Thanks! Indeed it will be good!Nice freezer stuffer wil!
Yeah! ridiculous! Ive talked to people and they say they cant ever remember it snowing this early and this much!Damn Wil, snow already!
Good job on the deer
Yes indeed! Thanks guys! I put the tenderloins in a 15bean soup and it was delicious!Nice food for the freezer.
Congrats!
Thanks! Indeed it will be good!
Yeah! ridiculous! Ive talked to people and they say they cant ever remember it snowing this early and this much!
Yes indeed! Thanks guys! I put the tenderloins in a 15bean soup and it was delicious!
Went out for the first time yesterday this season and first time ever on public land. Didn't see anything though I think it was the rain - thought it was light enough and had the time to get out. Still fun though.
Question though - any tips for public land? New experience for me and when I got out there I realized how ignorant I am.
sounds really good!I like to grill my tenderloin in a mesquite smoke. Cook it slow. When it's half way done, I cover it in onions and wrap it in foil until it falls apart.
Then I really like red potatoes hand mashed in a garlic cheese butter I get from Wegman's.
Talk about a feast for a king!
carefully follow some hunters and go about 50-100yds further than they do...thats where the deer will beWent out for the first time yesterday this season and first time ever on public land. Didn't see anything though I think it was the rain - thought it was light enough and had the time to get out. Still fun though.
Question though - any tips for public land? New experience for me and when I got out there I realized how ignorant I am.
Nice fat doe! Yum!1st deer of the season. Hunting near Tulsa, OK all week, then a few days near San Antonio next week. Feels good to have some goodies for the freezer again!
So, I am thinking out loud on a forum here. I went by Patuxent. I setup my stand really late, around 4:30 at the choke point I saw a 6-point at last year about the same time. Not, I wasn't really expecting to come across the same deer a year apart after being in a stand for 2 hours. Anyway, last year a lot of the fields were corn and harvested early. This year, it looks like everything around there is planted with soy and nothing has been harvested yet.
I feel like that is going to give deer less reason to migrate between the pockets of woods between bedding and feeding during the day (choke point is at the river, narrow neck between a couple of really big wooded lots, hundreds of acres each, soybean fields all around them).
Puzzling through in my mind though, 2 years ago I ran in to a couple of does and bumped a few others on a creek bottom and backside of the hill across from the nearest fields (nothing planted for the park or nearby farms anywhere else close, except that one field). That year the corn was still standing during early muzzleloader.
I am wondering if that same area that was hot 2 years ago might be this year (last year when everything was harvested there was NOTHING in that same area. Didn't even bump anything).
Food pretty near by (maybe 1/3rd of a mile away) and no high protein/calorie source anywhere else close, but still some good cover (the creek bottom) and also pines and dense forest a little further than that.
I realize without cameras or some serious scouting it is just a guess. Mostly just seeing if the hunter inteligencia here thinks I might be on to something and should try pursuing it, or if I am shooting in the dark (pardon the pun).
I've got 3 days and I'll figure it out I am sure. I hate sitting in a stand all day and I probably won't setup the exact same place twice (but I might, dunno. I guess it depends on how lucky I feel or what kind of signs I can find). But I am thinking of setting up midway down that hill opening day where I've seen several trails in years past and run in to a number of does.
Also semi-related question. Anyone ever have luck calling anything in? Anything work better during mid/late October? For giggles (and probably scaring everything away, except that F-ing squirrel that was laughing at me in the tree 10 feet from me) I tried a few doe bleats, one or two every 5-10 minutes for about the last 45 before I climbed down and beat feet back to my car. My neighbor mentioned he almost never calls, but he has a few times and managed to call a small buck in a number of years ago (said it scared the crap out of him because it appeared 10 yards from him running up and he fumbled his rifle).
Got another doe on the evening hunt today. I live in Vegas now & not sure whether I'll get another hunt this year so trying to make the most of this trip.
Ive had small bucks come running to calls in late Oct, early Nov. Ive also had mature bucks not even bat an eye at calls in the same time frame. Ive never taken one as a result of calling.It's hard to say if calling got me many deer or not. I usually hit a call every 30 min or so. I don't have any reason to believe it's hurt me. I credit a call last year with having a buck come into my zone. I hit the call a couple times and five minutes later, I had a young buck standing directly under me looking furious--stamping the ground, tail wagging like a crazy dog, etc. He was looking for a rival buck.