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A massage would be awesome!!!! I thinkI will have my boys walk on my back, Lord knows the battle axe won't give me a massage... I loaded up with advil and it definately helped.

Nice work!!!!

So he is saying cougars are leaving the bar and jacking deer?

pancakes and an orange, about to make venison tacos... correction venison taco pizza.

Thanks or the responses. I am starting to feel the "oh no! it's almost over!" feeling too! It really frustrated me when i was dialing in on one last week and then 6 other guys showed up. I was seeing 3 to 5 doe every evening. Then eveyone hunting the land started parking where I park and followed me in (starting Thanksgiving). That spot is beyond burned out now so I have been resorting to other land that hasn't had much sign. But when I did get out in the AM I saw a raptor swoop down at a squirrel about 30 feet from me! Spooked a deer on the way out about 50 yards from my car tonight.

Went out this AM and just felt like it was a chore hiking the mountain. My back was tighter than a banjo string and my damn groin muscle pull is giving me heck. Also, the hunting pressure in the promising spot surpassed rediculous the last few outings. I did spook a buck yesterday but I am sure he vacated th area where I saw him. I am trying to pull myself out this funk for the rest of the season. Just wondering if anyone else is petering out and needs a pep-talk! Heading out now for the afternoon hunt. Good luck folks!

Good point! I guess it came down to getting annoyed I would just say I'm going to "use the bathroom" and sit somewhere else. lol

this is true! it all depends on the taxidermist and how much they enjoy, or hate, doing coyotes. The one my bro talked to said he did a few when they were cold and said it was a nightmere.

I have heard more like 1000+. My brother wanted to get one done until the guy gave him a price. Taxidermist said he wouldn't do one again unless it was stll warm. Some places are a lot cheaper than others so I'd call around.

Heading out now.... not sure yet where but I'll make that decision on the drive!

Online tax maps can be a blessing, just for future reference. I don't want to see your thread blow up into a woulda coulda shoulda bashing session. Sounds like you did good and deer search would have had to depart anyway.

I got my biggest buck on the last day of muzzleloader three yeas ago.... down to the last few minutes in fact. I had a little pity party as the last shooting hours were closing in. I put an unlit cigarette in my mouth and was actually going to light it (something I never do except on the walk out on the last day) then I heard crunching and two doe wandered in. I had the hammer cocked and finger on the trigger, aimed on the largest doe and I hear more crunching. I looked over my right shoulder down the embankment and there was a chocolate brown rack closing in. He stopped and rubbed a pine tree 15 yards infront of me. That was the last thing he did. Don't give up!!!!!!!!

lol!! No deep fryer blazes??

Well I almost had pics to back this up lol! I made it to the area where I got my buck during bow. I got out of the car at 3:20 or so and started walking the nice manicured "driveway" and lawn down to the landowners garage and camp about 200 yards from where I park along the road. There are thickets on the sides where I have gotten a deer late season before. I walked down the hill to the area where the garage is. It has about a half acre of lawn with a roaring brook and some pines on the other side where the camp is. As I get into view of the garage and lawn I jumped a big doe feeding on grass. It ran and jumped the brook. I took 10 more steps and as the garage camp into view a nice buck bounded out of site! I could see bone protruding higher than the ears by quite a bit. Didn't seem like a wide rack but probably a 2.5yr... Oh well. I still hunted across the brook through some manicured trails through the pines along the brushy creek draw and eventually stopped at the stone wall along the field. Hunkered down at a little before 4 and had a small doe came walking in within 30 feet feeding on grass. Passed her up and finally had to jump her because I was stuck in the awkward shooting postion and horribly cramping up. Uplifting experience after the extreme pressure at the new spot.

Tough deal Vince. Sorry it didn't turn up.

I agree!! The Hail Mary of hunting pays off sometimes! I will be heading out as soon as the wife returns even if it is just for an hour,or even a half hour. I won't be making the long trip up to the usual stand but I have a few spots I can check out. Good luck!

I enjoy the old fashion way. I get a buddy to help me drag mine. It is a good time and I consider it to be part of the whole experience to "comiserate" on a long drag. If nobody is available then the quad would absolutely be a go to. Of course I sold my Foreman...

+1

Awoke at 4:45 and hit off instead of snooze, oops. I have been hunting hard and needed a morning off to regroup anyway. Gotta watch the offspring from 10:00 to 2:00. I will make it out for the afternoon. Good luck folks!

I hear ya! I keep mine in a box with leaves and pine bows in a box in my car or truck. Then I get myself pumped up to put on some ice-cold, sometimes stiff, camos. My muck boots go infront of the return to my hot air furnace to dry out. My underlayers don't recieve too much in the way of special reatment. I have been doing this procedure for years, although lately it has been gettig tougher and tougher not to bring everything in. I can't even remember the last time I had a deer wind me and blow so I guess it works well enough to not risk changing.

unbelievable what this country is coming to.

The land I am hunting now has a stone wall boundry. The peopel next door have their trees spray painted and signed. The thing that pisses me off is that they have permanent treestand 10ft from the property facing the land i hunt. The ONLY available shots they would have are on the land that isn't theirs. I also found a pair of field dressing gloves, so they shot the deer from their land onto the property I hunt and then gutted and left the gloves. I am hoping to return the gloves to the rightful owners.

I will have to pick them up, although where i am hunting now it probably isn't applicable with the billion hunters in the woods trampling along.

Just got back. No sightings, some small recent tracks. Walked tot he top of the mountain, not much going on. When I got to my car a guy that also hunts the land pulled over to talk, he and the two other guys he was with didn't see squat either. I've got 40 acres about a 1/4 mile down the road that I got permission to hunt last year, have to give him a call and see if the offer is still on the table.

There was a TON of sign being laid down in mid October. I saw a scrape on the opening day of archery. I have never seen one that early. In fact I was blown away by the amount I found just before I got mine on 10/9. A lot of rubs were appearing until the end of archery. I haven't seen a fresh scrape since early Nov, prior to the last week of October they were everywhere. I changed spots for rifle and found some recent rubs, but nothing made in the past week or so. It has been a strange, strange year.