Post by Sleazy E on Dec 1, 2008 22:09:40 GMT -5
OK so I was drawn for Ft. Harrison.... initial impression was not a good one... but in the end I think everything will be ok and I will sign back up again next year... here is the story..
I get out there this morning and get set up in the rookery area... and about 9am some guy walks in to my area carrying a climber... he starts to set up about 5 yards from me so I whistle... he looks up at me and then acts all offended and tells me that he has hunted the rookery area for years and this is his spot and I can't hunt there... Well being the good guy I am I smile and say a few choice words to him and tell him he can have "his spot" and climb down throw my climber on my back and start to look for another spot to set up... for about 45 minutes all I did was run in to one hunter after another... so I gave up and walked to my truck and drove out the gate and told the DNR guy to go ahead and sign me out and if they can find someone on short notice let them have my slot because there are just way to many people in that small area... gave him a short explanation of what had happened... he pointed me in a direction and said.. "been sitting here all morning and no one has walked in there at all"... I decided to give it a shot and about 5 minutes after I get set up I see a doe... she is out of range... and i do not have everything ready all my calls are still in my pack... so she walks away... I get my calls ready and decide to can a couple of times just in case she is still in the area... I hit the can and another doe comes running in from behind me.... runs right through my shooting lanes... then browses her way toward the next opening... her head is in the opening but her vitals are still behind some brush.... she goes ridged and looks in my direction and blows and runs... she winded me... about an hour later another doe comes in and before she makes it to a shooting lane she winds me too.... then about 1:30 I hit the can again and another doe comes in from directly behind me... did not even see her till she was 5 yards from me right to my side... I am easing my bow in to shooting position and she gets a nose full of my trail from walking in and blows and runs away...
So today I washed all of my hunting clothes again with baking soda... repacked them all in their scent bags... picked up some more cover scent (I was out so I did not use any)... and went ahead and dug out what was left of my bottle of code blue... because while trying to find a place to set up in that area I found 4 fresh scrapes... Don't know the size of the buck... really don't care either... I just wanna get some antlers on the ground at this point.
I get out there this morning and get set up in the rookery area... and about 9am some guy walks in to my area carrying a climber... he starts to set up about 5 yards from me so I whistle... he looks up at me and then acts all offended and tells me that he has hunted the rookery area for years and this is his spot and I can't hunt there... Well being the good guy I am I smile and say a few choice words to him and tell him he can have "his spot" and climb down throw my climber on my back and start to look for another spot to set up... for about 45 minutes all I did was run in to one hunter after another... so I gave up and walked to my truck and drove out the gate and told the DNR guy to go ahead and sign me out and if they can find someone on short notice let them have my slot because there are just way to many people in that small area... gave him a short explanation of what had happened... he pointed me in a direction and said.. "been sitting here all morning and no one has walked in there at all"... I decided to give it a shot and about 5 minutes after I get set up I see a doe... she is out of range... and i do not have everything ready all my calls are still in my pack... so she walks away... I get my calls ready and decide to can a couple of times just in case she is still in the area... I hit the can and another doe comes running in from behind me.... runs right through my shooting lanes... then browses her way toward the next opening... her head is in the opening but her vitals are still behind some brush.... she goes ridged and looks in my direction and blows and runs... she winded me... about an hour later another doe comes in and before she makes it to a shooting lane she winds me too.... then about 1:30 I hit the can again and another doe comes in from directly behind me... did not even see her till she was 5 yards from me right to my side... I am easing my bow in to shooting position and she gets a nose full of my trail from walking in and blows and runs away...
So today I washed all of my hunting clothes again with baking soda... repacked them all in their scent bags... picked up some more cover scent (I was out so I did not use any)... and went ahead and dug out what was left of my bottle of code blue... because while trying to find a place to set up in that area I found 4 fresh scrapes... Don't know the size of the buck... really don't care either... I just wanna get some antlers on the ground at this point.
