Fantail

Mike that's cool, thanks for sharing the vid.

That cell saved his @ss no question. I've gone 20' maybe a bit over before, and over the years gotten comfortable with 17'+ but over 25' to 30'? Screw that - might as well piss myself now.

Looks good!

Didn't loose power here, wonder if it was cold enough for anyone to have pipes burst. Just over 3 days, good to hear you had some heat. Hope you had some portable lighting when you needed it.

Consensus seems to be buck, just seems huge and not in pellet form for that. I'd sure like to see that deer.

Friend of mine who lives outside of the Ithaca area asked me if I could ID this, something loafed one in her backyard. And she was a bit freaked by what's cruising through. I'm thinking big old neighbor dog, Doesn't look like typical yote scat.

Looks like another half decent weekend comming up for early Nov.

Nice Deer! Good hunting.

Grouse all day long, see it on my place alot.

You can almost taste the loins off that Doe

Since this thread is titled about cold weather camping I'm going to piggy back a cold weather camping-hunting post to it, hope that's cool. Going to leave late Sept. & early Oct. out of this post because while a bit rainy it was good camping, never needed extra heat. Last weekend (Thur. - Sun.) of Oct. as we remember the temps got down under 30, pre-dawn walk was like a carpet of pringles. Themometer indicated 20-25 but the inside of the camper was a nice 50. Did that with a sport-cat catalyst heater. Screws ontop of a 1lb propaine cylinder. Now they last about 8 hours, new ones a little longer but I refill them to recycle. And so I would go through one 1lb cylinder a night. Inside of the old camper isn't 100% air tight but sealed up well enough. Moisture tends to condensate on the aluminum window frames & glass. When I used the stove top the vent fan was handy helping keep steam & oders out, except for coffee . Used the firepit to cook main meals. One of the best things I like about it is being able to roll out of my bunk and stand up at 5 am. Make coffee, get ready without battling for things like I had to do inside a tent. I'm not putting tents down, they are fine and give you shelter. I'm just enjoying the old restored camper. I sleep great out there, all that clean cool air, toasty warm bunk. The bathroom, is realy a large closet with a crapper but still. The solar power is working well. I keep my pen/trail light batteries charged up overnight & use other lights when ever I need them, inside mostly but outside if I need or want to. There's not a ton of time between getting back to camp from hunting, then cooking, preping for the next day etc. Sometimes i'll use the lantern a short while before I call it inside the camper. It gives off heat you can use inside before starting the heater. Also brought the thermoelectric cooler. Interesting thing it never got over 38, no ice. It was the only cooler I used. Just needed to run it on the drive up & back. But I had reserve juice up there if need be.

Cool.

6k got sight of a nice buck Sunday morning. I don't think he was chasing anything but his stomach.

6k a bit after 8:30 this morning. Crisp calm morning. Saw one of the largest bucks on my lease yet. Solid 8 if he was anything.

It is nice to have choices. I'm kinda new to the ML scene & my CVA isn't fancy but i wanted it that way. Taking a deer with it last year was awsome. Would very much like to do that again with the irons. On the other hand the 500 w/ red dot & buckhammers is zeroed in well, & I've been itching to take the 700 for a walk.

Nice shots & to good hunting!

I don't mean to get all merriam-webster but to me 'Fawn' means pre-yearling, and or w/ spots. They get a pass and so does moma. Durring open season i honestly don't remember the last time I saw a group like that together. Consider though all the times moma has set them down and out for a stroll, how whould we know? A 'Yearling' being of age is fair game. Doesn't mean I'd shoot but I might. Yearling still sounds young, but I just wonder if anyone else draws a line there, so to say.

Ooo wee - try not to hit your head under that bridge.

That, is unfortunate. I'd hit your best spots on weekends available before vacation then and hit alternates on weekdays you can get off that late as other hunters may be pushing. Try a 9-3 run on late weekends, got a nice 7 one year on state land that way after noon.

Wow, had to double check the url & make sure i wasn't on AT.

Fri - Sun looks good.

Cool set of picks btw. I almost bought 3 of these cams, or something similar at least. Then I noticed they are powered by C batteries. An additional charger for C's plus 12 of them would be like buying another cam.

I planted 3 dwarf apple trees this year. Chest high I'm guessing they are 3 years. I don't expect any production from them for a while, that's ok. I followed the planting instructions and kept the rooting dirt-area moist best I could for a while. Today, they still have leaves and some new growth has shown. They were like magnets for damn japanese beetles. I used a 7 product and kept the damn tent catipilars off them as well.

Good hunting.

Mahogany at 16:16:12