How was your season, by the numbers?

[SaskHunter]

3 Tags filled;
10 Tags unfilled (thanks COVID);
2 Provinces;
3 New areas that I've never hunted;
1 Whitetail;
1 Mule Deer;
21-7/16 inch Black Bear;
1 Pair of snowshoes; and
Many more local opportunities to come.

 

[Chad Gus]

3 - number of beards on my daughter's turkey
0 - number of bears we killed, first time in 15 years someone in my family didn't get one
263 - yards, my son shot his first antelope at
10- number of points my daughter's first buck had
2 - number of sheds i found tracking a doe i shot during bow season
32- minutes it took me to fill my buck and doe tags in south dakota
9 - shots it took my buddy to kill his south dakota buck
7- mature bucks i had in bow range and didn't kill for one reason or another
6- number of pack outs

 

[406LIFE]

3 - number of beards on my daughter's turkey
0 - number of bears we killed, first time in 15 years someone in my family didn't get one
263 - yards, my son shot his first antelope at
10- number of points my daughter's first buck had
2 - number of sheds i found tracking a doe i shot during bow season
32- minutes it took me to fill my buck and doe tags in south dakota
9 - shots it took my buddy to kill his south dakota buck
7- mature bucks i had in bow range and didn't kill for one reason or another
6- number of pack outs

This is a good one. There's a story in those 9 shots from your buddy, I'm sure.

 

[Lyfter1013]

4- tags
3- Mule Deer Bucks taken
1- unfilled Elk Tag
2- California deer tags filled (that’s a first in a long time)
3- states hunted in
3500+ miles driven
1- most eventful hunting season to date!!

 

[Nameless Range]

100,000s - a rough estimate of the amount of standing dead lodgepole that the wind event of June 13th laid down in the Boulder Mountains.



40ish - The number of mule deer my father, brother, and myself have taken on a single mountain and its foothills over the last 30 years, and did again this year.

18 - the number of BMA permission slips I had in my wallet at the end of the season.


11 - Huns

8 - Blues

3 - Sharptail

2 - Deer


1 - Pronghorn



0 - The number of Elk I killed and CWD detected in the deer I shot.




Can’t complain about anything at all.

 

[Hunting Wife]

1 Turkey in April
2 out of 4 big game tags filled
0 walleyes caught this summer. Blame Canada!
0 coyotes killed. Anyone else just not seeing or hearing any in places that used to be crawling with them??
10 photo-worthy sunrises observed to make up for not finding critters.
3 ducks put in the freezer.
5 cottontails put in the freezer.
2 bird possession limits (sharpies and roosters) in the freezer

This is the most disappointing hunting season I can remember. Weird uncooperative weather, big crowds. Looking forward to wiping this one off the books next year.

 

[Sask hunter]

217 birds my dog retrieved this fall
1 new species which was pheasant
375 pounds bone in meat off my favourite to eat animal




And we are still in midst of trapping and ice fishing

 

[shrapnel]

2nd season in retirement
7 Saturdays a week
Unknown days in the field
Dozens of birds
Lots of fish
2 turkeys
3 deer
2 elk
4 number of rounds fired at 1 elk
3 witnesses to those shots
Countless the number of years I will be reminded of 4 shots
1 moose
1 antelope
1000’s of gophers
100’s of prairie dogs
1 badger

 

[OntarioHunter]

0 = COVID symptoms
11 = months wearing a mask & washing hands
10 = honkers shot this year
13 = 3" mag shells shot at them
2 = days hunting them - no migration this year for unknown reason
14.5 = flats of shells shot at trap/skeet/clays
10 = boxes of shells in a flat
23/25 = trap & skeet average
1039 = miles to hunt Montana
20 = hours driving solo straight through
7 = weeks hunting in Montana
5 = days hunting elk HARD before giving up
1 = very big bull seen @ 35 yds ... but a moose
0 = elk seen
5 = daily limits of 3 roosters + a few more than that many daily singles & doubles - not bad but not great + a dozen or so sharpies
1,000 = miles walked to get them (okay, maybe not a thousand but it seemed like it)
2 = painful disabilities during hunting season - hernia & gallstones
0 = days I let them sideline me
1 = days I hunted deer (delayed arrival of legally reqired hunting partner brother)
1 = mule deer buck killed - with my vehicle
2 = great dogs with me every day
14 = days quarantine after returning to Ontario - no problem
0 = days left to do crazy Christmas shopping after quarantine ... but maybe it saved my life

 

[Kiwi]

Here in New Zealand we don’t really have seasons so don’t usually look back to assess but it was interesting to review the years successes. The highlight for me was my 13 year old son started hunting big game a year ago and harvested:
1 goat
1 fallow doe
1 chamois
2 red hinds
3 red stags

I took the back seat and harvested:
2 bull tahr
2 red stags
2 fallow bucks
1 red hind.

 

[R.K.]

2- spruce grouse
4- ducks
5- geese
2- antlerless pronghorn
9- Kansas pheasants
1- bear seen while hunting
10- moose seen (no tag)
0- deer I tried shooting
1- deer I regret passing on
1- cow elk lost (no permission to pursue...)
2- months left to ice fish

Not my most successful season ever, but I'm glad to have the time outdoors I did, and it was some of the best times I've had. Learned a lot, had a lot of good times with friends & family, and had plenty of time alone to learn a bit about myself, too.

But this season isn't over yet! Coworker put the bug in my ear to try chasing a wolf...

 

[Wildabeest]

$2,327.36 for MT NR Big Game Combo for my son and I
$1,037.54 for hotel
$120 gas
54,000 Delta frequent flyer miles for his flight
$500 meat processing
$6 for 3 Nosler 140 grain accubonds
1 buck
2 does
~150 lbs boned out meat
$26.60/lb. and worth every penny!

 

[Lyfter1013]

Here in New Zealand we don’t really have seasons so don’t usually look back to assess but it was interesting to review the years successes. The highlight for me was my 13 year old son started hunting big game a year ago and harvested:
1 goat
1 fallow doe
1 chamois
2 red hinds
3 red stags

I took the back seat and harvested:
2 bull tahr
2 red stags
2 fallow bucks
1 red hind.

Wow that’s awesome and I am jealous! Sounds like a great year especially being your sons first year that is remarkable

 

[mtmuley]

Jeez. 6 point bull.
181 grains of Hammer bullet.
.300 Remington Ultra Magnum
4 miles to the truck.
One and only animal I pulled the trigger on. mtmuley

 

[Otto Matic]

WOW!
I'm blown away!
...but here's my "numbers"!

1 - crappie (*water dropping in the lake, they wouldn't bite)
0 - deer
0 - turkeys
0 - anything else!

Had shoulder replacement surgery in '19.
I'm hoping to improve those numbers this fall.
At least 1 deer.
Turkeys in spring and fall and hopefully the dog gone crappie will bite! LOL!

* - we had some pretty heavy spring rains. The local impoundment was several feet above "conservation" level so the COE decided they needed to open the flood gates to reduce the lake capacity....right in the middle of the crappie spawn! The crappie, sensing the falling water level, retreated to deeper water, leaving us "no-boat", bank fishermen, well, "fishless"! LOL!

 

[RidgeRoamingRichard]

7 - number of smaller bucks I passed on. This is a big deal for me, as I'm trying to be more selective
3 - first time deer hunters I helped get their bucks. One of my best accomplishments to date
1 - Turkey, my first
1 - blown stalk on a young, dumb spike elk
1 - grizzly bear spotted
1000 - mistakes made
500 - mistakes remade
786 - times I sang "simple man" in my head while hiking
1 million - laughs
2 million - smiles

 

[Shooter_64]

Mine was OK! I went on my hunt of a lifetime in Alaska. Although my friend shot the moose because it was his day to shoot first and I was a part of it! I shot my second largest whitetail with my bow, a 14 point that grossed 174 with about 8 inches of tine broken off, but would have gross scored 183".

 

[TommyCorrgs]

1 dusky grouse
0 tags
Countless hours and miles in the elk woods
Countless hours of trying to figure it out

 

[dcoryn]

5- Tags filled
76" - PB Antelope
1- Total vacation day used this season
11- Mile pack out for the bighorn sheep
125"- WY Whitetail
145"- MT Muley
430- Yard shot on my first bull elk
2- States hunted, MT and WY
8- Total shots from the 7mm this season
60- Yard shot on the antelope
3- Tom turkeys killed
10- Hunted with 10 different people this season
1- Season that will be hard to top

 

[Colorado hunter Tim]

0 elk
0 deer
1 bear, that I didn't shoot, gut, skin, or process.
2 fox
1 bobcat

Man looking at that list maybe I should start gathering. I suck at hunting haha

Oh and the story about the bear. O bought a a bear tag along with my elk tag, but didn't hunt 2nd season bear because I prefer to focus on elk. This year in Colorado the bear tag carried over into the remaining seasons. So I went out a few times but saw no bear in the normal places. So I called Fish and Game and they said most were already hibernating which made sense, but the gentleman asked for my name and number in case he heard anything. About a hour later I got a call from a game warden who had just put a bear down and he said I could put my tag on it if I wanted to. I said of course, because it was my only chance at meat for the year. It was awesome.