How many days?
- Thread starter Al Hansen
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Paul Tychsen
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I am very jealous - being relatively young in my career, I don't see much vacation. Prior to my current role as a manufacturing engineer, I was in consulting, which afforded 5 weeks of vacation. Also, if you were not on a project, you had "free" paid vacation, which happened two years ago, giving me 10 weeks off during hunting season - a dream come true.
I save nearly all of my vacation for hunting season. I also get out before work a few times a week. I did not track days in the field this past year, but I would guess between 30 and 40 days.
Guess that's a great reason to look forward to retirement!
I save nearly all of my vacation for hunting season. I also get out before work a few times a week. I did not track days in the field this past year, but I would guess between 30 and 40 days.
Guess that's a great reason to look forward to retirement!
Pete McMiller
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You are quite fortunate Al to live where you do. Here in the midwest our whole season is only 60 days and I typically travel 2-3 hours to get to one of my 'spots'. I figure if I get out 30 days a season that I'm doing real well. For the past 7-8 years every Saturday and most Fridays during our season will find me in a motel someplace near a spot. Plus I usually travel on a multi-day, out of state, trip at least once in the fall.
John Fraser
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You are all fortunate. During the past few seasons I've hunted waterfowl somewhere between 15 and 20 days per year.
Brandon Yuchasz
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Al,
We have a 60 day season here as I am sure you know.
I work for myself and during the fall my work naturally slows down. I hunt ducks around 45 days a season and by the end of the season I am tired of getting up that early. About a week after it closes I am planning for the new season though.
We have a 60 day season here as I am sure you know.
I work for myself and during the fall my work naturally slows down. I hunt ducks around 45 days a season and by the end of the season I am tired of getting up that early. About a week after it closes I am planning for the new season though.
Anthony A
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Alas, I'm lucky if I get to go hunting for 8 or 9 half-days on Saturdays during the season. Maybe an additional 2 or 3 times on a weekday just before work; but the tides have to be perfect where I hunt, I can't have any meetings that day and I have to be at work by ten (and stay late for the rest of the week to show my boss I'm "making up " the time). It seems that each year I get to go less and less on weekdays as I seem to have more and more morning meetings...
I also usually take 1 or 2 days vacation and hunt for most of the day, and I always hunt through the Thanksgiving holiday (no family here in the US and Canadian Thanksgiving is in October).
So that makes a max of 12 half days, and 5 full days. That's about it. It would be different if we could hunt on Sundays in NJ. I'm tinkering with the idea of hunting in NY state on Sundays, but know not where to go (yet)!
We'll see if I go out less (or maybe more?) this coming season as this will be the first hunting season that I'm marrried! Wish me luck!
Anthony
ps: I started bow hunting last year and went out three times on Sundays; shot 1 deer.
I also usually take 1 or 2 days vacation and hunt for most of the day, and I always hunt through the Thanksgiving holiday (no family here in the US and Canadian Thanksgiving is in October).
So that makes a max of 12 half days, and 5 full days. That's about it. It would be different if we could hunt on Sundays in NJ. I'm tinkering with the idea of hunting in NY state on Sundays, but know not where to go (yet)!
We'll see if I go out less (or maybe more?) this coming season as this will be the first hunting season that I'm marrried! Wish me luck!
Anthony
ps: I started bow hunting last year and went out three times on Sundays; shot 1 deer.
Back in the day (1997-2004), I hunted ~25 days out of the 60 day season here. Those were the "good ole days", lots of time to hunt and tons of ducks. Had 3 years in a row where I killed close to or over 100 birds. Lots of great hunts, with wide variety of birds.
Since then, its been ~7-10 days/year. Have more responsibilities now and we have had few ducks here since then. It will get better but I'm not sure when.
Since then, its been ~7-10 days/year. Have more responsibilities now and we have had few ducks here since then. It will get better but I'm not sure when.
D Behrendt
Member
We have an early goose season that runs 25 days, and I hunt two of the four PA zones for ducks. I think I hunted around 30 days for waterfowl and a dozen or so for deer and small game. I wasn't a very good year though, lots going on and a deep freeze for the late honker season. Not bad for a guy with a full time job and still with my first wife I guess...