Good luck with the bear Wags and better luck with the deer in gun season.
 
I hear ya on the mountain climbing buddy(lol) it's pretty much flat out to my stands but I swear it's straight-up.........  both ways.
 
If ya wanna get even with that turkey, I got a 3" mortar saved from the fourth that ya could light* off under his roost.  I had several but, I needed to get even with some duck hunters hunting with a bazooka.  At least I think it was duck hunters, hell for all I know, it may have been Troy "chooting" alligators in the swamp.
 
*Disclaimer: Not responsible for any resulting wild fires.
 
Enjoyed your rants, keep us informed on hunting bear.  {I am not, touching that one}

Any geese at pyma btdt? See any significant numbers? Seen about two hundred today in the national forest... No shooting

To be honest with ya Ed, I don't remember seeing any geese at all.  I was between the Jamestown launch and the dam and any geese that I have seen in the past has been more up towards Snodgrass, usually sitting in the residential yards.
 
Have ya tried watching recently harvested corn fields around any type of water at all?  I've got flocks of geese coming into my beaver ponds just before dark and leaving before sun up.  I hear shooting from the fields and usually see the flocks circling over head as they get busted from one field and relocate to another.  The Amish usually nail them the first couple of days they arrive.  Doesn't take the geese long to learn when they can and can't fly in safely.  Haven't had my cameras on the water since deer season started so I can't say if any birds remain on the ponds between sun up and sun down.  I put this up a few days ago but, I don't know if they are still hanging around as I have not been home in the evening.  https://youtu.be/OkIgWY5HH1U?t=1   And I sure don't get up before they leave in the morning!
 

Saw absolutely no ducks or geese on the bayou yesterday.  However, this morning I did see a flock of about 50 geese circling over the area.
 
Thinking they ain't using the ponds at night and probably have found a safe haven where they ain't being shot at with ten hundred gauge bazookas.
 
 
Great news regarding the elusive White-Tailed Deer, the last couple days.     Deer are moving through my hunting grounds once again, so far my field cams have captured  doe feeding in my field.  Since I have two cameras and each have a picture of a feeding deer would it be, safe to assume there [is/are] two deer remaining?  The cameras are spaced approximately 300 yd.s apart.
 
  

Walcat you ain't over by Mt Lebo again are you? Hear tell that's where ALL the deer are.

Had one of my best hunts of the year,and didn't even release a Rage. Set in my ground ground blind 6:00 am daylight comes slow,but soon after hear deer coming 4 bodies come out of the shadows,a beautiful double white patched doe,then two skippers,long looks at the blind,then a true tank doe. All four are feeding in the corn stubble from 5- 15 yards. I start thinking that big doe would really fill up the freezer,flip the safety turn on the lighted 3 dot sight,I put the 20 yard pin a inch lower in the kill zone,start squeezing the trigger and stop. It would have been beautiful broadside shot with her head in the chiseled corn but they it's the ruts. Ten minutes pass and they feed away. More rustling a doe is running my way followed by a more than respectable heavy horned high white racked huge body Ohio buck. It happened so fast it was over in a heartbeat. No shot moving fast and gone. I'm a little sick but thankful to witness such a wonderful sight. Time goes by more rustling, bb following mommy that the bucks running. More time,more rustling here come a fat big spike,yes Ohio has spikes too. It's over the deer woods turns into a Fox squirrel party and I have to get home to wait the the repairman to service the fridge. Hope he comes soon I'd like to be back on that buck this afternoon. A great hunt with no kill. But soon to come. Part two will be the kill story. I hope lol

Part two is complete. The two repairman come and want to talk hunting more than do their job.2:30 pm they leave, I quickly gather my stuff and speed away. Park at 3:25 in my blind by 3:35 pm. I settled down and time ticks away,no deer why the morning was just crazy now nothing. I'm watching the sun sinking down and was spectacular. At 5.15 I catch movement to my left coming down wind, their he is Mr. Bigs from this morning,he stops broadside at 25 I'm on him and send a  Rage to the cage,crack! I hear ribs snapping,he does a 180 dashes 30 yards stops and just stands there. He toppled over in less 5 seconds. Dowm,finished,stone dead. I've never seen a mature deer die that quick. Well I'm done in two states but may gun hunt W.V.next week. Today is like a dream. he's a main frame. 10 with a sticker and a kicker,so he's a 12 pt with  a 19 inch spread. I got to post some pics.What a day
 
 

Sweet, congrats. The eight I got was the largest of 12 legal bucks I had under 20 yards throughout the season so I was feeling pretty good until archery bear. Now I have seen three that make mine look like a shrimp. I also couldn't find the bear that was around during deer archery. Maybe today.

Congrats BT. Sounds like a great day

Congratulation BT, hope ya can get your pictures posted.
 
A quick way to post:  Top left corner of your comment page, click the the "open full version".
 
On the full version page, click the "paper clip". (upper right corner)
 
Click the blank space in the "pop-up window".  This should take you to your photo files on your computer.
 
Click the picture you wish to post.  (will have to resize picture to 680 or less pixels before)
 
You should see a "thumbnail" of your picture at the bottom of the comment page.
 
Those wanting a full view only need double click on the "thumbnail".
 
 
I would recommend saving such pictures to a special file set up for posting.  Do not use files containing "no want to show pix".   A wrong click could display everything in a folder.