Author Topic: The regular Deer season opens tomorrow (Read 604 times)

peternap · « **on:** November 12, 2009, 05:09:13 PM »

I am not a happy camper!

Cottonwood · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2009, 06:43:20 PM »

WOW that really sucks, and I feel for ya. I hope it lets up and you can get out and into the woods.

Lon371 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 12, 2009, 10:44:11 PM »

Put your rain gear on, and oil up you rifle, and GET OUT THERE!

Deer seasons are to far apart, I will be out this weekend come hail or highwater

. Our gun season opens this saturday. Suppose to be low chance of showers and temps climbing to 60s. Dont really care what it does. I only have about 5 pounds of venison left.

Good luck guys.

Lonny

peternap · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2009, 02:02:32 AM »

I'll be out Saturday and a good bit of next week.
Life i too short to not hunt.

Wednesday I spent the entire day at the range testing loads. Poured rain all day and had wind gusts to 40 MPH.

I found one thing about Handi's. A sopping wet Handi with hot loads will pop open every time...or at least the three I had with me did.
Nearer the coast yesterday, I got a picture of Queens Creek. This little creek is generally about thirty feet across.

Ranger J · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2009, 03:27:03 AM »

Ours starts Sat also and it looks as if we will have a day and a half of dry weather and then the rains come for as far as I can see on the long range forecast. Maybe I will get lucky those first two days and if not there is that one stand I have put the umbrella cover on and I think I know where the rain suit is and I have a couple of 'plastic' stocked rifles. Of course if I could afford it I could always go to that un-named state where they have stands that are bigger than my living room and you see a dozen bucks and fifty does with the feeder in the background...

RJ

peternap · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2009, 03:35:39 AM »

I haven't even looked at the long range forecast RJ.
I got rained on in ML season and Bow season and only have two Deer in the freezer.

I AM GONNA HUNT, come hell or high water.
Maybe all the rain will keep the dog hunters home

( I wish...why would a fellow whose stand is the front seat of his pickup truck care if it rains

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Default · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2009, 04:03:02 AM »

Peter,
I feel your pain brother , But i have a suggestion for you .. You know where any Cedar thickets are ? If so check them out stalk hunting.. Deer love those cedars during that type of weather , I had read a mans account of a trip that took him from a ruined hunt to big buck by just happening to see some movment under a low hanging cedar ( two does and a nice buck under one tree ).. I relayed that story to my father-in-law when we were heading in due to heavy rain ... So we went by a good cedar thicket but they were beded down closer to the trail then we could have known and the 4 wheelers spooked up about a dozen head of deer...
So all isnt lost.. Like the man said " gear up, oil down that hunting stick" and take a walk

Our modern gun start tomorrow too , I'll be taking the 444 marlin and the H&R 44 mag with me.

Hope that helps you or anyone else that might think of it when the weather turns, And if it does I have dibs on some of that back strap hehehehe Good Luck Guys.

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peternap · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2009, 04:29:32 AM »

Quote from: Default on November 13, 2009, 04:03:02 AM

Peter,
   I feel your pain brother , But i have a suggestion for you .. You know where any Cedar thickets are ? If so check them out stalk hunting.. Deer love those cedars during that type of weather , I had read a mans account of a trip that took him from a ruined hunt to big buck by just happening to see some movment under a low hanging cedar ( two does and a nice buck under one tree ).. I relayed that story to my father-in-law when we were heading in due to heavy rain ... So we went by a good cedar thicket but they were beded down closer to the trail then we could have known and the 4 wheelers spooked up about a dozen head of deer...
So all isnt lost.. Like the man said " gear up, oil down that hunting stick" and take a walk

Our modern gun start tomorrow too , I'll be taking the 444 marlin and the H&R 44 mag with me.

   Hope that helps you or anyone else that might think of it when the weather turns, And if it does I have dibs on some of that back strap hehehehe Good Luck Guys.

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We're think along the same lines. II own tree farms and don't have a lot of Cedars...but I was planning to hunt a 40 acre tract that I planted trees on about 7 years ago and haven't thinned yet. The trees are fairly small and close together. It's a favorite bedding area in that section.

When I was younger and took a lot of unsportsman like shots. I used to go high in the mountains during now storms. Almost every white pine would have a grouse under it just sitting there, waiting to be ground sluiced.

LONGTOM · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2009, 03:03:59 PM »

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Put your rain gear on, and oil up you rifle, and GET OUT THERE!

That right there says it all !!!

That's why they make gun oil.
I here it every season,
"I'm not hunting in this stuff, the deer won't be out anyway".
Bull crap!
Some of the best hunting I have ever had was in the pouring down rain.
Why do people think that animals don't move when it rains?
That is just another day to them.
They still have to eat and do what comes natural to them.
Now if it's windy, then that's another story.
They will hole up somewhere and jump at the first hint, but rain is nothing to them.

I didn't say any of you are one of those kind of people.
Just making comment for the sissified, fair weather hunters who may read this.

PS:
Does anyone know how heavy an old army blanket gets when used as a poncho after it gets soaked all the way through!
Makes the old BC seem light.

LONGTOM

wtroger · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2009, 04:41:53 PM »

One of the nicest animals I ever took was in a freezing rain storm they came to the wheat field earlier then if it had been a clear day. I have hunted deer since Kansas first opened deer hunting some where in the early 70's I have killed deer literally at ever hour of the day from daylight to dark. The trick is you have to be out to see them. You ain't going to kill deer from the couch.

Default · « **Reply #10 on:** November 14, 2009, 01:52:26 PM »

Well it might as well have been raining cats and dogs today because it wasnt rainging bucks lol... the only person out of our 8 person hunting camp was the 9 year old who took a button buck at 100+ yards with a 243 shoving a nosler partition ( sorry i forgot to snap a shot of the exit hole why me and the boys uncle were butchering the deer ) the exit looked like two quarters slightly over lapping each other ... Quite an impressive hole , Buck only made it 25-35 yards .. It was a dandy double lung hit , with one excited young man and his mother couldnt have been happier since this was their first time hunting together ( his second deer this year )

Hope everyone had a good day of hunting,Despite the nasty weather.

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peternap · « **Reply #11 on:** November 14, 2009, 02:36:30 PM »

Got a small buck this morning with the Handi 30/06.
Then I switched to my Ruger 77 25/06 and started sitting on a longer field.....then the damn dog hunters turned their dogs loose down the road.

I hate them!

I don't want to shoot dogs but I sure wish they'd make dog hunters a nuisance species.

LONGTOM · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2009, 03:37:42 PM »

I chose to pass on all I saw today because my youngest son had a wrestling tournament at school this morning.
I really didn't want to miss that.
He won all three matches and was champ of his weight class.
Glad I went.

My two cousins came down to hunt and while I was at the meet they both scored.
One with a young doe and the other with a large 5pt.
The one who got the buck took him with a new MZ he got for BP season but never got to use it so he just had to get a kill with it before he put up for the season.
They will both be back Mon but he will be carrying his 270.
As for me, I saw 11 deer before I had to pull out at 8:30 am.
Three nice bucks all within easy range for my 270 WSM but a little far for my 45-70 Handi.
No problem as we have a very long season here in VA.
Last till the first week in JAN.
Open season on private land so I will have plenty of time to put some young does in the freezer before it's over!

Hope others faired well on their outings.
Good hunting to all !!!

LONGTOM

peternap · « **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2009, 04:05:29 PM »

Quote from: LONGTOM on November 14, 2009, 03:37:42 PM

I chose to pass on all I saw today because my youngest son had a wrestling tournament at school this morning.
I really didn't want to miss that.
He won all three matches and was champ of his weight class.
Glad I went.

My two cousins came down to hunt and while I was at the meet they both scored.
One with a young doe and the other with a large 5pt.
The one who got the buck took him with a new MZ he got for BP season but never got to use it so he just had to get a kill with it before he put up for the season.
They will both be back Mon but he will be carrying his 270.
As for me, I saw 11 deer before I had to pull out at 8:30 am.
Three nice bucks all within easy range for my 270 WSM but a little far for my 45-70 Handi.
No problem as we have a very long season here in VA.
Last till the first week in JAN.
Open season on private land so I will have plenty of time to put some young does in the freezer before it's over!

Hope others faired well on their outings.
Good hunting to all !!!

LONGTOM

That's a pretty good morning Longtom. I didn't know you had much hunting left in your part of the state.

This is the stand I got the spike out of this morning

Ranger J · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2009, 04:42:59 PM »

Let's see I saw a large stray black dog, a large raccoon, an eagle and in the afternoon two small deer that a neighbor feeds that we call the twins. They were a 'late hatch' and are barely out of their spots and have been 'on their own' for some time. One of olur brave night hunters probably got their mother. For whatever the reason they are so small that you would have to line them up and get both of them with one shot as neither is worth a bullet by their selves.

Naturally they spent about a half hour right under my stand. Some people might think I had a poor day hunting but I rather enjoyed it. It is supposed to start raining tonight but I have a rain suit and one covered blind for tomorrow.

RJ