Thread: Anyone keep a hunting diary?

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I do also keep a record of animals seen and where and when during the day.
Especially helpful when you hunt a lot and can't quite remember when you were there last.
Things like when the fawns are out with the hinds or hinds only seen.
Chamois tracking in snow when looking for deer as somewhere to check in the autumn or winter.
When you are at high altitude and there's just nothing there as u y are too early etc

The GPS data and date embedded in pics its good for that. I take lots of pics and save them all.

Am I the only one who records their feelings and writes poetry in their hunting diary...?

Shit, I thought I was normal.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Yip that's a good one to do, I try to print a map every time and circle where I am off to and leave that with her.

Ditto, normally screen shoot a map on iPhone then send it to mumsy, discribe intentions etc

Then tell her to delete it when I get home after trip!!!!
Her reply 'who will I show it to', better safe than sorry

I'm the same as Gibo, always leave a map and intentions note.

2017 was a great year ( and still going ).
16 reds ( 5 were stags that varied from ok to bloody good )
1 fallow
3 pig's
1 chamois
And a few things I forgot to put in the diary.
30 to 530m
6.5x65R 308 300wsm 9.3x62

A few good bull tahr fell to my rifles also, but in the hands of foreign mates.

Looking back mines been rather good.
1 pig France 15 meters
1 red stag France around ninety meters
1 Muntjac UK 20/30 meters
2 Magpies NZ 170 meters
Pigeon UK 178 best day 54
Driven phesant partridge 71 UK
Duck 1 UK
It's not not over yet I've a duck shoot with a mate on the 26th and a walk up day on the 27th

Oh if road kill counts one possum NZ first one in ten years so I'll claim that!

I started keeping records by writing on the back of maps when with the Forest Service and then diaries.
My first ever records started when about 15yrs old,writing on the back of early pics at first until the habit wore off.
I don't bother today but do take the odd pick for the grankids. At one stage I had 10 diaries,not big thick buggers mind you.I have around one and a bit thousand pics from black and whites,slides to modern colour etc.
I have a dead ego lol and would never put up animal kills for the world to see,that to me has mostly been personal.
It is good to see guys keeping a diary,when you get to my age and older,if your lucky,it can be great to look back.l

Christ im jealous, iv seen a stag, stalked up to him twice in the bush he lives in and hes taken off before i see him and i saw 6 pigs, took a quick shot at a running one ,missed and took a photo of 2 hinds at about 80 metres. Hopefully my pup trains me enough for next winter in the forestry block

I have had a bit of a quiet one this year been way to bloody busy, took two days off for Tobys shoot in October and that's the only me time I have had since May, shot a couple Chamois earlier in the year and that's been my lot. I'm really beginning to have second thoughts about this self employed business...

I’m hopeless at keeping a diary, but after doing paperwork at work the last thing I want to do is more on the weekends
I just go hunting but that sounds like a New Years Resolution right there.....

Keep a diary as well
Hunts are down this year, due in part getting duck fever
Counting up coming Kaweka walkabout
12 hunts, 28 days in bush

Saw a few, lucky enough to shot some, mr 8pt is still growing bigger for me.

But the best part is getting out there, good times with some good mates!!

Diary is a must have, just don't let mumsy set it

i record what and where i shoot something, its good to look back into the following year as ive had a lot of luck heading back to the same areas at the same time of year again.

Originally Posted by tonyd

i record what and where i shoot something, its good to look back into the following year as ive had a lot of luck heading back to the same areas at the same time of year again.

Where do you keep these records bro.... ??? You know just so I can keep an eye out if someone trys to pinch them or something...

Quiet year on all species for me. 14 pheasants, 26 ducks, 3 quail plus two unrecovered in pine slash, 4 reds, one whitetail.

Have kept a diary for a while now. I found it really improved my pheasant hunting no end in terms of time spent, time of day etc. Really shrunk my hours per bird ratio.

4 pigs..(courtesy of my bro)
1 fallow.....kahurangis
20 possums....hinakura,Wairarapa
2 goats...featherston,Wairarapa
6 ducks...Columbia river Oregon


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