When a doe gets hot, so does the hunting

[Shawn Leonard]

Mickey,  I know the tea is the key to success, I have not been drinking enough lately!    Shawn

[the Ferret]

well the tea didn't do me any good tonight. One doe, one button, one doe fawn still together as a family unit. Counted Coup on all three.

Tomorrow gun season begins, so I guess I wait a week and then a week or two afteer that and get after what's left during the late season.

of course my standards will go down after gun season ,not that they were all that high to begin with. The experience was great hunting the erly season, butlate season I'll be after meat.

Dano sometimes fishing sounds like a pleasant change of pace. How many did you boat this morning?

[bearhair]

Originally posted by the Ferret:
We may have plenty of deer but then again we also have the Bengals.

Do you do the Icky Shuffle after you connect on a deer  :D    :p

[vermonster13]

Very cool Mickey

[Dano]

Bummer Mickey, I used to hate late season, just makes a tough sport all the more tougher. I bet you are still having a great time.

I kept 11 fish today, just enough for dinner  :D

[Osagetree]

Mickey, did those bucks run that doe out of your area or are you gut'n whats been chasing her?

[the Ferret]

Joe no gut'n  yet. I guess they did run her plumb out of the area. Bummer.

Ickey Shuffle? Man that's going back a few years. Ickey goes door to door selling meat now.

Dano ..11 fiish for dinner? Dang. Those are stripers right?

Now I'm waiting for snow. I love hunting when it's fall and the leaves are turning and they are crunchy, the fall colors are glorious and the sun is warm mid day. Then there is a period where it's just grey, drab and drizzly which is now. Then the snow comes and the guns are silent and hunting is fun again.

vermonster...waiting for the rest of your post on the Ohio thread, and hoping you have good things to report.

[heydeerman]

Mickey, I saw 15 this morning. I told the wife i proly wouldnt see a thing with that full moon. I had to pull some steps on some stands so the orange army wouldnt have access to my stuff so I figured I might as well hunt one. I took a huge doe at 7am. Proly the best shot I ever put on a deer. I had this doe at about 5 yards and she saw me draw and spooked. She scampered about 10 yards into a real thick area and was doing the head-bob/stomp dance. IShe moved into a small hole in the brush and I drew back and said "God, help me make this shot" and double lunged her. She ran about 25 yards and piled up in sight.. I called the wife and when I hng up deer came outta nowhere for the next 2 hours. I coulda killed 4 more that came within range. She's hangin in the garage, I'll cut her up tomarrow. BTW, thats my 4th this year. Used all my antlerless tags. Looking for horns now.

[the Ferret]

Jim that's awesome. Conggrats on the doe.That's a passle of deer to see in one sitting.

You know I was standing in my stand tonight wondering if I should pull the rapid rails from mine and Dianne's stands. They are cable locked in, in my own woods, but geez I hate to think some stinking thief would get them.I ended up leaving them in, but may pull them tomorrow.

[heydeerman]

I hunt private land and have been out there in the past during gun week and busted guys who dont have permission. If they'll tresspass they'll steal.

[the Ferret]

I got an email from a buddy this morning that has some private land in Adams county that borders some state land. He went down yesterday to throw a cable across his drive and found 4 campers set up on his place and a bunch of guys running around on atv's. He kicked them all out and made them move their campers which they were NOT happy about, and says he expects his cable to be cut down today and the place shot up. What's with some people?

[heydeerman]

Those kinda guys is one of the reasons I took up the bow. At one time I was not a deer hunter. Could'nt understand why those boneheads would sit still for hours waiting to kill a deer. I was strictly upland and small game. Got invited to go to Wayne National down by Nelsonville for a deer hunt (gun). I was bored so I went. What I saw amazed me...the night befor I heard shooting till about 3 in the morning along with hootin and hollerin, guys running through the woods with loaded guns, hunters who when you ran into them wouldnt speak to you, and a 9 year old boy was shot and killed by his uncle on a deer drive in the area we were in. I saw the squad and medics going in after him. Beside all that I killed a doe and knew there had to be more so I got a compound to get in the woods with less hunters and more challenge.  I eventually went trad and the rest is history.

It seems this week brings out the worst in some guys. You got alot of testosterone in the woods with a week to kill something. Those guys feel invincible carrying that loaded gun and throw alot of caution and care in the wind. Some think laws dont apply while they are out there.

BTW, didnt mean to change the flow of your thread Ferret.  

[the Ferret]

That's quite alright Jim. My threads are like creeks, they flow one direction till they encounter an obstacle, then flow another direction. I don't mind.

The only time I went gun hunting (over 30 years ago) something similar happened. It was on Ohio Power land in SE Ohio. Must have been 40 campers parked on the road leading in. They started shooting before daylight, by dawn it sounded like a fire fight. One guy got shot in the stomach on a drive. (never heard if he made it or not) They shot all day and they were still shooting well after hours. When I came in for lunch a 3 legged buck with his right front leg blown off at the knee joint came running thru camp (they run quite well on three legs BTW)and took off across a field and down a hollow. You should have heard the shots moving down the hollow as they were shooting at that deer. HOLY COW! I loaded up and went home the next morning praying someone didn't shoot me through the truck windows as I was driving.      

BTW all the paranoia got to me.    :eek:    I just went down and pulled all my rapid rails from mine and Dianne's stands. Glad they were just down in the woods behind the house ha ha.

[George Tsoukalas]

Ferret, that's not a day! That's a season! Outstanding time in the woods. Huntrdfk, Pats almost lost last night to a very good Philly team. You almost got your trade. LOL. Jawge

[the Ferret]

Thanks Jawge. I wondered how the Pats did. They were losing when I went to bed. I was stunned. What was the final score?

[GingivitisKahn]

Well, one thing ya gotta say for deer gun season in Ohio - the deer *will* be moving.  I was out on public land last year for opening day (w/ my recurve, of course) and the shooting started an hour or hour and a half before legal time.

I had a great spot that seemed like a perfect place to let all the gun bearers push deer past me.  About 9 or 10am, a decent buck came over the dike just a bit behind me.  I moved around my tree to try to get an angle on him and was met with a fusillade of slugs.  Argh but thank the Lord for thick (bullet proof) trees.

I'm on call this week so I probably won't get out at all during the barrage this year.

There are probably tons of fine hunters out there that choose to use a shotgun, but it's the ones that hunt exactly once a year (maybe once ever) and have their concept of their own manhood tied to whether or not they bring home some antlers - those guys make me nervous.

[Huntrdfk]

Yeah George, it was too close for comfort.....Mickey it was 31-28, but really even closer that that..........and , George, I'm sorry to say, I'd still trade the Pats for deer hunting in the midwest, does that make me a bad person???  (Don't know if I could do that with the Sox though.....)

Now that gun season is in full force here, there is a good chance that I will not see another deer for the rest of our archery season, which goes till Dec 15th.....but I'll be there till the end.

David

[heydeerman]

Speaking of the Pats...My Steelers play em on December 9. I hope they can hand them their first loss. I wont be hunting that day. BTW, I live in Ohio but my hometown is the home of the 5 time Super Bowl Champs.


Looks like your thread took another turn Ferret.