Any body keep a log or journal of some sort to remember the deer/turkey they've taken? I'm thinking about putting all of the deer and turkeys I've killed into a spreadsheet on the computer to remember the specifics of each bird or deer. For turkeys I think I'm going to have categories such as date, location, weight, spur/beard length, other hunters that were hunting with me, the gun/bow I shot it with. I think it would be cool to look back when I'm older and have this information to remember each hunt a little better. Any one do something like this? Anyone have any other things they would want to write down?
I've seen it done with a scrapbook... With a picture of each bird /deer and everyone there... Everything is recorded in the book. I plan on doing the same.
I started one when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade and kept up with it for a little wile, but eventually slacked off. I wish now I would have kept up with it over the years.......
I've done it with fishing but not hunting. Keep saying I want to do it with turkeys, but I never do. I do however write the date and stats of each bird on the fired hull it died from.
I keep track with photo albums. It's basically the same thing and the details are either written on the page or on the back of the photo depending on the style of album i am filling at the time. I have turkeys, waterfowl and deer in the ablums.
I've kept a turkey hunting journal the past 30 years of my 50 year turkey hunting career.May write a book someday.It's fun to reread hunts on some of the clubs and remember the character gobblers you couldn't kill.
I think keeping a log book is good idea...like some of you I wish I would have started doing it back when I started turkey hunting but I was 9 then and it was just not on the brain then. I always take pictures and keep them but a log would be nice to go along with it. I also do what CASH does and write the stats on my hull. God Bless
I flush all mine.. :TooFunny:
I only do for our Musky fishing in Canada. Never have for hunting.
Its a great idea too, think about what it will mean to those you hunted with after you passed.
Have kept a log since 1983. Used to be in notebooks, the last 6 or 7 years on a spreadsheet. I did transfer the kill log over to the spreadsheet. Have different pages for waterfowl, deer and turkey.
I have been keeping a log for about 20 years. I have several note books that I write down each day I hunted in. I put in the weather, location etc. and if I kill something I add the stats. I also take lots of pics but keep them in seperate files on my computer.
i keep one om the turkey i kill as well as just good hunts. i dont keep record of deer . probably should
I've keep a log for over 16 years and have found it to be a very worthy. I find myself going back over it every year as I get primed for the upcoming season. It has trip info from away hunts as well as local hunts from home. My away hunts seem to get more detailed because I can't easly scout these spots so I look back at my log to help me recall. I also down load from my GPS all my kill locations and install them on Google Earth so I can view them as a whole. I keep other hunter info in there as I hunt with the same people most of the time. Its great, when one of my brothers think they know how it went down, we only have to look at the log to set the record straight.
I took a log of deer bow hunting one year but ended up not finishing it through out the year. Thinking about doing one for turkeys this yr now that you mention it.
I'd say its a good idea so you can look back and see what worked and what didnt, mite be some info you wrote down that'll make the difference in get'n the bird your after now.
I have a list of all the birds I have killed, date, location, weight, spurs, beard, state, just for my info, also have a list of deer for a few years, just finally quit on the deer, computer didn't have enough space, also have pictures of almost every turkey, and also almost every buck
I kept one when I grouse hunted. Kept up with quite a bit of information along with just some details of each hunt. I quit keeping the log the last couple of years I hunted and have never really kept one for any other type of hunting or fishing.
I started one once and update it when I think of it. The kind of things I keep up with are: The # days I hunt each spring, how long each day, the weather conditions, number of birds I hear and approximate number of gobbles. As far as the numbers of birds I've killed I don't keep up with that. I save the beards from all the ones I have taken personally and keep pictures of the ones that I call up for others. As for keeping up with the numbers of turkeys I have killed, that is not important to me it's the memories behind the birds that should get me stirred up.
I did it when I tourney fished with dates, times, locations, water temps, water clarity and conditions, as well as moon phases. I have never done it hunting. I wish I would have.
I started keeping a hunting journal in 1983, wish I had started ten years earlier. I have every hunt recorded, some have pictures, I list the type game, gun & ammo, partners, conditions, and details of the hunt - whatever struck me as important or interesting at the time. I enjoy reading about the old hunts, especially the partners who no longer hunt or who have passed on. It takes a lot of discipline to sit down while it is fresh and record it all. I used to hand write it, but I use a MS Word standard layout now.
I started one and still keep it up to date, I write the date, place with bird specs and how the kill happened, I put a little story with it telling the calling technique and call I used, also put in some memorable hunts were I or me and Wes hunted and didn't kill a bird but came close and tell the reasons why, it's kinda neat to look back on from time to time.
I think its a great idea! Just have to start.
I keep one every year on all my turkey hunts