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From my teenage years through my 30s I spent about 100 or more hours a year actually hunting, not counting hunting-relating activities. It was my primary lifestyle. Most everything else I did in life was just to service hunting. I was raised that way. My family spent most major holidays in deer camp so many of my best memories are hunting related. Sometime just before 40 I started to cut back, and this last season I’ve hunted no more than 4-5 times.

Besides having a family later in life, a primary cause for me to lose interest has been me moving to the woods. Hunting used to be an escape to the woods. Now I get the same escape sitting in my yard watching the chickens forage and maybe seeing a deer feed through my woodlines in the distance.

Also, I no longer take pleasure in hunting if it isn’t productive, and productive to me means harvesting the maximum amount of meat with minimum time and effort. I have a tendency to now only care to hunt for sustenance. The sport aspect means little to me. When I was young I could sit for hours like a praying mantis for the pleasure of seeing a nice buck for 30 seconds. Today I don’t have time to play cat and mouse with a mature buck for an entire season. I rather stack up 5 yearlings in a weekend and have a full freezer. Sport be darned. Yet Florida now makes us trophy hunt to some degree with antler restrictions and limited doe harvest.

To that end, I keep my stands set up year round in spots that consistently produce bucks. I leave them alone and only sit in each one a small number of times during peak solunar and weather times. Ironically, I get more shots a mature bucks now simply because I don’t overhunt areas like I used to. I can see a mature buck today on just a few hours of stand time a year.
 
Florida Bullfrog said:
Yet Florida now makes us trophy hunt to some degree with antler restrictions and limited doe harvest.
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And so few hunt in my county that some of the forest preserves are highering sharpshooters to cull the preserves that are overpopulated The preserve next to me has not had to be culled. Me and my family hunts or allows hunting on the adjacent farmland. LOL
 
I used to have a friend that had gone rabbit hunting with four of his buddies, he had an old single shot 12 gauge. When they came back to the house he leaned his gun up against the porch railing just outside the front entrance door. They were inside in the kitchen having a snack when suddenly one of em' sees a skunk go running across the yard. he points out the kitchen window and hollers ''skunk''!! Well this fellow runs out the front door, grabs his gun, shoves a shell into the chamber, aims and fires. . . . . . . except there was only a click. He quickly shoves another shell into the chamber, aims and fires at the skunk. The skunk almost disintegrates and everybody watching wonders at the sight because #4 birdshot shouldn't do that much damage at 10 yards.
They figured out that he had chambered a 20 gauge shell first and when it didn't fire, he in his excitement just quickly chambered another shell that happened to be a 12 gauge shell and it fired. There was no damage to the gun or anyone else, it just disintegrated the skunk.

He had previously known about the 20 gauge shells in his coat pocket, but in his excitement he forgot.
 
Just saying.
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