[model99er]

What do you consider your major physical/sensatory Hunting weaknesses and strengths ??

This should be rather entertaining !!



My weaknesses are:
1. snozolla ... busted nose in High School Baskeball, hasn't been much better than bout 75% since
2. hearing ... prolly only have bout 50% left at best, due to working part time in a sawmill running a chipper (before hearing protection was in vouge).

My strengths are:
1. peripheral vision ... always has been and still is quite excellent, sometime to the point of being annoying ... I love it when they finally get around to mowing the road burms
2. a "pre-loaded" trigger finger ... from a wet basement floor and opening an ungrounded fuse box door using the ring thingy with my trigger finger. Broke the succa, never got it properly set, and it's been bout 20 degrees "pre-loaded" ever since.


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[hemmy]

weakness-eye sight

strength-awareness or hearing

my real weakness is patience

[deadeyerik]

My weakness is I have a real hard time passing up a decent buck to wait for a bigger one.

My strength is in my eye. I may only have one but it's a good one.

My major strength is my hunting area. So many deer that there is lots of room for forgiveness. I bet even Hemmy could break a curse here.

[JDECS]

For various reasons, several local medicine men have had occasion recently to comment on my (with distance correction) exceptionally perceptive eyesight, remarkably acute hearing, and surprising endurance for a 66-year old gunslinger with a penchant for dropping motorcycles into large holes. Similar remarks about my sense of smell have been made by professional chefs.

BUT

If I get more than about an hour away from good plumbing fixtures, every deer in the forest knows I am there and what I ate last.
Maybe I will be lucky and this low anterior sigmoid resection they are going to do on me in a week or so will improve the situation.

[hemmy]

If I could break a curse there I'll be out deadeye.

[Uncle Buck]

Time....Who said your suppose to have all this time when you retire?... I need to get out and get use to my shotgun and shoot the 17 Rem CF more often.
Major constrution projects going on around this household is causing me not to get out and PRACTIZE!!!!!!!!!Um I know shooting at night is difficult the way it is...So not PRACTIZING with the guns I am going to use could impact my lethal hits when the predator season opens soon.....

[ButchA]

Strengths - - - Accuracy. Hit 'em right behind the front shoulder. Bang. Flop.

Strengths(maybe) - - - Ambidexterous. Lefty/righty, either way.

Weaknesses - - - Have a bad habit of spooking everything within a 10 square mile radius (i.e. walk through the woods like a herd of elephants). I guess I don't know how to walk slow and silent and use stealth.

Weaknesses - - - Major, major, serious, lack of patience. If I don't see a deer within a half hour/45 minutes, I get fidgity and get up and move around.

[HuntingThunder]

Weakness-falling asleep really easily
-to picky on bucks

Strength-Deer seem to like my smell, sometimes get busted because they are always around

HuntingThunder

[Woods'nWater]

My committment to hunting - I call it a strength and my wife calls it a weakness. I guess I can understand from her point of view - when she was pregnant with our first child, her due date fell right smack dab in the middle of deer hunting week. I went anyhow...and crossed my fingers the entire time that she wasn't in labour!

[Mongojoe]

LOL... That is commitment.... Woods'nWater... Welcome to the forum... Glad to have you join us.

[Hands]

Strengths, to me, are..

Accuracy, and it's only cause I shoot alot

hearing

this one is gonna sound both weird and B.S., but..smelling. If I'm downwind, I can smell the animals. But, I can smell everything..and I think that's because of my weakness, which is....

eyesight. I wear corrective lenses cause I'm blind as a friggen bat, even with corrective lenses I have trouble with distance unless I'm using a high powedered scope or binocs. And forget about dusk or night, I can't see anything at all. My eyes don't cut through darkness at ALL (or rain). Think it's why my nose and ears work so good.

[Mickey Finn]

Hands, on 11 November 2009 - 01:36 AM, said:

Strengths, to me, are..

Accuracy, and it's only cause I shoot alot

hearing

this one is gonna sound both weird and B.S., but..smelling. If I'm downwind, I can smell the animals. But, I can smell everything..and I think that's because of my weakness, which is....

eyesight. I wear corrective lenses cause I'm blind as a friggen bat, even with corrective lenses I have trouble with distance unless I'm using a high powedered scope or binocs. And forget about dusk or night, I can't see anything at all. My eyes don't cut through darkness at ALL (or rain). Think it's why my nose and ears work so good.

No Hands, it doesn't sound like BS to me. I noticed the first time I tried bow hunting that I could smell deer. Still amazes me.

My strenghts are, aside from smell which I already mentioned. Are time to commit to hunting. Rifle shooting. Thanks Uncle sam. Most important, learning from my mistakes.

Weakness? thats easy, I miss three out of four grouse I shoot at. It's gotten so I have to convince the dog I hit one. He doesn't even bother to watch any more.

ATB

[Hands]

That is so awesome Mickey Finn..you know what I mean then.

I bet grouse are hard buggers to shoot. I never saw one before, but...anything that jumps up and flaps away (they do that, right?) would startle me too bad to get a shot at..lol.