A doe got outa that enclosure years back and was running all over the park. I got elected to knock it down with a tranquilizer gun after which we put her back in.
She was jumping and running all over the enclosure- clearly happy to be back.
 

I like hunting but for myself, hunting is related to deer now. Turkey and small game took a back seat to fishing.
I will spend a solid 100 hrs in the woods pursuing deer.
That time consists of preparation from October to end of November.
It's a short time frame but it's a lot of hrs actually spent in the woods.

Personally, that's all good with me as I am able to harvest my quarry I pursue.
Fishing is a year round sport that requires countless hrs

I log hrs in woods.
I'm curious about others

What I mean is , when I go hunting I camp and stay in the woods 24hrs .
My actual hunting time is 12-8 hrs per day. That's what I count as hunting time
Mahogany ridge happens after.

Rich- I alternated two properties this year and hunt a total of about 4 days a week.
Generally about 6 hours each hunt alternating from AM to mid day to evening.
I ease in and ease out so as not to disturb the natural flow of the animals.
Have had a lot of success with natural flow where there is little pressure.
As I hunt from mid Nov to the end of Dec  would guess thats around 140 hrs or more.
Generally pass flatheads till late looking for shooters.
 
Ya can go out and get lucky from time to time but to be consistently 'lucky' ya gots ta pay da dues.
( besides- I love it)
 

There was a time when I hunted exclusively with the bow in a bow only county.  I would stockpile my overtime, personal days and some vacation so I could take the entire month of November to chase whitetails.  I was in my stand 5-6 days a week from an hour before first light until well after sunset.  I averaged 60-72 hours a week or 240-288 for the month of November alone.  I could stay on my Loggy Bayou climber some 25-30' up all day.  Oh to be young again.  lol

That's a lot of time.
I know a lot of people who go out for a few hrs and consider it a full days hunting.
I used to bow hunt but gave it up after my injury in 09. I just don't have the stamina and practice time in me anymore for the bow.
Besides, the woods were to thick and weather to warm.
Now I feel 100 hrs in the woods is plenty.
I take 2 weeks vacation from the last week of xbow and first week of gun with a weekend after Thanksgiving then bag it. If I can't get it done by then then there's something wrong.
I don't count our scouting and preparation time towards actual hunting.

Used to start in Sept with the bow and log long hours in the trees with a bit of still hunting thrown in.
Now that I'm outa the tree sitting business bow hunting is and now and then adventure except for Turkey.
One of the sub bucks taken in the past few years I mentioned above was a healed up but  injured spike early in the bow season.
If he had been normal I woulda passed.
Turkey hunting with the bow a couple of years ago passed several flatheads and basket bucks.
Musta known they were safe that season because had never had that many come that close when chasing them lol.
It was GREAT.

Was fishing Kiddie one winter with  a lot of competition- a nice day temp wise.
There was a 'pool captain' on the far side loudly negative commenting on each and every hookup by others.
He had the right drift from his spot though -hooking up a lot.
Later he packed up and left so I wandered over the bridge and set up where he had been standing.
Immediately a couple or 3 guys approached me and said the guy had just gone 'for lunch' and that I was fishing 'his spot'.
Told them OK and i'd leave whenever 'lunch' was over and he came back -my slightly pizzed effort at being diplomatic.
They got real close and advised it was their friends SPOT.
I left--sometimes wish I was a lot younger -just for some afternoon group swim time.
Went back to my side- when he came back later I accidentally crossed his lines- a few times too.
Idiots

Sounds like a fun place to fish.
I been in the black hole once in November and there were some snaggers trying to hook trout.
I got a big red bobber out and caught a lot of lines that day 😀

Likely the most comical for me--
 Hooked a hen King one day and it was fouled.
While pulling hard on the bent rod working  to break it off  I noticed a second travelling with the one I had on.
A guy with a straw hat walked right under my bent rod trying to snag either of the two fish.
 
Another idiot.
 
Something about those Kings makes some folks go stark raving nuts--