Dan, we still need to get that cup of coffee, got to chasing trophy bluecats and forgot about it. Good luck if you get out!

Paul, same hear bud might have to start wearing hip waders to check my cams, lol. Haven't been able to hunt this guy all week because of the wind and watching from a distance seen him by my stand three times. Should be good tomorrow though!

 

Out in the daylight! Any updates Michael???

Tracy

Wow!! What a buck. Good luck

Sweet buck Tracy!

Tracy, don't be shooting my deer! That's Ole' Moose and I've been hand feeding him all summer!

You might know him as Bullwinkle!

Yup Tracy. . . though if I had a buck like that figured out I may not have much time for coffee!        

Go get him. . . we'll connect soon.

Dan

Beautiful morning, little fog nice and cool.



How's the hunt going Michael???

Tracy

Good luck guys.....

,,Sam,,

Good Luck Michael, Hope you have a  good update.

Whew I'm in a tree again it's pretty warm tonight! Haven't hunted since Thursday. I'll be traveling up into Kansas for day hunts until Oklahoma's opener October 1st

...I ended up seeing 4 does tonight but they were right across the fence on private land at about 25-30 yards so no shot. Glad to see some deer though.

I'll be there in November. I love my Kansas trips. Spring and fall.

Good luck sir.

Well looks like in in the K.S.Trapper area as I live in Douglass and hunt in Cowley county so Hope everyone has a good season. Been a bunch of nice bucks crossing our place hoping for cooler weather. Paul we've had around 14" down here.

That's a lot of rain Joe. Glad to hear that you are seeing deer.
My county's deer population still hasn't recovered from that EHD that went through a few years back. Nobody is seeing nothing from folks that I've talked to. It seems that east of 75 and north of 70 was the area hit hardest.

The whole eastern side of KS suffered through the blue tounge out break. If you read the reviews and reports from the Fish and game they said Douglas and Franklin Co. We're the worst but I don't believe it. Everyone I talked to through out the state was finding dead deer in numbers.

It's not over yet, it's always been here and deer are still dying and deer are still being found that died. I have seen several in person mostly large bucks but I've also seen survivors, there hooves will look funny and some look like there shedding there hooves. Biologists list this as they lived through stage 2 of EHD.

It was a tuff few years, and we found (smelled) many dead bucks and does while running our cams and hunting. But I dare say which county got it worse. Just hope it dosent hit us again like that for a long, long time.

Tracy

Just curious is there any relationship between man made feeding sites and blue tongue?  I have heard that the disease is spread thru contact with infected surfaces.  I do not know if that is true.

EHD or blue tounge is not new, it has always been around, I remember reading about it when I was young. It is passed from a midge in the water that they drink in contaminated pools of water. Drought years are the worst I know that and I'm not a biologist just what I have read. I'm sure somebody will correct me if I've posted anything wrong.

Tracy

Good luck Michael have fun,thank for taking us along.