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


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4 hours ago, turkeyfeathers said:

Made some hellish drives thru snow lately but I don't do ice.Freezing rain at 32 degrees.  Got dressed , drove 4 blocks and came back home. Gear off , on couch watching tv for a few hours. Slid thru 2 stop signs. On a straight away I gave it a little gas and almost went sideways. No sit it in the woods is worth driving on ice in the hills for. Careful everyone  and hope to join you later 

Good move ! At 2:00 AM we cut two people out of their rolled car on 490 .

I caught a "day" ot Sat. and the drive in at 6:30 was about the worst I've driven in , in sometime good thing not much traffic on Sat . mornings .

Keep the shiny side up !

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Bagged it for today. Started pouring and I don't have a shed in the woods to hide in and my clothes are soaked almost to my base layer.  The fog was awful. Clear for a few minutes, then wind would gust and could see maybe 20ft in front of you. Only two of us but we both said no more for safety reasons and drier conditions. 

Buddy came across a dead doe just over the poster line. She was a big girl but think she was a little bloated. Blood trail ran across the ridge from other property within 10 yards of the line. Weird thing is, it wasn't her trail. It was another deers trail that went right past her. I think she came up afterwards and bedded there and died. She was shot in the brisket area. 

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1 hour ago, vizslas said:

yuck the ice monster. i went to Wyoming county yesterday morning.You can drive in snowy windy conditions, well a couple people could not  ha-ha dumb asses piled up on the thruway. Anyway i have a metal detector and  i think i should find the bullet that exited through the sternum of the buck i dropped last week. I think i saw the spot where it went in now that i think about it and went over it in my head. Then get the oil changed today at two o'clock then i am off to try again . going to sit in my hut for the last hour. and try to stay away from spooking anything making its way to the field.

That is interesting about the metal detector.  I was thinking the same thing about a bullet that exited out of the neck of a buck I shot from the other end (no entrance hole was required), up in the Adirondacks on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  I saved the empty 30/06 casing and I would like to find that bullet and fasten it on a board along with the casing, and the buck's cool-looking, reddish-colored, 6-point rack.  It should not be buried too deep in the ground, having spent most of it's energy traveling lengthwise thru the deer, and I know right about where it hit.  It was definitely a shot that does not come around more than once in several lifetimes, so finding that bullet would be cool.   The copper jacket should show up pretty good on a metal detector.  The exit hole in the hide was about 3/4" diameter.

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Last sit of the season! Sad:( ... I did end up with an awesome buck this year and lots of good stories. And at least I'll get to sleep in next wkend!! Can't wait for spring. Food plots,fishing, turkey hunting! Well it's been fun everyone. This thread will soon fade away as less people take to the woods. It already has been. Looking forward to talking to everyone next season! Have a safe and productive off season. 

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Put on a few miles after lunch. Lots of tracks from the night prior nothing fresh. Put up an owl and a grouse. The grouse about gave me a seizure.
Back in the tower for last watch. Lake effect coming down. Wind was howling but seems to be letting up some.


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So my dad dropped me off today. He retires in a week and will be spending the fall/winter in florida . He won't be hunting anymore , I made a point to thank him for 25 years as my hunting partner and mentor . I had to keep it short and sweet ,I know it was emotional for me and i could tell it as for him a little bit. We never really express feelings like that ,never have. 

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