2018-19 Bambi Whacking

lazarus · Dec 30, 2018

Congrats! Friday looks like rainy weather. I should still be headed out. I just might be sheltered in a portable blind most of the day. Saturday looks great (if warm). Hopefully I’ll have some luck.

There were 11 of them in that little field right by the High’s station on 144 by the fair grounds. Stopping to get a six pack on the way to a friend’s for dinner and all those does were just milling around 80yds away.

Shame.

onedash · Jan 1, 2019

He finally slipped up. Nice way to start the year!

BigCountry14 · Jan 1, 2019

onedash said:
He finally slipped up. Nice way to start the year!

Nice job! Congrats!

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lazarus · Jan 3, 2019

I am headed to the Eastern Shore, Salisbury area to hunt tomorrow and Saturday. Western HoCo is my residence. Suggestions if I get a deer Friday morning? If I drive it straight back after checking out if the hotel I figure a bag of ice in the chest cavity and throw a garbage bag cut open as a tarp and blanket over it (in the trunk of my car). Or would a Mylar blanket work better (have a couple in my car)?

Temps low 50s and overcast the later part of the day. What if I was going to stay the night and hunt Saturday? Take it to a butcher out there (not driving 5hrs round trip to drop it off at my butcher near my house and then back out)? If so any suggestions by Easton? That’s at least only 90 minutes from my house. Any ideas if a butcher out there might let me pay to hang my deer for a day in their freezer?

Just thinking that if I get one Friday night, I may like to try to hunt till noon the next day before packing it up.

Thanks and good luck to all hunting the late season.

Mike3888 · Jan 3, 2019

Frase's meat shop. Preston Md. Not far from Easton. 1-410-673-7249

Doco Overboard · Jan 3, 2019

You can go to Kramer’s on rt 14 Mt Holley rd Springdale and put it in the cold box.

lazarus · Jan 3, 2019

Doco Overboard said:
You can go to Kramer’s on rt 14 Mt Holley rd Springdale and put it in the cold box.

Thanks!

If anyone needs it later hey are 5727 Mt Holly Rd East New Market. Spoke to someone there $10 a day to hang in their freezer. Dang decent and right near where I am hunting.

Thanks Doco!

wilcam47 · Jan 3, 2019

season is over for us and this guy shows up two days later...of course at night...First time Ive seen him.

Mike3888 · Jan 3, 2019

Doco Overboard said:
You can go to Kramer’s on rt 14 Mt Holley rd Springdale and put it in the cold box.

I know where Kramer’s is. It’s like 5 minutes from my farm off Thompsontown Rd. Never knew he was set up for that.

Doco Overboard · Jan 3, 2019

Mike3888 said:
I know where Kramer’s is. It’s like 5 minutes from my farm off Thompsontown Rd. Never knew he was set up for that.

If you get there late and the lights are dim, just look for the truck body to the left of the entrance, grab a plastic bag by the cutting room door and put your tag/info inside the carcass.

When you turn in by the sign from the road, drive back the little lane to the back and pull right up.....if your still on Thompsontown, then head over to Johnny's in ENM for a cold one. You should be seeing some good sika over in there. We started killing them around that way in the mid-late 90's when they just broke out from across 50.

Mike3888 · Jan 3, 2019

Good to know, we have seen a few on property but nothing like the maple dam road farm. You’d probably know that place.

Doco Overboard · Jan 3, 2019

Mike3888 said:
Good to know, we have seen a few on property but nothing like the maple dam road farm. You’d probably know that place.

I know folks who own land/farms over that way (TT) and used to hunt a lot around in there. Maple Dam too. See Balvin on the Rhodesdale Vienna rd for grain, it's always there during daylight/dusk.

lazarus · Jan 3, 2019

Doco Overboard said:
If you get there late and the lights are dim, just look for the truck body to the left of the entrance, grab a plastic bag by the cutting room door and put your tag/info inside the carcass.

When you turn in by the sign from the road, drive back the little lane to the back and pull right up.....if your still on Thompsontown, then head over to Johnny's in ENM for a cold one. You should be seeing some good sika over in there. We started killing them around that way in the mid-late 90's when they just broke out from across 50.

Checked out A couple of the areas you suggested. I got there too late in the day to explore much. I am going to try nanticoke River in the morning as I know where to setup at least. I may hike back and move over to one area, N Green Hill, to still hunt for the day and if I find an evening setup spot I’ll stay the whole day.

No clue what I am going to do Saturday. Looks like light rain most of the day. If I don’t get lucky Friday I may do nanticoke River again and setup somewhere in my ground blind all day.

lazarus · Jan 3, 2019

Also I thought everything near me was soaked from all this rain, everywhere I go seems to be a soggy spunge if not flooded

Glad I brought my stool. No sitting directly on the ground for me!

gwchem · Jan 3, 2019

Oh man. I just used my new jerky gun for the first time. Now it's time to go get more deer!!!

onedash · Jan 4, 2019

Anyone feed deer roasted soybeans? Where can you buy them?

lazarus · Jan 4, 2019

Nothing stirring out there today other than a shite load of other hunters. May call it quits and skip the last day as it looks like rain until 4 or so. But I’ll wait till morning to call it. I’ve got enough in the freezer and I don’t plan to walk around in a drenching rain nor hike a mile to setup my ground blind and sit in the rain all day.

I’ve got a place or two to check out on my way home if I do chicken out. Places I’ve seen but never scouted.

Melnic · Jan 4, 2019

Skunked again tonight
Squirrels at my feeder and one of the foxes strolled by.

I did not hear any shots nearby so I was not alone

I’ll venture out again tomorrow night .

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engineerbrian · Jan 4, 2019

Melnic said:
Skunked again tonight
Squirrels at my feeder and one of the foxes strolled by.

I did not hear any shots nearby so I was not alone

I’ll venture out again tomorrow night .

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Same here but i got a front row seat watching a hawk swoop in and kill a squirrel that was eating corn from the feeder. The hawk sat there for 10 minutes or so before leaving with the squirrel.

lazarus · Jan 4, 2019

I heard a few shots, but a tiny number compared to what I heard last tome
I was here. I’ll grant you the last time some of that could have been duck hunters too.

Still, seemed quiet and little was stirring. Also I should have made tome to scout Nanticoke River WMA. They clear cut about 15% of the woods since I was last here. Threw me off and I got disoriented in the dark. Ended up sitting the morning not anywhere near where I intended to. Still hunted a few hours and about 100-150yds from where I had planned to sit I found a bedding area with at least 5 fresh beds, 2 HUGE beds and 3 smaller ones (and 2 maybes? Or they changed their mind).

Maybe it was from earlier in the week.

If the weather isn’t too bad I am headed back there. If it is crappy, I’ll check out Linkwood on my way home.

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