Anyone else keep a field journal?

[mobirdhunter]

Andy, I've kept an upland shooting journal since 1988 (and I kept one for my bow hunts prior to that). My journals are some of my most treasured possessions, and I like to go back and compare notes from a given day over the years. It's like bringing one of my old dogs back, not to mention letting me see "who I was" at given points in my shooting life. It also helps when I try to gauge a particular dog's progress, because I can look at others at the same point in their development.

Continue keeping one. In a few years, you'll be glad you did.

[stumpstalker]

Andy:

I just enter some thumbnail data on every hunting or fishing trip into my daily appointments planner. The merest sketch will stimulate pleasant recollections and settle questions that inevitably arise from retrospection.

This way, without the discipline called for with a dedicated journal, one can still get a lot more mileage about something we think about much more than we actually do.