I remember the days when any hog was a trophy, I remeber the excitement I feel several days before a hunting trip...

Now, I don't know why, maybe because I am more owner of my time I hunt much more than in the past. I remember how happy I was in the past, when I was able to go hunting once a month with a bunch of friends and when all the information I have of "fresh" pig activity in a given area was from the mouth of a gaucho..

Now most of my "hunting trips" are from one day to another, and with all my trail cams, feeders, night vision devices, etc. pigs are "just there". Suddenly I started passing animals because they were too small, too young, etc.

Suddenly there was not more challenge in what I was doing, there was no more "difficulty"...

Now, I am starting to enjoy something like a "back to basics" thing, something that provides me a very magic feeling, something that I had lost somewhere along the road.

I re discovered how much I enjoy hunting with nothing more than the moonlight, a pair of binos and a normal scope, any other thing just don't excite me too much.

So what is happening to me ? I am getting bored of hunting ??? this happens when someone hunts too much ???

I need to try something different ? maybe bow hunting ?

Thanks God I have never been too lucky with girls

L

Lorenzo, that is why I hunt more with handguns now than rifles. In fact last year all of my hunting was with handguns. Mre challenging in my opinion.

Lorenzo
I have pretty much lost the "magic" when it come to deer hunting. Now don't get me wrong, I still hunt nearly every day of the season, but I usually know before season exactly what buck and does I will shoot. I use game cameras to pattern the deer, and the kills are somewhat anti-climatic.

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Is there such a thing as "too much hunting" ??

Never, been hunting over 33 years now and have never had too much.

lorenzo I know what you say and yes bowhunting will make you feel your pulse as you have not in a long time

.........depends on whether you are asking me or my wife.

Lorenzo, I don't believe there is such a thing as too much hunting in one sense, but I do believe a person reaches a point where the technology and personal experience take the, for lack of a better word(s), the fun and excitement out of the equation.

I had an epiphany a couple of years back, and realized that when I pick up a rifle, all the fun is gone and I am gonna go out and kill something.

I have found that I get much more enjoyment and pleasure out of putting others on to game and helping them make a kill.

One of the reasons I set up my Javelina guide service is so I could be in the field more and get some enjoyment out of it.

I have also found that being Camp Bitch and doing the cooking and listenimng to the stories, far outweighs any kills I make personally.

Don't know how old you are Lorenzo, but part of it may just be the aging process in action.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Lorenzo, I don't believe there is such a thing as too much hunting in one sense, but I do believe a person reaches a point where the technology and personal experience take the, for lack of a better word(s), the fun and excitement out of the equation.

I think you have said the correct words. I also understand you, for me taking someone else and help him to kill a pig is more fun than killing it myself.

Since the 28th of november I am 42 years old

L

Jeff,
Exactly that I am feeling with some pigs. Because of trail cams I get to know their patterns, their family groups, etc. etc.

I can see the pigs I have shot very much alive just looking into my trail cams albums, a little bit weird..

L

Lorenzo,

Too much hunting?????? Absolutely NOT!

But what is a hunt? My daughter and I "hunt" grasshoppers, but we never kill any. We are out looking for them but in the process she's learning from me and I'm learning from her; and more importantly, we are sharing time together. My Dad took me hunting hundreds of times, in our lives together, but he rarely killed anything in some really great areas. When I was old enough to get myself to and from these same areas, I brought home alot of meat. Each animal was a trophy and I shot a ton of sows. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how much I had learned from Dad about sunrises and sunsets...and how good simple food tastes in the presence of either. Dad is gone now, but you want to take a guess about how much time I spend outdoors with my daughter sharing time. I hunted alone as a young adult but Crazyhorseconsulting hit the nail on the head when it comes to sharing the experience with others for a real boost in enjoyment. Hell, that's why we spend any time at all in front of these computers...to share time with others who enjoy the outdoors... wether we got anything on our latest hunt or not.

In support of Whitworth's weapon of choice...two thumbs up for handguns... especially for spot and stalking pigs. There couldn't be a game animal more ideally suited to hunting with a bow, handgun, or muzzleloader. Animals are plentiful, and what's really at stake if you mess up a stalk? "Oh darn...I better go see if I find another one".

We are all headed in the right direction...any time in the field is good time. If you think your passion has begun to wane, try going out for a month or so with just a camera and see how darn excited you are when you "give" yourself back a weapon. It's all hunting.

Have fun.

Matt

I have to add that since I don't hunt for a living, I can never seem to get enough. It is one of the only activities that I participate in nowadays that is a complete escape for me. Being out in the woods with a gun, kill an animal or not........it just doesn't get better than that........

There have been too many good comments here, for me to come up with something original. So I'll just agree. Both my brother and I reached that stage a few years back, when we realised we had very little we could still learn, and picking up a rifle usually meant a dead animal. My brother added a camera to his kit, and I added a Bow. Now all the excitement is back, and even a 50lber is a challenge again.

Nice pictures !!!
Well I am leaving know for one of those short hunting trips, let see if I see something, there are some bruisers around that I have not had an oportunity yet, so lets see.

I am returning tomorrow.

L

Must be the full moon. Hope your sky is clearer than the one I'm under.
Good luck.

I'm back...

Let me tell you something, we have had the worst drought in the last 40 years. The only three days that we have had rains were exactly the three days I choose to go hunting

And they were not together, they have been separate days !!!!

So the full moon was covered with a big thunder storm. At around 1 am the sky cleared up and the moon was there. We sat in a little hill and stay there watching a recent harvested cornfield for around an hour. Then we went to sleep.

Next morning when we went back to pick up some stuff we left there...the place was full of pig signs !!!!!! they have been wallowing aproximately 50 metres away from the place we have been sitting

It seems they went a couple of hours after we left

Maybe next week

L

Lorenzo,
Yes, very much so in the eyes of others. An attorney friend strongly recommended that I take up golf at my old age. I asked,"Why?". He stated that I hunt too much.

Geoff

That was a good one !!

I think that what i enjoy more is being outdoors with a bunch of friends hunting all together and maybe now I am the only one with enough time or saying it better, I am more owner of my time than them of theirs, so I mostly go with one more friend from one night to another.

I feel that when I start enjoying it I have to return home..

Maybe is just that, that my hunts are too short and always similar...

L