This is mine
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Here was the view from mine last Friday during the snow:
https://youtu.be/lZzWcfDGakg
One correction; the StrawHouse was built in 2000, not 2010.
Not a view from my stand,how about my house?
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I was cutting right behind the house. I would pull out the so called logs and leave the tops. Deer would come in and eat the tops. Next day I would haul the tops off and start all over again.
I also feed the deer in this same area. I use to showshoe in years ago and see how the deer was doing before I built a house in their back yard. Feeding the deer,I scatter the grain in a long line. I grab a handful and throw it. I think my feeding line is 50-80 feet long. Keeps the deer from fighting and driving away the small ones.
That snow day in the south was a nice day MM.
What kind of trees Cfarm? Nice pix.
Mostly white maple. Might of been an ash,maybe an oak. I try to leave the oak for the acorns,but sometimes oak need to be thinned out too.
I would try to leave at least 2 tops out at a time. This keeps the deer from fighting and driving the smaller ones away.
I cut the bog off a few years ago. Cutting cedar,well really anything growing. None of the wood was any good,maybe and I say maybe pulp.No size to most of it. When I would come out with the cedar,I would not limb it and I would stop and back up a few times and that would break off the limbs. I would bring the good size cedar up to my stepsons game camera. The cedar trees would like skinned fish bones in the morning. No green stuff,just limbs. The deer would be in the bog when I was cutting. I would come to the landing,probably no more than 5-600 feet away. I would unhook and by the time I got back,the deer would be there. I would shut off the tractor and start to walk towards them to cut some more and they did not want to leave the food.
Stepson did come down,just once and he had never seen anything like it. All of us that work in the woods,in the winter,have seen this and take it for granted.
smiley_thumbsup :christmas:
This morning's view from another stand.
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I did not see anything. :-\
Wheredat?
Yesterday evening I made another video from the StrawHouse, Same location as Reply #3 above except without snow.
https://youtu.be/sv-pKi4thlc
Quote from: Jeff on December 23, 2017, 03:43:29 PMWheredat?
It is the location of this rebuild: LINK (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,85519.msg1309034.html#msg1309034) Any Yes, you have been there. ;D
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Several good bucks have come from here including these.
Here is mine.
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Hard to watch for deer sometimes with this view.
I'd have to agree ;).
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Quote from: Jeff on November 19, 2018, 09:23:05 AM
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That a fine view. Still hot down in Louisiana.
Selfie from deerstand. Its windy wet and cold out here. I suspect the deer left for Florida. Its supposed to be single digits tonight. My sister is hunting from a heated blind, I'm going old school. I want that big deer. I'll settle for less, but he ain't going to be up where its cushy.
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That looks cold!!!!
It is! I'm an idiot!
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Lynda's dog Sophie didnt recognize me bundled up for today's hunting conditions and was telling me so.
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I like antlers but am happy to settle for warm and tender
Logrite trailer makes it easy for an old man to load deer see aviator
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We are not allowed to take a doe in the U.P. or I surely would.
Quote from: Jeff on November 20, 2018, 07:39:18 AM
We are not allowed to take a doe in the U.P. or I surely would.
We have an over population of does, but hunters would rather hunt "the big buck" than manage the herd. Managed lands show a higher proportion of trophy bucks than the rest, and they kill does. One local club has some 7000 acres under game management, they have a longer season, and are required to kill 90 does and 20 some odd bucks, even knowing they are managing the herd, the number of does killed is a pressing issue towards the end of the season. Horns make thin soup.
Our DNR uses wolves now to manage the deer numbers I must pay to hunt. The wolves can kill as many as they want.
Quote from: Texas Ranger on November 20, 2018, 09:40:24 AMHorns make thin soup.
:) :) :) Great quote T.R.
I have never heard it put that way before.
Quote from: Jeff on November 20, 2018, 01:47:54 PM
Our DNR uses wolves now to manage the deer numbers I must pay to hunt. The wolves can kill as many as they want.
So do they issue any wolf tags for the hunters?
Wolves are protected.
Quote from: Jeff on November 20, 2018, 02:07:29 PM
Wolves are protected.
Hrer in N.D. we say shoot shovel and shut up fudd-smiley fudd-smiley fudd-smiley fudd-smiley
Are you having any problems with Chronic wasting disease in the deer herds in ND?
Sawmiller out in unit 3F2 SW of Bismarck thy have it. You get a deer there the head stays there so it can be sent to Mich. for testing and you have to bone out the deer to bring it home.
Would I of known that I would not of got a tag out there I was after a big Mule deer buck but no luck
Came up early. Chilled to the bone. -3°
The blind is in the background.
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:o I'd prolly hafta wear long underwear in weather like that. Don't know, don't have any. ::)
Theres nothing you can do to stay warm in below zero short of standing next to the stove.
This morning I was wearing 2 pair of socks, underwear, long underwear top and bottom, camo cargo pants, insulated bibs, flannel shirt, insulated zippered hoody, insulated hunting coat, forestry forum hat covered with a knit hat/face mask, with a hood up and it still wasnt enough for sitting still. The wind is 10-15 with gusts to 25. I ain't going back out until an hour and a have before dark, as I'm sure that's all I can take. It's about a quarter mile walk to my blind.
Do ya have your hunter orange long johns on? ???
Joe Boxer camo.
Did not take a picture but used my climbing stand on the back corner of my property this morning. Left the house at 5:45, road ATV as far as I could then walked a quarter mile or so mostly up hill in the dark, got to the tree at 6:22 and got through and strapped in about 25' high in a red oak by 6:35. Stayed till about 9:00 without seeing anything except a couple of squirrels, several pileated and red-bellied woodpeckers and several warblers or such. One of them tried twice to light on my rifle barrel less than a foot from my face but could not get a good grip and lit on the tree next to me instead. When the wind got high and the tree trimmers about a half mile below opened up their chipper I got down and stalked an hour or so. I had let a little button buck go yesterday. Everything is legal for us right now. It was in high 20's when I got up there and high this afternoon was to be about 45.
The milwaukee heated jackets are great for extending your pain tolerance. I wish they made socks too.
When it gets that cold, I like to wear a house. A bit heavy, but it's got heat, internet, and a refrigerator. ;D
I'm going out in the morning as long as I dont freeze to death tonight.
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Good luck! We're going to have a low of 8 tonight. A bit early for it, if you ask me. I've always figured things freeze up right around Thanksgiving. I just didn't realize Thanksgiving was here already. :D
In weather like that, we need to splurge and get one of those "Heater Body Suits" that they talk about on the hunting channels on TV!
Carry it out in a backpack, get in your shack and get in it!
Supposed to have a really good warranty too!
Jeff,
It was -2 this past Sunday morning at my house when I returned from duck hunting. Ive never seen it this cold in November.
I've got this feeling that the snow we have NOW will be the last snow to go in the Spring!
Yes, I feel it's here for the duration! :snowball: :new_year:
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Mine
No white stuff here!
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This is a from a ground blind made from truck bed liners on small trailer frame. I call it the oven blind. This morning was dreary and rainy and the only thing I saw was one spike.
Then these guys showed up:
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26 turkeys. Never saw that many together here. 145 yards. I don't have a choke for that.
Quote from: btulloh on November 26, 2018, 10:19:11 PM
145 yards. I don't have a choke for that.
:D
Mascots Va Tech!
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Hard to get the perspective of the steep angles involved but my favorite deer stand is a 6'X6' shooting house on poles about 9' above ground. The stand is on a point between a deep draw that runs up the middle of my property and a side draw that forks off. So on 2 sides I am shooting downhill at ranges up to around 100 yards. At the top of the side draw is a ridge covered in oaks and beeches and I can shoot a deer up to 120-140 yards comfortably. On the other 2 sides is a big bench (flat area on the side of the mountain) with an old logging road about 70 -80 yards away and mountain side another 30-40 yards above it in range. Out the final window is my feeder and 80 yards or so of the bench leading to the ridge. It is pretty thick in small beeches and such. My feeder is set up of bow hunting and 12-15 yards away and really too close but that is where the convenient trees were available.
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Overlooking side draw to the NE
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Ridge above this side draw mostly to the North
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Bench leading into the ridge out my North window with feeder.
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Bench leading to old logging road to the SW
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Deep draw below on the East side. That double poplar is about about about 17 yards away with a trail just below it. I killed a couple of deer with my bow using it to to shield my movements. They stick their head behind, I draw, they step out and I release. I also have a stick about 1" in diameter with one of my arrows in it from this spot. It was the only thing between me and a 6 points lungs and I centered the stick. An inch higher or lower and he'd have been meat on the table. Instead I have a dang souvenir. >:(
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This little 130 lb (live weight) 6 pt came in from my blind side and to my feeder right at sunset (5:08 pm) today and was so close I had a hard time getting the rifle pointed down far enough to shoot him. Would have been a perfect pistol or good bow shot. I blew out his heart, passed through and broke front left leg and he still ran 60 yards down into the side draw (first picture) and I had to drag him up to and over the ridge to the next draw where my ATV was parked. I finally got him up, over and down and dragged him home and had him skinned and gutted and hanging/chilling for processing in my old log barn by 8:30 pm. I'll work him up tomorrow I guess.
Cool place!
Everything I want to shoot still won't walk when the sun's up....or walk where ya can't see in when it is.
Yeah, if this little guy had been 25 minutes later he'd have been past legal shooting hours. I had seen a small rub and the makings of a small scrape on the way in and a fresh pile/clump of droppings about 6' from my ladder that looked like from a well fed buck rather than does or yearlings which are more often single pellets.
Here, we feel that a good percentage of the bucks have gone strictly nocturnal!
We're just not seeing them, even in the food plots!
Lots of does and fawns (50+) (not even any spikes) in the combined soybean field!
Same here with the bucks going nocturnal. I only see them during the rut.
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This guy crossed the trail Saturday. A couple grunts got his attention.
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He came right over to my stand, then finally got spooked and booked.
Quote from: btulloh on November 30, 2018, 07:12:48 PM
Same here with the bucks going nocturnal. I only see them during the rut.
Man, around here even during the rut the best chance for sightings is when one gets locked down on a doe and she leads him around and out in the open when she gets receptive. I have vid after vid of nice bucks chasing all at night! What a week.
Scraping (https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2639910706234722&id=2437525293139932)
Cruising (https://www.facebook.com/RedHillsTurkeyCalls/videos/259589764914326/)
Stepping up the pace (https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2642646199294506&id=2437525293139932)
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Morning before gun season in michigan
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Quote from: btulloh on November 30, 2018, 07:12:48 PM
Same here with the bucks going nocturnal. I only see them during the rut.
The day the dogs start running they go nocturnal over this way. Walking back from checking cows at night I will often jump several or get blown at a couple of times.
Quote from: stanwelch on November 30, 2018, 08:49:54 PM
Morning before gun season in michigan
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Haha...glad to see others have the same kind of luck I have! Thought I was just cursed....that's a dandy!
"Sniff sniff. Do i detect gun oil and antler lust in the air? Im out of here."
Sometimes luck is on our side
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Dat ain't luck Stan. Dat's a very good buck!! :)
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Time to test the deer killed for CWD. It has showed up in Ms. and has had an effect on hunter interest here. Personally the last buck I killed, when I removed the skull cap, Its brain was crawling with worms and I lost interest. Now the only fever I have is woodmizer fever!
Stan,
That's a real nice deer. If I killed one that big around here I'd probably have to just cook and eat him on the spot as I'd never get him out of the hollow and over the ridge (They always run or fall down into the hollow when you shoot one here).
Greyhound,
Congrats on yours too.
I just finished grinding 17 lbs from the meat off a ham, brisket and trimmings and mixed with jerky seasoning to marinate overnight. I'll start drying it tomorrow. I put 5 bone-in roasts in the freezer from the neck and one shoulder. I gave one shoulder, one ham, the backstraps and the tenderloins to a young friend of ours last night when I finished breaking down the deer.
Darn just as things started to get interesting, Young bucks are chasing in the daylight. Watched a 4 and a 6 bother a doe for a while yesterday. She had no interest yet. Bad weather across the panhandle with deep tropical moisture. Almost 80 today, 70 low and the air is thick sticky.
This is gonna be around a few more days..middle of the week could get exciting, back into the 30's.
I'm surprised the bucks are even active down there yet. I thought it would be next month or so before the deer in Fla got active. I may have my dates off but I know we killed most of our biggest bucks in south central Alabama in January when they were moving more. I remember seeing very small spotted fawns there around Thanksgiving.
We had 60+ degree weather here today. I went up and replaced the plastic barrel on the feeder in my previous picture at my upper deer stand because the squirrels had cut a hole in it and I think even the coons had enlarged it. The rain was getting in and swelling the corn and it would not pass through the feeder. I may have to make a metal cover out of flashing or such if I see them start chewing again. I put WD 40 on one one time and nearly fell out of my ladder stand laughing the next day when a big fox squirrel jumped on it, scrambled mightily then fell. Of course after a couple of weeks the rain washed it off and they cut my patch off.
Fl, I think has the most drawn out span of rutting.
You could follow it from Sept to darn near Mid February, starting in South FL up and around thru the Western Panhandle area.
Across the Panhandle from East to West it ranges from Halloween past New Years!
So yea, the area you talk about falls in that date range.
Right now, we're hunting in about the middle and serious activity starts usually about Thanksgiving and runs to the first week or so into Dec.
Christmas week we'll be hunting about 70 miles west...yea it does make a difference. That's when they get excited west of Tally.
This WOULD have been the view from my stand....pass! At about a 4" 2 day total could make for some very interesting activity in the next few days. Temp going to the 30's, all the swamps are filled. Should be a LOT of deer on the high ground. There's a lot of swamps!
RAIN!!! (https://www.facebook.com/RedHillsTurkeyCalls/videos/386971045178084/)
Wow, that's really comin' down! surfer-smiley fishin-smiley
In recent timber harvest area, 2018.
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Y'all be careful out there. Local hunter took a tumble off a 16 ft tripod stand. Fatally injured.
Ron scott and I both have had tree stand adventures.
Here was mine.
Sometimes its the little things that become huge. in Health and Safety (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=28306.0)
Interesting reading there Jeff. My partner and I packed a guy out in November 1985 on Ft. Benning army base who had fallen off his tree stand, a well built platform but he leaned against a broken limb before he put his safety belt on. He had broken 3 vertebrae and crushed one of them. He'd brokenhis false teeth and had a bloody mouth when we packed him out. We made a stretcher out of the bottom section of a ladder stand while my wife went to call for a chopper. He miraculously made a full recovery.
I had another friend in 1988 or early 1999 who fell out at the end of the day and broke a number of bones, had a concussion, etc. and he had to medically retire from the USMC as a result.
My BIL fell off the mountainside in Alaska on a sheep hunt 30-35 years ago. He rolled and fell about 200 ft and broke both wrists, had a concussion, and other injuries. One partner stayed with him while the other two hiked out 35 miles to the nearest road where they flagged down a highway patrolman who called a medivac chopper to him. He survived but he can shoot around corners with his Winchester model 70 now. He still has an occasional bone fragment work itself free.
I had the bottom of a climbing stand fall out from under me a few years back but I did not fall and was able to shinny down the tree. I came back with another stand to climb back up and get the top down.
It is a good reminder to be careful on any above ground hunting. You can get hurt real quick and in a hurry up there.
That explains this picture. No slippery steps.
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Jeff, I have a stand with steps exactly like yours without cleats, only screws holding the steps. Been like that for about five years. Your incident will make me finish the job. :o
My grandson got his deer
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And i didn't have any luck all I seen was small buck's
Nice going Goose, I bet you're a proud GrandPa!
Thats a beauty!
My stand went dead so i been walkin n stalkin. Saw a lot of fresh sign and located a few new buck areas. Bumped 4 does when i was almost back home.
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Got a couple 6 point from my new stand but the highlite was I took my 11 year old grand son with me yesterday and he got a his first deer a nubin buck in our anterless season. Mentored hunt, need to sit together with only one gun for the two of us. He used my new 243 single shot cva hunter compact. great season from my new blind. Didnt hurt that the farmer who rents my land gave me a 20 acre food plot, winter wheat.
mike :snowball: :snowball: no snow and looks a lot warmer than here
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View yesterday. Saw 11. No antlers. Its black powder season
Blind view last night. - YouTube (https://youtu.be/ZsoJlD-Klt0)
Quote from: goose63 on December 10, 2018, 07:39:53 AM
mike :snowball: :snowball: no snow and looks a lot warmer than here
not by accident either, took every dollar i had and a bunch i didnt to get out of the cold!
We got a clumpy dusting last night thats stuck to all the trees. I wasnt gonna go today but its so pretty i think i just might leave the rifle and sit a spell.
The antlers cut off my boy got in archery the other I got Saturday morning last day rifle
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Due to all the heavy snow at the start of the week and some real cold mornings yesterday was the first chance I got to go Black Powder hunting. One stand was still unaccessible as too much snow for my ATV. I got most of the way to my lower one and walked the rest of the way. When I got there I found my feeder spinner had dropped and fed out all the corn. A few tracks in the snow but not a lot. I went back in the afternoon and put 20-25 lbs of corn in and waited till dark. Did not see any deer but did have the varmint below show up. He's a regular customer and looks like this year's kit. I may have to start taking Sampson along but he is very protective of me and in the past as made sure I did not get harmed by any deer getting too close. :D
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I have been very fortunate to have been hunting this 160 acres for 40 plus years. From tagging along with my dad when I was too young to hunt until today. 40 years ago it was a typical deer camp with people coming from far away for to hunt, socialize, eat, or just get away. Of all the folks that have been part in this piece of heaven my wife and I are the only two left that hunt here.
The owner of the property is 80 plus and hasn't hunted in 10 years or more. He still comes for a few weeks every year but does so when it is warmer than deer season !
So now there is a for sale sign by the camp, this may be our last year to hunt here. Today might be my last day here. So many friends gone, so many deer, so many great memories.
So many leases end that way, I have hunted the same tract some 50 years, they sold last year. I had been friends with the owner (client) and knew things would change when they passed. No lease, and I have not hunted it for the last few years, it was my place to get away from city and watch the sun come up.
Howard,
Seeing that picture reminded me, seen 'whitey' lately?
No. I look for him every time I go up there but I have not seen him yet. Not sure he survived the winter. The last couple of times I saw him he was separated from his mom and siblings and hanging out around my garbage cans and my horse barn. I still have my fingers crossed hoping to see him though.
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Probably over a dozen signpost rubs in my area.. ALWAYS on a sourwood tree. I find the buck trail just by looking for the tree and heading over to check the butt for damage. Normal rubs are usually eastern red cedar sapplings and a few others i dont recognize, hedgy looking small trees.
These are just pics of memorable terrain. Deer criss cross all over these endless ridges. Wears me out, doing more hiking than hunting right now getting to know the layout.
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Since ive started scouting around i really dont like the immobility of a ladder stand anymore. Really like being on the ground and able to creep around. Id sit in a stand and see nothing at all, bored to death, waste of a work day. Now i make it within 50yds of their beds before bumping them. Next day theyre right back same place. Very very high hunting pressure here, stands all over the woods, gunshots all day. so most activity is after shooting light. Bumping is only time i see deer in daylight to figure out their patterns. Its a lot more thrilling.
At the edge of a recent aspen clearcut during muzzle loading season. The firearm antlerless deer season has been extended in this area, December 2018. One antlerless deer was taken just before the logging began.(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/IMG_2316.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1545943327)
Does visiting your MIL count as a deer stand?
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Your MIL doesn't live in VA. ;D
No sir. Oregon
Yup, Blacktails. ;D
Actually Muels
Correct, I got my "tails" mixed up. :-[
Quote from: Magicman on December 28, 2018, 08:15:58 AM
Correct, I got my "tails" mixed up. :-[
Bad when that happens! ;D
All i saw was backstraps and hams.
What are the oregon laws on hunting in proximity to a dwelling with a club?
If it's in season and you have a tag.........
Not "from" but in the deer stand.
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Marty, Luke, and I spent the afternoon in the Strawhouse. We saw a total of 11 deer, three of which were bucks, and Yes, the last buck was a "Smack Daddy Shooter" !! Alas, he did not present himself long enough for Luke to get a shot because he was busy checking does and moving on. We will be back next week so maybe.....
Well, what about the one on the SIL porch?
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Another town muley? Wonder whether that was his first visit? Came hungry and left giggling. ;D
Technically yes "in town" but there are range cattle 50 yards to the east and 100 yards to the south, so not much of a town.
I pretty much shut down my upper stand for the season which ends Monday. I took my feeder down and brought it home with me. I need to make a metal cover to go over the plastic barrel where the squirrels and coons have torn into 2 of them this year.
It is antlerless season and I hoped to get one more doe or antlerless buck (Lots of them have already shed around here already) for more jerky. I hunted 25, 26 & 27 but only saw one doe fawn I let go. She came to my stand 5 times between 2 & 5 pm. Yesterday was rain so I did not hunt then when I took hay to the horse and mule I rode between 3 on the rock bar near my property line. Two stood there 30 yards away while I unloaded the hay then when I got back on the ATV I saw the fawn 10 yards away. All just stood and watched. Today I rode past there and a doe and grown fawn were at my gate and stood there 20 yards away while I got off and closed the gate with my rifle on my back. I did not have the heart to shoot her. I think she is the same one that bedded down 20 yards from me last summer while I was running the sawmill. The fawn pretty much raised on that rock bar. I let another one sneak past me at 3 pm. I would have shot her but the feeder went off and spooked her. I guess I am getting too soft hearted.
You are not alone WV, I can't shoot the ones on the farm, had 6 or 8 of them bounding around me one evening while walking back from checking cows, they circled me at least four or five times, 10 maybe 15 yards away. It would have been like shooting one of the cows in a pasture.
On the other hand if a 'yote were to appear, :rifle: fudd-smiley air_plane
I was chasing cows off the splitter all day. They like licking my saw when ive got my back turned too. Slippery surprise.
Had a big pack of yotes right up to my fence last night. Really wanted to pause a movie with the wife and go shoot a few but probably not anniversary etiquette.
From a low fence managed tract (big) in south Polk County, managed for quality deer, meat and horn. Aged 6 years.
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That thing have some Hereford blood in it? ;D
Even deer stands are bigger in Texas!
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Yeah and I guess you are shooting at such long ranges you have to add salt to your loads so the meat doesn't spoil before you get to it. :D
LoL!
Yup, that looks like a deerstand alright. Just like those critters look like deer.
Aren't those Texas Blacktails?
Quote from: WV Sawmiller on January 08, 2019, 05:55:45 PM
Yeah and I guess you are shooting at such long ranges you have to add salt to your loads so the meat doesn't spoil before you get to it. :D
and a little jalapeno,
That's funny! :D :D
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/28428/IMG_0513_28129.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1547222417) View of a stand. We call this the potty stand. It's a good one to hunt in.
I got out today and started clearing the fallen tree at and off mine. Turns out the big tree that fell was about a 36" diameter Basswood that uprooted. It forks at about 6' into a 22 & 18 inch fork. It broke a buckeye that fell across my 6'X8' shooting house. I think the tops would wiggle and helped scare the deer off making it ineffective as a bow stand. I got the buckeye off the shooting house without knocking the stand over. Now I just need to cut up the tops for poor quality firewood and buck the logs and hope I can find some serious wood carvers and custom saw it for them. There is some pretty wood there. I am scared to cut that 3' diameter trunk because I am scared of that big rootball on that steep slope.
Once complete I still need to patch a few boards that were broken by the falling buckeye. They will be well seasoned before next year's deer season.
no idea where this came from
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His neck sure does not match those antlers.
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Saw a 10 point in the field behind my house yesterday, I swear I think I felt it move. Loves seeing the boys moving around this time of year.
My tower stand
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And this little guy was right behind them. I put the phone down and picked up the crossbow, so there is no before picture.
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I've not had any real chance to be in a blind this year.
Here in PA there was a special antlerless hunt on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for junior and/or senior license holders, I qualify for one of those 8). I was in the woods mornings and evenings and saw one deer too far away to identify then this afternoon, Sunday, three does came out behind the house in our field and thumbed their noses at me. More seasons to come.
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@dirtmotor (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=34421) ,
I know that feeling. Many of my most memorable and successful hunts I never shot at anything. We had a big deer die off this summer and I have not hunted yet even though bow season has been in a month and we had a special youth and senior hunt last weekend which I skipped for first time in several years. I may try in the next week since the weather has cooled off and the deer are pretty much out of danger from the disease.
We had a real hot dry summer with lots of deer dying from some sort of fly borne disease so here it is 6 weeks into bow season and I still had not hunted. I put 2 feeders out several weeks ago and checked one today and saw it was down about half way which told me my upper feeder was likely about out since I only put one 50 lb bag in it because I have to haul it a long way by hand. I got my bow out and checked the sights to remind myself how I last set them. I got my first 2 pins set on 20 and 30 yards and highly unlikely I will ever try to shoot anything further than that. It would be hard to get a shot past 20 yards at my upper feeder. About 2:30 pm I loaded a bag of corn in my ATV and took my bow and carried it up the mountain several hundred yards and refilled it, changed the battery, reset the time then climbed in my elevated shooting house and sat for the evening. Within 15 minutes a doe fawn came, fed a while then left, came back and spent the afternoon with me. A few minutes before sunset a young adult doe came out and the two sniffed noses. A few minutes later a couple more fawns, then a young doe then a yearling doe then a big old black back doe came out. I did not see any bucks and the bunch got spooked after feeding a few minutes then left. I will try to take the old doe later this season when the weather and conditions are right. I want a time where I can hang my deer overniight with weather between 32-40 so they chill but don't freeze. The next day I will debone and process the meat into cuts we need and prefer.
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End of the day - I think 7 deer within 20 yards of me. Not all made it in the photo
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Doe fawn (L) and young doe (R) just before sunset
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Doe fawn that spent her whole afternoon with me. She is actually a legal bow/antlerless deer and in very good shape to only be 6-7 months old. Her mom may have been one that died this summer.
Not the deer stand went to the duck blind. It got down to 8 degrees so we froze pretty bad, this blind is a temporary set up it's actually sitting on top of the pit blinds which are still a victim of the Missouri river flooding and under water, saw lots of birds broke lots of ice. Got a few, watched thousands, good day in the blind, not a deer stand picture, as most of our stands are victims of the flooding too, not many deer on the bottom they need dry places to live, and the river bluffs in the backround are a short mile away.
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An unusually early dusting of snow in KY made a nice backdrop for this little fellow visiting my blind.
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Looks like a dandy hope he visits in the daylight.
Nice! A late night buck.
He came back for a daylight visit. I already tagged a small buck with my crossbow. I could take 3 more does but we are allowed only one buck, so I am hunting with camera only unless a coyote happens by.
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Stavebuyer. That is a nice buck. He will be bigger next year. Good luck!
Quote from: stanwelch on November 13, 2019, 06:47:27 AM
Stavebuyer. That is a nice buck. He will be bigger next year. Good luck!
I am keeping the feeder filled and his scrapes "freshened" in hopes he hangs around as I agree he could be a dandy if he makes it another season.
Heading out in a few lots of scrapes and snow opening day
Checked the deer stand Saturday evening it was a bust all our stands but one required hip waders to reach, corp is dropping the river finally so maybe late season. So we went duck hunting instead. Too nice, so not much for decoying ducks but the sunrise was awesome.
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Just a few minutes later
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It was a good morning got to spend it with two of my son's and a good friends father, duck hunting was fair, lots of birds to watch, day was awesome. We were blessed.
Sooooo many ducks and geese on the flooded Missouri River this fall. Great pics Nebraska.
One Blind's 2020 Season View.
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Looks good Ron! Good luck 🍀
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Looks good! Good luck 🍀 Jeff
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Just little guys tonight
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Absolutely beautiful evening to be sitting in a hedge row and a view of CRP on one side and corn 🌽 field on other 🦌
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(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/56534/90488F6C-CB74-44D0-81DD-C3C14E2B6130.jpeg?easyrotate_cache=1604877162)beautiful evening for a sit in the cabin, with the wood stove going of course 8)
And a doe with antlers, a first for me at my property, I've heard of it before in a neighbouring town, kinda neat.
Did you shoot the doe with antlers? I understand they are usually sterile anyway.
Quote from: WV Sawmiller on November 08, 2020, 09:37:22 PM
Did you shoot the doe with antlers? I understand they are usually sterile anyway.
No, so I thought it was a lazy little buck on my trail cam pics but yesterday once I actually put my eyes on it I realized it's a doe, that little button buck with it was with it again today, no other does while it was there so I'm convinced that's it's fawn.
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Here's looking from the deers angle at the "blind" haha
Here it is over 2 months into bow season and I have not tried hunting with my bow all year. With this pretty weather I decided to go check out my upper stand which needs a battery change in the feeder anyway. It is a 6'X6' shooting house built on 4 locust poles about 9-10 ft above ground and located on a point where 2 draws come together to funnel the deer past me. I got to my stand about 45 minutes or so before sunrise. About 15 minutes later the sky began to lighten just a little and the bane of my existence (Doves!) began whistling down under my feeder 15-20 yards away to steal my corn. After 5-10 more minutes I got fed up with them and got out my slingshot and trying to send them down the road till I spotted movement below on my right and a yearling/fawn doe came in. She hung out around looking up at the feeder a while and started acting spooky like she saw or smelled me. She started easing off and the feeder went off at 7:00 am and she bolted, stopped and thought about returning but decided to keep rambling.
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About 15 minutes later this little guy came from behind and my left and began to feed.
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You can see the sun is beginning to break through. I watched him a while and continued reading my book.
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Hey! What is that. I hear something coming.
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Oh, never mind it is just the girls coming for breakfast. Looked like 5-6 hens in the bunch.
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Followed closely in a separate group by the boys. Looks like all 7 are here.
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At least one guy in the bunch had a beard dragging the ground.
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I had seen several grey (Cat) squirrels under the feeder then this young Fox squirrel came up from the right. I had heard one earlier behind me and may have been this one. I think this one spotted me moving at the window and was considering ratting me out but decided to go back to stealing my corn instead.
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Then this red-bellied woodpecker (What we used to call a Cham-Cham in N. Fla) got to frantically trying to fill a a knothole he found in a dead tree about 30' behind my stand. I watched him make at least a dozen or so flights back and forth each time with a kernel of corn in his beak. I finally chased him off too.
I stayed in my stand till nearly 10:00 am, finished my book and got down and changed out the battery in my feeder and returned home. No shooter deer I was interested in but a reach nice morning in the woods anyway.
Very nice 👍
I went to my oldest stand on the side of a hill overlooking a wide bench (6'X8' - this size is too big IMHO) and was there before daylight today. I did not take any pictures. My feeder did not go off. Either the battery is dead or a piece of corn cob or stalk is stopping the spinner but it has been working recently enough the doves showed up by about 6:45 am. At 6:35 am while still too dark to shoot with a bow and he was too far away anyway, a very large deer, apparently a buck from the way he held his head and such, passed about 50-60 yards away directly in front of me. It was too dark to determine the antler size or presence. Apparently he was running his scrapes. That is a very good sight to see. He would have been an easy rifle or muzzleloader kill when those seasons open in a couple of weeks. The last I saw he was over near my pasture gate where I parked the 4 wheeler. I spotted him or a different deer over by my fence about 65 yards from the gate. I really think it was a little smaller and a big doe or maybe a spike.
I stayed there till about 9:00 am during with time a heavy morning fog rolled through and out. At 9:00 I heard an old doe bust me behind. Either she was partway down the hill and spotted me in the blind or more likely she smelled me or walked up to the 4 wheeler and got spooked. I went ahead and called it a day and came back and put another battery on charge and went to the feed store and got another 150 lbs of corn which should fill both feeders till the end of the year/season.
I did two little sits this week with an old compound bow. Went just after daylight, both times after rainy evenings without seeing anything. But its nice to just sit in peace.
Tried a few spots as the wind changed. I get pretty bored in a stand and use a folding stool on the ground sometimes. Had my back to this cave..
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Looking down across a creek bank and up at the other side. Deep bottoms to the left, big pasture up top and to the right.
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Some nice straight timber in it too.
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That tree ontop is surprisingly big for being rooted in about 6" of dirt.
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Nice view 👍🦌
Being a timber guy has ruined my hunting as I tend to be calculating potential board feet of the trees in my field of view, evaluating the possible direction of their fall, and how best to plan the skid route. Maybe why I seem to find fishing more relaxing these days . :D
Oh tell me about it. Theres absolutely prime weathered fieldstone in this crag too and sitting on it eats me up. Ive tried to buy the rock from the widow with no luck. Maybe some day buy the whole hollar, only a few acres, nothing flat, and only a half mile by woods or so from my current yard. It would make a gorgeous water powered hunting camp or just serene getaway shack.
This first shot is a view from one of the 10 stands on our lease. The 5th pic is another. The rest are bucks caught on camera. I was going to buy a raven cross bow (can't pull a regular bow), but my wife hinted santa might be bringing me one, so I didn't go bow hunting. Season opens this coming saturday.
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@mike_belben (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=33722) ,
That big rock in your picture reminds me of the outcropping under my first shooting house. It is a 6'X8' building on the side of a steep hill. I built it with 3 locust poles in the ground and one short post resting directly on the top of the rock. I enter from the uphill side and just built a 2' wide ramp, sort of like a wheelchair ramp, made using a couple of treated 2X6X10's with half inch plywood on top. My rock has a straight front instead of recessed like yours and is about 8' from exposed base to the top.
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Here is an old picture showing part of my rock. This was after a big basswood fell and almost took out my deer blind and it did break off a small buckeye which did minor damage and force me to repair/re-do roof.
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Here is the ramp and the basswood in the background.
The poles look like they could have been a little bigger but they are holding. We have killed 20-25 deer in and around this location and most after we built this shooting house. The latest was a nice doe 17 October during a special antlerless season.
Thats pretty sweet bub. Someday i would really like to have a little sleep shack with a good clear view of the bush edge thats too far from home for me to be lazy about it.
I was just whining to the wife yesterday how i can lure deer to our [tiny] place without baiting every night but never in the day.. and how its hard to compete with all the corn piles and flood lights the meth heads are getting em with after dark. So a little doe bobbles right by us across the burned down vacant house lot next door, mid day out the window while we are eating lunch as if to thumb its nose at me and rub a little salt in my wound. :D
Mike,
I have never tried sleeping in this one although it is big enough - really too big for a deer blind. All windows are open and big for bow hunting. It is only a few hundred yards from my nice warm bed in my house so no reason to rough it up there.
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This is a 4X4 deer blind I built and we installed at the customer site. It is placed right at the edge of the woodline and an old field. it had a nice deer trail right past it. The customer sent me this picture a week after we put it up. He killed this little buck with his crossbow. Actually the 4X4 building is a little small for a deer blind IMHO. I like my 6X6 blind up on poles about 10' high overlooking the point where 2 draws converge, a 60 yard wide bench on the back and an oak line ridge 100 yards away. The prefabbed components for a 6X6 structure are too heavy for me to carry and move. I may build just the framing for one some time and add the flooring and siding on site. Also on my next one the windows may be 6" peepholes instead of completely clear. Just raise the window and shoot when you see one coming.
Nice bucks👍. Ravin crossbows are pretty sweet. If Santa brings you one you won't be disappointed 😂. I got one and it's pretty neat
Quote from: WV Sawmiller on November 16, 2020, 09:48:29 AM
@mike_belben (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=33722) ,
That big rock in your picture reminds me of the outcropping under my first shooting house. It is a 6'X8' building on the side of a steep hill. I built it with 3 locust poles in the ground and one short post resting directly on the top of the rock. I enter from the uphill side and just built a 2' wide ramp, sort of like a wheelchair ramp, made using a couple of treated 2X6X10's with half inch plywood on top. My rock has a straight front instead of recessed like yours and is about 8' from exposed base to the top.
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Here is an old picture showing part of my rock. This was after a big basswood fell and almost took out my deer blind and it did break off a small buckeye which did minor damage and force me to repair/re-do roof.
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Here is the ramp and the basswood in the background.
The poles look like they could have been a little bigger but they are holding. We have killed 20-25 deer in and around this location and most after we built this shooting house. The latest was a nice doe 17 October during a special antlerless season.
Really blends in with the surrounding nice
Quote from: Sedgehammer on November 16, 2020, 07:54:11 AM
This first shot is a view from one of the 10 stands on our lease. The 5th pic is another. The rest are bucks caught on camera. I was going to buy a raven cross bow (can't pull a regular bow), but my wife hinted santa might be bringing me one, so I didn't go bow hunting. Season opens this coming saturday.
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Good luck 🍀 on getting one of them 🦌
This from a camera on the corner of the 12x24 yard barn I am converting into a camp. No need for a stand I can just watch out the window and feed the woodstove 8).
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Stavey,
Your shop comment reminded me of my son's best friends grandpa who used to shoot them out of his shop. He even cut a V into a 1X4 or such and nailed it up as a rest for his rifle. He was a retired coal miner and had Black Lung and was on O2. He had big tank of O2 with a long hose to a mask he wore in his shop. One day a nice buck showed up in the field and he grabbed his rifle and was getting ready to shoot. I guess when he opened the window the wind blew the internal door shut crimping his air line and he was turning blue so he was torn between whether to go ahead and shoot the deer or go open the door. I think he held his breath and shot the deer first. A man has to keep his priorities straight.
Quote from: stavebuyer on November 18, 2020, 02:30:16 PMjust watch out the window and feed the woodstove 8).
thats where I'm hoping to end up. im into deer for the cost. spending 2 months freezing in a tree will buy a lot of better meat.
now if i could come up with a way to bury a freezer, put a green tarp and a corn pile on top and not catch all the possums and coons ....
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My view from one of my stands.
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This rub is in the lower left of the view from that stand.
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The one in the middle came from that stand on opening day of black powder season. The others were harvested on our farm by other hunters that morning.
Very nice 👍
Had good luck the last 2 years. Grandson got 1 in youth season from it. Dosen't look good now as farmer that rents from me has the field worked up now
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To day is the opening of our deer gun season I shot a fork horn at noon and my son shot a seven pointer this after noon so we are done. But now comes the hard part my wife and daughter in law will be cutting and packaging both deer tomorrow. Randy
Congratulations👍. Well it sounds pretty easy for you guys if the gals got to do all that 😂. Most gals would be like your dreaming 😂
My mother would cut up our deer at home she showed my wife how to cut up venison and my wife showed our daughter-in-law how to do it. They would never trust any one with our deer meat. We eat a lot of venison and we cut and package the way we like it. Randy
got a doe in the plowed field in previous post. guess there were a few cobs of corn that didnt get plowed under.
This is the view from my newest shooting house. This is a 4x8 box made entirely of lumber off my sawmill except the posts. My neighbor and good friend did most of the siding horizontally before I got there to help. I would have preferred board and batten. This one sits on the spine of a narrow ridge. The hollows on either side are 120' deep. The second photo shows the view into one.
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This pine thicket was once a tobacco field. It's hard to see but about a quarter of the pines are white pines I planted after we bought this property in 1986.
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My father in law used to say, " This land isn't good for much else but holding the rest of the world together." It's held this family's world together for close to 200 years.
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My buddy thinks he needs to caulk the cracks lol lol
Condo city. I would be sleeping and the deer 🦌 would be walking by 😂
Heck yeah that is the ticket.
There is a steep finger ridge out over a swamp about 3/4 to a mile back out yonder from me but all the neighbors got permanent stands on it elbow to elbow. Theyre pals until hunting season then get crabby with each other.. so i steer clear of that ridge! :D
between my son grandson and I 4 deer came out of my stand this year, 3 of them this week.
Well done!
My son and the buck he harvested from the "condo" this morning!
He's hunted 15 years and hasn't harvested greater than a 6 point. He lives in Virginia and only gets to hunt here 3 or 4 weekends a year.
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That's Awesome! Congratulations to him. # memories, good times, out in the woods and good eating 👍
Congratulation to your son Ted.
I went a few hours this afternoon and changed the battery in my feeder. All I saw was doves and squirrels. I did have a Carolina wrens come light one my windowsill and give me the once over, leave and come back a few minutes later (or he told his buddy who came to check for himself). About sunset I heard a gosh-awful racket and gray squirrel stuck his head over the open window about 2' in front of my rifle barrel. He did not come the rest of the way in. I would not have thought they'd climb that B&B wall but he did.
There's a lot of things that squirrels can climb!
Here, they climb the T-111 siding on the house and access the bird feeder box on the window sill!
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Two different days and 2 different stands
There probably aren't any deer here but I really like this spot. I did see a mink in the creek!
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It's always nice to be in the stand 👍
A grandson sent me this fuzzy picture taken from the Strawhouse:
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There are 16 deer including a 10 point chomping down on the Wheat & Oats.
Not my deer stand but maybe it should be. Its an old calf feeder I put a camera in to keep an eye on my access lane. I get more game pictures here than anywhere else on the farm LOL
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4 hours today at 25* is enough for me. My tootsies are frozen.
A September View 2021
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We had a special Youth/Senior hunt this weekend. Kids 8-14 and 65+ residents could kill an antlerless deer each day that did not count against their season bag limit so what I refer to as a free deer. I let a pretty doe standing 30 yards from me go yesterday in the pasture on the way home because I did not have the heart to orphan her this year's fawn. I should have just shot the fawn.
Today I went to my upper stand and about 6:10 pm this little guy came out and was just aching to go in my freezer. Tonight's weather was even perfect - around 40* so I could shoot, skin and hang overnight to chill then cut it up in the morning.
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Just my luck - an antlered buck. Looks like about an 18 month old 4 point. I should go back tomorrow with my bow and see if I can get him. Oh well, I still have till the end of December to get him or his dad. I really wanted his mom.
I had 3 big turkeys come by. Two had beards about 6-8 inches long and one looked like a 4" Jake beard but all were very big birds. And today was the last day of our Fall turkey season. I was greedy and hoping for a deer instead and let them walk.
Ladder stand view from Hardwood Island - YouTube (https://youtu.be/BL8_sS0Psrw)
We have 4 days of antlerless days this week so I went up this afternoon to see if I could find an a old barren nanny deer. In my pasture my old doe was laying by a walnut tree and her fawn was watching. The doe got up and ran to the gate I was headed to and the doe followed. The fawn squeezed through the gate but the doe just ran down the fence line and stopped about 30 yards away and watched as I parked my ATV and got off. The fawn ran off a few yards and I saw an old, dark doe by herself so I figured I'd shoot her in the head but never could get the shot I wanted and she drifted off. I went up to my shooting house a couple hundred yards away and almost immediately the deer started coming out like they were following me and 3 even came and checked out my feeder then left.
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I am pretty sure this was the doe laying in the pasture. Her fawn was below but I could not get a good picture of it.
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These are pictures of the darker doe I had planned to shoot. She came right to the feeder so I figured I'd get her now.
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Then her two fawns came strolling out so I relented and let her go too. I can see she is not as fat as the first, I assume younger, doe with the single fawn. They hung out half an hour or so and drifted off. When I came home in the dark all 5 were about 75 yards from my barn where I keep the ATV.
I guess I am either going to have to orphan a couple of fawn or just shoot one. They are 6 months old and weight 60-70 lbs and are legal game.
Great pictures!
I went back up there this morning and a solitary doe came out from the adjoining property and walked in front of me at 8:00 a.m. She got cross-ways in front of me at a good spot about 60 yards away so I centered my crosshairs on her left side at her lungs/heart and shot but she ran like she was unaffected. I sat there wondering if my scope had gotten knocked off. I waited about 30-40 minutes then walked down and looked for blood and walked over to near my pasture fence with no sign. I walked up to the gate where my ATV was parked and she was laying there dead about 10' from my ATV. We raise them right here in WV. :D Turned out to be a young doe that weighed 72 lbs. There was a big doe with her fawn (I assume the first one in the pix above)in the pasture as I came down but I watched them go. I cleaned and deboned the deer then took the guts and hide up in the woods to feed the coyotes and foxes and there was a big doe and at least 2 fawns feeding there. She did not move till I threw the hide and bones over the hill.
These 3 gobblers came out after they heard my feeder go off this afternoon. The one with the short beard had come by earlier and walked off putting and purring then a few minutes later he or one of the others gobbled which is not that common this time of year.
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This one has about a 4" beard
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The 2 bigger ones have about 8" beards. You can just see part of the 3rd one behind the tree on the left.
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All 3 are big healthy birds.
Not my deer stand because I don't hunt but two six point bucks from my living room window this evening, there were also 10 does as well.
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Great picture!
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I keep seeing this one, isn't worried about chainsaws or quads, can get within 25 ft
Deer around here don't fear me as long as I have a chainsaw running or I am on my tractor. See more deer when I am on my tractor than walking. Both are like a dinner bell to them. ;D
Figured I better not use this tree stand anymore 😂. Moved it to the new location. Got my Power Pruner pole saw running after sitting for years. Has always cut great. Even in some big dead hedge branches
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I wish I had taken a picture but I sawed for a client Saturday and about 200 yards from our sawing site was a beautiful elevated deer blind/shooting house. It looked to be about 8' square. It was just in the wood line at the edge of a big field with large hardwoods on the back and a hayfield in the front. The really strange construction point was they had built steps up to it but they had the steps on the low side. ::) They had stringers at least 30' long. ??? If they had put the steps on any of the other sides they would have been half the length. They were real nice steps but I am a cheapskate and would have built a ladder with a small landing.
No doubt cozy shooting houses are nice but it sure feels really good when you been up in a tree stand for 3 hrs plus with all weather conditions and put a monster buck down 😊
I used to feel the same way and even felt the same about feeders but now I am looking for meat, not antlers and I like sitting there warm and dry and read my books and such. It is much easier to get into a shooting house quietly than in a climbing stand. Also I found as I got older I don't bounce as well as I used to and it takes longer to recover.
Another stand ready. Need to get things sprayed on the one side and get the oats in. A view out of the stand each way.
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I have probably missed a few deer while watching the sun set over KY Lake.
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Many great sun rises and sun sets are seen from the deer stand.
View from what I call Lynda's blind. Wind right in my face tonight to get back here. Foodplots are starting to show some meaningful growth, but my pond is down 18".
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I don't have a stand, but I was out driving the tractor and saw 3 deer last night. Then I saw 3 in the lower field when I came home at 6:30at night. First deer that I have seen for months.
There was always a dream to have a small shelter/blind on the backside of this property that you could sleep or hunt out of. Well we got one now after creating another quarter mile of trail this fall and snaking the blind back on the trail. I'm calling it the Half Mile blind for now. :)
The Half Mile Deer Blind. - YouTube (https://youtu.be/c0db5PQ34dw)
The wind was right, so first time to go out and sit. No weapon.
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I can't download them yet but I got a bunch of pictures on my cell phone this morning of a yearling bear cub about 60-70 lbs who hung out and scratched his back and sat on his butt under and around my deer stand for half an hour. It was fun watching him but he did not help the deer hunting. :D
Looks pretty awesome!!
Good luck to everyone! Looking forward to views from the stands!!
Tonight's view. The Tamarack are turning. :)
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Beautiful 👍
Thought I would sneak in a couple of hours after working firewood all day.
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Quote from: Ron Scott on September 14, 2022, 06:04:21 PM
Many great sun rises and sun sets are seen from the deer stand.
Agreed...Also from the duck blind 8)
Big tuff little guy is flexing his muscles with his ears cocked back showing who's boss of the little guy that's almost as big as him 😂
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This dude got about 10ft away. I think button bucks get brains, their second year.
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@Jeff (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1) , i think it takes till the 3rd year before the brains develop in them guys... :D we have two 1.5 yr olds that have all their points busted off from trying to pick on the old guys.
Yes they are dumb because da mamma kicks da bucks outta da nest and they must learn/develop their survival skills on their own.
A few pictures of the Great Malarial Swamp that we were bow hunting today. I enjoyed the day. It has probably been 10 or more years since I've been. We attempted to go Friday but the management area had not been opened up yet after the hurricane we had last Wednesday. Saturday was spent awaiting and meeting our first granddaughter. We waded most of the mile walk to the where we were going to put of the climbers. I dropped my thermocell along the way but thankfully, my friend, Jimmy had an extra. Much of the walk had water within an inch of breaching the top of our muck boots.
We heard hogs while we were setting up the stands. Jimmy had a big boar charge at him last night when he was walking out. Even with the thermocell, the skeeters were dealing misery until the sun came up. We were up the trees by 5:45. We saw several turkeys (no good opportunities), heard a deer blow and splash and Jimmy shot a big coyote. There were three piliated woodpeckers knocking away, owls hooting, an egret and what looked to be a limpkin feeding on minnows around my stand, small fish were eating minnows in the sheet flow swamp we were in, and an abundance of squirrels. I had plenty of critters to watch all day. We really expected to have a shot at some hogs. Jimmy passed on several earlier in the week because he did not want to have to drag one out alone. We had a couple of rain showers and one pretty good thunderstorm. Neither of us brought any rain gear due to the forecast. We got out of the stands around 4:30 and headed back to the truck. I did find my thermocell.
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There is an Osceola turkey in this picture somewhere to the right of the big live oak tree and near the top of the picture. One of the turkeys evidently got back on his roost during the thunderstorm because he swooped out of a tree and landed near the big white egret that was about 40 yards from me.
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Little bucks just cruising through
Deer hunting today in DE I had a small "herd" of turkeys walk by fairly close but no deer.
Good luck! Always nice to see the views!
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Keep growing. I let a guy just like him with longer brow tines go by tonight. This other little guy wants a selfie of his broke off tine. Could have done it when I seen two battle way out in the field a couple nights ago. Pictures don't come in to good sometimes when you take a picture off the tv with i phone
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I haven't been in my stand lately with the nasty windy and cold weather and somebody is concerned 😂
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I got back in from my deerblind, made some supper, and wanted to share some pics and video clips including some trailcam stuff of this first beautiful and significant snow. It can stop now. Anytime. ENOUGH ALREADY EH? :)
GREATEST Deer Blind View in the Eastern U.P. Because I said so. - YouTube (https://youtu.be/_vA7lsNKsk8)
I had a view from the "Strawhouse" Friday afternoon before the season opened Saturday. I saw 11 deer including one non-shooter 8 point but nothing of significance.
I did not even go Saturday (yesterday) afternoon because the wind of out of the North.
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No deer but got some snow today. I think this is the remnants of the lake Erie lake effect that is pounding Buffalo.
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Just one doe ventured by on opening day. The deer stopped moving, as nobody was walking around and no one in the adjacent lands were even sitting on stands.. but me. Today, picked up the trail cam cards and verified that nothing was moving during the daytime (shooting hours) when I was away from my stand.
This doe crossed about 8 am.
https://rumble.com/v1vptqs-doe-opening-day.html (https://rumble.com/v1vptqs-doe-opening-day.html)
Another stand another view. Just a little guy cruising through.
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The boys are back. There were 5 of them in this bachelor group but the first one walked past and kept going before the other 4 came up.
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This little lady came out about 4:30 pm and stayed over an hour. I had to chase her off when I left the stand at dusk and she did not seem to want to go. I have spent some quality time with her before. I don't know where her mom is as she comes down by herself.
It is good to have my camera back from the shop and so far I have been well pleased with the workmanship.
Had about 20 does and a handful of smaller bucks in view from the stand but no bigger guys. Just this little guy passing by . Always fun just watching!
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It's Boris the Spider!!!
Looks like a "Wood Spider"!
It doesn't have antlers at least 3" so he is of no concern. ;)
It could be one of those infamous "Crack Spiders" the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa did the documentary on YouTube.
If it is, you want to be careful Jeff. ;D
The deer put them in there to keep you occupied so you will miss a good shot 😂
I can do spiders, just not the other Jim Stafford critter
Jim Stafford critter - Google Search (https://www.google.com/search?q=Jim+Stafford+critter&oq=Jim+Stafford+critter&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.1936j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:d88a632a,vid:FUn8Z5yatK0)
Due to this NNE wind, there will be no View from my deer stand(s) this entire weekend. :-X
I have a Grandson hunting on our adjacent property which offers some different options so maybe he will get an opportunity.
This was not really a deer stand or a hunting trip. It was more like an enjoyable boat ride and a walk/wade through often almost crotch deep water through a swamp along the Withlacoochee River. We passed Ellmoe's sawmill on the way to the boat ramp. I did not get very many pictures due to having to put my phone in the backpack to keep it dry. We were scouting more than hunting but we did carry our rifles. It was a good morning spent with my son in law. I got home around 3 p.m. and had a forestry practice with some of the FFA students.
The mosquitoes were dealing. I killed four on the back of my hand with one slap. I should have taken a picture of the citrus trees that were on one of the hammocks we were exploring. They are commonly found growing on small rises in the swamps. I suspect they were planted by the Indians on spots where they would camp and hunt.
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I did find a picture of the citrus tree. These are usually the sourest of any fruit I've ever tasted.
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That's a funny looking doe in the last picture.
Avoid Ash Trees When Placing Deer Stands (WI) (https://sm1.multibriefs.com/t/gcH1AAgbaBPWU2ZkQRAXsEGLyGNnaJN8SKJZoaaaaJN8BSTXM4caa?n=lixYynklDv7~25y6bunsUof.iis~amp;X=lixYynklDv7~25y6bunsUof.iis~amp;f=He~amp;3=)Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Oct. 20, 2023
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources cautions hunters to avoid placing deer stands in or near ash trees this deer hunting season as they start scouting properties. Read More (https://sm1.multibriefs.com/t/gcH1AAgbaBPWU2ZkQRAXsEGLyGNnaJN8SKJZoaaaaJN8BSTXM4caa?n=lixYynklDv7~25y6bunsUof.iis~amp;X=lixYynklDv7~25y6bunsUof.iis~amp;f=Hf~amp;3=)The E-Forester
I am surprised that there was no mention of not placing stands in/on dead trees of any kind.
KEC,
Every deer stand I ever saw or bought warned about using them in dead trees. It should be common sense but .... ;)
This was the view from my benchrest shooting stand this morning. I have both a permanent pistol and rifle range set up and these deer were literally standing in front of my 100 yard target.
I guess they wanted to see how good or bad I'd been shooting the previous afternoon.
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you can see the target stand under the belly of the middle buck. The gun season isn't open but I would have let these walk anyway, the biggest is only a 9 pointer, I want one that is big enough antler to hold up a grand piano.
A lot of this post could be in the " something dumb" thread.
I started building a hunting blind for the Mrs that I have been promising for years. Started by building floor and walls in my garage last winter. Spring came, I got busy. I tripped over the walls in my garage for some months. Finally decided to work on it some more in September. Moved the walls so Mrs could paint them while I built the roof. Around the same time we ordered some windows for it. The windows had not come in when it was ready so we karted all the parts to the woods thinking I'll put the windows in when they get here.
The windows showed up last week and then my boss gave me Friday afternoon off. So it's window time. Trip one: take windows to blind. Trip two: load generator, circular saw, sawzall, screws, drills, some wood, ECT in 4 wheeler and deliver to blind.
Find out pretty quickly that the Honda 1000 generator isn't quite big enough to run the circular saw. Back to the garage to build window boxes. Trip three: deliver the four window boxes, install three. Try to mount a window. I used the correct measurements but the measurements needed to be ID, not OD. Doh! Back to the garage. Trip 4: deliver and install the correct size window boxes. Windows fit! The window company doesn't include screws in the hardware kit to mount the windows! Doh! Back to the garage for screws. Trip 5 was to install blocking pieces in the roof to keep out little critters. Yesterday the Mrs made one more trip to deliver a chair and sweep out my mess.
Note to self; order and install the windows in the garage on the next one!
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Before windows.
I'm thinking I am missing a trip, but cannot remember what I had to get that time.
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My cordless circ saw, sawzall, drill and driver have nearly eliminated my use of corded tools.
Hopefully we see a pic of the blind with windows. :snowball: ;D ;D
Nice project, and 2nd the need for cordless tools. ;)
Hardwoods baby!
Most are oaks, then poplar and maple with a couple of varieties of hickory mixed in.
They told me I would never look at a tree the same.
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Good luck everyone! Ted get some pipe foam insulation and the rubber cloth self stick Camo wrap and wrap your front bar so you don't scratch or make noise with your gun.
There used to be some pipe insulation on it. The squirrels ate it not once but three times!
It's amazing what they chew on 😂
Opening Day for rifle season. It's 54°. I've only heard two shots.
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This is the first "Opening Day" of deer season that I have missed in over 50 years. Personal family priorities had to come first. :)
As of 10:30 this morning, heard very few shots and none within a mile. Saw no deer, but then no one was walking the woods so didn't expect to see many.
First opening day for me was 1963 when JFK was shot. Have not missed but one opening day since then. Business trip to France in 1980 messed up a perfect 60-year record.
Wish everyone success that might be hunting.
Opening day for me nothing so far haven't missed an opening day since I was 12 one year I went on crutches
Didn't see anything this morning.
My son saw a little 4 point buck.
Neighbor and her brother took shots, she missed, he got a small buck.
Otherwise I didn't hear more than two or three shots.
It was too hot this afternoon for me to sit in a stand.
Quote from: Magicman on November 18, 2023, 07:32:11 AMThis is the first "Opening Day" of deer season that I have missed in over 50 years.
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Our DEAR Great Granddaughter took priority over my opening day of DEER season. It has been a looong day but well worth it.
Lynn, you know that makes you a GRAND father! Good for you, family is a priority!
MM
What is she dressed up for ??
Thanks guys. Kent, Cheerleader Competition in Baton Rouge. Her team won some sort of award, but our award was being there for her.
Our Daughter is her and her two younger sister's Grandmother and they do not have a Mom nor Dad.
Yesterday was the opener here.
1 Nine point taken, several others seen either too small or no good shot.
Probably the most deer sightings for an opening day for 5 hunters on our small 123 acre parcel.
I had a nice adult doe at 15 yards but decided it was too early in the season to take her, probably a mistake.
Didnt go out this morning, but the 3 guys that did haven't seen anything so far, 11 AM.
We have 8 ladder stands but I no longer climb.
Beautiful family Sir! There will be other days to hunt deer.
Only shot I've taken at this big boy is with the game came. He was there when I wasn't. The cam is right next to my box stand that I have never taken a deer from. I do most of my hunting from a ladder stand not too far from where he was at. Haven't seen him in the cam where my ladder stand is but have seen him in another one where I have no stand and also in the cam where my cows are.
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First morning of buck season. I did see a buck about 30 minutes ago but couldn't count the points. Got to be three points up here to be legal.
The view from my stand this morning.
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Good luck guys!
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@YellowHammer (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=11488) that's not really considered sporting having those deer in a fenced in pen you know. :D
Trapper
Click on your user name, and there you will see "Visit My Gallery". Click on that, and then click on the pic you want to rotate. There you will see the gray windows to click on +90 or -90 to rotate them upright.
Good luck.
Thanks Beenthere went and rotated in my gallery put directions on wall behind laptop
grandson son and I each got a small buck Forkhorns, son also got a doe. Opening weekend kill was down in Wisconsin
Took a small buck from my box stand to this morning. First deer I've shot from it since I built it three years ago. No picture. He were'nt that big to brag about.
Small buck, big buck, it don't matter LeeB. Back straps seared in an iron skillet with onions and peppers taste pretty good either way. 8)
Congratulations! I totally agree with Lapp!!
Sounds tasty.
Don't forget the liver and heart can be quite a treat.
Can you take your dog deer hunting? German Shepherd in a Deer Blind #1 - YouTube (https://youtube.com/shorts/ByUGasosYNQ?feature=share)
Good luck with your partner! Hopefully you have some ear muffs or blanket to throw over him when you fire that round off if your shooting a gun
Unless they are damaged I save the liver and heart just about every time.