LIVE From The Woods 2018 - Lets hear stories and see some pictures!

[Steuben Jerry]

19 minutes ago, UpStateRedNeck said:

Opted for the portable chair looking over that south face.  I don't ground sit much, but this is where the deer are.  Light south wind light lake effect in my face.  I really like this panorama option on this pixel 3.

Cool pic!

[Fletch]

After the morning watch took off a few layers and took a loooong walk in 3 Rivers. Lots tracks, snow had a frozen layer on top which kinda killed the still hunt but I tried.

Hit home and dried the clothes and eased into the deep hole stand. Not many tracks but I’m pretty sure I heard one bump right before I got to stand.

Hoping a pig doe decides to come by.


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[mlammerhirt]

Back in for the late afternoon watch in 9h.....fresh tracks all around are a welcoming sign.

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[BowmanMike]

Hunting the wonderland,come on bucky!!!

[UpStateRedNeck]

C'mon magic hour!  My 2 outer layers are soaked, been snowing since noon.  Visibility is down to 100.  Too much to ask for nice weather one flipping day .

[Nomad]

This has been the most boring sit in the history of deer hunting , two hours not one deer !

This had better change !

[UpStateRedNeck]

Oh good, fog, that should help !

[PooperScooper]

This stand has been iced over since opening of gun season. After fighting my way through a frozen crater filled moonscape I’m sitting in it anyway. I need a deicing system.


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[Bionic]

Another full day, no legal bucks.  Just the 6 does from this AM.  Found some rubs on a still hunt out.

[Chef]

Brad found the culprit.  Lol.  Horny little guy.   

You really shouldn’t talk about biz like that


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[Zag]

Hunted back yard for a bit tonight, had two bucks sparring in the field for awhile, one looked like a solid 8pt and other about a 6pt, they went after it for awhile then the smaller one went after the few does in the field.

[turkeyfeathers]

Few minutes before closing time I had been watching 5 skippers in the big plot   So I climbed down and cut the distance from 225 to about 50-60 yards hoping some maternal guidance would show. No such luck. Used a hedgerow to sneak in as cover.  

[Steve D]

Decided to change things up for the afternoon sit. Sat until dark and didn't see any deer but did have a visitor. I purposely stayed after dark and called with a mouth call trying to entice a coyote to come in to no avail.

I made it a point to take the thermal with me and saw/counted 13 deer on the way out. Probably some I missed but I guess we can say it's official. They are moving after dark.....at least here.

 

Edited November 30, 2018 by Steve D

[BizCT]

Few minutes before closing time I had been watching 5 skippers in the big plot   So I climbed down and cut the distance from 225 to about 50-60 yards hoping some maternal guidance would show. No such luck. Used a hedgerow to sneak in as cover.  

5 fawns were together?


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[Robhuntandfish]

Out in am and the Bushmaster gonna bark!  Got to break it in on a deer!

Sitting on pond edge where we've been seeing bucks and rubs. 

Gonna be a good day!

[Shadd Rapp]

Doe down!


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[goosifer]

22 minutes ago, Steve D said:

Decided to change things up for the afternoon sit. Sat until dark and didn't see any deer but did have a visitor. I purposely stayed after dark and called with a mouth call trying to entice a coyote to come in to no avail.

I made it a point to take the thermal with me and saw/counted 13 deer on the way out. Probably some I missed but I guess we can say it's official. They are moving after dark.....at least here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What device are you using and how/when do you use it? I bought a FLIR Scout II 240 Thermal Imager last year, and try to use it in the 30 minutes before sunrise to see if there is anything out there. Haven't had any success with it. Maybe the terrain I scan is too thick with brush vs. open fields or mature woods.

[Fletch]

6 minutes ago, Shadd Rapp said:

Doe down!


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good job!! She has a real black stained up hock!

[turkeyfeathers]

19 minutes ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

 

5 fawns were together?


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Within 10 of each other yards all digging in turnips and radishes. 

[Paula]

31 minutes ago, Steve D said:

Decided to change things up for the afternoon sit. Sat until dark and didn't see any deer but did have a visitor. I purposely stayed after dark and called with a mouth call trying to entice a coyote to come in to no avail.

I made it a point to take the thermal with me and saw/counted 13 deer on the way out. Probably some I missed but I guess we can say it's official. They are moving after dark.....at least here.

 

What is that in the last pic? Is that it's leg?

[Nomad]

. First on drive down see 4 running out of a field by my spot, stop watch them cross road,blow through a bean field cross next road .

Sit 2:30 to 4:45 ish zero deer ,but lots of fresh tracks around.

Walk out of woods, next to woods is about 100:yard wide hay field then standing corn, something is blowing at me from corn.

Turn right  walk a couple hundred yards come to another crop field ,3 more way off halling a$$ around end of standing corn .

Typical for the time of year, they’re not tolerant of much and will run a mile crossing two,three roads , at the sight of a guy .

Also about the only gun sit I recall that I didn’t see a deer on watch .

Gotta get my daughter one Monday .....

[Bionic]

24 minutes ago, Paula said:

What is that in the last pic? Is that it's leg?

Looks like a oppossum lol

[UpStateRedNeck]

Skunked.  Saw a couple deer well past dark about 300 yards away in the fog.  Turns out my scope had fogged up!

 

Edit:. It was foggy AND my scope had fogged up, temp started climbing and the scope cover kept the moisture in.

Edited December 1, 2018 by UpStateRedNeck

[BizCT]

Within 10 of each other yards all digging in turnips and radishes. 

Crazy. No Moms = dead Moms?


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[Steve D]

1 hour ago, Paula said:

What is that in the last pic? Is that it's leg?

If you look in the very center of the picture it is a possum. He climbed up the back side of the tree I was in, climbed to the top and was eating dried up frozen wild grapes. He ate what was on that vine, climbed over to the next one, and ate what was there. Pretty entertaining for a slow deer afternoon.