What Do You Hunt For?

[Jrichard]

So A few of these threads that are popping up, its been making me think. As a hunter, what do you personally hunt for? Do you have specific spots designated for meat and for your trophy bucks? Or if you don't see anything except for a few does during a sit when you're looking for that monster, do you shoot the doe just before dark?

Do you go all season hunting your trophy bucks and pass up a doe and potentially go meatless for the year? Just wondering how everyone goes about all of this.

[Jrichard]

This year for me is about experience and meat.

[headgear]

Alwasy both, hard to imagine not having a freezer full of venison at the end of the year.

[Hawthorne]

Both. I have had venison in my freezer every year since 1999 my early 20s. Would feel weird not to have meat in the freezer. Usually take a doe for this reason
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[stash59]

Both, but I will save my better buck areas for bucks only.

[Horizontal Hunter]

Meat for me.vanything else is a bonus.

Bob

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[Razorhead]

I would feel very blessed to kill a nice adult doe early in bow season for the freezer. Of course it is always exciting to harvest a buck with a bow and I have enjoyed taking many over the years. However, I've never considered myself a trophy hunter and at this point of my bowhunting career, I probably never will. I am very particular about the field care of the meat of any animal that I harvest.

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[JoeRE]

Both, but meat is most important at the end of the day...I spend a lot of time and energy after what I see as a "trophy" but it is still about the meat. I can say that because to fill the freezer I would shoot a basket rack, or hopefully a doe, on the last day in a heartbeat, and have done that.

I probably would not hunt *most* game animals if the meat could not be used...other than in circumstances of nuisance or population control anyway.

[Jrichard]

Both, but meat is most important at the end of the day...I spend a lot of time and energy after what I see as a "trophy" but it is still about the meat. I can say that because to fill the freezer I would shoot a basket rack, or hopefully a doe, on the last day in a heartbeat, and have done that.

I probably would not hunt *most* game animals if the meat could not be used...other than in circumstances of nuisance or population control anyway.

Yeah I phrased that question poorly lol. I just meant exactly what you said. I just was not sure if people would pass up meat in the freezer to wait for a trophy. And if they never got that trophy if they were okay with losing out on a full freezer.

[Stanley]

I can buy meat at the store. I'm a head hunter. No reason to go round the mulberry bush. I have on occasion given my deer meat to a needy family. They don't get the horns though.

[Bucky]

I can buy meat at the store. I'm a head hunter. No reason to go round the mulberry bush. I have on occasion given my deer meat to a needy family. They don't get the horns though.

Love the honesty!
I hunt for the quiet... just to get away. Something mystical about the flight of an arrow too... I live for it

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[vermonthunter16]

Mostly meat.

[Dewey]

Both but I have passed up on meat waiting for bigger horns. Haven't shot a doe in many years. I hunt for the thrill of seeing big bucks and don't always connect so some years I end up having to buy my meat at the store. Luckily the last 3 years I put two bucks and a bear in my freezer to hold me over. Nothing better than wild game meat that you killed and processed yourself.

[Buckshot20]

I start the season looking for monsters and halfway into the first hour I start getting itchy fingers. I'm learning to control this. They say the first step is admitting you have a problem.

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[Wlog]

Both also. I do generally hold out for a nice buck but if I'm low on deer meat I shoot does. If I don't fill a tag that's ok with me though. I just love spending time outdoors.

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