Vacations

[Lewis1303]

With much said about hunting beast style and being able to shoot that mature buck outside the rut, I'm curious as to how much serious effort is spent using vacation days outside that rut window. This will be my first year using vacation days outside that rut window to give more of an earlier effort on shooting a mature buck. Does anyone else exhaust early season vacation days? Any options I didn't cover just feel free to write in.

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[Jackson Marsh]

I have the first week of the season off, I will also have a a week or two during November.

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[Hawthorne]

I've been taking the first two weeks of November off for the last 18 years. Funny thing I shot my biggest buck of my life on October 7th on a weekend hunt. Next year im gonna take the first week of season

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[Dewey]

Other than the rut I take 3 day weekends the rest of the season. Main reason is with Friday vacation they can't stick me with mandatory overtime on the weekends.

I have the first week of the season off this year but will be bear hunting much of that time.

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[Bucky]

IMO - the best time of the year to kill a deer you have scouted is the first 7-10 days of the season in WI

[BuckyHunter13]

I can take vacation pretty spur of the moment, so I keep an eye out for cold fronts, take 3 day weekends, and I get Columbus Day so I'll take a 4-day for that. I take half days when I can to stretch my vacation further. If you run low there's always the 24-hour flu. It can be nasty in September.

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[hunter10]

I take 4 days during last week of oct and another 4 days during first week November

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[Peeps22]

I take vacation to leave at noon every mon-wed-friday after opening weekend until the middle of october. Then 4 days total for nov. I like leaving at noon because it gives me time to get some stuff done around the house and still be able to get to some spots that are back in the marshes with plenty of time and not have to rush.

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[Jphunter]

I usually take a week off middle of November. I'm thinking next year I might take a few days off at the first of season also.

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[BuckyHunter13]

I take vacation to leave at noon every mon-wed-friday after opening weekend until the middle of october. Then 4 days total for nov. I like leaving at noon because it gives me time to get some stuff done around the house and still be able to get to some spots that are back in the marshes with plenty of time and not have to rush.

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That's a sweet setup. A man can get a lot of hunting done and still be around on the occasional weekend.

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[Peeps22]

Yeah im lucky my supervisor likes me haha. My hours are 6-3:30 mon-fri but if i take off at noon its only considered 2 hrs of vacation so its not alot of vacation burned up. Saturdays are volunteer 5:30-10:30 so even if i work sat. Mornings i still have alot of the day left to finish up loose ends and hunt in the evenings.

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[iowa whitetail]

I will take 3 weeks in November, and can lay off any days that look good before that. It's getting close. Good luck

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[Gibby]

I generally hunt whenever I can from Oct 1 to Dec 31. But I do take the week leading up to Halloween off every year to archery hunt just before the gun seasons begin. We have 3 (week long) ML seasons in the Wildlife Management unit I hunt in and I usually apply to one of those as well. And for the last hooray I am usually off between Christmas and New Years so I hit the woods pretty hard that week if I am not tagged out by then

[Ruger]

We work 4-9 hour days and then get off at noon today n Fridays. If the weather is right I take off the 1/2 day on Friday. Hunt Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. Check Sunday evening. I don't get too far behind at work doing this. Then oll take from Christmas until after New Years. Aside from that I may hunt a couple midweek days

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[BassBoysLLP]

IMO - the best time of the year to kill a deer you have scouted is the first 7-10 days of the season in WI

^ This

I'll be burning through some half days of vacation during the early season. I have 11 days in late october - early November. My wife and I are expecting another baby in mid December so I expect my home range to shrink considerably around opening weekend of gun season.

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