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Thought this might make a good running thread for the fall seasons. Lets see.
If you hunted, and want to come in at the end of the day and post a little report on your adventure, then have at it. You certialy don't have to kill anything to post, just anything interesting would good.
And remember, post your 'hero pics' on the Highlights 04 forum.
I'll start....
In route to my 'bear woods', the road was out AGAIN. Last year the state cut me off working on this one certian road just after I had finnaly found huntable bear sign, and nearly got a shot.....now Ivan washed out the bridge, and not until I'd driven in half way. Had to re-group.
Went to another place hi in the mountians....bout a 40 minute run from the bridge. Walked a mile to the top of the MT..and off the other side a quarter...came back to the top...and eased off a lead I'd hunted before. Yep...same 'spagetti junction' in the ferns as last year....I'll set up here.
The wind was howling up the lead, and I posted up looking down and to the right. I knew something could be on me rather quickly, and silently.
Sure enough, at 15 till six, I turned my head left, and there he was, yet ANOTHER 200+ Cohutta Mt boar hog. Look just like my McKenzie big boar, cept thicker.....and he was in boa range the 1st time I set eyes on him....just one more step...just one more....
He smelled my track, and turned and lopped down the lead, and I went after him.....bout 100 yards down the lead, with me not getting closer than 30 yards, he bailed off the steep stuff, and I knew he'd won...so I bit him adue.
45 minutes latter, here comes a wad of fitty pounders. Now when they smelled my track, it was like the Keystone Cops, and I got quite a laugh out of all the confusion and tail chasing, as I'm sure the big sow did taking up the rear.
That was my hunt for Saturday the 18th.
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My hunt for the 18th started a little late because I needed ta finish up the ribs on the grill. Headed of into what me and Charlie call Sherwood Forrest. It was more of a scouting trip for the upcomming deer season. I found a few rubs along the way but nothing really too impressive.
The hogs really haven't been around this area since my lovely neighbor bulldozed his seven hundred acres. Dontcha just love Cattle Ranchers!!! Anyway, as I eased along I thought I heard a squeel. I actually had to bend down to see under a limb in front of me. Just as I did a nice red Sow about 125# and three little striped red piglets in tow. She was pretty close but considering the circumstances I think I'll just let those pigs grow awhile. It was a good hunt that put me back at the house just as last light fell. CK
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My hunt on the 18th went poorly. About 9:00 am I arrowed one of the largest blacktail 4x4's I've ever seen. An' I been chasin' them for over 20 years. Shot might've been a little high, and for some reason penetration was only 8-9 inches. At 9:01 it started pourin'. Decided to get on the trail sooner rather than later as blood was disappearing before my eyes. Looked until dark in circles and grids in reprod over my head. No deer. Going back out to look this afternoon. Feel sick.
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Well i was just a tag along, but went out bear uhnting with some folks yesterday, we treed 3 bears in one tree and might have been a forth one nearby.
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Well I'ved spent 35 total hours on 5 different stands and have seen 3 deer during the daylight in the last two weekends. Hunting public land, wayyyy back in there. Last year every one of these stands had at least one deer killed out of them by the end of the 2nd weekend.Lots and lots of acorns blown to the ground, muscadines, scupernongs, dogwood berrys, persimmons. There's just food everywhere. Guess they just ain't leaving the bedding areas.
Now, funny thing is, this morning on the way to the stand @ 5am, I see and walk past 4 deer bedded down not 20 yards off the main road in a wide open pine meadow.
Gonna try this week and if it don't get no better I'm gonna go hog chasin!
Frustrated Joe
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Sunday Sept 19: Started the day late but decided to go back to Sherwood Forrest and continue scouting deer. I took along a varmit call and did some calling. At my third stop I did a three sequence call and waited. Nothing was happening and I was thinking it was too late but as I raised up and started back down the trail I was almost run over by a fast moving coyote. Quess I should take my own advice and exercize more patience. Im not sure which one of us scared the other worse.
I was just interupted while I typed this by the dogs barking outside. I look out to see a squirrel in the Pecan tree barking at the dogs as they barked at him. One Magnus blunt between the eyes and I now have somthing to go with Fridays bunny. I wonder how squirrel mixes with bunny? Sounds like a potatoe meal. CK
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Ivan got here Friday eve, and it rained from then until about 2 Sat afternoon. As it began to let up, I figured the animals would be out and about, so out I went. Got to the spot I was going to hunt, and a guy shows up on a three wheeler, then another, both bowhunting. (you can walk from one end of the property to the other in fifteen minutes). I take off, shortly after I hear the three wheelers coming. I get into the property about halfway, it is all overgrown fields full of wild apple, pear and cherry trees. The three wheeler gets close, and off runs a six point buck that he never sees. As he passes me, he actually stops and tells me he is to lazy to walk, then drives off. Thirty yards further I come upon a doe and two fawns watching the three wheeler drive off. I am 10 yards from one of the fawns, and they have no idea I am there. The doe is about 60 yards out, finally sees me and takes one fawn with her. The second just moseys around by me, I drew on it a number of times but didn't shoot. This fawn wlaks by me, and I head into the field to my stand, the fawn begins to follow me, and does so for about 50 yards. I get to my stand, and realize I have forgotten my steps, so end up hunting from the ground. On the way out I again run into the fawn again, and again have multiple chances to shoot, but don't. This was only my second time out since Wednesday when our season opened.
David
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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell Posts: 4306 | From: Somersworth, NH | Registered: May 2003
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I've been wanting to go to this spot for some time now but I have not had the right wind for a morning stand set. Ive been spotting this area for several weeks and I know of several good shooter bucks in the area.
I have the day off and the wind is right for what I call the canoe stand. To enter this stand I have to access the woods from the other side of the river and canoe about a mile up stream which I figured should take about 30-45 min.
this is a new stand for me so I have no stand in place which means I must allow enough time to hang my stand all before sun-up.
45-50 min. into the canoe trip I arrive to my river exit point and all is well(I'm not all wet anyway). I did however have a couple does blowing at me before my exit but I beleive most of the deer are still feeding in the alfelfa field and should not be to concerned.
I stumble through the trees toating my bow and tree stand to a spot that looks good and hang my stand. Keep in mind it is dark and I have never hunting this spot before.
Ok, my stand is hung and I'm standing on the platform of my stand clearing some branches and I hear some ruckus up wind of my location, the light is dim so I settle in and wait.
All the ruckus finally shows itself as a group of five bucks all of which stir around my stand and offer several shot opportunities but I chose not to shoot (in hopes for bigger).
I was on stand around 3 hours and had around a dozen deer come within shooting range. I did see a shooter buck skirt by me at about 50yrds but not within shooting distance. And the canoe trip back dry and uneventful.
If the winds are right I will do it again tomorrow with a slight ajustment to stand location.
Headed out to the little farm property that I'm house-sitting & hunting on Friday and it's raining and nasty when I get there. Helps me "decide" that I'll just double check my patterning of the deer that night. Sure enough, 6:00 on the bell the doe/fawn combo and forkie appear out of nowhere and head up the blackberries to the apple and pear trees up by the road.
Saturday I wash up, dress up in carharts and flannel shirt, facepaint and boonie hat and sneak on over to a small spot I've cleared in the brambles. It's pretty open but with cover in front and a nice small stand of alders behind to break up my outline. According to my patterning, they should come in and stay crosswind of me in this spot. It's not right up at the apples, but that's upwind and not a whole lot of places to hide.
I end up getting dam cold by the time the doe and fawn show up. But no buck. This is the first time I haven't seen the little forkie with them in two evenings (not consecutive). I was very gratified, however, that the pair walked by completely unalarmed at less than 10 yds. A little later something at the road spooks em & they bounce back down past me and then turn downwind as they exit. If they re-approach I'll be thoroughly winded, so I slowly hunt my way back.
My very first hunt for deer, first hunt with this selfbow too. Very cool.
Come home to get some better clothing (the cotton just about froze me to death in that drizzle) and have a minor disaster. Taking all my hunting clothes into the wash with a bunch of baking soda, I throw in some army surplus wool pants I just bought. After I start the wash, the overwhelming fume of moth balls begins coming out of the washer SH%$$!! I only hope I can be done descenting this stuff before it's time to get back out there.
ps/edit: No way I'll be done, I'll just hunt the wind, which I have to do anyway.
B
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Sept 18th Headed up for a afternoon hunt for deer or elk in a new area. The roads are closed in this area to moterized rigs so I loaded a mt. Bike to get in a ways. I wanted to try out Trashwoods sling idea also. About a mile & a half in I tried for some rough grouse but could never get a clear shot at them in some reprod. They finally down the draw and I lost sight of them. I left the bike at a couple miles in and headed up a ridge that flattens out and looked really good on the maps. Found plenty of rubs, both deer and elk and the top was better than the map promised. It alternates between old growth timber and twenty foot reprod which is perfect.
Found one rub where a bull had hooked the ground up all around it. I would give a quiet cow call about ever 1/4 mile but no bugles and nothing sneaking in. I did ease up on a doe with twin fawns, no buck around. It has to have horns in this unit.
I got out to a point where the trees were gone and you could see the country. I spent some time glassing and then snaped a pic or two. [ Its on the huntin pic thread] I found water by acident after hearing a deer blow out of a spot[ winded again] never got a look at it.
I like the looks of this country enough to come back with the tent the middle of the week an stay a few days. It's got grouse so the boss will throw her bike in and come along also.
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Hunts drawing to a close here. So far have passed on 3 different cows (1 at 11 steps), no sheep, might still get a chance for goats/caribou or get back out for sheep again depending on weather and some information I eagerly await tomorrow evening. The grouse hunting has been pretty good compared to years past in both having a fair to good number of ruffies and spruce hens around.
Winter's almost here!
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Sept 19th, Went early with my 15 year old son. Had 2 does come in about 7:00 they were a bit skittish and never got closer than about 25 yards it was his shot and he wanted them closer. Temp hit 80 by 11:00 enough sitting in the stand off to the lake for some fishing. Best part of the whole day we watched a Osprey take a nice Northern Pike 30-40 feet a way. A great day! Doug D
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Well we've been seeing a cow moose pretty regularly now for the past few days. Last nite I tried an ambush and was off by a hundred yards or so. She's pretty dog gone spooky and was gone as fast as she was there.
This morning I tried the same thing, thinking the mornings were better anyways. This morning was no different.
I was sneaking on an oxbow that ran adjacent to a pipeline trail. I figured she was there as I could hear the typical woosh of water of a moose eating roots from down below. As I closed the distance to 50-75 yards, a 4 wheeler pulls up along the pipeline path, he stops at where the oxbow is only a few feet of the trail, stands up, turns around, picks up his bow, takes 1 step off his wheeler. I picked the glass's up and realized he was range finding the cow. No sooner did he put that ranger finder down, he was at full draw and he let her sail. The typical noise bustin sound, lots of water, lots of sticks, then silence. Other then passing my truck on his way in, he never knew I was 40 yards from him peering through the tree line.
I didn't know whether to be happy for the guy or to be totally ticked being he knew something was up due to where I parked my rig. We chatted for a second after I whisteled to him softly to let him know I was there. No apologies, nothing.... 10 more days and my hunt season is over!
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Well it's a dreary day on the mountain but perfect for what I intended, "the best laid plans". Came in to dry out and get a bite to eat now I'm about to comfortable to go back out.
Looked out at fresh snow and very low clouds at daylight this morning and decided it was perfect to invade a spot where I've been seeing a dandy dark horned 6pt bull. He's been camped with his cows in a small side hill drainage that is almost impossible to approach so with the "cover" this morning I decided to drop everything and do it. A four mile round about ride on the ATV put me within a half mile and it was looking perfect.
I slipped in quitely and crawled thru the snow and brush for the next four hours. Never heard a peep or saw anything About then a warm breeze swept in and all the pretty snow turned to WET. Time I slogged out I was pretty much soaked head to toe then it decided to cool off again. It was a chilly ride back out.
This big boy seems to be leading a charmed life so far but I'll be back!!
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About then a warm breeze swept in and all the pretty snow turned to WET. Time I slogged out I was pretty much soaked head to toe then it decided to cool off again. It was a chilly ride back out. 
