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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | BALDY - 11/20/2007 7:51 AM
you bring booze in the woods with you? how smart is that?
i'm sure (at least pretty sure), you arent dumb enough to get wasted out there, but I would guess a CO would not be too impressed if they saw that.
Baldy,
Not out there to get drunk. Why would I when I got a nice basement bar?
The victory dance is purely cerimonial.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | 5 days of hunting with my sons Keith and Brian and Keith's buddy. We had a BLAST camping, saw plenty of deer, and harvested 6. Keith shot a Spike opening day, Brian a 7, and I shot a hole in the air. The seer on my A Bolt stuck for some reason, twice, delaying the shot by a second. Cost me a nice 17" or so wide 6. Oh well...Weird deal, it's whisper clean. So, Keith hunted the rest of the trip with his M44 7.62X54R ( that old Russian rifle is a life taker for sure, he shot two does today at about 150 yards and dropped them both in their tracks) and I inherited the 7MM Mag.
I got a decent 8, and a nice doe in a two-fer 5 minute wild chase scene, it was extremely cool to experience. That buck had nothing on his mind but the doe, and it cost him dearly. I took the doe in her tracks after watching her rip back and forth across the area I was hunting with no buck in sight. I figured she was 'entertaining', but got tired of all the running about and was pretty certain she was heading out of the area so I took an opportunity at about 115 yards when she slowed to a trot. Soon as I dropped her, the buck's rack appeared in some alders about another 50 out; he was totally baffled where his sweetie went. He dashed about in the thick stuff not offering a shot, then suddenly shot out of the alders and saw the doe. He was OUT of Dodge then, but made the mistake of coming at me at a dead run. I took him head on and sent a Nosler through and through, yet he kept burning, so as he made a turn about 60 yards out still booking top end I tried to plink one into his neck. Hit him pretty good both times, but off through the high ridges he went.
I went in and got Keith after dressing and tagging the doe, and we went after that buck. 600 yards as the crow flies and a freaking leg burning mile including the hills and valleys later, he kicked out and tried to make it over the next ridge struggling hard. He was trying to make it over the next ridge and drop into a huge valley below, which Keith discouraged with a 150 yard shot from the M44. He was spent anyway, taking a 7MM Mag in the neck and another through the neck and out the hinder; how he ran ANYWHERE is a mystery to us both.
Brian lives in the area, so Keith and his buddy shared the camper Friday through Sunday while I visited with Brian and Sarah, and I stayed in the woods Thursday for setting our stands and Monday to today. All in all, it was an incredible hunt on public land, Keith really knows his stuff. We met a really cool young man who was holding down the last 600 yards down from me, and made a new friend. Ken is in High School, but like so many Wisconsin young men this week was off school and in the woods with his climber at dawn, out at dark. Between the two of us, me in my ladder stand WAY up on top, and he in his climber, anyone starting down that stretch turned back and went elsewhere; it was perfect.
Keith and Brian hunted Oak Ridges, and saw lots of deer. All in all, we had a great trip and filled up the freezer, so Slamr can breath easy that there will be a personal cooler or two of venison hamburger this year.
What's even better is we have the rest of season to hunt, Sue and I in a blind here at home, and some herd control tags out on Plum Creek land near here. Black powder, then the Anterless season, too.
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Location: NW WI | North of Star Lake, WI (a little north of Irving & Ballard) our camp of 16 hunters shot ZERO...yes ZERO deer. FOr the 1st time in 30+ years of this camp being together, we packed up and went home meatless. I had a doe tag and my 13 yr old had a doe tag......didn't see a deer. In all our group saw 5 doe, and one guy saw three of them. Pre-scouting....2 gal. of corn.....didn't matter.
My son is jinxed....can't get a 'ski and can't even have a year old doe go in front of him to take a shot at!
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Location: Janesville | I was up to lake tomahawk area and saw no deer Hunted for 5days just south of lake tomahawk then moved up to vandercook north for minocqua. I will be giving up deer hunting .Just musky fishing next year. DNR better get there count right. Glad I do not have young kids to get started in deer hunting how you going to get them intrested sitting inthe woods all day and not seeing deer. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Ask the insurance companies up there about car/deer incidents to get a good picture of the population. |
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Location: NW WI | Steve Worrall - 11/21/2007 9:12 PM
Ask the insurance companies up there about car/deer incidents to get a good picture of the population.
Steve you're right on that one!
Gotta place for my kid and I to hunt Sat and Sun? We'd just put up a ground blind. We want to go, but the only place for us to go locally is questionable at best for a chance at one. |
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Location: Janesville | All the deer are in the towns because everyone has to bait them. I did not see one deer hit on the roads up there. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Then I suggest you watch the registration totals for each county and registration station, especially the one you hunted, to see if your experience matches the majority. Between Boulder Junction and Lake Tomahawk...actually there were two just outside of Lake Tom, one a really nice buck.. Tuesday. I bet I saw at least a half dozen fresh car kills, I remember that because Keith and I were discussing the number of car kills on the radios.
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Location: Janesville | I should just stick with musky fishing then. Going to hit madison chain saturday. Iwill be up next weekend to try muzzle loader hunting. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Give me a call, Keith knows that area very well and may be able to help. What days you coming up? |
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| Just got back from the great northwoods and a very long week of deer hunting. Me and my boy hunted hard every day and managed to see4 deer 3of them by the road and 1 in the woods by a cabin. We looked every where for deer, swamps, thick blowdown areas, river bottoms and everywhere in between. Unless your on private land the deer just aren't there. We never seen a track on Friday morning. Last year we seen quite a few deer in this area. We didn't see anyone else hunting this area either, now I know why no deer. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I'm thinking private land has nothing to do with it this last season.
Big factor in our lack of success this season has been the high winds!
When it is this windy, deer hold tight, because:
1) the wind has got everything moving. Their eyesight is impared
2) the wind has got the noise up to a deafening roar. They might as well be deaf
3) the wind is whipping scent past their noses so fast, that they cannot process what they are smelling
So, If your 3 biggest defences are of little-to-no use, you stay in bed and ride it out.
The good folks that hunt the neighboring property and us conducted a huge drive Thursday morning. One doe was kicked up, and Ray said he "pretty much had to step on her to get her to go". It had no idea he was there until he was close enough to almost kick her.
Muzzleloader season is upon us! One shot-one kill!
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| my niece got her second doe of the year yesterday.
makes for a great first year for a 12-yr-old who just finished hunter safety this fall!
i'm planning to get out for a few days in December once muskie season is closed. heading down to the CWD areas by Dodgeville with extended seasons.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | We ended up with 7 for 3 hunters, all on public land. Passed a few, and certainly missed a few opportunities. We had a blast, and all of us are looking forward to black powder and antlerless over the next couple weeks.
Keith and Brian harvested all their deer hunting feeding areas on ridge tops, I hunted funnels in the bottoms between the ridges and the bedding areas. The one constant was the deer were definitely in the thick stuff for us. The rut should be winding down now and with the hunters out of the woods for the most part the deer should get back to near normal patterns.
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Location: Watertown, MN | Mixed reviews on this years hunt, up till thurs Norm Wild saw 3 little bucks, and his Father-in-law shot a nice 8, talked to many people who did not see deer opening weekend. Friday made drives with friend saw couple bucks, one nice buck but just could not get a good shot off. Get message Norm is in Madison hospital, complication from back surgery, he was hopefully heading home today after a saturday surgery. Hope to hunt for anterless only season. Did harvest a nubbin with my son this moring, only 2 deer I saw this season while not driving deer, truck or wheeler. Talked Norm's in-law who processes deer, sounds like some did okay, while others numbers were way down, curoius to see final harvest.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Norm, Heal quick, Brother! |
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Location: Minnetonka | Hayden, CO 2007
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| Well, after a slow first weekend, things picked up on Turkey day. Nothing in the morning, but after watching the Packer game, I headed out at 3:00 PM with Lauren to sit in the two person ladder stand. She will be old enough to hunt next year, and she likes getting out with her dad. I told her she was responsible for her half of the area, and I would watch my half. ABout 3:50, she tapped my leg, and slowly pointe to the thicket to her right. I saw a deer making it's way to the trail, and got the BAR ready. When a big doe stepped into the shooting lane, I ka-poched her right behind the shoulder at 40 yards. She bolted into the thicket behind us, followed by a smaller deer, and all went silent. We waited 10 minutes, got out of the stand, and went to where the deer had been shot. No blood right away, but Lauren found the trail, and about 30 yards away, she found the doe, assuming ambient temperature. Lauren was pumped, as she did everything except pull the trigger, and gut out the deer by herself. I helped with that, and she dragged the deer to the house with the ATV. I can't wait til next year to hunt with her for real.
The next day, Friday, Eric and I hunted, without success, in the AM. I went out early in the PM, and he followed around 3:00PM. Without his rifle, he wanted to sit with me. I said OK, and we sat quietly, watching and hoping for deer. Around 3:30, he whispered he wanted to know how to use the grunt call. I got mine out, and gave a couple short, low grunts. I told him I use it sparingly, and put it away. We seetled to watch for deer, and not more than 5 minutes, we both saw a deer out in front through the thick stuff. I immediately saw antlers, and motioned for Eric to get ready. He had the BAR up, and when the deer stood broadside in an opening at 50 yards, the Browning barked. The deer kicked, ran forward, then turned and went back the way it came from. A minute later, I heard it flopping on the Adams County turf. Eric was shaking uncontrollably, telling me "It's a Buck, Dad. I got a buck!" We got down, found hair, and the blood trail. Following it, we came around a pine thicket, and there it was! A nice 8 pointer! Quite a nice first Buck for the boy! I was real proud of Eric, and it was fun to watch this take place.
I've been hunting my 8 acres next to the Mom-in-Law's place in Adams County for the past dozen years, but usually after Turkey Day, never the whole season. I've taken 1 small buck, and about 10 does in that time frame. Never hunted the whole season until this year. I think I will hunt it the whole season again next year. I had one of the better hunts ever this year!
Below are a couple shots of the deer, and one for PETA!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Nice deer, Shep, and even better with the kids! |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Very mixed reviews from lots of people all over the state. I had my kids in the best spots on my new land and we only saw a few does and yearlings the opener. I went back up for Thursday, Friday and Saturday with the family and we had very few deer on the move. Both kids passed up deer looking for a good one so I can call that a good hunt.
Getting a nice buck is not easy but with perfect conditions and good controled land it is possible each year. Public is good if you go into huge detail checking out the land. Some public is ok and some is very good. I would bet 80% of the public land is only good for the opener and if others are pushing deer around. Without hunters pushing deer and snooping around public land can be dead. Doing your homework and getting into the thickest, nastiest parts of the public land will get you your deer. Doing your research and getting to the good stuff is where it's at on public land. I used to do it all the time the second weekend of deer hunting every season and always scored a deer or two.
Now with kids I try to teach them all the variables and explain why some days the deer will not move during the daylight. Every morning the tracks are all over our foot prints from the night before and each day we only see a deer or two. The biggest problem we had was all the corn was still up all around my 50 acres of land. 60 acres of corn can hide lots of deer. The other was the wind. Wow was it windy. There is always next year. Bow hunting is where it's at anyway!!!
Congrats on those who scored. Expecially the fathers who took out the kids. Keep our kids intersted in the outdoors and teach them the way it should be.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Is anything safe from Shep and crew?
Good work, Shepards! |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Fun and safe 2007 rifle season in the books here. Fishing and hunting were fair to us last week and it plain stinks to see the -too short- fall season end. Though deer numbers were down by us, we saw a much better buck to doe ratio where we hunt with overall numbers probably closer to healthy heard goals than the burgeoning numbers of recent years indicating our years of high doe harvests are paying off. Slightly misjudged this guy in the brush as a bigger deer, but kid seemed happy enough with it regardless. Had a better pic or two in the field, but couldn't leave her out of the fun.
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| Dang...bad year for me. Never squeezed the trigger, and to be honest, never saw a set of horns 
(First time in a loooong time, so such is life) Out in the dark and back in the dark. I sat and I still hunted. Strange year for me...and I won't "play the wolf card", although from the last week of bow, through gun, I heard more than I have in a long time.
BUT...in three days I'm leaving for a muzzle loader hunt for mulies and hope to pop a good one??? |
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| Nice Looking White-tails.
Edited by Will Dykstra 11/28/2007 10:10 AM
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| Steve, will be looking to Kieth for a horn mount board. I seem to remember he had some nice ones he makes.
Or is it Brian that does the woodwork stuff?
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| Nice pics, cool stories. No hunting for me this year. Locals haven't shot many bucks that I know of. One buddy told me he saw 48 does and not a single horn.
The exception is a kid I know; he and his friend were bow hunting and his friend shot "Twin Towers", a picture perfect 20 point. Really, 20 points, I saw the pic up at the local hardware store. Hard to believe I know, so call 'em: Adams Hardware, 269-624-3531.
Great luck to all and be safe out there. Lots of idiots, one time I watched two trespasser bozos, each on a corner of a 8-10 acre field, open up on a small buck that ran between them. 10 shots from the two 870's. At one point the deer was right smack between them and still they both blasted away. As I kicked them off the property I asked if they liked the sound of the lead flying by. One says, "Oh, yea. That was dumb, I guess." Yep. Almost as dumb as an a-hole I saw in my binocs one early morning. He was looking at me, too, but thru his scope. Nothing like having a rifle pointed at you to really wake you up. That was the last time I hunted state land during rifle season. Enough........ |
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| Shep - 11/29/2007 8:17 AM
Steve, will be looking to Kieth for a horn mount board. I seem to remember he had some nice ones he makes.
Or is it Brian that does the woodwork stuff?
Not talking to me anymore, Steve?
Nice deer, Jason. Picture with daughter is priceless!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Keith does indeed make the Antler mounts, Shep. Have been out of town and just skimming the board, sorry sir! |
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Location: Presque Isle Wisconsin | Hunted in the Presque Isle area at the same spot we have put our ground blind for lots of years. My hunting partner Wayne and I enjoy hunting out of the same blind because we like to have the opportunity to spend some time togther and have more than a few laughs.Weve shot many a nice buck over the years from this location so now its more about just enjoying the outdoors.On Sunday afternoon I harvested a nice 8 pointer with a 17" spread. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | We are looking at harvesting a doe or two during the Herd reduction hunt, and maybe a Bow Buck...my tag is still open. Ice fishing is going to get in the way, I fear. Nice buck, Howie! |
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