Good Luck Tomorrow!!

[Goose Guy]

The bad news: Didn't see a deer at all today

The good news: I get to keep my title as worst deer hunter in the state.


Trying again tomorrow evening. I guess they didn't want to get up with this wind.

 

[foxtrapper]

Yeah I found out the cold and getting sick later way last year about lack of deer movement during windy days. I had been invited to hunt a large farmland that normally has a gazillion deer around, and half of late muzzleloader was wasted on deep snow, and I got 1 day in later and it was real cold and windy and saw nothing but squirrels ( lots of them too) and someone's pet kitty. I ended up getting a terrible cold not long after and missed the 2 day late shotgun season.

 

[Patrick]

Didn't hunt today. We got a large surge of visiting grandkids at a neighbors place and I am always worried they will end up walking the woods and on my property. It's a long walk, but they did it a few years back. Not that I'd take a shot at anything far off enough to be mistaken, but I worry about overshot.

I did see a few deer in the driveway and hit the gas. I was in my pickup and it has a ton of dings already.

 

[wilcam47]

i didnt see anything but tree rats...

 

[MDHunter]

Heard some running along the ridge when I was in my stand about 6AM, not light up in the woods yet. Then saw a doe about 9:30, but she had been running a ways (looked like she had run into other hunters), and meat would have been full of lactic acid, so let her pass. Didn't see anything the rest of the day; windy and COLD up in the tree.

Didn't hear many shots, the wind and full moon conspired against us! Oh well, look forward to next weekend.

 

[davelenard]

didn't even see a tree rat. almost 10 and thought, guess I'll head down in a few and spend some time with the wife. Then at 10 on the dot, a little 6 pointer walked 30 or so yards from me. guess I should have brought the 870 but got to blast my first MD Deer with my 7mm Rem Mag. too bad I was a mile from the car and no one to help me drag him out, I used to laugh at the guys with deer carts, not anymore.

 

[xtreme43s10]

I spent most of the day getting leave's up. after pounding ducks and geese for the last 3 days. I needed a break, i did see several deer in the fields when i was dumping leave's. but no shot's taken since no one else hunts back there. If i get done early tomorrow I'll grab my shotgun and go after them.

 

[davelenard]

This is my rifle this is my gun.

I hear ya bud. One thing I have learned from hunting the farm for 35 years is, if it don't happen by 9:30am It's not gonna happen. I usually roll out around 9:30-10 and I'm back on stand at 2:30 for dinner time feeding. Good luck however and report back regardless of what happens.

So Saturday I'm up in my climber well before sunrise. at 8am three doe's walk thru brush 100+ yards away, no shot with my open sighted muzzeloader. by 9:30 I'm getting chilled and thinking about this "quote", plus my 11 month old son is sick, and I know I'm gonna hear how crappy the wife's morning has been. So at 10am I start down the tree.

Get down and need to take a leak, So I lean my rifle against a tree and walk 10 feet to another tree and pull out my gun :. Sure enough, the three doe come up a draw 20-30 yards away and just stare at this idiot with his gun in hand that doesn't have the range to reach them....

 

[willtill]

So Saturday I'm up in my climber well before sunrise. at 8am three doe's walk thru brush 100+ yards away, no shot with my open sighted muzzeloader. by 9:30 I'm getting chilled and thinking about this "quote", plus my 11 month old son is sick, and I know I'm gonna hear how crappy the wife's morning has been. So at 10am I start down the tree.

Get down and need to take a leak, So I lean my rifle against a tree and walk 10 feet to another tree and pull out my gun :. Sure enough, the three doe come up a draw 20-30 yards away and just stare at this idiot with his gun in hand that doesn't have the range to reach them....

Yes. Deer sometimes have a way of appearing at the right place, at the wrong time....