Bambi Whacking 2023-2024

[ironpony]

What about non trophy hunters?

Funny thing, the guy that brings horse feed has a spot and the guy that takes manure away has a spot. Both shotgun I believe. We ride the 4 miles of trails each day so hunting is limited. If more people here weren’t against horse people I might have put someone on a deer of their liking.
Good Luck all.

 

[newmuzzleloader]

Funny thing, the guy that brings horse feed has a spot and the guy that takes manure away has a spot. Both shotgun I believe. We ride the 4 miles of trails each day so hunting is limited. If more people here weren’t against horse people I might have put someone on a deer of their liking.
Good Luck all.

It all depends on the horse people. The horse people who keep their horses here are just fine with shooting going on around their horses. The more bomb proof the better.
The horse people who are neighbors are just plain Aholes who have complained about the hunting and shooting on MY property and have called the police on us for shooting.

 

[Archeryrob]

We had a horse for 10 years for my daughter growing up, a tobiano paint. She rode western and did the barrel thing. My friends are ropers and have the western mindset. I had a lady yelling at me one day for setting up a 12x12 sun roof and how "No horse could be around one of those." I yelled for my daughter and told her to bring her horse under and out of the sun and they both stayed under the roof. I told the lady if she conditioned her horses they might not be so crazy, like her.

The problem with people not liking "horse people" is their experience with them is the ones that act like big cat owners. The English riders are the worst, iMO. Entitled and think they can control everything as far as they see. Don't get me started on the fox chase group that thinks they can jump every property line and run a horse through what ever crops they want to also. As newmuzzlelaoder stated, there are crazy horse people making the entire rest of owners look like no one to be bothered with.

 

[RRomig]

I grew up with horses. Busting ice in the water tub and pulling bales before grade school in the dead of winter was great for learning work ethic. But as I got older my inner gear head came out and by 13 I was all about dirt bikes and had gotten away from horses. The biggest thing I ran into was a large percentage of the horse people gave us dirt bikers a very hard time for being out around them even though we were all trespassing. From growing up with horses I knew it’d be better to kill my engine and let them get by but still the majority felt the need to give me shyt. I don’t have a problem with horse people or any other group of people other than the group of assholes that are sprinkled in every demographic.

 

[Doco Overboard]

Youngins are starting to shoot them. They dont waste much time.

 

[outrider58]

Youngins are starting to shoot them. They dont waste much time.

Nice, get some!

 

[Doco Overboard]

Got it on camera to boot.
They love it, deer and waterfowl hunting.
I'm stuck with painting inside the house and eating ham sandwiches while they're out having a good ole time.
Wonderful day for it so they can go ahead all they can.
Maybe I can get out tomorrow afternoon or some other time.
Some others should be rolling in shortly I would think.
Maybe someone will show a good buck this weekend.
Lots of corn cutting underway around here.

 

[lazarus]

Got it on camera to boot.
They love it, deer and waterfowl hunting.
I'm stuck with painting inside the house and eating ham sandwiches while they're out having a good ole time.
Wonderful day for it so they can go ahead all they can.
Maybe I can get out tomorrow afternoon or some other time.
Some others should be rolling in shortly I would think.
Maybe someone will show a good buck this weekend.
Lots of corn cutting underway around here.

I've got a tacticam for my crossbow (yeah, I am "one of those" not using a real pointy stick thrower). I like it a lot. Downside is mine is the basic one, so only x3, not the nicer one that is 5x. It is enough to see what's happening at bow distances of 30yds and in, but 5x would be a lot better. Not great in really low light, which is what all of my shots with it have been so far. Good enough to generally see what happened though. Also at 1080p I think it is only 60fps? The nicer one I think does 4k, but will also do 120fps at 1080p, so a lot easier to see what is happening. At 60 frames a second and 20yds, you only get like 6-8 frames with the bolt actually in the video.

 

[BigCountry14]

Funny thing, the guy that brings horse feed has a spot and the guy that takes manure away has a spot. Both shotgun I believe. We ride the 4 miles of trails each day so hunting is limited. If more people here weren’t against horse people I might have put someone on a deer of their liking.
Good Luck all

Funny thing, the guy that brings horse feed has a spot and the guy that takes manure away has a spot. Both shotgun I believe. We ride the 4 miles of trails each day so hunting is limited. If more people here weren’t against horse people I might have put someone on a deer of their liking.
Good Luck all.

Ooooo we get to start the Horse people vs hunters debate again. My two biggest bucks were shot within 50 yards of our horses. One was actually shot across the pasture. Our horses could care less. I just can't get past the horse organizations vehemently fighting against me being able to hunt on my own property on Sundays, as if they have the right to determine that.

But like the other guys said, there's jackasses in every group, though I will put a trespassing poacher in their place everytime (and I'm currently waging that war near home).

 

[outrider58]

Funny thing, the guy that brings horse feed has a spot and the guy that takes manure away has a spot. Both shotgun I believe. We ride the 4 miles of trails each day so hunting is limited. If more people here weren’t against horse people I might have put someone on a deer of their liking.
Good Luck all.

 

[trailman]

I am pretty glad I overfilled my freezers this past season. I haven't had a serious thought about deer season this year till basically yesterday when I realized I should put my stand up. Too long of a tale, but my wife and I are getting divorced. Amicable adjacent I guess you could call it. I am pretty broken up and I doubt it is something we can fix. She has just decided she needs to walk a different path from me is the best summary. Anyway, still the mother of my kids and we've been best friends for the 18 years we have been together and I think that friendship can probably still stick.

Other than being distracted the last month and a half by that, pretty sure the house is going to get sold in the end. Which means no access to my own back 2 acres of wood creek bed and permissive neighbors and a high traffic deer corridor. So while it lasts, I need to get back out there! Ideally and whack one of those big bucks that do come through there. I got a monster 6 point last season out of no where, not even in my stand. Hopefully I can connect with one of the nice 8 or 10 points that sometimes come through there.

Not sure how much the divorce is going to impact my time in the stand. I have way too much vacation time built up because work has been crazy all spring and summer and a ton of extra hours. But it is quieting down. And the divorce is going to be as much twiddling thumbs as it is things to figure out and do. It is uncontested, so at least 6 months with the changes October 1. And the housing market is just appalling. We are on good enough terms that we will probably stick it out, either waiting on the divorce, or if we can share the house post divorce for a period of time, till the housing market improves some. It isn't just a money thing, if there are no houses to buy, its a little hard to do, and neither of us want to be back in apartment or have to move our kids out of their school district.

I am still kind of hoping my wife decides to keep the house in the end. Too much of a share on the internet, but financially that could probably be made to work for her, but not for me. If she keeps the house, I'd have enough for a down payment and the income for the mortgage, though really tight. She doesn't really want the big house and almost 5 acres though. What she isn't getting is if she sells it, the only houses on the market or recently on the market in this school district are all WAY out of her price range, even if she keeps most of the money from the house sale. Better to stick with the 2.98% mortgage if that is doable and the too big house and land. Even if it is just a few years.

Granted, that is as much that I like this house and it is big enough I could keep some of my stuff here and not need to worry about finding a place where I can store my trailer, camping gear, deer stand, etc. Plus enjoy the garden and orchard we put in and still be able to hunt it (again, this is pretty good terms and we are sharing kids. She has no concerns about letting me hunt here or us sharing the garden and stuff).

Anyway, what will be, will be. I have limited enough influence on how this ends up.

So, might as well make this a nice possibly final season of hunting here before I am back to only public land for probably a few years. As much as I do want to move on with my life, I wouldn't mind if we waited till next winter to finalize things or sell the house. One more hunting season and that much more time with my kids before my time gets halved. Or maybe even I can convince her to keep the house and at least be able to benefit from that for 7 more years till our youngest graduates high school (and then my wife would 100% for sure sell this house). Plus, hopefully more time for maybe interest rates to trend down a little and more people finally deciding to put their house on the market. I recognize my next place is unlikely to be my forever home. But I really don't want to take it on the nose both on the mortgage costs with current rates till I could refinance when rates go lower, plus having such limited options stuck with a place well less than ideal or ideally located. I still have to make my future and my kids' future a good one, so if I have to twiddle thumbs and tread water a few extra months living under the same roof as the mother of my kids, so be it.

PS And I can't quite give up fantasies she will change her mind and we can find a way to fix our marriage. But I think it's unlikely either that she will, or even if we did, if I would want it fixed in the end and not just move on myself.

PPS, also my oldest should have his drivers license by next fall. Neither of us want to move the kids during this school year, so the sale would likely not be before next summer at the earliest. But even just a few months difference I think makes everyone's life a lot easier. Less juggling with our oldest being able to drive to help out with whatever, rather than a single driver household and 3 kids half the time. At least it would be a 2 driver household whenever someone had the kids. Longer for, hopefully, rates to come down and more people putting houses on the market, and even though I only get to keep half, a little more time to be as frugal as possible and build up our savings for post divorce life.

I've recently walked in your shoes. I'm in the same boat, sitting on a pile of cash with no place to buy, in Frederick currently looking in PA. If you need a place to hunt contact me.

 

[trailman]

ALong the whacking lines, I need deer tails. I'm in a F&I group and we are going to do the upcoming Revwar events. Portraying Morgans rifleman. I need about 20 deer tails (our guys says it's for the hats) and there is no way I'd shoot that many in time. PM me if you can help. I;d say just cut it off and throw it in a baggie in the freezer. I'm in Frederick.

 

[cww]

Most hunters aren’t “against” horse people, they are just tired of the small vocal anti hunting horse people dictating what others can do on private property and when despite thinking they can do whatever wherever.
I actually hunted a working boarding horse and ag farm for years. Hunters had specific times of the day they could hunt and riders had times they could ride. Was a nice agreement for all involved and a smart way to get all aspects handled to the benefit of all

 

[308Scout]

Most hunters aren’t “against” horse people, they are just tired of the small vocal anti hunting horse people dictating what others can do on private property and when despite thinking they can do whatever wherever.
I actually hunted a working boarding horse and ag farm for years. Hunters had specific times of the day they could hunt and riders had times they could ride. Was a nice agreement for all involved and a smart way to get all aspects handled to the benefit of all

Yep - the type of horse people that will go "riding" on a public road and then give attitude when you get too close for their liking as they significantly impede you on your way (i.e., 5 MPH on a 30 MPH road). I always give an extra long honk of the horn when I get that look.

 

[outrider58]

Most hunters aren’t “against” horse people, they are just tired of the small vocal anti hunting horse people dictating what others can do on private property and when despite thinking they can do whatever wherever.
I actually hunted a working boarding horse and ag farm for years. Hunters had specific times of the day they could hunt and riders had times they could ride. Was a nice agreement for all involved and a smart way to get all aspects handled to the benefit of all

Horse people are like cyclists. Half are good people. Half are asholes.

 

[outrider58]

Acorns are a'droppin. Time to switch over to October patterns(which can mean no pattern at all). It is a transitional period.

 

[[Kev308]]

sounds like I have a chance

 

[GutPile]

Most hunters aren’t “against” horse people, they are just tired of the small vocal anti hunting horse people dictating what others can do on private property and when despite thinking they can do whatever wherever.
I actually hunted a working boarding horse and ag farm for years. Hunters had specific times of the day they could hunt and riders had times they could ride. Was a nice agreement for all involved and a smart way to get all aspects handled to the benefit of all

It’s not really a horse thing as much as a wealthy/politically connected liberal with all the hangups and issues that class brings to the table with anything even loosely related to firearms and property rights of the poors. Which is how the nut job english horse lady next door addresses me as one of the poors she looks down upon. “How dare you hunt your property within a mile of my precious horses”. A lot of the other horse people i know who are not lefties talk smack about her and her husband which always cracks me up.

 

[308Scout]

I finally got out to scout a new ground blind location this AM after being behind my normal curve thus far this year.. The blind is officially up and cameras are going up tomorrow AM. My first hunt will likely be next weekend. This is the first year that I've not hunted in September. This weather is starting to feel just about right for getting out.

 

[308Scout]

Heading out nice and early tomorrow morning to get the season underway, and likely Monday as well. Weather is looking good and looking even better on Monday AM.

The mast crop has been huge here this year. I've set up the blind accordingly.