MP-In-The-Wind
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4-5" of frozen crust over crunchy leaves, making for tough going in the hills of Zone 4S. I'm beginning to not like shotgun season so much. I'll take the smoke pole out if we get another dusting of at least 3", but I'm done for now.
Still hunted Wachusett most of the day. No deer seen and very quiet. Tough to believe I was on a controlled hunt as I heard no shots. But deer have probably been messed with all week there.
I probably wont go out unless we get some tracking snow. I cant sit stands anymore and see nothing.
The deer are very nocturnal right now in my area from what my cameras are picking up. 8-12 pm is normal movement time.
VERY crunchy Saturday morning. Still, better than soggy for walking, but not so much for tracking/hunting. Got stuck in a never ending laurel patch, but pretty sure I flushed out a few which my partner heard crunching around.
Pretty much dusk and dawn, plus some overnight activity. They just hunker down once the sun is up for the most part, at least around here.
Got this guy Thursday morning.View attachment 258321View attachment 258322
Got this guy Thursday morning.View attachment 258321View attachment 258322
The quiet days are the best..... With or without a deer in the truck.I took the smokepole for a long, slow walk in the eerily quiet woods in North Truro yesterday. I mean it was so quiet each time I stopped moving and stood still for half an hour at a time, my ears started ringing. Beautiful day to be out there though. I must have spooked a few deer but I heard one in particular when I happened to be making way too much noise walking on crunchy oak leaves. Dang. There are big deer out there on the outer Cape but I don’t spend nearly enough time out there. Slim chance at shooting a mature buck mid-day stalking by myself. Stranger things have happened though!
The quiet days are the best..... With or without a deer in the truck.
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I have buddies on speed dial. It cost me a backstrap and some sausage one time to get a hand dragging one out.It was very peaceful. It was the first time I went out for deer by myself since last season. IF I had shot a big buck out there yesterday, I would have had one hell of a time getting it back to my truck by myself.
I have buddies on speed dial. It cost me a backstrap and some sausage one time to get a hand dragging one out.
Yeah, add in that the last two years had relatively easy winters and bumper mast and apple crops should have lead to stable to high fawn productionIt should be a banner year when it comes to the deer harvest this year. The early Thanksgiving makes a big difference as shotgun is a week earlier and the ML season is a week longer. Now add to that the two week extension to archery season and it should be a new record. I will be surprised if it is but we will see.
Connecticut DEEP publishes a running total season to date on their hunting page and their numbers are down slightly.
Bob
I'll be out Saturday and Monday in zones 9 or 10. There is still hope.
When we drive during muzzle loader season we slow things way down. Driver's move SLOW.....just want to get the deer moving. We also use more sitters and fewer driver's .I'll be out there Saturday for one last day of deer drives this season. Makes it a lot more interesting using smoke poles rather than shotguns. If you get on a deer, it's gonna be running, and you've only got one shot. I know a lot of guys that can't hit a running deer with 5 shots, let alone 1.
Been hunting hard zone 7&8 haven’t seen much except a few porcupines
LOL...lots of them out there.
I've got a few guys hunting state land near my house. Man....diehards. Guys out there all day every day. Talked to one of them the other day, who's truck is parked there all last week, he was walking out of the woods at dark, said he's seen nothing in a week solid of all day hunting. I said, what you don't have a doe permit...he's like, no......I've got one......I haven't seen a deer! Doe or Buck! He said he saw a tail in Shotgun season after huntng most of a week...same spot....WTF?
Man...I'm not sure how you tolerate that. No offense, gotta love it, but really, after a day of seeing nothing I'm moving on, never mind a week. A week solid, I begin to think deer are extinct! Which by me, it's a pretty thin herd.
I know part of it is that guys bang the same spot every day, and sit the same stand, and don't look for new fresh sign, which is not helping yourself out. If your a stander, you've got to at least find fresh sign not just walk in and hope.
I know it's hunting, not shooting, but if your gonna drive to a spot, hunt a solid week there, wouldn't you find a decent spot to hunt rather than sit somewhere all week? When I hunt state land it's because I can walk out my back door. If I'm driving somewhere, it's where I'll see a deer. I'd rather drive two hours and see deer than sit all 8 hours and see nothing.
Been out and seeing plenty just not the antlers.
When we drive during muzzle loader season we slow things way down. Driver's move SLOW.....just want to get the deer moving. We also use more sitters and fewer driver's .