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I was praying for some snow and it looks like my prayers have been answered. Thank you Lord! :thumbsup:
I've found that when fronts like this come through in late season, all the game beds up until it passes. When it does pass, you gotta be ready and hit the woods Now!
Deer, rabbit, turkey, coyote, everything will be on the move! :jumper:
Pics aren't the greatest, taken with my cell phone through the garage window. They look dark, but it's not. That's just from taking the picture through the glass window.
(http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww146/mohunter68/Firstsnow001.jpg)
(http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww146/mohunter68/Firstsnow002.jpg)
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we got bout 1 1/2 inches so far, i think its time to go and jump a bunny!!!!
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The neighbors beagle is running a rabbit right now! I think I'm gonna bundle up and go follow him around for as long as I can stand it.
He doesn't push them real fast....so I might actually get a shot?
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Here in Washington we got 10" yesterday and during the late Elk season I was in 7" of the white stuff. At times It made it very hard to stalk with out making a sound but I still love having it around. It is time for predator hunting now.
Dave
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I am headed out this afternoon, the sun is coming out now and the wind is supposed to lay a little. As cold as it is they have got to feed. Good luck!!
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Originally posted by swp:
I am headed out this afternoon, the sun is coming out now and the wind is supposed to lay a little. As cold as it is they have got to feed. Good luck!!
You know it!!
Good Luck to you!
Be sure to post pics of your success.
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Originally posted by Broken Arrows:
Here in Washington we got 10" yesterday and during the late Elk season I was in 7" of the white stuff. At times It made it very hard to stalk with out making a sound but I still love having it around. It is time for predator hunting now.
Dave
I'm always predator hunting around here, coyotes are lousy thick and could show up at anytime.
For that reason, even if I'm just stumping or bunny thumping....I've always got a razor tipped shaft in my quiver and a sqealer in my pocket! :thumbsup:
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We got some too and the wind has laid down a little so the thermos is full and so is my belly.
I think I will grab my sleeping bag, Bow/arrows a good book and head to one of my favorite blinds in a beautiful little valleys thats mostly out of the wind. The turkeys hopefully will show up sometime around mid day.
(http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/b5.jpg)
Tracy
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I envy you Tracy! :D
Good Luck...and remember.....Lots of pics! :thumbsup:
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Here North West of Philadelphia, I wish for snow. It seems that every year the snow is south of us or north of us. It makes me crazy. Come on Global Cooling! I want to get out and follow animals around. (:
Martin
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We got 3 1/2" here last night. First of the season.
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I'm still waiting for the wind to die down just a bit, but if it doesn't by 1pm or so......I'm getting out there anyway!
Wind chill here is a balmy 2 deg.F.....Perfect! :thumbsup: :biglaugh:
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Ha! I went to school in Cape. Here in MN we get to experience it, 10+ in. snow, +2, -14 windchill right now, WC -20 or lower this PM. I think I will dig a pit blind in a snow drift this afternoon as they move to feed.
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It started about 6:00 AM. We were only supposed to get a light dusting to an inch... there is 4-6 on the ground and now 11:45 AM the wind gusts have started. We are looking at 9 deg over night tonight.
SEMO, I am thinking Bob (who is a graduate of my college) on chanel 12 and the cute girl on chanel 6 in Paducah missed the call on this one..... Good luck to ya if ya go out.
I guess I'll work on some new arrows. Not going out in this stuff.
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might be a good night for coyotes since you can hunt them at night just not with lights.
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Bruce- I think they missed the call too? Originally we weren't supposed to get anything, but I prayed for it and here it is! Thanks again to the man upstairs.
I have hunted coyotes at night during a full moon, and believe it or not......I can see them reasonably well.
If there's snow on and even half a moon, it's a gimmee! If the wind lays I might have to grab my calls and head out after dark?
Matter of fact......I might just go ahead and put my pop up blind out and sit for awhile tonight. I know a perfect spot! :thumbsup:
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Originally posted by K.S.TRAPPER:
We got some too and the wind has laid down a little so the thermos is full and so is my belly.
I think I will grab my sleeping bag, Bow/arrows a good book and head to one of my favorite blinds in a beautiful little valleys thats mostly out of the wind. The turkeys hopefully will show up sometime around mid day.
(http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/b5.jpg)
Tracy
Tracy, you lucky........... couple great looking longbearded ones there.
Send some of that some up this way please.
Earl
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I think I seen them turkeys yesterday, but they fed about 80yrds from me...... My calls and decoy was laying on my shelf in the shop. I cleaned out my pack and thought I would lighten it up and do some scouting.
Snowed just enough this morning to cover the roads and make the 30 miles to church questionable....Now it is all almost blown away, wind is crazy now making it as hard decision if it is wise heading into the timber that still has a lot of dead stuff in the top from last years ice.
There ya go Semo that is another problem with that old growth timber.
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We have and inch+ on the ground here today, too, but with the wind I'm gonna stay inside and work on arrows. Travel patterns are changing where I'm hunting and this snow is gonna help figure it out.
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Your right LW.....I always watch which trees I stop under when the wind is howling like it is today. We call them "Widow Makers" around here, and my dad has know people who got killed by them. A kid he went to school with way back when got killed by a widow maker in his own back yard!
I went out on about a 2 mile trek around the property here close to the house, down by the river, up through the cedars, and all along the edge of the pasture......about a 3hr. round trip.
My legs feel like limp noodles right now and no sign of rabbits moving about. Them little buggers are buried in lick a tick on a hound dog!!
I did however......find multiple sets of coyote tracks and started following them. They got fresher as I went and after about 400-500 yards of tracking, I started thinking to myself that I might want to start watching up ahead of me.
So I would glance up ahead, then look for more rabbits while following the coyote tracks which had turned into just one set by this time. I don't know where the others had split off, but this set was getting fresher the farther I went.
Just about the time I looked up again a coyote took off running up the draw that I was skirting.....Dang it!! :banghead:
When he busted outa there he was only about 50yrd. from me!
I literally walked right up on him.......so there's something to be said for snow camo. I've done the same thing on deer before while there was snow on the ground and I was wearing my snow camo.
Then after busting the coyote out.......I came across fresh turkey sign. Scratchings every where and multiple sets of tracks going all different directions. So I followed those until they ended at the edge of the river bank. I'm thinking that they must have flew across to the other side?
They do that alot around here. It ain't nothing for these turkeys to fly back and forth across the river several times a day.
It's good to know that they are finally starting to come back to my side of the river again. They disappeared on me back in October and hadn't seen any sign of them since until today.
It was tough walking, and the wind was howling steadily at about 25-30mph with huge wind gusts that had to be 40+ mph......but I really enjoyed getting out and especially getting that close to a coyote.....that was cool.
I think I'll put my blind out down there where all the coyote tracks were and maybe hunt it tomorrow and do some calling.
Even though conditions were tough, it still beats sitting in the recliner and getting more fat than I already am. :goldtooth:
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I love walking around in the snow looking for critters :bigsmyl:
(http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/a12-1.jpg)
No way I was going to stay out of the woods when the first fall snow was on the ground.
Tracy
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Yep....that's the one. I had one almost identical to yours Tracy, but the river got mine.
2 years ago during spring turkey season we had a monster rain, like 3-4" overnight and the river came up so quick there was no time to rescue my blind. It was under about 10 foot of water best I could tell.
Normally, my blind would have been well beyond any rise in the river, but this time was no normal rise in the river. I think it was the biggest I have ever seen it get?
I did find the blind about 3 weeks later, it had washed about a 1/2 mile downstream, wrapped around a tree, full of mud.....and completely destroyed. Found one of my decoys stuck in a tree....the other two were never seen again. Probably in the Mississippi Delta now?
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We got a foot last night, today snow off/on but it cooled down to 15 deg with 30-40 mph winds. Think I'll stay right here for a while. Just drove 19 miles to work and came home, plant lost power.
Eric
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In the last 24 hours we added 17" on top of the 8" that was already on the ground.
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Got a little snow here & it's still coming down.Me & my son got out this morning & played in the woods for a couple of hours..Got to walking out an oak flat here behind the house & bumped a bunch a turkeys...honestly was so many(100 plus) we were having trouble counting...come on Spring... :D
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I killed ...... some arrows. Been in the shop since 2:00 working on them. The darned wind was blowing so hard ya darned near could not stand up when I went to the shop to work. I am in now and staying here (5:45). Several schools between my house and Harrisburg are cancelled for tomorrow.... We have finals Monday through Wednesday so I doubt they will cancell us.
The weather folks missed this one on the snow fall but not the wind.
SEMO and LW stay out from underneath them trees.
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No kidding, the wind chill here today was 2 deg.F
and I felt every bit of it. Any exposed skin felt like it was going to freeze instantly.
I did fine as long as I didn't stand still too long, so I kept moving and tracking coyote and turkey, while busting leaves with my judo point tipped woodie. It was not a safe place for a big brown leaf to be anywhere close to me today! :archer2:
I finally had to stop killing them because I was afraid I would be over my limit.
Too bad they taste like card board. :p
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Well I dressed up warm and put some chem footwarmers in my boots and sat on stand for over three hours. Never did get cold until I climbed down and then my hands went numb. :dunno: Had 2 does and yearlings behind me about 4:15 then they got wind of me and headed east at a rapid rate. All in all a good evening to be out!
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Wow, your tougher than I am Scott!
No way I could have sit still when I went out today. The only way I made it 3hrs. was to keep moving, although moving slowly.....still moving.
At least you saw deer! That's always a bonus.
I did get to try out my shooting with heavy cold weather gear on and heavier than normal gloves with a finger tab, and I was surprised how well I shot while dressed up like that. Killed lots of leaves.
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Gotta love that snow!
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Chris,
Usually I am done after a couple of hours of cold but today it wasn't too tuff. Tomorrow AM should be a good morning to go....too bad I gotta work! Hope you guys get to be out in it chasing them.
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I like huntin in the snow too guys but be carefull what you wish for, a few years back I wished for a little snow to hunt in and woke up on Christmas eve to 32" on the ground. Couldn't get out of the house let alone into the woods...........didn't know I was so persuasive.
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Scott- It's a balmy 8deg. here right now and the wind is still ripping pretty good. I doubt I will go in the morning, but I might do some coyote calling after the sun gets up a bit and hopefully the wind will have died down by then.
Steve- I like snow, but about 6" is about the max for what I enjoy. Any more than that and it's tough to get around in, especially if it's drifting. A 32" snow is just crazy! That's like Idaho or Montana kinda snow, not Indiana!
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Semo, love your back yard! Awesome, love it when it snows.
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Thanks Jerry, that's pretty much the way 60% of the whole area looks. Cedars, pasture, brushy ditches, and some big timber on the opposite side of us. Lot's of pasture ground around here, and I turned chunks of it into food plots for the deer, turkey, and rabbit on our place.
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We got a fair bit yesterday and last night. Saw a few fresh deer tracks this morning but for every fresh deer represented by them, we saw sign of a couple dozen coyotes.
Bah - they need to die.
Lots of coyote tracks
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff187/GingivitisKahn/20101213_ac_10.jpg)
Coyote tracks and a cool BK-2
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I'm getting ready to go after a few myself this evening. They are thick as fleas around here and I have got to start working on them.
Gonna put the blind out and call, they should be getting pretty hungry right about now?
High today was 18deg.F and some snow still on so that's a perfect recipe for coyote killin' :thumbsup:
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Originally posted by SEMO_HUNTER:
I'm getting ready to go after a few myself this evening. They are thick as fleas around here and I have got to start working on them.
Gonna put the blind out and call, they should be getting pretty hungry right about now?
High today was 18deg.F and some snow still on so that's a perfect recipe for coyote killin' :thumbsup:
Hope you knock 'em stiff!
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We had about 2 inches on the ground Sat nite and it was just about right for hunting! between 2am and Sunday afternoon we got slammed with over a foot of snow, after that the high winds and real cold air took over never got out of teens today and with wind the chill was below zero! Usually our snow here in Dec is Lake effect! When I was hunting Sat nite the wind was coming heavy out of the East so I knew we were in for it! I hope to get my snowshoes out and do some scouting as the weather is suppose to be a lot better toward the end of the week!
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SEMO...
Chanel 3 (Razor) just predicted an ice event for Wed evning through Thur.....
Here we go again. I got to fill all the gas cans for the generator....
Did not get out today except to take care of the bird dogs and go to the shop and work on some arrows. Classes did get cancelled and thats Finals.. We moved today to Thursday and now that don't look good. Every county school system over here was closed.
I hope this breaks. I was to give my last final on Wed. and then I was going to hunt.... Oh well, perhaps more arrows.... No.. I am gonna order a new bow.. That should break the cycle.
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SEMO-it's been brutally cold here in lower Michigan the last few days. We got about 7-8 inches of snow yesterday, but back to work today! It was 10 degrees most of the day with a mean wind chill factor that would be hard to take! Critters are holdin' tight I would say! Tuesday morn would be the time to get out huntin'!
Great thread and your country looks mighty nice there in Missouri. Thanks.
Kenny :campfire:
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Dang Huntschool, I hope your weather station is dead wrong about that! I hate ice, we don't need that at all. I still remember the ice storm we got a few years ago that took out the power for 7 days....That Sucked Big Time!
I better check my generators and fuel supply now that you mention it.
Kenny- Thanks for the compliment on my terrain in the backyard. Right up the hill on the other side of the pond is where the deer cross, between the barn and the pond, then down behind the shed and straight to my clover food plot. The food plot is less than 200 yards behind the garage window that I took the pics out of.
Last year I was watching 5 does and a small fork horn nearly every evening. It's kinda nice to see critters right out your back door.
Hey, did you all see that inflatable roof collapse on the Minnesota Vikings football stadium? That was the same storm system that we got, except they got hit a whole lot harder than we did! Wow!
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The wind finally died down enough to hunt this afternoon and it warmed up into the teens. They had about 4 or 5 inches down where I hunt. Hunted on the ground in my shaggie longcoat. Had 2 deer close, (one within 15 feet) but neither was anything I wanted to shoot. Still a cool evening.
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I put out my pop up blind this afternoon and sat in it till near dark. Called a coyote out of the thick stuff with some challenge barks, yips, and short howls. Problem was that he was a good 500+ yards away. Didn't seem interested in challenging me, just looked my way and then mosied on across the field. I think this is one of those situations where a coyote decoy would have came in handy.
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SEMO,I think you have a deer trail behind the shed 'cause I see two commin' out from it!!!Lol
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They are there every single day.......it's like they just don't have anything better to do?
Oh yeah, and they are both bucks! :goldtooth:
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its not hard to track here when its three feet deep in the woods. you need snow shoes to get any where in the woods, my tree stand selection will be limited now (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5004/5260853866_b7a482fd9d.jpg)
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Looks like Heaven to me!! :thumbsup:
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it is er will be as soon as it climbs back above zero!