Official Team The Dark Horses Thread (Returning Champs) (13)
02-08-2009, 06:42 AM
#621
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: Official Team The Dark Horses Thread (Returning Champs) (13)
Danno - you're definitely right! The more I get to know all you guys, the more I realize that we've got an awesome group here, who has a LOT in common. I'm bustin my balls to put together a nice Ohio hunt for you guys. All are welcome. I hope to have 10-15+ solid stand sites picked and ready.
Fair Warnings: there will be a lot of long hikes - so whoever wants to come out - make sure you have a light, portable stand. Also, this fall will be the first time these sites have ever been hunted (by me), so they may not be as productive as they look - or could be subject to some external hunting pressure. But, that said - I'm looking for places that are off-the-beaten-path, so as to maximize buck quality and minimize human interference.
I spent the day yesterday in the woods. The snow cover was still too heavy to see anything on the ground, but I did get to put some mileage on the shoeleather express. I mapped-out two nice new stand sites and got into an area that will definitely require further review.
Here's a pretty nice rub that I found. This guy must've had some serious headgear.
His antlers were scraping all the way around the backsides of the outside trees. This was about 500 yards from where I killed my buck this season - and this rub was not there at that time. Hopefully he survived gun season...
I swapped out my trailcam cards. Got a few good pics.The single-digit and sub-zero weather caused my cameras to fritz out a bit. Overall, a pretty solid performance for the wildview 2.0's.I'm impressed - and quickly becoming addicted to trail cams. I can definitely foresee having a half-dozen cameras spread all over the planet by October. LOL
Does this look like a shed buck to you guys?
Pretty nice-sized coyote. He better not come through when I'm perched in there. LOL
Fair Warnings: there will be a lot of long hikes - so whoever wants to come out - make sure you have a light, portable stand. Also, this fall will be the first time these sites have ever been hunted (by me), so they may not be as productive as they look - or could be subject to some external hunting pressure. But, that said - I'm looking for places that are off-the-beaten-path, so as to maximize buck quality and minimize human interference.
I spent the day yesterday in the woods. The snow cover was still too heavy to see anything on the ground, but I did get to put some mileage on the shoeleather express. I mapped-out two nice new stand sites and got into an area that will definitely require further review.
Here's a pretty nice rub that I found. This guy must've had some serious headgear.
His antlers were scraping all the way around the backsides of the outside trees. This was about 500 yards from where I killed my buck this season - and this rub was not there at that time. Hopefully he survived gun season...
I swapped out my trailcam cards. Got a few good pics.The single-digit and sub-zero weather caused my cameras to fritz out a bit. Overall, a pretty solid performance for the wildview 2.0's.I'm impressed - and quickly becoming addicted to trail cams. I can definitely foresee having a half-dozen cameras spread all over the planet by October. LOL
Does this look like a shed buck to you guys?
Pretty nice-sized coyote. He better not come through when I'm perched in there. LOL
02-09-2009, 11:52 AM
#627
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
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RE: Official Team The Dark Horses Thread (Returning Champs) (13)
That's a heck of a rub Fran!!!Looks like your putting in a lot of hard work scouting - sure hope it will pay off for you next year.....
Are you guys all going down at the same time??
Are you guys all going down at the same time??
02-09-2009, 04:49 PM
#629
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RE: Official Team The Dark Horses Thread (Returning Champs) (13)
ORIGINAL: 130woodman
Jason Going to try and go down at the same time. Interested in going?
Jason Going to try and go down at the same time. Interested in going?
Just not sure if I'm going to have enough vacation time - also depends on how the rest of the year shakes out, which tags I draw, etc. I would certinaly be interested in being kept in the loop on possible dates...
02-15-2009, 04:52 PM
#630
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RE: Official Team The Dark Horses Thread (Returning Champs) (13)
Went out for a 5 mile hike this morning up at my cabin. I consentrated North of my place. I have 3000 acre of county land behind me so I cruised the swamps back there. After a couple of miles following deer trails I came up on an area with like 20 to 25 deer beds. I kept walking on this high ground between 2 swamps. It's about 100 yards wide x 3/4 of a mile long, I found between 100 to 150 beds in this stretch. It's about 1/2 a mile behind my place and I have a stand set up in the middle of it already. I sat there 3 times last year and saw 1 spike. I don't exactly know what all those beds mean in a small area like that but it was interesting. All that walking and 0 sheds.[:@]