Deer Hunting- What are your plans?

[longarm]

The tag I drew was very local and was restricted to shotgun only. I left the house at 10AM and was back home with a deer hanging by 1PM on day 1. Not a trophy.. but I can't taste the difference. I have one more deer tag to fill and an elk tag for late December. If I am successxful with the elk I will have to buy another freezer ASAP!

 

[lazy]

Accounting home work.

 

[rromeo]

Rifle opens on Saturday. I plan to shoot some deer. Does or bucks, it doesn't matter, I don't eat antlers.
I scouted my area this past Saturday. I think it should be a good season.

 

[ACP230]

I had planned to hunt with the same guy I went with last year.
Left a message for him this morning and he didn't call back. So an old buddy and I may go out instead. We've done some grouse hunting this fall already.

I plan to hunt a closed logging road where I jumped a deer while grouse hunting. Lots of tracks on the road and two obvious large trails crossing it. There's a creek on one side of the old road and hard woods on the other.

There seem to be more deer here this year. Hoping not to freeze solid and to see some kind of buck. It's bucks only here.

 

[410bore]

my dad is in Big Bay in the UP for the opener .....hope he does some good....friends of his have a house and some land up there and have been going for years....myself, i have shot a doe and a turkey with my bow this fall.....passed several small bucks....still waiting on the big one....

 

[frbeall]

Waiting on a friend to invite me to their ranch. I don't do leases. Just finished sighting in model 70 last Sunday, I'm ready!

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

I'll be up at camp in north central Pa for the first three days of the traditional buck season. It's always started the first Monday after Thanksgiving for as long as I can remember. Then I'll be back the following week for three more days. Doe tags are usable the second week. Plan to carry my 6.5 Swede and my 657 for close shots.
Got a good crew. They all know how to hunt, shoot and cook. We never starve at camp. Also will be watching The Pacific in the evenings. Keeps us out of trouble at the local bars.
And though my father passed away on December 1st, 8 years ago, he's always with me on my hunts.
John

 

[semperfi71]

Wee...eelll,

I went to here. To the canyon of the Middle Fork of the Gila River inside the Gila Wilderness Area.

But the paint in the picture would not cross the river once we got down and therefore I had to make a camp in "lesser" spot for good grazing which meant I had to use too much of the feed I packed in.

The day before the hunt I fell into the river and completely submerged my Ruger M77 RSI Mannlicher in .243. It WAS pristine. Now it has a few dings in the wood. I cleaned the moisture off and it didn't rust.

My feet had a big blister on one toe due to the hike in, a broken bone on the other foot that was healing from the same paint rearing up and falling on me 10 weeks prior. AND, once I got into the canyon both of my knees started acting up again (they have a on-again-off-again history). So I was able to cover very little country with any alacrity and was not really stable (that's why I fell into the creek).

Here's the only "game" I saw.

They're a "Gila Chub".

So after only a day and a half (I had planned to stay 5 days) I decided to pack out. A storm was coming and I had a horse that was unreliable, and my feet and knees were not good, and there were truly not many signs of any game, deer or elk in the area.

As we packed out, most horses will gladly head for the trail-head. Not so the paint, she decided she wanted to stop and after several false stops and starts she quit altogether. So I left her on the trail and took my other mare back.

However, the paint didn't like being left alone (as I knew she would) and she followed us back to the truck and trailer. As I loaded her in the trailer my last words to her were, "You're sold!"

And I did. She is now with a woman who she really seems to have bonded to. It is a sometimes common thing with horses, they will prefer one sex to another and usually it's a woman and not a man I am told.

BUT, I am not complaining. I was alone in God's Wilderness for four days and had a great time!!

 

[cmort666]

Not until I get a real job with vacation.

Maybe next year...

 

[longarm]

Semperfi71,
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that, yes, that's the finest pic of sucker fish I have ever seen!
Seriously though, that's beautiful open country you get to hunt in. Nice pics all around.
Dan

 

[Straightshooter2]

Went down to my cousin's farm this past weekend and was on one of the stands when one of his dogs came wandering up the field. About 10 minutes later, the second dog came along and saw me up in the stand. He wasn't sure what he saw so he went over into the trees and stood there barking. Obviously I didn't see anything Saturday night. Sunday morning nobody saw anything until about noon when four of us were standing on my cousin's back porch. Somebody said look at that deer and we looked up to see a doe crossing the pasture less than 100 yards behind the house followed by a large buck (looked to be 8 and maybe 10 points). My rifle was in the guest bedroom, my cousin's rifle was in his bedroom and the two guys visiting had to run to their truck for their rifles. Before anyone could reach a rifle, those same two darn dogs were off across the pasture at a dead run and both deer were gone into the woods. I wanted to shoot both dogs but my cousin's wife wouldn't let me. It will be a couple of weeks before I can get down there again. He's gone this weekend and wife's birthday is the next weekend. I'm not stupid enough to go hunting on wife's birthday since she's a better shot than I am.

CW

 

[anglaispierre]

I'll be out with the local hunt Saturday morning hunting "en battue", that is with a pack of dogs whose job is to chase the deer right in front of my sights. That's the theory at least. Wish it turned out that way!!

I'll report back to you on how many I actually shoot. Don't hold your breath.

 

[longranger]

I have planned many fine meals from these bucks.

 

[paladin42]

Season opened here in late October.

I counted 14 deer in my hay meadow the other day. Went to get my gear and the deer disappeared. My neighbor called and said he had 14 deer in his field. He got his gear and the deer disappeared. Then another neighbor called - said a herd of deer crossed the road by his house and one hit the side of his car but wasn't hurt. He went to get his gear - same story.

Those darn deer keep moving around and we never get the deer and the guns/bows in the same place at the same time. All this time and none of us have meat in the freezer yet.

 

[Muley Gil]

I've seen some big buck tracks about 25-35 yards from the back steps. Been thinking of sitting on the back porch with my .577 2 band Enfield reproduction and just wait...

 

[Ramrod46]

Heading to Mtn. Home,AR. for three days.Can't wait!

 

[cass]

There will be no deer hunting on our lease this year due to the second year of a terrible, killing, drought and fires. This is a voluntary decision of all the hunters. We are still bringing in the meat - in the form of hogs. Actually, we're having a lot more fun hunting/trapping them than deer. Just getting out, and under the stars, means more than the true hunting.