Whitetail shape

[robertpaulsen]

What are you boys doing to get into whitetail shape for 2025? I’ve done the following:

1) QUIETLY opening bags of chips and eating them slowly without making noise. Added benefit is wife says I’m more civilized now.

2) Starring at walls building up my ability to fight the boredom of sitting in a stand all day. PR so far is 25 mins. Hoping to be able to stay awake at least an hour by Nov.

3) Drinking 15 beers a night and getting up early. It’s getting more difficult as I get older. Might need to move my stand closer to the road in the near future.

4) Focus on estimating live weight of bucks. To practice I went to the local McDonald’s. Confirmation I needed more practice guessing weight was confirmed by asking their customers their weight. But by far this has been the most accurate way of practicing the art of figuring out weight!

5) Ive also practicing throwing a fist and saying “smoked em” or “stud buck”. “That point holds a ring, that’s a 19 pointer”

What are you boys doing to get in whitetail shape?

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Nothing.

 

[cnelk]

What are you boys doing to get into whitetail shape for 2025? I’ve done the following:

1) QUIETLY opening bags of chips and eating them slowly without making noise. Added benefit is wife says I’m more civilized now.

2) Starring at walls building up my ability to fight the boredom of sitting in a stand all day. PR so far is 25 mins. Hoping to be able to stay awake at least an hour by Nov.

3) Drinking 15 beers a night and getting up early. It’s getting more difficult as I get older. Might need to move my stand closer to the road in the near future.

4) Focus on estimating live weight of bucks. To practice I went to the local McDonald’s. Confirmation I needed more practice guessing weight was confirmed by asking their customers their weight. But by far this has been the most accurate way of practicing the art of figuring out weight!

5) Ive also practicing throwing a fist and saying “smoked em” or “stud buck”. “That point holds a ring, that’s a 19 pointer”

What are you boys doing to get in whitetail shape?

That’s hilarious.
I just might steal that one

 

[IdahoBeav]

It's not productive, but I spend my time thinking about how much easier whitetail hunting would be if whitetail were as unwary as mule deer and if the weather in November were as warm as it is in October.

 

[Maxhunter]

Not a dang thing whitetails are for sissies

 

[KenLee]

Make a list of things I'll accomplish after next season is over so I have a canned reply whenever how often I hunt comes up.
Not that I'm doing even half of the list.

 

[FuddRucker]

Grandpa, is that you?!

 

[Macintosh]

dont forget your wrist excercises...dont wanna strain anything turning the key on the wheeler.

 

[West.mass.hunter]

This is hilarious.
I'd try guesstimating time aswell.
The "I must have been sitting for at least an hour" but in reality it's only been 15 minutes

 

[NRA4LIFE]

I always target a certain time to sit to. It seems the last 15 minutes takes 2 hours.

 

[lyingflatlander]

I typically go ice fishing in the off season and wait until, “I think I need to pee.” Then time how long it takes to struggle through several layers of clothes to perform said action. Total game changer for me.

 

[fngTony]

This could be fun thread but lets not get inappropriate with the replies (removed a couple).

 

[Wheels]

Better get a new bow or rifle this year, that 2024 model is outdated after not shooting it all fall.

 

[bergie]

I have been measuring all the logging gates I can find to verify I can get my wheeler around them. I know, I know those roads are closed to motorized vehicles but I have been driving my wheeler on them for 30 years so no law change is going to stop me. It's my right as an AMERICAN to drive those roads!

I have also been writing my legislature (definitely not the commission, I would rather law makers control my fish and game rather than biologists) and I tell them that I do not see the same amount of big giant bucks that I used to. I will continue to ask them to shorten the seasons because I refuse to walk anywhere. I find it ridiculous that I can't kill a 160" buck every year from my wheeler while drinking a keystone and smoking a marb red.

Finally, and this one is for real, I have been stocking up on orange EVERYTHING because I sure as hell want the fat lazy slobs described above to see me when they come riding around a corner and there is an unfortunate 120" buck in between them and I.

 

[KenLee]

I have been measuring all the logging gates I can find to verify I can get my wheeler around them. I know, I know those roads are closed to motorized vehicles but I have been driving my wheeler on them for 30 years so no law change is going to stop me. It's my right as an AMERICAN to drive those roads!

I have also been writing my legislature (definitely not the commission, I would rather law makers control my fish and game rather than biologists) and I tell them that I do not see the same amount of big giant bucks that I used to. I will continue to ask them to shorten the seasons because I refuse to walk anywhere. I find it ridiculous that I can't kill a 160" buck every year from my wheeler while drinking a keystone and smoking a marb red.

Finally, and this one is for real, I have been stocking up on orange EVERYTHING because I sure as hell want the fat lazy slobs described above to see me when they come riding around a corner and there is an unfortunate 120" buck in between them and I.

That's why you bust the 120 before they get there

 

[Fireflyfishing]

Trying to decide if I’m going to use a 375 H&H mag or a .223 next year on a whitetail. I’m still deciding.

 

[rookieforever33]

Memorizing my list of excuses to my wife why I can maintain 4 acres of food plots beautifully with soil samples and rotating crops but grow more weeds than veggies in my garden.

 

[JMundy84]

Working up a new load for my 300 win mag cause I'm sure as hell not using anything "marginal" any more I want "wallop"

 

[FuddRucker]

Working on optimizing my nutrition for those long sits during the rut, so I'm stocking up on little Debbie snacks.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

I'm going to sit on a 5 gallon pail every day for 3 hours.