Do y'all ever feel like.....

[cvanbrunt]

Do y'all ever feel like.....

Get a full set of labs ran including test and hormone panel.

My wife has me taking a metric boat load of vitamins as well as my dr has me on stuff for test levels. Since I started taking vitamins I feel a world better. After two back surgeries I’ve been taking two aleve and two ibuprofen every day. Now I only take that if I’ve worked my tail off somewhere or done a lot of physical labor.

Vitamin c, d and zinc.

And yes at 32 being active you can still have low test. I’m 38 and have been on supplement for years.

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[Mr. Public]

I feel that way at times. After 21lbs down from 60+ days & over 7,000miles this season, I've had several times where I felt burnt out and numerous days of being completely exhausted. Yet it's what I love to do and look forward to the most.

I know I may not be capable or won't be able to hunt that much in the future, so I keep that in mind when I start waking up wondering if I should go or not. I'm able, physically capable and free , so why not?


Rest is needed, hitting the reset button, and definitely new scenery and a change of pace to keep going. Can't go full blitz every day, all day forever.

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[Dale Moser]

Do y'all ever feel like.....

When I was younger I used to go hard from dove, archery, rifle, pheasant, quail, and duck seasons. All the while working 55+ hours a week, and chasing girls in every off minute. Then there was off season work, and fishing. I’d lose 10-15 lbs (that I couldn’t afford to lose), put ~29-33,000 miles on the truck, and **** off numerous females in 6 months and love every bit of it!

Quail and pheasant were the toughest.


I don’t do that anymore.


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[Bayouboy]

I have gotten to the point if I don’t feel like getting up and going I don’t. I am leaving Monday to hunt for several days. After 3-4 days I take a break and relax around camp.

[Texas452]

When I was a full time bow hunter, I use to tell my wife that hunting is hard work.
And I would get worn down, but I enjoyed every minute of it.

[txtrophy85]

Just take a weekend off. What you are describing is burnout and hunting is 100% a choice.

Not gonna lie for the first time in 20 something years, I’ve slept in most mornings this season. I don’t regret it either.

If it stops being fun, quit doing it until it becomes fun again. I guided for close to 10 years and by the beginning of January I didn’t want to even see a deer. Ruined whitetail hunting for me for many years. Take a weekend to go duck hunting, or do some fishing or just lay around at the house.

[hoythunter02]

When I was younger I used to go hard from dove, archery, rifle, pheasant, quail, and duck seasons. All the while working 55+ hours a week, and chasing girls in every off minute. Then there was off season work, and fishing. I’d lose 10-15 lbs (that I couldn’t afford to lose), put ~29-33,000 miles on the truck, and **** off numerous females in 6 months and love every bit of it!

Quail and pheasant were the toughest.


I don’t do that anymore.


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Ah, the good ol days for sure.


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[Oleman]

I still enjoy hunting with my son or grandson. But at my age (81) I don't really care to shoot. Traded my bow a few years ago. Bought a crossbow. Stays in the gun room. I agree that as you get older, the hunt becomes less important than a little more sleep. LOL

[Preacher Man]

I work my tail off every year right up until bow season starts. Other than filling feeders, the work ends and the hunting begins.

I get burned out most off seasons. But then I get in a tree for the first time and it’s all worth it

[HoustonHunter]

Nope

[ctom87]

If I old make hunting my only job i would. Beats the 9 to 5. Nothing like the adventure...never know what will happen.

[SmTx]

I've been complaining about the weather this season and how I'm just not motivated like most years to hunt.

After whining jokingly about it a bunch of buddies knocked me back to reality as they all said, "Man, I just wish I had a place I could go." Yep, it's hot but I'm still blessed to have a place to hunt.

For every 1 of us not 100% satisfied with our hunting there's probably 100 more wishing they could sit in a stand and not see anything. If you have access to a nephew or friend's kid interested in hunting take them. It's very rewarding to introduce someone and we all need to take a kid or 1000 hunting so that our way of life continues.

[Hoss163]

Sleep in you can kill them in the evenings just as easy as you can in the mornings.

[okrattler]

I think the people I've been raised around has a lot to do with me being the way I am. I can relate to a lot of y'all in what you're saying. I've always looked at it like I'm an able bodied person,therefore I'm blessed that I can get up and go huntin. But I was also raised around guys that got up before the sun and worked all day their whole life. They're go getters. So I feel like a day inside is a day of my life wasted.

About a month ago I didn't even hear my alarm go off. Slept through it. Had went to bed around 9:00 pm the night before and didn't wake up until 6:00pm the next evening. I had a lot of missed text and a few missed calls. I had people thinkin I was bad off. My cousin had my mom and who knows what else thinkin I was depressed. Which I wasn't I was just exhausted. But man I felt like a brand new person that next day. It might just be time to hit the snooze button and sleep. That much sleep seems excessive but I mean I must've needed it because I woke up and it kinda freaked me out. I felt like I had almost died I slept for so long. I hadn't slept like that in.....I actually don't even know. Maybe never.

[Pushbutton2]

Huntin gets to feeling like a 2nd job? Don't get me wrong I love huntin. Absolutely love it, always have. But man by the time Summer rolls around I sure do enjoy getting to sleep in on the weekends. I'm not burnt out on it. I'm just tired. In a way it kind of is a 2nd job for me. I predator hunt to make extra cash selling fur. I get up early,no different than during the week and go huntin. The only time I skip is if it's really windy. When Spring rolls around I'll be rattlesnake huntin every day. Then there's turkey huntin thrown in the mix. Today I just stopped and thought, man.....I'm exhausted. Ain't had much luck lately so I think I notice it more. Killing anything while hunting isn't a guarantee. Slow days ain't no fun.

It takes a lot not to hit the snooze button or just shut my alarm off completely when I know I can. Especially on super cold days and I'm warm. I kinda hate it that sometimes I think, well crap I gotta get up and go huntin.

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I haven't filled a tag this year