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Post by deadeer on Dec 6, 2020 20:12:14 GMT -5
Seen 5 at last light. Let 3 dinks go by. Last 2 big does stopped at about 60yd and stood statue still for 15min right behind trees. No reason. Wind was good and the dinks were fine. Old does just got that 6th sense! Next time.
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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 6, 2020 20:17:25 GMT -5
Got out of work late so no go for me.
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Post by esshup on Dec 6, 2020 21:21:02 GMT -5
Didn't see even a tweety bird tonight. When I took those deer in to the processor today they said no deer were brought in yesterday, and only one this morning before I stopped there.
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Post by Collegehunter00 on Dec 7, 2020 7:27:51 GMT -5
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Post by mstr2175 on Dec 7, 2020 9:57:35 GMT -5
No birthday buck this morning, had to come back in already to start work at home. Got out there real early, heard a buck come in about 40 yards away freshening up a scrape. That was around 715 so about 15 min before I could even see enough to shoot. Might finish up in time to get out there this evening
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Post by bill9068 on Dec 7, 2020 11:45:26 GMT -5
My daughter and daughter in law both had gall bladders removed within 10 days of each other, something going around?
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Post by parrothead on Dec 7, 2020 11:59:09 GMT -5
I know it will change 100 times by this weekend, but they are saying as of now 25 mph winds snow, rain.
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Post by genesis273 on Dec 7, 2020 15:16:30 GMT -5
One minute the wind is ESE and then SW. Makes it impossible to pick my stand. So, I'm going deep into the hardwoods to a stand I hadn't hunted yet. I'll be in an oak with acorns surrounded by others dropping acorns. That's an afternoon food source right?! Lol
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Post by ukwil on Dec 7, 2020 15:50:16 GMT -5
Finally out again. Slipped out for the last couple of hours on the property where I killed my does opening day of gun. Found quite a few piles of fresh droppings and several of the big trails are being used hard. Im set up between 2 known bedding areas with a ridge of red oaks in between.
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Post by genesis273 on Dec 7, 2020 15:54:54 GMT -5
Finally out again. Slipped out for the last couple of hours on the property where I killed my does opening day of gun. Found quite a few piles of fresh droppings and several of the big trails are being used hard. Im set up between 2 known bedding areas with a ridge of red oaks in between. Sounds like you're sitting pretty!
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Post by sculver7 on Dec 7, 2020 16:34:42 GMT -5
Wanted to share this hunt from last Thursday that I had on public land. I have been working into an area out in the marsh that is 1.4 miles from the parking lot. I hang and hunt so I can stay mobile. Anyway, I get in to the spot that I want to target and can't find a tree in the right spot to set up in with proper shooting lanes. Luckily, there is a nice deadfall on the ground that I can tuck up in to with trees between me and the sun so that I'm in the shadows. Feeling really confident. The way I'm set up, I should have a nice 20-30 yard bow shot. About 2.5 hours before the end of legal, I hear footsteps off to my left. I slowly turn that way to see a 130-140" walking my way at 60 yards. My wind is perfect and he is walking right where I figured the deer would be. Another 10 yards or so and I'm in the game. All of a sudden, he spooks and busts out into the marsh and goes back upwind and out to a little island along the levee. I'm sitting there scratching my head trying ti figure out what happened. There's no way he saw, smelled, or heard me. He was no where near my ground scent. I am perplexed at this point. Anyway, the sit ends pretty uneventfully from that point. I did have a smaller buck come out of bedding around 40 yards away but didn't have a shot and don't even know if I would have taken it. I pack up and start my long trip out. I get to where the buck spooked and don't see anything out of the ordinary. Another 60 yards and there is a guy 6 feet off the ground in a climber. I apologize to him as I didn't know he was there. He then proceeds to call me out about not wearing orange. I explain to him that during non-firearms seasons, you don't have to wear orange. I then realize hat he is not wearing orange at which time, he takes a camo hat off and underneath, has an orange stocking cap on. I am baffled at the audacity of him calling me out on something that 1. wasn't even a current rule and 2. if he tought that we were supposed to be wearing orange, he was illegally hunting. At this point, I am pretty miffed because of all that has happened. I tell him goodbye and keep walking. I then get up to where the trail splits and see that he has driven his truck out down the lane almost a mile into an area that is gated and clearly posted no vehicle usage. Now I am really ticked. This knucklehead decided to drive his truck out there where he wasn't supposed to drive, then had the audacity to call me out on something that he wasn't doing himself (and that wasn't even a current rule, and on top of it, the biggest buck I've seen all season was headed right to me but got downwind of him and busted. Very, very frustrating. I can deal with the normal pains of public land hunting, but when people are constantly breaking property rules and being unethical, it really ticks me off. The last 3 times I have hunted out there, I have seen people driving way out in the are where there is not supposed to be any vehicles. I have contacted the front office and they don't do anything about it. It is so frustrating. Sorry for the rant, but wanted to share.
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Post by ukwil on Dec 7, 2020 16:38:56 GMT -5
Finally out again. Slipped out for the last couple of hours on the property where I killed my does opening day of gun. Found quite a few piles of fresh droppings and several of the big trails are being used hard. Im set up between 2 known bedding areas with a ridge of red oaks in between. Sounds like you're sitting pretty! Let's hope. Historically this is a better property for morning hunts
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Post by deadeer on Dec 7, 2020 16:41:25 GMT -5
In the ground blind on a small food plot. The cam pics aren't too promising. But what do they know? Lol
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Post by deadeer on Dec 7, 2020 17:14:01 GMT -5
Super calm again tonight, and a very cold chill. Zero complaints on the weather lately. Most everybody I talked to says the pics are showing all movement after dark. It will turn around soon with daytime deer again.
Oh, seen several deer out around noon today. They must know! Lol. Took the kid to Berrien Springs, MI on the St Joe river to wet a line for steelhead. We didnt do any good, and froze our tails off. But we had a great time together! The river is so low right now, the gravel bars take up over half the river in spots.
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Post by deadeer on Dec 7, 2020 17:16:03 GMT -5
Half hour left now. The picture out of the blind window looks like it's worth a million bucks in deer money. Come on!
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Post by deadeer on Dec 7, 2020 17:34:54 GMT -5
10 min to go and just had 3 walk by in the woods. They need to turn and hook back into the plot.
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Post by ukwil on Dec 7, 2020 18:17:53 GMT -5
Nothing here
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Dec 7, 2020 18:19:15 GMT -5
Bucks chasing does all over the field tonight.
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Post by jajwrigh on Dec 7, 2020 18:23:47 GMT -5
If the wind cooperates tomorrow evening, I am planning a surprise flank maneuver into an area where the deer haven't seen a hunter in 7 years. There is heavy, fresh buck sign on the outskirts of this area. I will have to travel light and stealthy. I will either sit on the ground and set up with shooting sticks or pack in my climber. Depends on how my fragile back is feeling when I wake up.
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Post by deadeer on Dec 7, 2020 18:50:23 GMT -5
The deer never showed in the open.
Gonna try my "way back" public land spot a couple times starting tomorrow. The deer need a break at the private spots for awhile.
Got about 2/3 of all my deer thawed out. Gonna be grinding, pressure canning, and making some jerky the rest of the week. I will be taking orders starting tomorrow. Lol.
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