Bummer...was hoping you'd stick one of them nice buck you always have pics of. Best of luck to you in rifle season mopars 👍👍

Mopars.... wellll OK 🤔 But ya best rest up after firearms (psst late archery; weather permitting... maybe?😛) then ya got til mid April when I get back for a hook-up on Wilhelm. I'll bring the boat. 👍


Til then, good luck in firearms, I'll be watchin for a good story.

rsquared

 
Speaking of good story tellers, been a day or two since we heard from DarDys.  Anyone check to make sure he didn't get blown away with his blind?   
 
My boys are tapped out on archery.  The oldest hunted yesterday from 4 till dark in his stand and didn't see a deer.  He said he's done.  
 
I have a few hours tomorrow morning and I'm trying to decide if I want to hunt deer myself for the first time this year, or take Rocky out to chase some more of those green headed chickens on the game lands.   

Dave you know I never fib, especially about such things as telling stories. 🙈

You're right about DarDy. Say ya don't suppose the wind spun 'him' around and he got lost or sumpthin. 🙉

As for your itinerary..... Hunt deer in the morning, ditch chickens mid morning,
"lunch", ditch chickens mid afternoon, "nap" in ground blind afternoon, til dark.

Now that's huntin.... 👍

Not blown away in the blind — it is still in the basement where I put it before the last windstorm. I’ll pull it out on Black Friday for my retired trooper hunter to use for the Saturday opener.

Nothing to report and nothing remarkable except having plenty of time to think while seeing nothing.

I’ll probably put something together after the archery season is over.

Best of luck to those still keeping on.

CRAPPIE_SLAYER
Bummer...was hoping you'd stick one of them nice buck you always have pics of. Best of luck to you in rifle season mopars 👍👍

Thanks Crappie ... as long as I’m enjoying the hunts that is all that counts , I have been lucky over the years to be able to hit the woods for as long as I have and I’m very thankful for the success that I have had . I also realize that it is time to take a backseat to my son and grandsons and let them carry on the family tradition.... thanks again for you kind words

BeenThereDoneThat.
Mopars.... wellll OK 🤔 But ya best rest up after firearms (psst late archery; weather permitting... maybe?😛) then ya got til mid April when I get back for a hook-up on Wilhelm. I'll bring the boat. 👍


Til then, good luck in firearms, I'll be watchin for a good story.

sounds like a plan bud .... can’t wait 👍👍🍺

Went out this morning hoping to fill a doe tag if the right doe came through. Saw lots of deer from this stand recently until today. One 4 point and 2 does that were too far. 

Lots of vacation left to burn at work so I took a half day today after doing my due diligence at the fun factory. The plow I ordered for the 4 wheeler came in late this morning, so I ended up going and picking it up which put me a little behind.

Got setup at 2 in a stand I affectuonatly call "the torture chamber". I'm not sure what it is about it, but it is the most uncomfortable stand I have to sit in for any period of time. Its in a great spot though, which is a small opening amongst a lot of small saplings and multiflora rose. The snow cover made it so I could see much farther than normal, and at 210 I saw 2 doe working toward me from the south. The lead doe played right along and gave me a nice slightly quartering to shot at 17yds at 213. The shot was a little further back than I wanted, so I waited an hour to climb down.

I've gotta say, I've never shot one with snow on the ground. Holy shat what a difference that can make with a blood trail. As I waited in the stand I could actually see the blood start to soak into the snow. Climbed down and checked it out up close. As stated, I hit it back further than wanted, but after seeing the blood trail decided to follow up on it. Found her laying 60yds away, and the old horton explorer claimed another one. One lung, destroyed the liver, and clipped the gut. Feeling quite blessed to have another one in the freezer after a 13 minute hunt.

Good luck to all of you headed out for the last day tomorrow! I have one more doe tag, but will be sleeping in and saving it to hopefully take one with my dads .270 or flintlock.

Congratulations Crappie_Slayer. Sometimes sit for days and other times sit for just minutes. Hunting at it's best.

Good deal CS!

Congrats!