Rebel Darling

Aren't you feeling a little unwell? Take Tuesday through Friday...

"Bikinis to Bucks: Turning on a Dime" - An adventure in Biz's Biz-R-OWorld.

Still hoping to pick up unused / extra 4H, 4K, 4L. I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

Congrats on the harvest, and a good buck as well! AND Congratulations to you, your wife, and family!

Sadly, yes...

This is my favorite paragraph from that article: "These facts lead some investigators to speculate that air rods might not be made of matter. Perhaps they are made of electromagnetic fluxes or some other form of energy. It is possible that an electromagnetic flux of the right sort would affect film but not be visible to humans. If this is true and air rods are alive, they would be the first living creatures of that sort we have ever discovered. If air rods are made of some sort of electromagnetic flux and are not alive, they should still be studied because they represent a weird phenomenon that science could probably learn a lot from."

Man... Now I'm sick. Sinus infection creeping in. Bad timing. Hope I can be in the woods on Saturday. I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

Congrats on the harvest... Nice shot!

Exciting evening for you! I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

Seems like you might want to take out a few yotes this year...

Depends on which WMU you are in. Either works, but DMPs are specific to the WMU listed on the tag. If your archery/muzz tag is an either antlered or unantlered tag, and you are in the aligning WMU, I'd use the DMP tag first.

Do you think they bed in the ravine? If so, maybe an ambush spot on an exit trail, if the wind is favorable... Might be worth considering if the ravine butts up to the hedgerows - they might be running the hedgerow line once out of the ravine.

Only a few seasons in, but I'll take a shot at strategy here. Are there any woodlots / strips of woods that will act as travel corridors? Those will likely be used before they head out into the open.

We haven't had a trick or treater in three years. We'll have to drive the boy down the mountain when he's old enough. I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

I am exhausted. After a weekend of late nights, friends, and a ton of music in both Woodstock and Saratoga, the power dropped out during Sunday's wind and rain. Fortunately, the wood stove was already cooking as my buddy and I unwound over a few beers. My first thought in the darkness was of the sump pump, and I spent the entire night waking every forty minutes to bail out the sump and preventing the basement from flooding. That lasted through most of Monday, too. I still have to cut up the tree that fell. Fortunately, it fell alongside the driveway, not across it, and not on the wood shed. I am exhausted. I am researching generators. I am not hunting today. Friday night's hunt was a bust as far as Home Boy is concerned. He was a no-show, but right as light started to fade, I heard deer running through the woods, and instead of getting down, I focused in with the hopes of a shot within the dwindling minutes of legal light. Just a few doe chasing each other through the woods. They came right up to my stand, clearly drawn in by the Evercalm. The lead doe seemed agitated by the new scent in her home woods. The other two were merely curious, and eventually wandered off. That lead doe, though, she investigated every inch, and visually checked me at 20' up a few times. I was still. She never spooked. 20 minutes after legal light, she decided she'd had enough and loped off to meet up with the other two. It was date night, and I was late, so I hurried down and paid less attention to my surroundings than I should have. I'll have to let that spot cool off for a while before hunting it again. I had shots on each doe. I passed on each of them. The plan is to get myself up on a buck and to challenge myself to learn as much as possible about the necessities involved while making mistakes - I'm going to make them. Hell... I hope to recognize the mistakes. That's the first necessity. At that point, I can learn more. I think I need to get tighter into tree cover, and the climber doesn't really provide me with that option. With the climber, I not only need a perfect, limbless tree, I need a perfect, limbless tree within a group of perfect cover trees, near the right deer sign. Too many variables without obsessive scouting, and I don't have that kind of time this year. To get in tighter, I think I have to dedicate time to familiarizing myself with the climbing sticks and getting the hang-on stand set up and taken down while on them. I'm really not looking forward to lugging more gear around (including the sticks and linesman's belt), nor am I looking forward to dedicating more time and thought to what I really need while in stand. But I need to lighten the load in any way, and get lean and mean. Oh, and fast, so I should just get over it and deal. With the power back on, maybe I can start to do that this evening. But man, I am exhausted.

Anyone in the 4L area seen any bucks during daylight? I saw one last week while driving into work, but that's been it. I was also in 4K. I haven't seen fresh scrapes, nor rubs, but also haven't been in the woods a whole bunch - time has been tough to come by...

I've been able to strap my climber (Lone Wolf Hand Climber) to my backpack using the backpack cinch straps and a bungee cord through the top backpack loop.

Great work, and congrats! I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

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Three doe came charging in right at sundown. Hung out under my stand for 20 mins. The lead doe would not get over the evercalm... kept coming back. She was curious about an unfamiliar smell. Never spooked. They all kept looking up, but never made me. Date night, so I was late... I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

4L, 53 and falling. Wind is cooperating. Big hemlocks behind me, breaking up my outline. Let's see that buck! I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

Looking forward to the recovery pics, Tacks! Squat in 4J. I bet they're bedding down near houses by now. I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

Going to try a light rattle. Haven't had any luck in the Pine Bush with it, but nothing else happening, so... I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

I typically see more deer when I stalk here. Felt like sitting this morning, and practicing with the climber in the dark. Nothing yet... I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk

I'm glad this hunter decided to do something else today... at first light, after sitting for 20, I laughed. Nothing on hoof yet. Just me and the crazy pileated woodpeckers around. I'm all thumbs when using Tapatalk