What hunter stage are you in?

[WRO]

I’m in the I love to hunt phase and my outcomes are based on tag quality, I’d rather help on great one than hunt an otc or low quality one.

My only rule which I typically follow are no young mule deer bucks. That being said, I live to go with others. My best hunts this year were:

1) my daughter’s first antelope.

2) helping my buddy on his oil Utah tag..

3) breaking my no dink rules with both my daughters

4) helping my buddy fill his oil moose tag.. (picture isn’t on the internet so not sharing it)

Honorable mention helping my best friend’s boy get his first buck..

Still have a cow elk tag and coues tag.

This maybe my favorite year yet and I’ve only killed a couple critters.


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[hereinaz]

I am in it for the adventures with some good type 2 fun. I like tags and the personal challenge to kill as good an animal I can for the hunt I am on.

Some of my favorite hunts are with friends. Can’t beat helping a buddy get his first elk. That is an adventure. How can you not love this?

 

[Snowwolfe]

When we lived in TN our goal was to load up the freezer with venison for the year. We harvested adult does most of the time and 1 buck each (usually). Killing the deer was the least favorite part of the hunt.
Now back in Alaska I want to go moose hunting again as well as blacktail deer on Kodiak. Purpose is adventure and hopefully some meat. We generally share meat from a hunt so I would be just as happy if someone in our group got a moose as I killed plenty. When you are in your 70's the memories of the hunt and the adventure are way more important.

I do have one goal left. If Alaska's Dall sheep population rebounds I want to take a nice ram at age 75. It's not just the ram, but most likely my son will be joining me and it would most likely be our last "hard" hunt together.

 

[ORJoe]

What stage is it where somebody else starts a "Should I quit this sport" thread based on how many years he goes between animals, and I realize I'm not doing much better than him?

 

[EastHumboldt]

If I had a nickname it would be “Dink”. I prolly fall into the sportsman stage but I never went through the trophy stage. For me putting numbers on racks makes it competitive, and I don’t want it to be a competition. Boys just wanna have fun.