Legacy -The 2020 Season-

[idn713]

1 hour ago, Legacy said:

Let the gun season lull begin!!!

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Lol yup, was a great morning and saw nothin. Did hear quite a few shots though and I guess it makes sense that there is more pressure this week, what with thanksgiving prob a lot of guys taking the week off 

[dvdegeorge]

Went out to make meat this morning
Done


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[Gator]

I too went out to make meat. Ended up pounding rocks. As usual this year.

[Gill-T]

Opening Day Sh&t show summary. This year I decided to expand my portfolio of state land knowledge. The good.....my nice bow buck. The bad.....opening day of gun. I don’t want to get too specific on the whereabouts of this parcel but I will say it sounds like “Royce Hill” near “Branklinville”. When I did a brief scouting mission on the property I was not overly impressed with the deer sign but there is QDMA land on the southern border so to quote the movie Dumb and Dumber, “so you are saying I have a chance”. The lack of escape cover had me concerned but there is a small block of thick near the parking lot. So I hatched a plan, zig when I usually zag, ie. go short instead of my usual deep trek. Mind you there were zero cars when I went during bow season scouting mission...,.opening day we pull in and there are already 11 cars in the lot. My brother and I shrug our shoulders and say f-it we don’t have many options at this point. My brother goes deep and I go into my climber overlooking the thick.  Up on the ridge I can see headlamps from hunters every 200 yards (scary)- looked like an airplane runway!  Light comes and I actually have a doe come by. Ha! my master plan is working!  It was mostly down hill from there. I could smell guys smoking, talking on the way to their spots, talking on cell phones on their way to spots, road hunters driving up and down the road all day. I had one dude set up fifty yards from the road, break out a rattling bag and proceed to make the worst sounding deer fight in the annals of deer hunting history. After the historic deer rattling sequences resulted in no deer seen, the hunter left the woods after 30 minutes and drove off. I decided my master plan sucked and got down out of the tree, placed my climber in the car and ducked into the thicket for plan B. Rubs, scrapes and deer poop told me I was in a bedroom at least. Still hunting carefully into the thicket I find a spot to sit out the rest of the day. After an hour I spot movement. Head down and birddogging so I figure has to be a buck. I can’t see the head and the deer is moving away out of range. I give the deer a Hail Mary grunt and snort wheeze. The deer locks into my direction and I am able to get the scope on ......her (crap). This is a strange finding a doe by herself I thought. Not sure if she she got separated from the group by hunters walking in or chasing bucks but she clearly was lonely. She walked right over to the strange orange grunting snort wheezing deer to within 15 yards and settled in. She knew I was not a deer but she hung out for a good two hours. I was hoping she would attract a buck but alas no. The capper was at 4:00 witching hour a truck pulls up and a guy comes walking into the thicket still hunting on what are now cornflake leaves. I grab my pack in a huff and say out loud “that’s it”!  and walk off like a brat. When I got to my car I found out the car doing burnouts in the parking lot had done so to spray mud all over everyone’s cars. Such is the life if you covet the challenge of hunting state land. Back at it on a new to me block this weekend. 

Edited November 24, 2020 by Gill-T

[whaler1]

Yeah that would be enough for me!


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[Legacy]

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[Legacy]

November 24 am
37 degrees
SW wind 5-10 mph
Cloudy skies

Went into the thick stuff for the morning sit and only ended up seeing one small buck. And if course it was early. Starting to already see the deer activity come to a screeching hault. Its amazing that it really doesn't take much for the mature deer to realize it's gun season. Fingers need to be crossed that you have a hot doe around.



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[whaler1]

Going to my new spot in the morning.

In September I had pics of a couple bucks which would easily be my personal best. As I’ve never killed a buck over 120 inches, there should be lots of opportunities out there.

I’ve hunted this spot half a dozen times or more this year and have never seen a deer. All three of my kids have hunted this spot this year and none of them have seen a deer there either. Might add that I haven’t killed a deer with a gun in close to twenty years and that I decided I’m not killing anymore two and a half year old bucks.

With all that said, the coffee will still taste great in the tree and the woods my stand is in are pretty. I won’t be at work getting my balls busted.

Pretty optimistic it’s going to be an enjoyable morning.

 

 

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[Eastforkmarine]

November 24 am
37 degrees
SW wind 5-10 mph
Cloudy skies

Went into the thick stuff for the morning sit and only ended up seeing one small buck. And if course it was early. Starting to already see the deer activity come to a screeching hault. Its amazing that it really doesn't take much for the mature deer to realize it's gun season. Fingers need to be crossed that you have a hot doe around.



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Right place right time 99% luck now


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[Capt Vince Pierleoni]

4 hours ago, Gill-T said:

Opening Day Sh&t show summary. This year I decided to expand my portfolio of state land knowledge. The good.....my nice bow buck. The bad.....opening day of gun. I don’t want to get too specific on the whereabouts of this parcel but I will say it sounds like “Royce Hill” near “Branklinville”. When I did a brief scouting mission on the property I was not overly impressed with the deer sign but there is QDMA land on the southern border so to quote the movie Dumb and Dumber, “so you are saying I have a chance”. The lack of escape cover had me concerned but there is a small block of thick near the parking lot. So I hatched a plan, zig when I usually zag, ie. go short instead of my usual deep trek. Mind you there were zero cars when I went during bow season scouting mission...,.opening day we pull in and there are already 11 cars in the lot. My brother and I shrug our shoulders and say f-it we don’t have many options at this point. My brother goes deep and I go into my climber overlooking the thick.  Up on the ridge I can see headlamps from hunters every 200 yards (scary)- looked like an airplane runway!  Light comes and I actually have a doe come by. Ha! my master plan is working!  It was mostly down hill from there. I could smell guys smoking, talking on the way to their spots, talking on cell phones on their way to spots, road hunters driving up and down the road all day. I had one dude set up fifty yards from the road, break out a rattling bag and proceed to make the worst sounding deer fight in the annals of deer hunting history. After the historic deer rattling sequences resulted in no deer seen, the hunter left the woods after 30 minutes and drove off. I decided my master plan sucked and got down out of the tree, placed my climber in the car and ducked into the thicket for plan B. Rubs, scrapes and deer poop told me I was in a bedroom at least. Still hunting carefully into the thicket I find a spot to sit out the rest of the day. After an hour I spot movement. Head down and birddogging so I figure has to be a buck. I can’t see the head and the deer is moving away out of range. I give the deer a Hail Mary grunt and snort wheeze. The deer locks into my direction and I am able to get the scope on ......her (crap). This is a strange finding a doe by herself I thought. Not sure if she she got separated from the group by hunters walking in or chasing bucks but she clearly was lonely. She walked right over to the strange orange grunting snort wheezing deer to within 15 yards and settled in. She knew I was not a deer but she hung out for a good two hours. I was hoping she would attract a buck but alas no. The capper was at 4:00 witching hour a truck pulls up and a guy comes walking into the thicket still hunting on what are now cornflake leaves. I grab my pack in a huff and say out loud “that’s it”!  and walk off like a brat. When I got to my car I found out the car doing burnouts in the parking lot had done so to spray mud all over everyone’s cars. Such is the life if you covet the challenge of hunting state land. Back at it on a new to me block this weekend. 

Excellent piece of writing. Just when I was about to reconsider public land again--you brought it all back to memory, Many of the exact same details I have experienced. The last time I gun hunted public in NY I came across a fella wearing a white "Jack Daniels" T-shirt and he had one of those chest belts on diagonally chock full of 12 gauge slugs.  I was dying dragging out a doe on dry ground and all he uttered was "where ya get that one?"   

[Legacy]

4 hours ago, Gill-T said:

Opening Day Sh&t show summary. This year I decided to expand my portfolio of state land knowledge. The good.....my nice bow buck. The bad.....opening day of gun. I don’t want to get too specific on the whereabouts of this parcel but I will say it sounds like “Royce Hill” near “Branklinville”. When I did a brief scouting mission on the property I was not overly impressed with the deer sign but there is QDMA land on the southern border so to quote the movie Dumb and Dumber, “so you are saying I have a chance”. The lack of escape cover had me concerned but there is a small block of thick near the parking lot. So I hatched a plan, zig when I usually zag, ie. go short instead of my usual deep trek. Mind you there were zero cars when I went during bow season scouting mission...,.opening day we pull in and there are already 11 cars in the lot. My brother and I shrug our shoulders and say f-it we don’t have many options at this point. My brother goes deep and I go into my climber overlooking the thick.  Up on the ridge I can see headlamps from hunters every 200 yards (scary)- looked like an airplane runway!  Light comes and I actually have a doe come by. Ha! my master plan is working!  It was mostly down hill from there. I could smell guys smoking, talking on the way to their spots, talking on cell phones on their way to spots, road hunters driving up and down the road all day. I had one dude set up fifty yards from the road, break out a rattling bag and proceed to make the worst sounding deer fight in the annals of deer hunting history. After the historic deer rattling sequences resulted in no deer seen, the hunter left the woods after 30 minutes and drove off. I decided my master plan sucked and got down out of the tree, placed my climber in the car and ducked into the thicket for plan B. Rubs, scrapes and deer poop told me I was in a bedroom at least. Still hunting carefully into the thicket I find a spot to sit out the rest of the day. After an hour I spot movement. Head down and birddogging so I figure has to be a buck. I can’t see the head and the deer is moving away out of range. I give the deer a Hail Mary grunt and snort wheeze. The deer locks into my direction and I am able to get the scope on ......her (crap). This is a strange finding a doe by herself I thought. Not sure if she she got separated from the group by hunters walking in or chasing bucks but she clearly was lonely. She walked right over to the strange orange grunting snort wheezing deer to within 15 yards and settled in. She knew I was not a deer but she hung out for a good two hours. I was hoping she would attract a buck but alas no. The capper was at 4:00 witching hour a truck pulls up and a guy comes walking into the thicket still hunting on what are now cornflake leaves. I grab my pack in a huff and say out loud “that’s it”!  and walk off like a brat. When I got to my car I found out the car doing burnouts in the parking lot had done so to spray mud all over everyone’s cars. Such is the life if you covet the challenge of hunting state land. Back at it on a new to me block this weekend. 

 

 

Wow!!!

[ckawaki]

Morning should be good they were moving tonight had a 6 and 4 others 3 doe 1 couldn't tell 6 was 8 yds away couldn't of been a big boy

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[Legacy]

November 24 pm

33 degrees
East wind 5-10
Cloudy skies

Well it's gonna be feast or famine and apparently I'm going hungry. Zero seen this afternoon.



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[Gill-T]

Vince, after opening week the public land blocks become hunter-free. No diagonal gun belts needed. 

[Legacy]

22 minutes ago, Capt Vince Pierleoni said:

Excellent piece of writing. Just when I was about to reconsider public land again--you brought it all back to memory, Many of the exact same details I have experienced. The last time I gun hunted public in NY I came across a fella wearing a white "Jack Daniels" T-shirt and he had one of those chest belts on diagonally chock full of 12 gauge slugs.  I was dying dragging out a doe on dry ground and all he uttered was "where ya get that one?"   

 

Classic!

[dawsonscreek]

“Shot” this guy today with my Nikon. Town deer, so he’s safe for now. Walmart is on the other side of that brush. Estimates on score/age? I am not one who cares about score but I am curious. I would estimate 130” and 4.5 years old. 

Edited November 25, 2020 by dawsonscreek

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[whaler1]

“Shot” this guy today with my Nikon. Town deer, so he’s safe for now. Walmart is on the other side of that brush. Estimates on score/age? I am not one who cares about score but I am curious. I would estimate 130” and 4.5 years old. 

Pretty deer!


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[Gill-T]

1 hour ago, dawsonscreek said:

“Shot” this guy today with my Nikon. Town deer, so he’s safe for now. Walmart is on the other side of that brush. Estimates on score/age? I am not one who cares about score but I am curious. I would estimate 130” and 4.5 years old. 

5 years old and 145 ish

[reeltrout]

1 hour ago, dawsonscreek said:

“Shot” this guy today with my Nikon. Town deer, so he’s safe for now. Walmart is on the other side of that brush. Estimates on score/age? I am not one who cares about score but I am curious. I would estimate 130” and 4.5 years old. 

Nice deer! Awesome pic! I'll guess 140

[whaler1]

Good luck this morning all.


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[whaler1]

There may not be a deer within ten miles of my spot but it sure is pretty.


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[MeanMachine]

5 minutes ago, whaler1 said:

There may not be a deer within ten miles of my spot but it sure is pretty.


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Good luck!  Looks like a great spot!