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Post by jjas on Aug 25, 2019 10:10:09 GMT -5
It's a bit late, but we moved a tripod stand yesterday morning (man was it nice out), cut a few shooting lanes and brushed it in.
I say this every year (and usually I'm wrong), but I think we're ready...
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Aug 25, 2019 10:11:57 GMT -5
15 acres of deer heaven including the back of my dam. Cover crop since the farmer never got soybeans in this year.
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Post by steiny on Aug 25, 2019 10:48:43 GMT -5
Just came in from setting up another tree stand. Should be good to go.
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Post by medic22 on Aug 25, 2019 15:29:46 GMT -5
Wish I had more time to pattern this guy I just found. No matter, I know where he is now, and im pretty sure I know where he will be in November.
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Post by genesis273 on Aug 25, 2019 16:44:04 GMT -5
Clothes are washed up and in my homemade scent closet. Made sure the new scentlok suit didn't have any UV brighteners too.
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Post by scrub-buster on Aug 25, 2019 17:05:27 GMT -5
I had a couple of hours off of both jobs the other morning and managed to hang 2 stands with my dad. I'm hoping to hang the rest on Tuesday and Wednesday. The stand in the picture is a new set up on the corner of a field. I'm expecting it to be a good early season stand for a shot at a doe. I still need to wash and pack my hunting gear for Colorado this week. I'm running out of time. I did manage to get my knives and broad heads sharpened.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Aug 25, 2019 17:14:46 GMT -5
scrub-buster When are you heading out? I'll be near Montrose the 3rd week of September.
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Post by scrub-buster on Aug 25, 2019 17:34:36 GMT -5
scrub-buster When are you heading out? I'll be near Montrose the 3rd week of September. We will be near Montrose the 2nd week of September.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Aug 25, 2019 19:11:37 GMT -5
Not a real good pic, but a buddy just sent me a pic of this guy behind our campers at 7 this morning. He’s on Hoosier national and I’m hoping he sticks around. post image url
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Post by deadeer on Aug 25, 2019 19:51:40 GMT -5
You guys are rockin! I have thought about hunting a few times. Hope to have spots to hunt this year. Hope my job hangs in there through our closure and buyout. Would give anything to be in coast mode and daydreaming about hunting season.
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Post by esshup on Aug 25, 2019 20:22:44 GMT -5
Montrose ? If you have time look at the Black Canyon National Park. If you are looking for a motel even for a night the Black Canyon Motel on Main St is reasonable and clean.
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Post by harmonist34 on Aug 25, 2019 20:52:52 GMT -5
Purchased a few things I decided I needed. Arranged for a lease for the first time, and have been there a couple times to scout, set up stands, cameras, and clear shooting lanes. Bought a new bow, but need more time to practice to really feel dialed in. Sent several letters to nearby properties asking for permission...got one pleasant rejection and the rest never replied. Watched lots of Hunting Public videos and listened to several Deer University podcasts. I think that pretty much covers it!
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Post by duff on Aug 25, 2019 20:59:27 GMT -5
Shot 100 rounds at clay pigeons today. Bring on da birds. Deers are 2nd option this ywar
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Post by genesis273 on Aug 26, 2019 5:32:15 GMT -5
I'll be on a short vacation next week. Dedicating most of that time to getting everything ready for season. My redneck ghillie blind is a solid half mile from the closet place for me to park. I have the blind material, padded flooring and chair to trek back to haywagon. Then I have to weed eat my trail in and out of the blind. I'm also wanting to place a scrap/rub post in front of it since there's so much switch grass in front of the blind. I'm hoping that will give them incentive to pass by a little closer. I probably won't hunt this blind until the beginning of November. That is, if I can be patient enough.
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 26, 2019 9:33:18 GMT -5
scrub-buster When are you heading out? I'll be near Montrose the 3rd week of September. It's been many a year since I was bowhunting out of Montrose. Last time I bowhunted there the NR bow deer and elk tags was $90 each. I pretty well hunted all over the Uncompahgre Plateau, but had my best luck on deer was in Hank's Valley on the West side. I bowhunted two years in a row at The Hot T Camp that was south and west of Montrose. The first year the NR bow tags were $25 each and the 5 day hunt with lodging (old sheep herder's cabin) and food was $75. The second year they upped the hunt to $125. That year a crew from Bowhunter Magazine went and did an article on the Hot T. The hunt price doubled after that and kept going up yearly so I never went back.. If they would just invent flat land elk and mule deer I'd go hunt them again. .
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Post by esshup on Aug 26, 2019 12:00:32 GMT -5
If they would just invent flat land elk and mule deer I'd go hunt them again. Woody, they do. Both come out into the alfalfa fields, I've seen many Mulies, and some big ones that in the Missouri River Breaks area on 87 when driving from Great Falls Montana to 94 in Billings Montana. I've also seen Elk making a daily 20 mi round trip treck from the foothills about an hour out of Casper, Wy to an alfalfa field when I was there hunting with my cousin 2007/2009. When I said I saw elk there, he said BS, those are cattle. So we stopped and got out the glass and he said that he's never seen them there before and that's how far they were walking. He said that the farmer just put in that center pivot a year ago and that was a new alfalfa field. I was hunting speed goats and every day in the evening right at dark when we were going home the elk were there.
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Post by schoolmaster on Aug 26, 2019 13:41:21 GMT -5
Sharpen my hunting knife and check the zero on my rifle.
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Post by dbd870 on Aug 27, 2019 8:58:06 GMT -5
Went back on my place and did some cutting. Probably put my blind back out in Brown Co in a couple of weeks
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Post by chewbacca on Aug 28, 2019 8:29:12 GMT -5
Me and my hunting buddies got out this weekend and started working on a game plan for the upcoming season. We have three homemade ladder stands that haven't been used much the past couple of seasons. We decided that we are going rebuild and relocate those stands. On Sunday we moved a stand to a tree about 15 yds away that gives us a shot into a new trail that has formed and also allows us to shoot into a clearing that is behind the stand. The problem we had in its previous location was that we were having trouble getting the stand to stabilize and there was a big lump on the tree that prevented us from being able to mount a seat. We now have a stand that is solid as a rock and has a mounted seat. I'm pretty excited to have a functional stand in this corner of the woods again. We also got some limbs trimmed around that stand and 3 others. We still have two more wooden ladder stands to rework. All my wooden stands are at least 10 years old but I built them out of treated lumber and they are still in really good shape and very strong. We love them. I also got a ground blind completed last night. There is a spot just inside the edge of our woods where the farmer put a couple of sections of crawlspace foundation wall. So, I took 3 pallet sections and enclosed the area to give us full concealment once inside the blind. To shoot you just have to pop out of the top.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 9:54:22 GMT -5
What a beautiful day. Bummer that I'm at work and not scouting stand location (1) and putting up stands. Three of four in the same trees and one move just a little bit up the hill to see better. Last year a huge cedar tree fell in front of my stand. Actually nicked my stand sideways. I cleared some to hunt, but it was late October and didn't want to leave scent behind. Hope to get them out this 3-day weekend.
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