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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby seazofcheeze » Thu Dec 17, 2015 12:38 pm

Gain access to 4 new private land properties.

Find 10 new quality setups on public.

Get 4 more cams.

Spring scouting trip(s) to southern Ohio.

Find a shed (I'm terrible at it).

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Unread postby Buckshot20 » Thu Dec 17, 2015 1:19 pm

Become creepily intimate with the public land around me.

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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby 9pt » Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:28 pm

Confirm bedding in new areas.
Refine setups in areas I hunted this year.
Scout back home with my Dad and Bro.
Gain access to additional private land spots.

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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby BowHusker » Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:32 pm

Being new to the beast hunting style, I really want to spend this off season learning as much as possible about finding and hunting these bedding areas. I am also going to pick up at least one new book, probably the one about how the moon affects hunting.

I have 4 public areas I want to get into and extensively explore, especially while looking for sheds and beds.

I mainly though want to go through the private ground where I have most of my success with a find tooth comb and find these bedding areas. Overall I'm looking forward to logging some miles on my boots, spending time with my family and dog while doing it and just being in the great outdoors! Everything learned will just be a great bonus!

My main goal is getting a crack at the slob I'm after this coming weekend as it's my last hunt of the season. Going for broke!

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Unread postby whitetailassasin » Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:07 pm

Scouting Ohio and Wisconsin this spring.
Sept 25-28 ohio
Oct 27-Nov 6 Wisconsin
Nov 7-nov 13 Kansas if drawn
Just leased 2 properties in southern mi for 2016
So I'll be there when conditions are right.
I also have Kentucky for there gun opener if not drawn for Kansas or I'm tagged out in Ohio and I haven't tagged out in Michigan or don't have a target buck.
Late season Ohio MZ and Michigan MZ on leases.
And there is a possibility of if no Kansas...Missouri.
I will no more once results from Kansas come back.
Also putting on points for Iowa. I decided to go all in on mature buck hunting. Done procrastinating about it.

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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby PK_ » Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:41 pm

Sleep in every weekend.
No Shortcuts. No Excuses. No Regrets.
Everybody's selling dreams. I'm too cheap to buy one.
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Unread postby Primetime41 » Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:43 pm

I'd like to scout a few new areas, but my main focus this spring will be fine-tuning my current spots.

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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby Czabs » Thu Dec 17, 2015 5:56 pm

Kill big bucks

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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby Dewey » Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:42 pm

I'm gonna follow BigHunt around all season. He's like a big buck magnet so I figure I can kill his leftovers.





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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby Zona » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:50 am

Fine tune my early season setups. Throughly scout those areas that I found big bucks live in. Find more beds.
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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby kripp53 » Fri Dec 18, 2015 2:33 pm

Since I've been lurking on here for over a year and have yet to hunt Beast Style my list is long

1. Learn as much as possible on HB and DVD's and books to figure out how to scout and what to look for.
2. Figure out which public land spots to start hunting
3. Scout
4. Figure out how to get quiet with a mobile set up
5. Scout
6. Understand how deer are moving on the private land I hunt, instead of sitting in the same old stands all the time.
7. Scout
8. Figure out how to use wind and thermals to my advantage
9. Scout
10. Practice my shot
11. Scout
12. Take notes after every hunt and scouting trip, including pictures and maps (i.e. start a hunting journal)
13. Scout
14. Finally find time to do all this with four kids under 5 including a newborn and not making my wife mad :think:
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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby exojam » Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:38 pm

Go through surgery AGAIN!!!!!!

After that I hope to be scouting.
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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby jmaas07 » Sat Dec 19, 2015 2:12 am

-Gain access to more private land
-Attend workshop
-Scout extensively
-Run more cams
-Get squared away for 2016 out of state hunt
-No catastrophic injuries this off season!

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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby Jphunter » Sat Dec 19, 2015 6:41 am

#1 scouting, and looking at a couple new areas.

#2 hammering down on the honey do list.

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Re: Off-Season Goals? What about you?

Unread postby VA5326 » Sun Dec 20, 2015 5:46 am

Czabs wrote:Kill big bucks

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LOL! Isn't that the entire point?
If you want to kill a deer you have to be in the woods.


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