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Post by M4Madness on Nov 23, 2017 10:12:24 GMT -5
Well, my camcorder and right glove are both 20 feet below me this morning. I hope the camera survived the fall.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 23, 2017 9:13:25 GMT -5
I arrived here this morning to see a flashight walking through the little strip of woods along the road owned by someone else. The guy's grandson hunts there, so it wasn't totally unexpected. What did surprise me is the flashlight passing my parked Jeep a few minutes before shooting light and crossing the same hay field I'd crossed. I have no idea who it is (private property), but they entered the woods downwind of me a couple hundred yards. At least they are eating my scent. Lol!
15 minutes ago I had three does pass at 24 yards, with a two and a half year old 8-pointer trailing about 40 yards behind them. I feared that they would head right to the unknown hunter, but the buck sped up and started chasing the does hard, and they circled my tree and went back the way they'd come. Whew!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 22, 2017 19:44:49 GMT -5
Awesome!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 22, 2017 17:10:24 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 22, 2017 16:04:13 GMT -5
I buy boxes of the hand and feet warmers. They sure are a savior on these chilly mornings. One of these days I'll break down and get me a heater body suit. I've always wanted to try one. I know two guys petsonally who swear by the Heater Body Suit, but I'm still skeptical. I've worn just about every article of clothing I have at one time and still gotten cold. Lol! Merino wool base layer, then polypropylene artic weight long underwear, then Thinsulate-lined jeans, with a thermal shirt over the two base layers, a sweatshirt, then an insulated Carhartt hoodie. All topped off with Cabela's Whitetail Extreme bibs and parka. As for the handwarmers, they have an expiration date on the package.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 20, 2017 20:29:38 GMT -5
Glad you were able to get him!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 20, 2017 18:24:22 GMT -5
Driving home from work this afternoon and saw that they are cutting the corn on the only property I can hunt that has crops. I was ecstatic, as I despise standing corn. I may actually get out of the timber and try field sitting soon. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 20, 2017 5:50:34 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 19, 2017 18:51:04 GMT -5
About an hour before dark, I had a red fox come trotting past. It kept looking back over its shoulder, and directly here came the landowner's daughter and two male friends of hers in an enclosed UTV barreling past hot on its trail. During the last half hour, I watched a pair of year and a half old bucks square off and spar around.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 19, 2017 14:30:39 GMT -5
Just pulled into the farm at 2:30 PM and there are 4 does right out in the middle of the neighboring horse pasture where I can't deer hunt. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 19, 2017 11:42:37 GMT -5
Climbed down at 11:00 AM. Brutal, freezing wind this morning. Like a dummy, I set up on the side of the ridge that it was blowing from. I never saw a single deer. I heard 16 shots way in the distance, all but two before 9:00 AM.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 18, 2017 16:24:19 GMT -5
Seven does in the field across the road. I guess I ought to take a walk behind the house since the rain has died off.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 18, 2017 13:57:06 GMT -5
Just pulled in at home and there is a buck with a doe in the field across the road.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 18, 2017 12:52:15 GMT -5
7:44 AM
Only shot I heard all morning.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 18, 2017 12:40:04 GMT -5
Raining here now after a dry morning. Makes me glad that I'm in the drive-thru at McDonald's right now. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 18, 2017 11:22:44 GMT -5
Back at the house to beat the rain. Only heard one shot the entire morning, and it was distant.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 18, 2017 7:45:35 GMT -5
7:44 AM
First shot in the distance.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 18, 2017 7:19:22 GMT -5
Small 8 right under me!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 18, 2017 7:07:12 GMT -5
Famous last words for me -- "I'm in my tree." Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 18, 2017 6:36:31 GMT -5
I'm still sitting in my Jeep. Lol! I hung my climber on a tree yesterday in anticipation of this morning, but have come to the conclusion that if I even hunt this morning, it's going to be from the ground -- and I despise ground hunting! I have no blind, and if I did, these horrible winds would blow it away even if it were securely tied down. This crap stinks! Lol!
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