LIVE from the woods 2016 Edition! - 7th Year, lets make this happen...

[growalot]

Other than my not caring about Capitals and my using those ....you guys hate .....what did that mean?

[Paula]

31 minutes ago, growalot said:

..So deep snow knees a tad bothered..

 

This didn't look right. Sorry I was only picking. 

[upstate]

16 hours ago, germs087 said:

Sat out all day in this terrible weather and to my amazement had a good buck come in hot chasing a doe around 4:45. Of course he was dead down wind and picked up my scent but couldn't figure out where it was coming from due to the high winds. He froze for about 2 minutes behind a tree with only his back end exposed, meanwhile daylight is fading and I am waiting for him to split. He ended up turning to head back the way he came from and I squeezed off a shot. He was quartering away when I shot and I think I was aimed a bit back when I squeezed off the round. He fell over when I hit him and gathered himself and hastily walked away. There was OK blood for the first 100 yards or so and that fizzled out for about 100 yards when it picked back up and he entered a thicket. I decided to back out as I was not confident of the shot. I gave him about an hour after I shot before I tracked and hadn't come across a bed before he entered that thicket. My thought was to back out if I find a bed. He was dragging a leg on the far side of his body so that would lead me to believe the bullet likely entered mid body and hit the leg/shoulder on the way through. Thoughts? I am not sure what tomorrow will bring and honestly a little angry with myself I didn't make a better shot.

Anybody hear from germs?? 

[Huntscreek]

Still hunt offered nothing had my son out in front of me so if I kicked one up he could get a shot. Done for the day. Having hickory bacon wrapped tenderloin on the grill for dinner tonight.

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[turkeyfeathers]

Back at car. Things to do and can hunt all day tomorrow. Took a slow walk thru the white pines as I normally don't. Wind was perfect and snow was quiet. Hoping to bump one off a bed. No go on the deer sign but 5-6 coyotes had worked in there and recent. They had coyote trails. Went in with ML slung on shoulder and hand to hand hoping to see those stink dogs. 6 coyotes and 1 for each of them. No go


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[turkeyfeathers]

Picking grit near road


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[BizCT]

Looks like my dad is on the move to a different spot for afternoon. Just got this text from my cam.






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[germs087]

To update my hit from last night, started in on the trail again this morning around 10am. Found a bed 30 yards from where he entered the thicket I likely bumped him out of last night. Found a couple more beds in a different thicket not to far from the first, all appear to be from last night. Had to get permission to enter the neighbors property and after I picked up the trail headed down a snowmobile trail headed back to the area I shot he called and asked to wait until dark and he will run the wheeler back there. Darkness can't come soon enough.

[Deerstalker]

Well they went that away  could only hunt 2 hours today or i would of fellowed those tracks all day long 

[Bionic]

Im in 3k in a slight pinch transition, hoping to be a sniper in this spot I chose.  I have a sudden good feeling about tonight for agood legal buck.

 

good luck self, and all others.  

[growalot]

No need for sorry' s Paula...I knew what it read like,but was in a rush..headed out door now and needed to shower.  Though note what that comment brought out of its dark little hole, to like what  I'm sure was a perceived slam 

[Tughill Tamer]

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Out in the meadow stand in 6g hopeing to turn my luck around, my son seen 9 from here the other day but they were at the far end of the meadow about 300 yards out to far form him to feel comfortable with a shot. I hope there a little closer tonight, good luck to all

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[chrisw]

Passed up on 2 does on the walk in, 50 yds, no idea I was there. Watched them browse for a bit hoping a buck might be with them but no show. I'd have shot one but I don't feel like dragging through 2' of snow

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[turkeyfeathers]

7 minutes ago, chrisw said:

Passed up on 2 does on the walk in, 50 yds, no idea I was there. Watched them browse for a bit hoping a buck might be with them but no show. I'd have shot one but I don't feel like dragging through 2' of snow

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What ? Big does , pull the trigger. Suck it up man. Drag , get home and have a beer. Freezer filler. So a buck you'll have to drag thru 2' as well and you don't eat the horns. 

[Rockspek]

I have an excellent change in scenery thanks to Larry302. However... I seemed to have misplaced my atomic fireball. Hope a jawbreaker will do the trick. Tonight is going to be awesome. 

[moog5050]

11 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:

What ? Big does , pull the trigger. Suck it up man. Drag , get home and have a beer. Freezer filler. So a buck you'll have to drag thru 2' as well and you don't eat the horns. 

lol - didn't you pass a couple today?

[moog5050]

12 minutes ago, Rockspek said:

I have an excellent change in scenery thanks to Larry302. However... I seemed to have misplaced my atomic fireball. Hope a jawbreaker will do the trick. Tonight is going to be awesome. 

Good luck to you two.  I will never be invited back because of a coffee break so be careful on your movement.  lol

[turkeyfeathers]

5 minutes ago, moog5050 said:

lol - didn't you pass a couple today?

 

Dinks and a slam dunk. 2 dmps weren't getting filled with them. Lots of time left. But excuse of dragging thru snow is weak. Buck doesn't taste any better than a doe   

[Rockspek]

7 minutes ago, moog5050 said:

Good luck to you two.  I will never be invited back because of a coffee break so be careful on your movement.  lol

Lol. I heard about that. I'm sitting tight.  Saw four deer already or maybe two deer twice. I better take Larry's advice and put my phone away. 

[Bowshotmuzzleloader]

Well,,,, at least the snow stopped ended up with 24" but now they will stick out like a sore thumb ..

Thats the difference form East to West Lol any idea which way the storm came from ..

[Fletch]

Well I hit a different spot for evening and two sets track way up top. Then nothing the whole way in. I'm sitting here feeling very alone with no tracks for two days in all this snow!





Probably better off walking but about outa legal anyway.


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[chrisw]

What ? Big does , pull the trigger. Suck it up man. Drag , get home and have a beer. Freezer filler. So a buck you'll have to drag thru 2' as well and you don't eat the horns. 

I have 3 deer in my freezer already, I'm not hurting for venison. If I was I would have definitely shot one!

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[Core]

Hit the public land today 90 min after first light. Not many cars there (two, one of which had five people standing around it) and they were both gone by 10:00. Two more showed up by 2:00 but hundreds of acres to myself. I do mean literally to myself.

I walked off the road and then picked up tons upon tons of fresh tracks including pee spots, including blood spots (! Not many, but some deer was bleeding and I could not keep the trail as it was very little).

I walked for a good while and could not kick up a single animal nor see one. Where I was the wind was very light with a big hill to the west and water to the east with about a 100 yard corridor. It's a really nice corridor, but no loitering; everything was just trails.

I was going to sit in a field near the road until dusk, but that plan got canned for two reasons:
 

1. At 10:00 am I was happily traversing marsh I never could before in my nice high new swamptracker boots when I managed to step in quicksand and water just popped over the top so my feet were wet (not cold but gross)
2. Ignorantly, I bought a scope for my rifle that has no turret caps. This makes me a bad ass at the range playing around with it, but without caps my zero had been altered fiddling with the sling and having it over my back. I took a couple shots at a 50 yard target in the field to see if I had truly changed it and I had, so I had to go back to the range this afternoon to re-zero. I guess this is why people who hunt say get a scope with turret caps.

[Paula]

1 hour ago, moog5050 said:

lol - didn't you pass a couple today?

Not just today!

[Paula]

I left the stand and walked through woods to my car. I found one set of deer tracks. Fox tracks and a skunks tail