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There is a lot more than 2 or 3 that left, many of them were sneaky and did not want to expose themselves. Al

I got home about 4pm, and to quite a sight. About 10-12 inches of heavy wet snow and slush. We made it into the driveway with a little go quick, hang on, slip, slide, and park it in the middle so you don’t wipe out the porch. I’ll take the tractor to it tomorrow when I get out of the woods. I hope my 4 wheeler gets me up the hill so I don’t have to sweat my rear off walking the whole way up. lol Good luck in the morning folks!

I have been hunting the same property for almost 40 years 90% of the time, hunting Squirrels early helps me formulate a Deer hunting plan as I can read their sign and figure out a plan where to be for a Deer hunt when I decide to go. I am not picky and just take them as they come. This year I have seen very little Deer sign and thought there would be a good chance getting skunked but I got lucky the first morning and had a buck walk right into my lap. And then there was a year I think I hunted just about every day and saw zero bucks, on the last day in the last half hour of daylight I had a buck show himself and I scored, you just never know. Al

For some reason my FB feed has been a steady daily page after page stream of deer recovered (and many of them not) by trackers with their dogs. It seems there are more and more every season. And, it’s not limited to bow hunting. Many of these stories are crossbow and firearms. Has anyone else ever noticed they always preface the story with excuse making like the deer jumped, hit a twig, limb hit the stand, etc etc etc? Never I f’d up, I took a shot I shouldn’t have, my nerves got the better of me, I shot to far, maybe I should have practiced more, and so on.

I have not used them in a few years. I like the idea of being surprised also. The deer will be there, just a matter of when and what steps out. I was in Saskatchewan a week ago. The outfitter had cams on all of his baits and showed the hunters which big bucks were coming to the individual baits. Guess what, hunters waited for the monsters and never pulled the trigger on the good bucks they were seeing. Most went home with an unpunched tag. I'm at an age now that the adventure is more enjoyable than pulling the trigger.

Yep. My favorite excuse I hear is "It was the only shot I had". No dipshit, you could've waited, not shot, not set yourself up for all the drama and extra work, and shot that same deer from the same stand 48hrs later. If you were patient and had some self control. Takes a lot of experience to get to that point though. Antlers make people stupid.

I have like 14 Spypoint’s out all the way from Watertown Ny to Letchworth State Park. I use them mostly to find a couple of the biggest bucks on my properties and then I go all in for those 2. It’s either them or bust. They come in handy when my mature target bucks come back to my property after out doing their breeding for a couple weeks. Knowing they are alive keeps the drive going. Along with keeping track of any trespassers sneaking around.