CVA Optima? I have the same thing.
I went out this morning and didnt see anything. I really want to be in the stand right now but i have to go to work
CVA wolf. Out now with my oldest in a blind with my crossbow.
CVA Optima? I have the same thing.
I went out this morning and didnt see anything. I really want to be in the stand right now but i have to go to work
CVA wolf. Out now with my oldest in a blind with my crossbow.
CVA wolf. Out now with my oldest in a blind with my crossbow.
Get off yer duff and get out there and kill something!
Excellent work! Any dead deer is a good deer. Congrats G&R!He shoots, he scores. Just checked in this lil' feller. Next time, be more specific!
Time we'll spent brother. You're making great memories for that young man.Nothing while we were in the blind. 4 deer on the pipeline afterward. 1 right at the edge of the woods and pipeline, in off limits area. Then one across the street in a lawn 50yds from the parking area. Lastly 2 back on the pipeline right where we had been walking 5 minutes before.
It’s how it breaks, but he seemed to enjoy himself and at least he got to see deer. He was all sniffles though. Hard for a 9yr old to stay quiet in the blind with a runny nose. He’s at that age where I want to start getting him involved in hunting. This fall I’ll probably take him to Greenridge to go camping and squirrel hunting, well hunting companion. I am thinking 2019 will be getting him his apprentice license so he can be the shooter squirrel hunting and if he wants deer hunting. 50/50 he’ll be with me at the CCGC New Year’s Day shoot. Looking like it’ll be damn cold, so he may stay at home instead of trying to shoot a round.
Excellent work! Any dead deer is a good deer. Congrats G&R!
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Not fox, they have relatively dainty feet. That’s a big dog or a coyote/coywolfe. Really large track.I suppose it could be a large dog. But I have never seen one wondering around before. Not to say it isn’t possible.
He shoots, he scores. Just checked in this lil' feller. Next time, be more specific!
Very nice. Nice spread, tine length, and decent brow tines. Well done. Sadly, I wussed out today due to cold. When my Father called today I was in a toasty warm bed, and not about to get out. Total sissy, but a warm sissy I suppose.He shoots, he scores. Just checked in this lil' feller. Next time, be more specific!
Very nice. Nice spread, tine length, and decent brow tines. Well done. Sadly, I wussed out today due to cold. When my Father called today I was in a toasty warm bed, and not about to get out. Total sissy, but a warm sissy I suppose.
Well done to everyone that just went out today, and congrats to all that scored!
Eff that! Don't get sad. Get mad! Kill something. Never give up!
I missed my "target buck" two days ago. I refused to feel bad about the shot or the miss. Season's still rolling. You have just as much chance now as you did when you missed. Next time, don't miss...
I didn't.
Coywolf. They say they get to around 80 lbs.
This video was back in 2014 and specifically deals with them in the state of New York. There have been reports of them in Cecil and Harford County that I know of, probably other counties in Maryland too. I thought I saw one when we first moved into our house. The property was part of about 400 acres of no man's land. Nothing done to the property for hundreds of years. I'm attributing the lack of deer to this animal in my area. In years past we would see deer everyday in my back yard. This year, I've probably seen less than 20 the entire year (January 1st to December 30th). In my 5 years that's a drastic drop in sightings. Trail camera hasn't shown many at night either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd18fLEf_Cw
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Not fox, they have relatively dainty feet. That’s a big dog or a coyote/coywolfe. Really large track.
I cannot rule this out. Like I said earlier in this thread, the deer have completely disappeared from my property. Very unusual. They are typically out every day and night. I shot one at the middle of rifle season and then they all left. I found an entire rib cage on my hill not long after that. Thought it was very strange.
These tracks are big. No dogs wondering around that I have ever seen. Whatever it was it walked up the driveway, walked around the back yard and up onto the porch. Then up the hill into the woods. Didn’t follow tracks past my property but there are very heavy woods for miles behind my property.
The animal came between 5 am when I left and 12:30 when I got home from work. No tracks were in the driveway snow when I left.
Same here. My woods were loaded with deer up to two years ago and now its a ghost town. I know for a fact there was a coyote less than 5 miles away from my house last year but i havent seen anything on our cameras.
I'd love to putt a camera on a gut pile or caracass, and may have to do that soon. Also new to me this year was how fast one of our gut piles was eaten. My neighbor shot a deer and gutted it at about 8am. When we walked back into the woods at 3pm it was completely gone! That was a first for me and i still wonder what the heck ate the enitre gut pile from a large deer during day light hours in less than 8 hours.
I shot a deer x-bow hunting at the River Road area of Patapsco about 6 or 7 years ago, 35 yd shot, it ran 25 yds and died in plain site behind me to the right as I was in my tree. I watched it die, on its side (white belly facing me). I gave it the customary 30 min before I climbed down. When I walked over to it, the deer (busted up buck with only antler bases left and a giant stupid-looking overbite) it was “sitting up” kinda like it was sleeping with its head down-forward, looked lke it was alive. Now, I watched it die on its side with my binocs only 30 min earlier. I also then noticed that there was white and brown fur spread everywhere, and the deer’s tail was completely gone, only a bloody couple bone fragments left. The a-hole had been eaten into, and a big chunk of rump roast was chewed off. The damn thing was still hot.Same here. My woods were loaded with deer up to two years ago and now its a ghost town. I know for a fact there was a coyote less than 5 miles away from my house last year but i havent seen anything on our cameras.
I'd love to putt a camera on a gut pile or caracass, and may have to do that soon. Also new to me this year was how fast one of our gut piles was eaten. My neighbor shot a deer and gutted it at about 8am. When we walked back into the woods at 3pm it was completely gone! That was a first for me and i still wonder what the heck ate the enitre gut pile from a large deer during day light hours in less than 8 hours.
I shot a deer x-bow hunting at the River Road area of Patapsco about 6 or 7 years ago, 35 yd shot, it ran 25 yds and died in plain site behind me to the right as I was in my tree. I watched it die, on its side (white belly facing me). I gave it the customary 30 min before I climbed down. When I walked over to it, the deer (busted up buck with only antler bases left and a giant stupid-looking overbite) it was “sitting up” kinda like it was sleeping with its head down-forward, looked lke it was alive. Now, I watched it die on its side with my binocs only 30 min earlier. I also then noticed that there was white and brown fur spread everywhere, and the deer’s tail was completely gone, only a bloody couple bone fragments left. The a-hole had been eaten into, and a big chunk of rump roast was chewed off. The damn thing was still hot.
I never did see any other animal there, and didn’t monitor the thing laying there the whole time, but something started eating my buck almost instantly, and what was pretty much directly in view. Whatever this thing was it was strong enough to pick up a 125 lb (dressed) deer from its sprawled-out side and position it in the “bedded” position. Back then I guessed coyote. Wasn’t ruling out a black bear as they’ve been spotted in Patapsco a few times. Or perhaps Chupacabra or Bigfoot?? Very weird.
I’ve left plenty of deer in fox-infested woods overnight and retrieved them the next morning with no damage. Had to run crows off a few times, luckily before they got on it. This incident was strange and I’ve never heard any story like it.