Live from the stand!

[Outdoorsfellar]

I like what Brock says. It works for him, & others of course. It doesn't work for everyone. It used to be that I would be more excited than a queer in Boy's Town when opening day arrived. Oh the anticipation ! Well, I don't have the land like I use to, Dad is dead & it's just me. Perhaps for a part of me that's dreads it, is my own damn fault. I don't have much room to walk, since all around is leased & the few acres I have, others are there too. I relish the days where there was a group of us. Always excited for the other. I use to take the whole week off. This is just my little story. At least I'm still patting myself on the back for not buying that lever action I had my eye on....yet. lol

 

[RedCloud]

That's why I included 2 implements. Not saying I've never wounded a deer with a bow, I hit a nice buck in the shoulder last year, he got killed on another farm. I just know of a few guys around here that will unload on a running deer when they have no business doing so and it pisses me off. It also seems like most of the gun hunters around here don't have a clue as to why they aren't seeing any deer, maybe if they hunted more than a few days or a week a year they'd be able to figure it out.

Yup

 

[brock ratcliff]

You can't worry about that Chad. Those guys will be the first to quit once they spend a few days staring at leaves. Then, the woods will be less crowded and you can enjoy them a little more. That's where we are here now. As you may know, our area was the first to show a noticeable decline anywhere in the state. Low numbers to start with. Back in the day, I'd see trucks parked at every woodlot during bow season. Now that it's tough to find a deer, I'm one of the few left looking. There is always a silver lining.

 

[Bigslam51]

You can't worry about that Chad. Those guys will be the first to quit once they spend a few days staring at leaves. Then, the woods will be less crowded and you can enjoy them a little more. That's where we are here now. As you may know, our area was the first to show a noticeable decline anywhere in the state. Low numbers to start with. Back in the day, I'd see trucks parked at every woodlot during bow season. Now that it's tough to find a deer, I'm one of the few left looking. There is always a silver lining.

I guess your right, Brock. Thankfully I have 2 properties right next to each other that still have a healthy population of deer, so I don't stare at leaves much.

 

[brock ratcliff]

I like what Brock says. It works for him, & others of course. It doesn't work for everyone. It used to be that I would be more excited than a queer in Boy's Town when opening day arrived. Oh the anticipation ! Well, I don't have the land like I use to, Dad is dead & it's just me. Perhaps for a part of me that's dreads it, is my own damn fault. I don't have much room to walk, since all around is leased & the few acres I have, others are there too. I relish the days where there was a group of us. Always excited for the other. I use to take the whole week off. This is just my little story. At least I'm still patting myself on the back for not buying that lever action I had my eye on....yet. lol

I know that feeling, sorta. The nostalgia. I had never hunted in a group until I married my bride. Her dad, along with a swarm of local guys and landowners did drives around here every year. I was invited to tag along after marrying in. I did, gladly. I've never seen anything any more fun, though it wasn't really hunting, more like a social gathering with plenty of shooting mixed in. Most of those guys are passed on now and there are way too many houses on the grounds where all that took place. Heck, Mason's best friend lives on a property we shoot the heck out of those years. The houses and swingsets weren't there then. We drive by some of those former farms on our way to hunt. There is a really nice house with a well-manicured yard right where my FIL shot his biggest buck that year. Things change...some of it sucks.

 

[finelyshedded]

Sucks bigtime Brock and Kevin, even though several buddies and Ron and I have become leasers back home around where we grew up back in the day we were basically forced to because it was being leased whether it was us,other locals or out of towners or outta staters. We basically just tried to make sure we had a place to hunt where we used to when we were younger before all of it was taken from us. It's an expensive ordeal and it sucks paying for something that was free and taken for granted back then. Anyway, living and being near all of that Ohio Power AEP land back in the day it sucks ass driving everywhere and seeing signs posted up on 50-100 yard centers with lease signs on both sides of the road and a few of those signs are ours! Sigh......
Many locals can't even walk into the woods behind their house cuz its leased by sub leasers out of state that hunt just a few weeks the entire year! Times have changed and things will never be the same! You heard the line, its either kill or be killed! Well if you like to chase wildgame and even play around in the woods, its time to poney up and pay for it! DANG

 

[Milo]

I spoke with my dad tonight and the out of state leasors next to our place flicked off my 10 years old nephew when they drove by in saturday.... That won't go back over well when we see him again.

 

[bowhunter1023]

Ouch. Not a smart move on their part. That the bunch from FL?

 

[Milo]

Ouch. Not a smart move on their part. That the bunch from FL?

Yes. When my brother gets healed up I imagine it won't be pretty.

 

[brock ratcliff]

Is this the same people that gave your nephew a hard time last year?

 

[bowhunter1023]

If you need a "disinterested" third party for some missionary work, I know a guy who knows a guy.

 

[Milo]

Yes to Brock..

Jesse we may talk someday..

 

[hickslawns]

There are good and bad NR just like good and bad residents. Just a black eye for many hunters now. Used to talk hunting with anyone. Now people are so guarded and hush hush. I never got to participate in the nostalgia you speak of Brock. I have only known leased or guarded grounds. Pretty sad.

 

[dante322]

If it ever gets to a point where I have to pay for a spot to hunt, I won't hunt.

 

[bthompson1004]

If it ever gets to a point where I have to pay for a spot to hunt, I won't hunt.

a chill just went down my spine thinking about that day.

 

[Big_Holla]

If it ever gets to a point where I have to pay for a spot to hunt, I won't hunt.

What if ya bought land?! LOL

 

[hickslawns]

What if ya bought land?! LOL

Not an option for everyone Chuck. I have "my own land". 7 2/3 acres with a little over half of it being woods. Deep but narrow. Access to stands is rough for quiet entry/exit. Trespassers are a horrible problem. So even "my own land" isn't exactly a slice of heaven. Were it not for the building on the property and the price I paid for it, I would not own my own land.

 

[rsmith]

Well not really a "live from the stand" post but I just went out to shoot a little before going back to school for a final to make sure I was shooting good at 30 yards incase something comes through tonight because that is where they tend to hangout at if/when they come in; I am now regretting every second of it. I not only got my first Robin Hood a couple days ago, I now just shot my second Robin Hood, I am now never shooting in the same spot twice, I'm now out 4 arrows and about $65. I guess I under estimate my own ability to shoot constant groups

 

[Mathewhunter]

Just pull the two arrows out of the split ones and they should still be good to go.. ;-)

 

[rsmith]

Just pull the two arrows out of the split ones and they should still be good to go.. ;-)

I was thinking about it but since it is my first and second one I am going to just keep them as is and just suck it up and buy a dozen more next week