What's kept you from success?

[TCUHunter34]

I'm a big time self evaluator and always think I could do something better, even when successful (killing an animal). Before the season starts for most of us, I'm wondering what most people think of themselves and what they could improve upon to be more successful. For me, I try to make things happen instead of the situation playing out and reacting accordingly, I'm too aggressive typically. I can't sit for long in the whitetail woods and call too much in the elk woods.

 

[Buck Naked]

I think I have a story for each of those on the list where it happened to me
but the bottom line at the end is that was never my fault, usually blame Ms Murphy, the biatch

 

[jspradley]

All of the above.


And LOFT.

 

[juan trueno]

Juke joints. Honkey tonks. Neon lights. Les Paul’s. Telecasters. Beautiful girls. A quick buck. One more for the road. Johnny law. Wet Powder. Short Fuse. Just one round, andnthen we’ll go. A long leg contest (everyone’s a winner). Rancher’s Daughter. Rancher’s wife. Ranch Manager’s daughter. Judge’s Wife.

And on one damn good trip- all the above. But a guy told me once it was the journey not the destination and I read all the time here about how success has many different measures.

 

[See_Bennie_Point]

LOFT, knowledge, and impatience. Newbie on this forum and in the field. Trying to learn lessons every year for what to do the next.

 

[Soj51hopeful]

All of the above plus my stupid job takes too much time.

 

[5MilesBack]

I'm successful at archery elk hunting because of how aggressive I am. But it took me a little time to figure out exactly what works and works well. I tried some of the popular sequences that are out there early on and those never seemed to pan out very well. So I developed my own system from trial and error and it works very well. But.......that same aggressiveness has cost me some chances while in close......just because I'm aggressive by nature. If I can hold back for another minute without charging in.......I'd have success on most every encounter. When I'm working a bull for someone else.........they will get a shot if they want to take it.

 

[wildbill34]

Usually I just can't sit still long enough, be it behind the glass or in the stand.

 

[kiddogy]

I have spent literaly hours on my belly with elk grazing on all sides of me waiting for a shot at the herd bull to present itself. even so, I lack patience and most often blow it being to aggressive.

 

[Marble]

I think choosing the easy route or path should be added. Sometimes ive regretted taking a shortcut, costing me my chance. Or choosing the drainage that's a little less steep, only to look in the other later and locate animals.

 

[Fridaythe13th]

McDonald's

 

[Huntin wv]

Only thing that has kept me from success the past couple years has been unseen branches between me and the bull that have deflected arrows.


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[CJF]

Wind should definitely be a choice

 

[kiddogy]

I think choosing the easy route or path should be added. Sometimes ive regretted taking a shortcut, costing me my chance. Or choosing the drainage that's a little less steep, only to look in the other later and locate animals.

the reason their in that other drainage is cause you was in the one they wanted to be in.

 

[TCUHunter34]

Wind should definitely be a choice

Wind is a choice already

 

[TCUHunter34]

I have spent literaly hours on my belly with elk grazing on all sides of me waiting for a shot at the herd bull to present itself. even so, I lack patience and most often blow it being to aggressive.

Exactly the same for me. Especially Whitetail hunting. I’ll do something that I look back on and just think how stupid it was

 

[hayesplow]

terrible hunting guide and hunt buddie.

 

[FlyGuy]

It’s always my partner’s fault. 100% of the time. Even when it’s really my fault.


You can’t cheat the mountain

 

[dirtclod Az.]

My partners,(Dad and Brothers) Walk like a herd
Of Elephants through the woods!!

 

[5MilesBack]

Wind should definitely be a choice

In 2015 I hiked two hours into a spot in the morning where I had an encounter with a big bull a few days before. The wind was in my face the entire two hours. I get close to the spot and let out a bugle. I immediately get a response about 100 yards up into the timber and I can hear him coming. The wind does a 180, and he's gone. 10 seconds later the wind was back in my face consistently. I actually looked to the sky and said "seriously!" That's bad enough on any encounter, but for four hours worth of hiking just for that........sheesh.