Man you guys are studs! I've had a hard time maintaining any consistency this winter. I get on a good roll and get a bug or company comes or life gets busy... I'm probably just making excuses but I am moving forward with this plan and goals.
Goals
1. Weigh 225 by Sept. 1st (I'm still down...
You only lose your points on first choice draws and if you look hard there are some good antelope hunts in WY that can be had as a second choice. You'll have to most likely hunt private (pay to play) but you can draw those 2nd choice tags virtually every year and still build points for a top...
Lookin' like MT for me this year, hopefully! Probably Wyoming general as well. I dropped the ball on Iowa and didn't get my app in on time. Figured I could pick up a leftover... yeah right! Shoulda known better.
Buck fever, and knowing what was actually a shot. I missed a lot of opportunities at animals because I was always looking for the perfect broadside shot... learn arrow placement!
Good discussion here fellas, lots of food for thought. My lab gets the vaccine every year but never been snake trained. I don't take him into areas he's likely to encounter snakes until it gets cold, same reason I don't take my kids into grizzly country.
Great looking dogs... killed my first rooster over a big old red setter named Jim... he was a true hunter in a time when the hunt was largely bred out of them and he was named after Jim Kjelgaard, the author of Big Red.