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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 03, 2006, 06:05 PM:
A small poll among our members. Could you please evaluate your hunting interest according to three basic interests?
What percentage of your total activity?
What percentage, level of interest?
example: LB
A. Big Game-
5% activity, 10% interest
B. Upland game, waterfowl-
10% interest, 5% activity
C. Predator Hunting-
85% interest, 85% activity
Make sense to you? Give it a shot, let's see what we come up with?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Joel Hughes (Member # 384) on March 03, 2006, 06:22 PM:
Well, let's see if I get the drift...
A. Big Game-
1% interest, 5% activity (usually because my brother comes to visit and makes me take him)
B. Upland game, waterfowl-
5% interest, 5% activity [dove]-(give my lab a much needed break from the back yard)
C. Predator Hunting-
94% interest, 90% activity (and still not enough of it)
[ March 03, 2006, 06:24 PM: Message edited by: Joel Hughes ]
Posted by Jrbhunter (Member # 459) on March 03, 2006, 06:29 PM:
A. Big Game-
20% interest, 35% activity
B. Trapping-
35% interest, 25% activity
C. Predator Hunting-
40% interest, 25% activity
D. Small Game, Upland Birds, Waterfowl-
5% interest, 15% activity
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on March 03, 2006, 06:50 PM:
A. Big Game
5% interest, 0% time (Saw nearly 400 elk in three days in Colorado with the option of shooting a cow if I wanted. My response? Let's hunt coyotes.)
B. Upland game
0% interest 0% time. (Be real!)
C. Trapping
5% interest 10% time
(Only because it's there to kill a problem when I can't be. Rarely trap for recreation anymore.)
D. Predator calling
90+% of my interest
All my free time. It's more than a job. It's an adventure.
And I won't hunt nothing that can't hunt me back! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by Rich Higgins (Member # 3) on March 03, 2006, 07:16 PM:
Coyotes
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 03, 2006, 07:32 PM:
HAL2000 response, eh?
Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on March 03, 2006, 07:40 PM:
A) Big Game: 25% interest 30% activity
B) Upland Game/Turkeys: 0% 0%
C) Predators: 60% interest 50% activity
D) Varmint Shooting: 15% interest 20% activity
Good question Leonard. It made me think about where I really do spend my time.
Posted by TOM64 (Member # 561) on March 03, 2006, 09:02 PM:
Hmmm....
Let's just say that I like to hunt coyotes more than anything else.
[ March 03, 2006, 10:46 PM: Message edited by: TOM64 ]
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 03, 2006, 09:21 PM:
remedial math for some of these guys <sheesh>
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on March 03, 2006, 09:30 PM:
pred. 80% activity 80% interest
big game 5% activity 5 % interest
Pheasents/Ducks 15% activity 15% interest
Posted by Doggitter (Member # 489) on March 03, 2006, 09:56 PM:
Tom64's a real relaxed kinda fella that thinks HARD! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by Doggitter (Member # 489) on March 03, 2006, 09:57 PM:
Big game, 60% activity/at the moment 10% interest.
Predator, 40 % and 90%.
Pretty much covers it.
Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on March 04, 2006, 09:29 AM:
Big game 0% interest .001 % activity
Game birds 0% interest 0% activity
Predators 100% interest 99.999 % activity
The .001% reflects one day chasing mule deer in the last 10 years.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 04, 2006, 11:17 AM:
I see a pattern developing. You guys are "hardcore", guilty as charged! Dang!
More volunteers, please.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Rich (Member # 112) on March 04, 2006, 11:47 AM:
1. Predator calling
90 percent activity if day dreaming counts. Importance? Right up there with four bare feet in a bed, and nothing is more fun than that!
Posted by UTcaller (Member # 8) on March 04, 2006, 12:38 PM:
Predator Hunting
Activity=90%
Interest=90%
Big Game Hunting
Activity=2%
Interest=2%
Upland birds/Waterfowl
Activity=8%
Interest=8%
[ March 07, 2006, 07:33 AM: Message edited by: UTcaller ]
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on March 04, 2006, 02:09 PM:
"More volunteers, please."
Leonard,
I'm not really sure I understand your question. 
Also my situation changes all the time, each year has been different, in terms of how I spent my time, and how much "interest" I had in doing it (or whether I was just going through the motions, or just along for the ride).
I'm not sure I can come up with an answer (or that I want to look very hard at the question).
Krusty 
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 04, 2006, 02:36 PM:
That's okay, K. If you are hinting around for an exemption, based on difficulty, you have it.
Posted by Melvin (Member # 634) on March 04, 2006, 04:46 PM:
Big game-I give it my all,when in season.100%&100%(Always looking for coyote sign,even then)
Turkeys-Same as above.100%&100%
Predators-Coyotes(all year)do to call making and hunting.100%&100%-I go to bed hearing distress,wake in the morning,hearing howls.
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on March 04, 2006, 05:06 PM:
Leonard,
Maybe it's some of the other answers that helped to confuse me.
You asked for "total activity". It seems most people took that as "total hunting activities" not a percentage of all activities.
So, I'm not sure of the question (or how to answer it).
I didn't want to look very hard for answers, because I don't like the other questions they might bring me to.
Have I failed because I don't try hard enough (in percentage of total activity, or percentage of interest)?
Maybe.
I did try hard (way too hard), for a long time, now I don't try hard.
If I went back to trying really hard, would my situation improve?
Maybe, maybe not.
Because it's now March, would I be better off finding some other outlet for my interest and my time spent?
Probably.
Should I bother to go back to trying to beat down a brick wall, with my head, in the fall?
Today, I'm finding that (yes) answer hardest of all to find (or to swallow the "no" I come up with).
Krusty
Posted by Jack Roberts (Member # 13) on March 04, 2006, 09:53 PM:
Big game=0
Predators=20%
Varmints=80%
I would like to hunt more predators but the state kills most of them before I can get to them. Once the state dedicates a lot of money to predator control, they get hard to find.
Jack
Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on March 05, 2006, 12:30 PM:
Big game
20% activity, 10% interest
Upland game, waterfowl-
0% interest, 0% activity
Trapping
30% activity, 50% interest
Predator Hunting-
40% interest, 50% activity
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on March 05, 2006, 04:02 PM:
Krusty,
With all due respect, maybe you just overthink things too much. You're obviously a very bright individual, but this isn't rocket science. Sometimes I think you expend a lot of energy formulating solutions in search of problems.
Your description of the stand you recently offered where you hit but failed to recover the coyote showed me that you've been paying attention. You have the tactics down. You did the job you set out to do, but it just ended in a way you didn't care for. It happens.
As for this question, what do you hunt? Do you go after big game? How much. How much of your hunting season is committed to BG, varmints, predators? Etc.? We don't expect specific figures down to 0.1 percent. Your answers are simply meant to represent your relative fondness and motivation for one form of hunting versus another. My answers aren't exact, as are no one else's who bothered to reply. They just reveal something about the person submitting their numbers and whether they're hard core, as Leonard put it, or multipdisciplined. Kinda lets us share (or validate) what most of us already know about one another.
Posted by albert (Member # 98) on March 05, 2006, 07:54 PM:
Interest/Activity
Big Game 20/10
Coyotes 70/90
Trapping 10/0
Had a hard time deciding where watching videos should go Interest or Activity? I own several coyote videos but only one big game video.
Didn't allow anytime for gopher shooting I figure that is recreation, sort like golf. Shoot about 1000 rds a year at gophers. not counting 22 l.r.
Posted by sparkyibewlocal440 (Member # 397) on March 05, 2006, 08:07 PM:
Coyotes 80/80
Varmints 20/20
Posted by TheHuntedOne (Member # 623) on March 06, 2006, 08:47 PM:
Predators 95% interest 95% activity
Turkeys 5% interest 5% activity
Posted by keekee (Member # 465) on March 08, 2006, 02:25 AM:
Big Game: 5% and 5%
Turkeys: 5% and 5%
Predators 90% and 175% It has taken over my life..lol
Brent
Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on March 08, 2006, 05:13 AM:
Pretty easy question for me. With no more time than I get to hunt anymore, I still hope it will get better.
Big Game less than 5%. I wouldnt even acknowlege this, except I got two boys that are deer and turkey crazy, so I take them. I dont care if I ever kill another. A moose would be kewl if I could draw sometime.
Upland and Waterfowl 0. I used to bird hunt but lost intrest when birds declined and my dog died. Waterfowl I could care less about.
Varmints 5% I would rate these higher if we had any local to shoot. I really like shooting prarie dogs and groundhogs. But, I gotta drive a ways to do either, so its still down the list.
Predators 90+%. Nuff said.
Posted by RedRabbit (Member # 796) on March 14, 2006, 07:45 AM:
47/47 big game
6/6 bird
47/47 predator
Although my figures may seem to be a bit strange, not counting the variables. There not! since my big game overlaps my predator hunting, or vice versa it doesn't reflect my intrest, or activity one way or the other, especially when you throw MONSTER MULEY! into equation I shift gears, however my predator hunting has benefited my big game hunting to some extent, if this doesn't makes sense.
To sum it up "my eyes are front too"
Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on March 14, 2006, 08:32 AM:
Rating importance is a hard thing. I find nothing funner than hunting coyotes. It is by far my favorite. As far as importance goes, its big-game hands down. Some weeks, my wife and four of the five critters eat 3-5 packages of venison a week. I always get deer but on those years I miss out on elk she really makes me feel like a vegetarian! The meat is very important to this family!
It drives me batty when guys go out big-game hunting and not eat the meat. I went pheasant hunting this year with a buddy of mine. I got up at 4:00 am to make these really yummy deer burger and melted mozzerella cheese burritos with lots of garlic salt and the knuckle-head wouldn't even try a bite all day!!! LOL I think I ate 5-6!
The kids loved it from day one because its all the meat we fed them. My wife was a harder nut to crack. It wasn't until about a couple of years ago when i got really really broke that my wife started using venison as a staple for soups, stews, macaroni dishes and all kinds of really yummy stuff. I love the flavor or deer and elk, so do my wife and kids. But to be perfectly honest, by the time she finishes cooking the meals, you'd never know it was venison!
Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on March 14, 2006, 03:05 PM:
Locohead,
We used to do pretty much the same thing. My kids refused to eat "Bambi" But I couldn't afford to buy meat, and Indiana let me kill 5-7 deer a year.
I just ran them all though a meat grinder and we ate Hamburger Helper, with venison instead of beef, 4-5 nights a week.
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