Deer Hunting

Upland4Ever

Upland4Ever

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So, now I was feeling better I went on a evening deer hunt with my father. And you know when you got that feeling you don't love something anymore? Well I was sitting there and heard a few quail, and all I was thinking, I need my dog I should be bird hunting. The hard part is, I have been trying to think of a way to tell my father I really don't enjoy deer hunting like I did when I was a kid. And if I could I would use all my hunting time bird hunting. How would you break the news to your dad?
 
I would consider taking him along on a birdhunt....mindful of a successful experience past gamebirds.

But, as my own Father was not much of a hunter and died before I was 30, I expect I might treasure the time spent deerhunting, if he enjoys it and put my own rather-dos in the background....especially under certain of the harsher realites of Life.
 
How many times a year do you deer hunt with him? I wish my son would fake having a good time deer hunting with me, he just can't do it..
 
Good for you! My dad died at 71 just before hunting season last year. Hadn't hunted together in years - but were fixing to start, cause he saw me getting into this duck hunting and his passion in life had been quail. I say "dang it" a lot, when I'm in the woods and get to thinking about him and how I tagged along, behind him, from as young as I can remember. Every time I hold a limb from kicking back, I think of him teaching me not to walk so close behind or let it slap back. I know what you're saying, my love for deer hunting comes and goes. I'll challenge myself with a bow, then a Trophy Buck, now I'm having more fun with camera's and trying to stay on specific bucks. My son does like duck hunting, so I'm all over that! Here's to Father-n-Son Good Times! :cheers:
 
My dad died when I was 15. I never got a chance to know him as an adult.

Hunting is not always about bagging game. I would suck it up and do the deer hunt with your dad and value and enjoy the time spent with him. There is plenty of time to bird hunt during the rest of the season, anyway.

Also, take him bird hunting after the deer hunting is done. He will probably really enjoy it, and if he does you will have a second activity to do together.

JMHO
 
So I went today and hung some late season stands today with my dad a were going bird hunting thanksgiving morning. Thank you all
 
:cheers: we'll be waiting on the end of season report now. I'm at work, in Alaska, obviously just waiting for someone to make a post.... :) I get home on Weds and can't wait to hunt ducks with my son, Thanksgiving morning. I'm going to have to hint that it become a tradition, he & I, hunting on Thanksgiving Morning. My dad always believed in lot of food & snacks make a good hunt. :)
 
My dad stopped all hunting when he got older, he's still in great shape, but he doesn't have much time to do that sort of thing anymore.

Saturday morning I was sitting in a stand as the sun was coming up over the Wisconsin woods, and I looked around, expecting to see my dad 100 yards away.

But he wasn't there.

I'd give anything to have him in the woods with me this weekend.
 
I grew up with a deer hunting culture. I started hunting with my dad when I was 16. We hunted as a family. My dad, my brother, cousins, an uncle, and various brother-in-laws would be in our group. I am glad to have had those years (30 plus) hunting with family. This season my older son, my brother and his son came up north to hunt together. We had a great hunt, two bucks and a doe. Besides that was the chance to be together doing something that my dad would be proud. Another generation carrying on the deer hunting traditions.
 
Like Shinbone, my father passed away when I was 14,(1973) but not before instilling a love for the outdoors that has carried me thru without him. I was second oldest of 6 kids..

My father loved the outdoors, but I dont think he was that great of a hunter or fisherman, but he tried as hard as he could in the time that he had, when he wasnt working to support his family.

I would give anything to share a blind with him, take him fishing, or have him hunt behind my dogs with me.



I think deep down, you know the right thing to do.
 
Last fall we moved Dad into the WI State Vets Home in King, WI. He suffers from dementia. Over Thanksgiving my sister brought him up to hunt camp and we took him out. But it was disturbingly obvious that he's too frail to be out there any more. This year is the first season he's not with us at all. I think I speak for all of us that we'd rather turn back the clocks to have him along again. But that isn't possible. I thank god we've got so many memories of the good days we all had together. No one can take them away.

Over the past 10 years, or so, I've gotten to where I no longer enjoy the deer hunt as I once did, but I do it for the family; spending time with my brothers, nephews. With deer populations being so poor in our area, I haven't seen a deer in 3 seasons, 18 days in the woods, but I'll keep going because of the other things involved that make it more important than shooting a deer.

Go hunting with your dad, then make other time available to hunt birds with him.
 
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