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


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18 degrees yesterday and no wind. Never once put my gloves on. Today was 23 and perfect wind direction... was freezing my ass off less than an hour into the sit. Had to move my chair three times to find some relief from the blasted wind. Called it quits at 9:30, wind was just brutal. 

 

Good news is i secured nearly 2500 acres of farm land (3 different owners) for next year and it only cost me a backstrap from this years harvest :)

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I'm out of likes so Thanks for the likes everyone.

Walking in at first light and it was staring at me from the Hemlocks. 30 yards, perfect heart shot. Unfortunately it was a button but my buddy's Dad was very thankful as I tagged it and gave it to him. He had only seen 1 deer, a doe, all season and missed. Now he has some tender meat to enjoy. 

Good luck to everyone this afternoon

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Wrapped up my 2016 regular season this morning.  Saw whopping total of 8 deer, no horns, all season on raised my gun only once.  Truly a season to forget the weather roller-coaster, lack of mast in our area a long with not enough acreage access all combined to sink me.  On to smoke pole season where I fully expect the trend to continue. I am looking forward to flintlock season back in PA since I didn't make it home for rifle this year, there is hope there for sure. 

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Great sit..not a deer seen but I have to say cold!,windy!Christmas snow making me look like a Snowmabs. All that and it was the most relaxing sit I've had all season...just sitting back in a stand I haven't used this year enjoying the winter beauty of our land. A few shots heard and several that very last minute of the season. In the most part,deer beat me this season...That's what makes hunting worth coming back to for me...knowing you can't win every game...If you could,why bother.

 

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3 hours ago, Zem18 said:

I'm out of likes so Thanks for the likes everyone.

Walking in at first light and it was staring at me from the Hemlocks. 30 yards, perfect heart shot. Unfortunately it was a button but my buddy's Dad was very thankful as I tagged it and gave it to him. He had only seen 1 deer, a doe, all season and missed. Now he has some tender meat to enjoy. 

Good luck to everyone this afternoon

Go back and get that liver if the foxes have not already snatched it up.  That right there is about as good of eating as you will find in a wild animal, just one notch below moose tongue.   

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Alarm went off, checked the temp, and my feet and hands said to my brain, "If you even try it today, we will stop working!", so I went back to bed.

Hoping the snow we have coming will get them moving a bit more and get out with the bow a few more times.

 

Congrats to those who got it done on the final day of gun season.

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seasons over. 1 small doe in freezer to show for it. i hunted 16 days between bow and gun and I saw more bucks this year than I've ever seen but none of them having 3 points or better on 1 side I need .

feel I'm gonna have to go cross country if I ever want one on my wall... depressing

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Well, I can't complain. I did kill my Buckest Buck ever this year despite the ensuing drama and loss of meat. Took a half hearted shot at a Doe this moring but missed. Knocked some belly fluff off her. I am not feeling the absolute need to fill the freezer. I have 2 doe tags but generally have been not wanting to shoot doe for a few seasons now. I will see how I feel about taking out the bow again over the next week but I suspect I am done. Already dreaming about next years Bow season!

The plan now is to try and catalogue Bucks that made it. I haven't seen any afield or on cam all gun season. It's been a weird one.

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