View from your deer stand.

[Jeff]

We are not allowed to take a doe in the U.P. or I surely would.

[Texas Ranger]

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.

[Jeff]

Our DNR uses wolves now to manage the deer numbers I must pay to hunt. The wolves can kill as many as they want.

[DPatton]

Horns make thin soup.

Great quote T.R.
 I have never heard it put that way before.

[DPatton]

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?

[Jeff]

Wolves are protected.

[goose63]

Wolves are protected.

Hrer in N.D. we say shoot shovel and shut up 

[WV Sawmiller]

   Are you having any problems with Chronic wasting disease in the deer herds in ND?

[goose63]

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  

[Jeff]

Came up early. Chilled to the bone. -3°

The blind is in the background.

 

[Magicman]

   I'd prolly hafta wear long underwear in weather like that.  Don't know, don't have any.  :

[mike_belben]

Theres nothing you can do to stay warm in below zero short of standing next to the stove.  

[Jeff]

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.

[Shotgun]

Do ya have your hunter orange long johns on?   ???

[Jeff]

Joe Boxer camo.

[WV Sawmiller]

   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.

[mike_belben]

The milwaukee heated jackets are great for extending your pain tolerance.  I wish they made socks too.  

[Dave Shepard]

When it gets that cold, I like to wear a house. A bit heavy, but it's got heat,  internet, and a refrigerator.    ;D

[Jeff]

I'm going out in the morning as long as I dont freeze to death tonight.


 

[Dave Shepard]

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

[Chuck White]

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!

[DPatton]

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.

[Chuck White]

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!          :new_year:

[Ron Scott]

 

 

[FLPINERAT]

Mine

No white stuff here!