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Very Cold Weather Movement

Five Seasons

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Doc Experienced

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As one single data point, let me say that I just looked out in the yard and saw deer tracks criss-crossing all over the place. It is 10 degrees out here right now. I think cold weather sends them on a food shopping mission trying to fortify their calorie supply. That's just a guess, because when its that damned cold out there, I am hunkered down trying to conserve.

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phade Mentor

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they move in spurts. right before this storm is a freat example. they are calorie loading to sit through the sntorm as much as possible. im in a blind over a fld covered in tracks. wibd is picking up which to me is a bit of a killer on activity at this time of year. seems like I witness activity when wind drops.

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thphm Newbie

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Gotta laugh at this one, about 30 minutes ago I walk to the front of the house , look out the window and a little doe born this year walks from the front lawn and stops on the road and is there for 5 minutes in the middle eating salt that dropped off of the town truck.It then goes on the other side of the road heading to the pines. Less then 5 minutes here the come driving very slow looking on both sides of the road and I laugh TOO LATE.

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upstate Newbie

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Went out first thing this morning in Cortland county, it was frigid cold. I was a little late and as I'm walking to my stand I see a doe about 100 yards away, right in the trail near my stand. I dropped to my knee and was zeroing in when another deer winded me and blew, off they went,

 

So we went to a friends house where he decided to put us in some stands. About 45 minutes later my friend shoots and I can't see a thing. Then all of a sudden all hell breaks loose. 7 doe come running right to me with a large adult stopped 20 yards away I squeeze trigger and my Knight muzzle loader  is froze up, won't shoot!! She walks a few steps and I start yanking on trigger to no avail. I finally use my left hand to punch my trigger finger (mind you folks, I am absolutely frozen at this point) and it touches off. I hit it back about a foot but she went went down. the other deer allowed me to reload but when my used up shot gun primer hit the metal stand they looked up and saw me, taking off. 

 

Second year in a row I was successful with all 3 implements. Something I'd never done in 30 years of hunting. 

 

I'm done, gear frozen solid in the truck. Doe hanging in barn. 

 

I've had better years but my best season was always my last.... 

 

 

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