Cool pics WCW. Thanks for sharing. That pic with the bucks squaring off... super. 👍

  I jist seen a calendar and  jist 5 more weeks til late season archery and evrbudy will be back.  I'm so excited, it's beginin' to git lonely 'round here.   Um wait.. that would mean another new secrete  board, "archery 2018-19".    Ahhhhhh NUTS!!!

 
 
 
                                                               Just (edit) 18 more days     
 
 
 
                                                                         HELLLLLLLLO???
 
                                   awwwww...... C'MON YINZ GUYZ, i KNOW YINZ IS OUT THERE!!!!
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                

I remember in the distant past when reading the outdoor mags,them writing about bowhunting in the late season in Minn. & Mich. in -20% weather. Now this was before we had the cold weather gear that we have now. Have any of you done the same?  Merry christmas to you also BTDT  sam

I'll be trying to get the kids out if the weather isn't too cold.  Didnt get anything Saturday up north.  Pretty chilly up there so if they can handle that, I think a couple hour sit in the late season could be doable.  My daughter lasted until 2pm on Saturday and it was the bathroom that did her in, not the cold. 
My younger son lasted until 11:30 am but he was in a heated hunting shack.  Not seeing deer did him in.  My daughter and I only saw one fawn come blowing by us at 20 yds and that was it.
 

Hope to be sitting Friday afternoon for my first late season archery go round. They are calling for rain in the morning, tapering to scattered showers in the afternoon. I guess I will check out the radar before deciding if I will go or not. I did a trail camera check this past weekend and it seems there are quite a few deer moving in the area of my stand. 

Neighbor called me last night at 4:45 he got a doe guess only took 15 minutes to find it.. asked if he needed any help getting it out ... said nope just wanted you to know you got some more venison coming .... lol

Did an evening sit tonight in steady snow with the bow. Had two within 20 yards of me on several occasions but both were fawns. Still 2 weeks to go in the SRAs. 

Them's the kinda stories, fun memories are made from. 👍

My son finally filled his Ohio buck tag yesterday afternoon. I very modest 6 pt. $200.license,35 trips in gas $450-500, $100 in corn ( baiting is legal) $75 deer processor. $875 for some free deer meat.lol We don't care about the money is own fun and and relaxation.lol Now I've got to buy vac bags,pork butts,hog casings. This sausage deer is costing quite a bit.lol  Finally cost about $12 a pound.lol  He probably saw 25 bucks but only 2 where up to his standards.lol He saw this deer on the first day in September and probably 5 or 6 more times. I was going to shoot one of the several little bucks on the farm but it's cheaper to eat my $200. Tag.lol I think 4 in the freezer enough this year and 1 given away to feed the needy. 

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Let him walk?
You cant eat the antlers, especially if they're not there......lol
 
BH

Did a 4 hour sit this afternoon. Brrrr.... it was cold. Thought it was gonna happen but it didn't. Had 5 doe at 40 yards for quite some time but they never offered me a shot. They were feeding in the thick but I could never find a path to get an arrow through. 
 
Back at it tomorrow for the last hurrah!

Best of luck on your hunting adventures.

I got my crate from Africa yesterday. It is hard to imagine how they get that much stuff in that small of a crate. We picked it up at BWI ourselves and the import agent had ever “I” dotted and “T” crossed. It took about 15 minutes at the warehouse.

Popped the lid when I got home and the mounts are absolutely fabulous. All completely backwards from the direction I asked them to be mounted, but the best taxidermy work I’ve seen anywhere.

I can work with them being backwards by just switching the wall places. It might be my fault in understanding whether the direction was from my perspective or the animals (the instructions were a bit confusing because they were obviously translated to English).

I forgot how big the kudu and the gemsbok were and how tiny the Steenbok was. The kudu is just a tad over 60 inches from top of horn to the bottom of the mount. It is good the trophy room (which is about 50% done because I thought I had a year before the mounts came) has 9.5 foot ceilings. Even at putting the horns almost to the ceiling, it would be very easy for one to “kiss the kudu.”