by the end of regular season. I personally don't like going late into February, but will if im out of meat.

 

there shouldnt be a season in Sept either

 

I'm out till the very end. But I'm so ready to empty my truck clean the inside AND RESTOCK FOR THE FISHING SEASON.