Ive got to wait till Oct 30th. But I'm still excited.

Sept 7 mountain goat, Sept 11 Muzzleloader elk, Oct 1 WY antelope, Oct 26 NM elk, Nov 6 deer, Dec 1 antelope, Dec 1 elk.  Oh and maybe some ducks, pheasants and geese to occupy the poor little hunting dog.  I've gotten better and better at scouting these past couple of years and all the critters I see just keeps me fired up and spurs me into hiking further and further.  It's great.  I'd never survive summer without scouting.

Burned 9 points cause i'm tired of chasing those unreachable units in my lifetime. I spent hours, days, months pouring over maps, talking to DOW, Biologists, & even past successful hunters in this unit that I have met on this forum. A few nights my wife caught me downloading stuff off the internet at 2 in the morning, then cracked up when she found it was not porn, but hunting tips to read on my lunch hour. Exited?...yea I guess it doesn't take much.

I drew 1 of 4 archery buck tags & 1 of 5 muzzleloader bull tags for this unit(2009 allotment). Still waiting for the fall turkey results, and buying an OTC bear cap tag(hopefully). Exiting?...enough to go out and drop $1500 on a new bow rig. I figured since I had an archery tag I should have a bow!

Armed with waypoints of possible scouting sites loaded in my GPS I drove 4 hrs to my hunt unit. As I passed the sign to confirm I was in my unit a huge 6X6 bull crosses 20 yrds in front of me heading for a canyon I had marked as a possible. 4 miles down the road I camped and woke up to see 2 more bulls looking down a ridge 200yds above me. In the 6 hrs & of scouting I saw 6 bulls, 2 bucks, 7 turkeys(2 jakes), 2 color-phase bears, and found two 6 point elk sheds. All within 3 miles of my truck. Exitement?...It doesn't get any better than this. Heart pumping, heavy breathing, wide eyes, $hit eating grin when I think of my trip....hell my wife still thinks its porn!!!

I have a friends wife that asks me every time that she sees me if I am done killing yet?  And I usually tell her no, and as was said there is no off season anymore.  It seams like every month of the year I have something to do with hunting.  Weather it is applying, scouting, or the actuall hunt.  It seams like it is one big circile and I love it. 

augest 22 i m going for antelope, october fifth mulie hunt. cant wait seem like each day grows longer.

Wish it would get here so I would stop spending money on things "that I have to have that I may only use once"