Deer beat me to my spot tonight. Doe, fawn, and something antlered already in the field as I was making my way in. On the ground again tonight in my makeshift ground blind.
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Hunting from the ground tonight for the first day of muzzleloader. I think it may need some more trimming though. Had some does come out to the butternut squash field. Great late season setup with snow on the ground.
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Deer Management:
An 8 pointer, 4 pointer and a button buck are standing by a field browsing on acorns.
The 8 pointer says, 'I'm happy with my 10 does, we're really getting along.'
The 4 pointer says, 'I'm happy as heck with my 5, they really take care of me!'
The Button buck says, 'My two are all right, better than nothing I guess.'
Then all of a sudden a GIANT 14 pointer walks out into the field.
The three bucks had never seen anything like him before, they were in awe.
The big buck made a huge scrape and pissed in it, rubbed a tree the size of a telephone pole and snapped it off at the ground!
The three bucks looked on in amazement.
The 8 pointer says, 'I could probably get by with 4 does........... Who really needs 10 anyway?'
The 4 pointer says, 'You know.............. come to think of it, I only really use one or two of mine!'
The button buck was silent, as the other two bucks look over to him in confusion.
Suddenly the Button buck runs out into the middle of the field!
He rips and tears up some grass........ pisses all over the place, snorts & wheezes, rubs his head raw on a tree, and chews a lickin branch clean off!
Then he runs back over to his buddies.
His friends immediately ask him, 'What the heck are you doing!?'
I'm just makin' sure that big son of a gun knows I'm a buck!'
First sit in this set since I hung it last week. Light West wind is perfect. 4or5 sets of tracks in the fresh snow under the stand. Neighbors may have pushed deer out on their way in this afternoon.
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Enough is enough!! If you guys want to beat each other up, dont do it on here. PM each other, call each other, or even better meet at the flag pole after school. Now lets get back to hunting!
Fyi, sunset is not 435. Sunset is different across the entire state depending on where you are in the timezone.
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Well I sacrificed the beard to the hunting gods! Hopefully it brings me the luck ive been hoping for. I no longer look like a goat herder for Afghanistan so thats a plus.
Great morning to be in the stand. Cold and frosty yet not movement. Gun season certainly had a way of sucking all the enjoyment of the deer season right out of you. I really thought the break from the woods last week would reenergize me but it hasn't. Two dealings with trespassers over the past four days isn't really helping. Two weeks to make something happen and unfortunately pm hunts may be tough to pull off with my kids basketball schedule. Pm hunts are certainly where it's at right now. Find prime food sources!!!
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