Cory

So I’m taking some time this morning to look for the bear I hit with my truck last night on the way to the cabin. Truck is fine the bear kind of ducked and quartered away I more ran it over than hit it. Me and the sheriff looked last night but good luck trying to find a big black animal in the middle of a field at night.

We had a family friend who was a real mountain man in the hills of West Virginia. Slept on this porch 365 days a year. He was one with nature. One night we were visiting I was probably 14 years old and hear a ruckus in the middle of the night peek out in the kitchen and there was Coy feeding 3 Coons Reese peanut butter cups. They came every night he said. He even had skunks and possums that visited nightly he took care of. Some people have that delicate touch with wild animals. I even once seen him feed twizzlers by hand to a wild deer.

I have been thinking of doing plots and turning some of my field over to apple trees but at the same time do I really want to put time and effort into making state land guys fruits of my labor. I’m in no way bashing guys that hunt public land . I’m just lucky enough to have my own! I already spend time every season kicking them off my land!

The pressure of state land hunters. It’s amazing when you just drive 1/4 mile up the road the amount of deer you see opposed to what we see. Don’t get me wrong bow up until the second day of gun season you see lots of deer .

The pressure of state land hunters. It’s amazing when you just drive 1/4 mile up the road the amount of deer you see opposed to what we see. Don’t get me wrong bow up until the second day of gun season you see lots of deer .

How many of you guys lease property while owning property? I own 94 acres that borders state land. After opening day of gun you are very hard pressed to see a deer. I’ve been thinking of looking into seeing if any lease property is available close to me. I know and talk to a couple guys who lease a 1000 acre parcel near me and these guys just see heard after heard. I think it’s time to make a move. Any sites you guys go on to search properties? I know it’s to late this year but I want to be ready if I make the move next year!

Sitting in a stand I take it off . Sitting on the ground I leave on.

I’m glad my team (team 4) picked up my slack. I’m like the guy that goes 0-27 in the playoffs!

No deer sightings in 2 days! Back out to Utica tomorrow for work probably done for the year! Weird weekend hardly any shots heard.

Great pics! What equipment are you using?

Anybody ever hunt it? I’m going this afternoon. Is there a good amount of deer in this area?

I here what your saying. For some reason 9:45-10:15 is when my woods come alive. That’s when the bucks come thru. I can’t explain it either!

Awesome deer! Look like you are hunting in Kansas

Lost my sanity and broke my heart all in one day!

I had this problem with my Remington 30-06 . It wasn’t an ammo problem it was a firing pin problem. After sending the gun back too Remington twice it’s finally fixed!

Grunt tube

Opening day tomorrow boys and girls! I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve every year! Good luck to all shoot straight and knockem down!

I tell ya I’m working in Utica and did a lot of work in Rome. So I went to herb phillipsons last week and seen the empty store. I loved that place. Don’t go to bass pro in Utica I was very disappointed in the selections they offer.

I think every neighborhood has that neighbor!

Quite a log jam we have damn near everyone is 5-5!

Light snow in Utica . This damn work thing sucks I should be in a tree! Good luck to whoever is out.

Here is a few pics of the mock scrap I did a couple weeks ago just to see if it really works. I just took my foot scraped the ground and pissed on it.

Is that another buck in the thick stuff?

About 15 Amish guys building an addition on his barn. Started at 8 am. Have you ever heard or seen 10 Amish buggies All parading down a dirt road ? Then non stop hammering and power tools till 4.

A.M hunt produced only one mosquito spotted. My neighbor had an Amish build off at his house today but once they stopped at 4 P.M the woods came alive. Had a huge doe that would’ve gotten a bolt sent her way if she came in another 10 yards come in with one unknown. Then as I was climbing down the stand I catch movement and it’s a giant buck about 75 yards out. Now I’m stuck i don’t want to blow this stand up. So I climb down the last couple rungs and back out so he can’t tell what I was (hopefully). Cams are still showing night time movement with only a few day time movers. Next Saturday for the gun opener is my only time I’ll be able to get out next. Congratulations to you that connected today.