Whazzup homeboys?! Same old, Same old here. House shopping... Ugh.
Anyway, I was able toget outyesterday and spent the day scouting in Ohio on some public land and freezing my cajones off. There was some snow cover, so finding any sheds was a pipe dream, but I just wanted to walk some new areas and find the bedding areas and look for pinchpoints and geographic features. Mission accomplished.
Yesterday morning temps were -5 or so, with a little breeze, so it was a little on the brisk side.Mywater bottle lasted a couple hours before it was frozen into an Aquafina bowling pin. I took my gloves off long enough to try to wait out and photo a big herd that was working my way - in the 15 minutes it took the herd to workaround the ridge, my gloves (apparently sweaty) were frozen solid. LOL
Maybe next weekend, if this snow ever melts off, I'll get back in there and grid out a few of the heavier bedding areas that I found. Some of those places looked great for shed hunting. Either way, I won't be denied. If I have to go out there and shovel the woods with a damn snow shovel, I will.
In all, I saw about 25 deer - so that was encouraging. I guess the gunners didn't get 'em all...
Bed under the pine canopy - foggy cameraphone
There's a deer across the lake, but it didn't show up so well in the pic
I have a stand site across this beaver pond
2 deer
Same 2 deer. Can't really see 'em.