not spend the most of the season recovering from back surgery... quit my job so I have more time for my bow

Get permission to some more places. Get established stands BEFORE season starts. Take a deer either off of the ground or from a tree (without a stand). Take a hog with a flint head.

LMAO!!!!!! I hear ya shootrmn! I had a job with a 2 week paid vacation for the last 6 years. Over the summer I switched companies and lost my vacation time. I thought it would have been no big deal, that was until deer season started. Weekends and rainy bad weather is what I had to salvage the season with. My current employer wouldn't even give me time off when I had a burst in my plumbing. Needless to say the employment search is on!

Stay healthy! Missed almost the entire 2006 season! I am really looking forward to October 2007!!!

Switch from a longbow back to a recurve. Not bad mouthing longbows, it just takes more time to get good with them and with work and school this fall I won't have the time to devote.
I've had a fear of heights and this year I'm getting myself over it and hunt exclusively from a treestand. I hunt high pressured deer on public land and its about impossible to get close enough to them on the ground to get a shot.
I might switch to shooting wood arrows too but thats kind of up in the air at this point.

Scout earlier.
Build more blinds.
Hunt more often.

Get my first traditional kill. Have as much fun if not more than I had this year. Hersh

For me it is a matter of getting even more "traditional".

Weapon: This year I plan to only hunt with a selfbow and arrows I make from scratch. I can't knapp so I will still use my Zwickey broadheads. I want to hunt this way for small game, turkey, waterfowl and big game.

Gear: I dont want to use anything else modern. No lighters, matches, binoculars, gps, etc. (flashlight ok for safety & tracking). Fire piston or fire drill are ok.

Clothing: Instead of camo I will only hunt in wool plaids and animal skins. Footwear will be mocs and mucluks. No man made fabrics.

Hunting Methods: As usual I will only still-hunt and stalk. Float hunting in canoe also ok.

Scout more, hunt more. I have a large creekbottom that is WORK to get in and out of down a steep bluff. I am going to set up blinds down in there this year and hunt them.
Hunt more. I am going to British Columbia and then to Africa this summer. I am going to hunt hard. I do not want to wake up in 30 years and say "I wish I had taken more hunting trips". I decided that you only go once, make good memories.

I am also going to Compton in June. No way I am missing this again.

I'm hopin to kill an Ontario Blackbear, this september, with 5 other Tradgangers!!!! PLUS, hopefully, kill an antelope out near Douglas, Wyoming come august!!! Both bowhunts of course, and I've never hunted either species!!! I cain't wait!!!

Hopefully pull a femal bighorn tag.  Shoot the 170 muley that kicked my butt all last year.  Get another crack at the 70 plus speed goat.  and scare lots of elk again