Look what I found in the woods the other night.

[ChuckC]

Well,  I just finished sitting very still for a long time.  Just got over a bout of uncontollable shivering, to the point I had to lay my bow down and get it worked out.

I was on the ground, wearing my ghillie suit, an ultralight version of the Shaggie.  I like it a lot.  Unfortunately, with the wind and the temperature drop of evening, it and the light clothing I wore beneath it wasn't enough.

I got up and walked over to the other side of the blow down tree, about 30 yards from where I was sitting all afternoon, and look what I found.


ChuckC

[rastaman]

Looks like it was raining!  

[ChuckC]

Does that picture look too big ?  I resized several and Photobucket appears to show they are 640 wide.
ChuckC

[DannyBows]

I'm not sure all that shivering was from the cold.    

[ChuckC]

Took about 5 paces to the end of that and found this



five more paces, and then this



five more paces and then this




   

ChuckC

[ChuckC]

Kinda glad I got all those reports done at work and took the afternoon off to sit in the woods and wind down.

ChuckC

[Shedrock]

Lookin' good!

[Gen273]

   

[Jwilliam]

   :eek:  


Bill

[Kapellmeister]

Looks like either the beginning of a horror movie ("look, Mother... blood!")... or something better!    

[rastaman]

Right click on your picture with your mouse and then click on "view image info" when in doubt about the picture size.  Yours are perfect 640 x 480.
Looks like you done good on the shot too!

[Kapellmeister]

Duplicate post... Sorry!

[ChuckC]

I hunt a couple public access areas north of Madison.  Been hunting this particular one for about twenty years.  It is like home to me.  I go there to hunt and also to wind down and relax.

In the past, once I put in the time and learned some of its secrets, I saw deer all the time, almost never a time where I didn't at least see something, even if not close enough for a shot opportunity.

Then we found CWD in the herd. The DNR has since created rules.  I don't necessarily like them and I pout about them every chance I get, but they are the trained experts and I acknowledge that.

We have had quite a spell of unlimited free tags with an earn a buck slant for this area since that time.  

Results are mixed.  

Two years ago, I sat 13 evenings before I saw a doe.  In many of those sits over the recent years I had nice, and some VERY nice bucks saunter past me.  But, alas. . no buck tags for this boy.

It also resulted in nearly no competition during bow season and very little during gun season during the last two years.  That was a real change.  I guess everybody was smart but me (and moved on).

This year, for the first of many years, and I believe due to extreme pressure from the masses, the DNR relented and allows you to take a buck first in the CWD area, using your normal either sex tag, not the free CWD tag.  Boy, I sure want to do my part, but with no does, it was sure a tough wait.

ChuckC

[ChuckC]

Thanks for the lesson Randy. .  I was worried.


This area is about one third uplands with mature oaks and good ground cover, and two thirds marsh, mostly only seasonally wet, but thick and nasty most of the time.  I usually hunt the marsh, cause nobody else seems to.

But the wind was totally wrong for all of the marsh stand locations, and it is starting to get close to the exciting time of year.

I chose to hunt near the "bucket stand", from the ground in my ghillie suit.  The bucket stand is a name given to a corner of the property where an older gent used to sit 20 years ago, on an inverted bucket.  

He almost always saw 30 or 40 deer and as many turkeys every time I met up with him at the parking lot, after a morning sit.  I think he saw them in his dreams, but he kept it exciting.

The area is a natural funnel with a ring of high ground with a fairly steep drop to the big plain at the bottom.  a 100 yard wide timber runs along the edge and a fallow 60 acre field abuts the timber.  Next to that is private, this year it is in corn.  And they just removed the corn this week.
ChuckC

[BowHuntingFool]

[Margly]

   

[Gator1]

     

This is starting off good......

[maineac]

Doh!  Clicked to page two expecting the rest of the story.  I'll just have to check back.    

[J. Cook]

Maineac...it tricked me too!!!!

[daveycrockett]