Who out there keeps a hunting journal and what type of information do you record?
I record number of critters observed, basic weather details, location of hunt, and anything else that makes the hunt memorable.
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Who out there keeps a hunting journal and what type of information do you record?
I record number of critters observed, basic weather details, location of hunt, and anything else that makes the hunt memorable.
The only journal we keep is a camp journal.
Who was successful, what the shot, what they saw, weather, who got drunk, who did something stupid, etc.
That’s fun to go back and read those a year or two later. We leave it out on the coffee table for the guests to read as well.
Wish I did, especially a waterfowling one. I think that tendencies would have been picked up on and believed in earlier than they were if we hadnt relied just on memory. It would also be nice now to sit down and read through weather patterns and bird movements over the course of a season from my younger years where I hunted every day of the season.
wind direction, stand, time spent in stand, barometer, temp, date, # of deer, moon phase, and activity during the rut. I refer to it every year. 
I’ve documented every fall duck and goose hunt I’ve been on for the past 6 seasons. It’s amazing how quickly you see patterns emerge. My log book has become an invaluable piece of scouting information. Things/dates/weather/water conditions I would never remember, are now at my finger tips.
At the end of the season I can break it down by birds per hour, birds per shell, total by species, which days of the week are most or least productive, etc.
Or compare week to week for several years in a row. It helps make location decisions if for some reason we aren’t able to scout prior to a hunt (to far away, bad weather)…..or schedule vacation in advance.
For example, with this years high water, I already know the exact spot I’ll be hunting Tuesday morning the 5th…..even though there have only been a few ducks there all summer. Once the booming starts, they’ll find it by Sunday night/Monday……and it should make for a quick limit before work on Tuesday!
I used to do it for fishing, but it got to cumbersome……I fish for too many different species, in to many different locations………or maybe I just fish to much?
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