I'd guess big game season is over for most of us by now.  Looking back on last year, what (if anything) are you going to do differently this year?

As for me ... I found myself setting-up too close to deer this year and was busted several times when trying to set-up a shot.  Also decided multi-blade heads aren't for me and will "stick" with a good 2 blade.

How about you?

Seems like not long ago I was answering a thread about this for last season. For starters, I will try another part of the mountain I have been hunting. Hopefully I will get out and scout more than last year.     All of my learning was during the season, and all though I had a lot of fun. I wish I knew more of what was happening before hand. The other thing I hope to do different is to actually get out more since my kid will be in school longer.  

Quit letting deer walk by me and fill my tags before it gets cold. Hunt with more primitive made clothes and equipment.And to take more pictures this year of areas set ups and game.

Staying on the ground, I'm done with treestands.  I'm going to do more hunting in remote areas and away from suburbia.

Well,I'm going to use my own built bow, or one of them, that way if the bow takes a crap like it did this year it will be no-ones fault but my own.
Then a little more quality scouting, and when the time comes... slow down a little, enjoy the hunt, and try to get a friend or two to come to Indiana to hunt with me.should be a great year!

Everything,  I am moving to colorado in june.  The hunting is way different than the tree sitting of the midwest.  I have alot to learn.

Probably let more does walk next year.  Shot four this year and although it helps to get kill experience with the recurve, I'm going to try and get some antler.

I plan to hunt from the ground more, do a little more still hunting. Switch from manufactured camo clothes to wool and flannel. Hunt more areas then just on my property. Oh yea, do a couple deer drives right before rifle season.

Spend more than 4 hours total hunting for the season. Last year we moved to our farm right before the season....in reality I spent about as much time in the woods...but doing farm/conservation/TSI/foodplot stuff rather than actually hunting. I enjoyed it as much just less meat on the table taken with a bow as opposed to a "quick" gun hunt to fill the freezer.

I'll still use a treestand, but I'll probably hunt from the ground a little more too. I found that last year once I'd hung a stand I was inclined to sit it even if conditions were not ideal for that stand. Next season I will be quicker to move to "plan B" and hunt the ground from a better location for the conditions of the day.

I need to put more effort into becoming either scent free, or get better at reading the trails/winds when it comes to stand selection for a given day. I always plan & hope to scout more but do not always follow through.

Quit passing up on the First day what I would take on the Last Day  

Well, since I am not a Hunter, dont everybody throw things at me all at once now    , I have  NOTHING  Against Hunters, its just not for Me....But I Do  LOVE  The Woods, I will Strap on my  "BIG KNEE   BRACE"  and Do  MORE  Stumping and Plain Old GET-OUT-OF-THE-HOUSE Stuff!!        
 I  WILL  finish and Shoot the Dryad Glue Up and Shoot it. I gotta make me a Reasonably Inexpensive Tiller-Tree yet, and the  BIG THING:  Score Myself a  Riding LawnMower!!!  

Me and My hunt buddy are gonna get in away from the roads, thick brush and swamp wading if that is what it takes to get away from other hunters; where the true monsters live...
BD

Scout harder and longer, didn't get much time to scout last year and it really shot me iin the foot. I will spend alot more time on the ground, slipping and still hunting.

Also wil stay all day long hunting no matter how hot it is, during bow season.

Later

Jason

Shoot a deer!    Pat

Kill a deer with my recurve!!

SCOUTing,,
and I don't mean harder  -  because you have to have done it to do it harder.
Stop walking in Private or State land and going eny meny miny mo.
Balancing family life is priorty and now with my son now able to bowhunt, I can spend sometime with him in the woods prior to hunting.

Go back to my longbows instead of trying to hunt with a recurve.  

What Vance said ! I say the same thing evey year but still seem to pass.

Bill