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Post by M4Madness on Oct 29, 2017 16:21:36 GMT -5
I considered paint remover for just a brief moment, omegahunter. Lol! Yeah, I'm sure that it'll be beneficial for wildlife in the long run, but I still hate to see it happen. I have lived adjacent to this big, beautiful 350-acre farm for 24 years this month. I have sole hunting permission on it, and I thoroughly enjoy its beauty. Once the loggers are gone, the place will be littered with logging roads and tree tops. Briars will grow unchecked and I'll be lucky to be able to walk through the woods. Pretty much any straight tree that I could use a climbing stand on will be gone. I know that deer will benefit from the briars and treetops, but they'll sure make the forests ugly as well as make my life rougher. I hunted the classified forest section this morning, and they have clusters of trees painted. I thought that selective cutting meant something along the lines of 7 trees per acre or something. Heck, there are that many marked in less than 50-yard squares! Sounds like it is going to get a pretty good haircut. Deer hunting will be twice as good in two years. Heck, there probably won't be a standing oak left for acorn production -- the place is crawling with white oaks. The saddest part is that I set aside a very thick ridgetop section somewhere between 15-20 acres in size as a sanctuary years ago. I kept jumping bedded bucks in there, so I decided at least a decade ago to stay out of there. Until these loggers went in there, I can almost guarantee that no human walked through there since I quit doing so. It's just too nasty for any trespassing mushroom or root hunters. I have a feeling that I'll be able to see from one end of each wooded section to the other now.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 29, 2017 13:54:55 GMT -5
Got an eraser? Hate seeing a place get logged. Usually cut too much and leave too much limbs behind. In just about all cases logging is very beneficial to wildlife and especially deer. If they are marking they are doing a selective cut , which is ideal. 4-5 years that spot will be better than ever before with new growth. I considered paint remover for just a brief moment, omegahunter. Lol! Yeah, I'm sure that it'll be beneficial for wildlife in the long run, but I still hate to see it happen. I have lived adjacent to this big, beautiful 350-acre farm for 24 years this month. I have sole hunting permission on it, and I thoroughly enjoy its beauty. Once the loggers are gone, the place will be littered with logging roads and tree tops. Briars will grow unchecked and I'll be lucky to be able to walk through the woods. Pretty much any straight tree that I could use a climbing stand on will be gone. I know that deer will benefit from the briars and treetops, but they'll sure make the forests ugly as well as make my life rougher. I hunted the classified forest section this morning, and they have clusters of trees painted. I thought that selective cutting meant something along the lines of 7 trees per acre or something. Heck, there are that many marked in less than 50-yard squares!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 29, 2017 13:41:35 GMT -5
Well, no deer seen while hunting from three different stands this weekend. Either the DNR has killed them all off, or this cold weather has them yarded up. LOL! I did see a bob-tailed squirrel this morning. I wonder if it is a birth defect or an injury? ![](http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/Bobtailed_Squirrel.jpg)
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 28, 2017 19:15:43 GMT -5
Didn't see any deer this evening, but had 22-23 turkeys come past single file around 20 yards. I was tempted, as I have a tag (lifetime license), but all appeared to be hens and I'd really like a tom. They were vacuuming up what few acorns were there, then moved on to the next oak. About a half hour they came back, and shortly thereafter I heard them fly up to roost.
I was saddened to see that the loggers have marked prospective trees on this side of the farm now, and the huge, beautiful white oaks that line the top field are slated for destruction. Those field edge trees are probably too big around for two adults to join hands around them. It really saddens me to see them go.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 28, 2017 14:23:04 GMT -5
The time I went to get now out of truck only to realize I left it by the truck the night before while talking in the field the next county over. Yep I found it. I now had a split limb now and three days off during the first week of Nov. truck vs bow and truck tire won. I did that once but got lucky. I leaned my bow against the tire and turned just enough when I started to back up that it fell away from the truck. It was a nerve wracking drive back to where I left it. I did that just this morning. Walking to my stand in the dark, I realized that I did not have my release. I walked back to my Jeep, rested my bow against the front driver's side tire, and proceeded to look unsuccessfully for my release. Mad, I jumped in and headed for the house. Halfway across the pitch black hay field, I remembered my bow and panicked. Imagine my relief when I found it undamaged. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 28, 2017 12:01:24 GMT -5
I'm probably the odd man out, but I don't hunt rubs or scrapes. I passed two new scrapes that were made overnight, and said to myself, "Oh, that's nice" as I continued walking on past. All I use them for is to tell me a buck (of whatever size) has been in the area. Anytime I've ever put a camera on a scrape, all activity was in the dark.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 28, 2017 9:02:28 GMT -5
This is the coldest I've been in years! Lol! This wind is brutal. I thought I had plenty of clothes on, but obviously not. One lone squirrel building a nest and nothing more.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 28, 2017 7:02:17 GMT -5
Well, I drove home and found my release aid. I have no idea why it was there, as it is always in my hunting jacket (I haven't shot any since my last hunt.)
To make matters worse, in my rush to climb this huge wooded hill, I forget my pull-up rope in the Jeep.
Here's a good one for you guys: When I rushed home to look for my release aid, I leaned my bow against my tire here at the farm. I got halfway across the field before remembering it. Thank God I didn't drive over it!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 28, 2017 6:22:16 GMT -5
Well, my morning is over before it even began. I am parked at my hunting spot for this morning, and my release aid is missing. It is the ONLY one I've had for over 20 years! It is a Tru-Ball glove type. I have no idea where it is. It is not in its usual pocket, and is not in my Jeep. I've been looking for a half hour, so I guess that I'm heading back to the house.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 26, 2017 5:13:21 GMT -5
I tried lots of different climbers back in the 90's, but I've been using my API Grand Slam Lite for at least 17 years now.
I do have four hang-on stands out that I don't pull, but I do move them to new spots annually. Each has two ratchet straps, and I do take those home after season, leaving the stand's factory strap to hold them loosly on the tree until the next season.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 26, 2017 5:02:41 GMT -5
Firstwd So what would that fine/ticket be if they haven't shot a Deer? Just a warning at best? Actually, you don't have to shoot a deer to be hunting a deer. That would all depend on what the officer sees or the offender is dumb enough to admit. Just looking through a scope at a deer or firing a missing shot would qualify as active hunting if an officer sees it. There used to be a family that lived next door to me that would deer hunt with HPR's every year, along with a friend or two of theirs. I actually ran into one of them and his friend in the woods once and back in the late 90's and they were both packing them then and even told me that they'd almost had a shot but the landowner had come driving back on the farm and spooked it. That guy and his brother were actually caught packing HPR's during deer season a few years later and cited, even though they had not made a kill. The same for another in-law of theirs. He was caught coming out of a paper company's property (trespassing) with a .30-06 and cited as well. So, obviously they can bust you even without a dead deer.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 23, 2017 14:47:14 GMT -5
Congratulations to him!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 22, 2017 17:59:21 GMT -5
![](http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/0924171630-1_resized.jpg) I've been using this stand for at least 17 seasons -- I know I killed a buck out of it in 2000, but can't remember if I had it prior to that. Anyway, I wore out the black shrink tubing on the chains every year, and struggled to make it every other season between eBay replacements at around $15-16. This year, I tried something new and bought 5/8" ID/ 3/4" OD clear vinyl tubing at Lowe's for 99 cents a foot. Each chain is something like 5.5 feet, so I bought 12 feet just to be safe. I boiled the tubing in water to soften it up, then used copper wire to pull the chains through. I've been using the stand for 3 weeks now with no problems, so I figured I'd post about it. The chains no longer flop when securing them to the tree, nor do they rattle when walking. I did have to remove the black plastic inserts from the stand openings so that the chains would fit in them.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 22, 2017 9:36:32 GMT -5
Calling it quits for the day. The wind is downright horrible. I had a lone doe come past half an hour ago at 10:06 AM, quartering from behind my left side. She was walking very fast, and since I couldn't hear her, she was right next to me before I saw her. I never even had time to draw before she was on past me and out of sight.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 22, 2017 8:23:44 GMT -5
It's pretty windy here in Warrick County... Every bit of 10 MPH now here.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 22, 2017 7:11:40 GMT -5
Well, this is a first for me. Lol! I climbed down, halfway strapped my stand sections together, and took off clanging through the woods. I fought through briars that I feared would rip my quiver and bow sight off, but I'm now on the downwind side of the same trail in a more brushy spot probably 150 yards of my former position.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 22, 2017 6:30:40 GMT -5
It's not even legal shooting light yet, and I can already tell that I made an error in choosing this tree. Lol! I have no cover, I'll be eye level with any deer coming down the logging road, and the wind seems to be blowing towards the trail they sometimes use along this ridge. The only positive attribute is that the sun will be at my back -- if it isn't cloudy. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 22, 2017 6:10:48 GMT -5
Good thing that I'm not allergic to poison ivy, as I had to strip tons of it off this tree as I climbed with my climbing stand. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 21, 2017 17:29:26 GMT -5
Its official lost my only woods to hunt today. Really really stinks pretty depressed right now. Sorry to hear that. I lost 600 acres a couple of years ago, as well as around 100 acres more, but I'm thankful that I still have other places. They started logging my largest place (350 acres) a few days before season (lol), and two other farms I had sole permission on for over a decade each now have a couple of gun hunters each. Luckily, none of them hunt very much. Hang in there, and keep banking up properties so that the losses don't sting so much.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 21, 2017 16:07:50 GMT -5
Just climbed a tree on the downwind side of a bedding area. I had to walk a major loop to keep my scent from blowing in there.
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