Gordo
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Good luck, Ron. I plan to go for a couple hour sit in the morning. I gotta get back to the shop by 1030 or so...Fridays are busy around here and we have a ton of work to get done, lots of prepping to do. I'm gonna go sit the stand I set up for Mason the other day, I just can't wait any longer to see how it's gonna work out. I hope to see some turkeys while I'm there as it is one of our best turkey spots and I love to watch those ugly things wiggle around.
I am optimistic. Heading out in the morning. The stand I am hunting has my hopes jumping cartwheels! I need to go to bed with visions of bucks walking into my shooting lanes.
dante322
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I tip my coffee cup to you Dave. Best of luck. Doing the same myself. Didn't sleep worth a hoot last night. Is it odd to get this excited for a hunt? I am not talking opening day or anything special. Just excited to sit this stand today. Should be good stuff.
Yawn, stretch....
Morning (tips hat). Birds this morning and maybe afternoon and back at the bucks this evening. Good luck all. Please don't forget pics and updating this thread.
Morning (tips hat). Birds this morning and maybe afternoon and back at the bucks this evening. Good luck all. Please don't forget pics and updating this thread.
2 does under me in darkness. Basket and a button offered shot in light. Lots of noisy birds. Did see basket walk by seemingly lost 5min ago at eighty yds. Beautiful morning but more quiet than I hoped for deer.
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Gordo
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Saw three before sunup. One nice shooter on the way in. He was making a scrape. Shined him, watched him walk off from about 50 yards or so. Two more under my stand when I went in. Squirrels after that and nothing else. We are still a week away from the good stuff I think. It feels like November with the chilly air, but it isn't.
You might be onto something. Maybe when the frost hasn't burned off at 1030am and I am getting snowed on in the tree stand I forget it really isn't "prime time" yet. I ended up seeing a forkhorn along with the other four. Truthfully, was in tree from 7-10 and saw 5 different deer. Two offered shot opportunities. Nothing to complain about, but I am ready for the big boys to get stupid.
Oh what a difference a day makes lol.... Got skunked other than a coyote snuck through the thick red brush and never offered a shot.... 5 yards behind the stand and got a free pass because of no shot available..... Hopefully it won't happen again.....
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Sat till 10:30. Nothing, not a doe, a buck, a fawn .... nothing...Again.
Hmmm... Lets see here, sleep in, stay in the nice warm cozy house. Maybe even stay in my pajamas. Sip some coffee, watch some T.V....
...Oh no, get up early, get dressed in clothes that smell like a campfire, go out in the cold, climb a tree, and sit there waiting to see some mythical creature that I'm not even sure reall exists.
Kinds feel like a dumbass.
Not sure if i can get back out this afternoon, but I sure hope so.
Hmmm... Lets see here, sleep in, stay in the nice warm cozy house. Maybe even stay in my pajamas. Sip some coffee, watch some T.V....
...Oh no, get up early, get dressed in clothes that smell like a campfire, go out in the cold, climb a tree, and sit there waiting to see some mythical creature that I'm not even sure reall exists.
Kinds feel like a dumbass.
Not sure if i can get back out this afternoon, but I sure hope so.