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Jesse's 2017 Hunting Debacles

Jesse,

Do you have any acorns this year? We have been busy building the cabin, so my scouting has been limited. We did manage to take a little walk last week and I didn't really see any near camp. I need to do more looking though.
 
From what I've seen so far, it's going to be a fairly decent year in that regard. Going out tomorrow with the binos to confirm (or deny) those suspicions. The white oak I checked yesterday had acrons roughly 50% bigger than when I checked last month, but it's not loaded by any means.
 
When you ratchet strap your 5 month old in to the SxS, you know you're on a mission!

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My general outlook on deer season took a double dose of dry dicking this weekend. On Friday night, I talked to the new owner of the single most important farm in my little corner of the world. Our other new neighbors practically helped him move in to get permission. I tried to let them get settled before I broached the subject and my respect of their space lost me access to a farm that hasn't had legal access written to it for several years. Most likely the young kid(s) hunting it will blow every deer off there because access requires finesse on that farm and I don't see them realizing that. Only bright spot is the new owner has known my wife for years and won't tolerate any shit from the guys with permission. He said I am welcome to recover deer and if they are not there hunting, I can check with him and he'll give me permission to hunt that day. In the long run, we will be "neighbors" as his new farm adjoins the property we will purchase next year, so I expect I'll eventually lock it down via lease, or just because we'd rank higher on the old "networking" hierarchy.

On Saturday night, our new millionaire neighbor at the farm informed me he's buying a crossbow so he can hunt Hippie Ridge after he was given "free range" of it. He hasn't hunted in 36 years and will blow out every deer on the 50 acres trying to go anywhere in that nastiness. It may help me when he begins pressuring it, but now we have one more guy taking resources out of the pool.

It's always something with this sport...
 
I'm always the type that holds that neighboring hunters seem to move more deer to the other properties than any other source, and it's a crap shoot to where they'll go... But you've made it a appealing area to be on and I'd say you'll be in the better situation then the others....
 
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Sorry to hear about it Jesse. Maybe it'll be a blessing in disguise. I hope that's the case. Don't let that shitty news crush your hopes for the season or your enjoyment of hunting.
 
Dustinb80 said:
Sorry to hear about it Jesse. Maybe it'll be a blessing in disguise. I hope that's the case. Don't let that shitty news crush your hopes for the season or your enjoyment of hunting.
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X2. Just get in the tree and enjoy it, and maybe the neighbors will push a dandy your way.
 
Hopefully he does a TON of pre-season and during season scouting!! As a matter of fact it ought to be encouraged LOL! :smiley_coolpeace:
 
I honestly expected much worse news. It'll buff out. Have them kids over for a fire and some beers. Show them what a good time is and what happens beyond the hunt.
 
giles said:
I honestly expected much worse news. It'll buff out. Have them kids over for a fire and some beers. Show them what a good time is and what happens beyond the hunt.
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Ah, therein lies the trap. This is small town America and there's bad blood on a couple fronts. This isn't a friendship waiting to happen.
 
bowhunter1023 said:
Ah, therein lies the trap. This is small town America and there's bad blood on a couple fronts. This isn't a friendship waiting to happen.
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Fugg em then, just hunt. I've been getting pissed at the stuff going on around me at one of the farms I hunt. Going in this year with a fugg it mentality, it's shit I can't control.
 
I'm not so much pissed as just exhausted of it always being something negative when it comes to the hunting side of things. No one likes to have their style cramped...
 
Bigslam51 said:
Fugg em then, just hunt. I've been getting pissed at the stuff going on around me at one of the farms I hunt. Going in this year with a fugg it mentality, it's shit I can't control.
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Agreed, most of the people that deer hunt are like me and put only a very limited time in woods that time of the year, especially the older they get. You and several on here even consider hunting from September thru February, and you know as well as anybody their are some big damn deer taken when everyone else quits or gets tired of it in late season.
 
aholdren said:
Agreed, most of the people that deer hunt are like me and put only a very limited time in woods that time of the year, especially the older they get. You and several on here even consider hunting from September thru February, and you know as well as anybody their are some big damn deer taken when everyone else quits or gets tired of it in late season.
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Just gotta hunt smarter and harder than the next guy is all. Everything else will fall into place.
 
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