I walked the marsh this morning. I had something out ahead of me but never saw it. Finally around 10:00 am I came back to the house to dry off. I then decided to go and hunt a hay field, so I took my Wolverine to my range and shot some 250 grain Shockwaves and 100 grains of Pinnacle 3f to make sure it was dead on. It was, so I cleaned it and then reloaded it.

I headed back out at 1:00 pm and sat until day and as usual, nothing came past. I talked to another person who was hunting the same woods.. he has not seen nothing except birds and squirrels. I was checking some of the deer trails leading to the field and they do not look all that used recently.. perhaps they have moved off to some place else for the time being..

There is always tomorrow..

good luck cayugad!

thanks for the help! and i will never forgetall your advice...

Bad luck's better than no luck at all, no?

I too had no luck this year. I had three weeks in the bush. The first week was the bp season. I was hunting public land. There was no one around and myself and another hunter had roughly 70 square miles to ourselves. There was no pressure at all on the game, so nothing was moving. It was also mild until the last two days, so that didn't help. Then the regular season came along and my brother showed up with a friend who's never hunted before. I lent him my 30-06 and kept the .50 cal through the whole season. I had to pass up two bucks, both 8 pointers, cause
I didn't have the range with the .50. My buddy saw two more bucks, one 8 & one 10 pointer from his stand so he took a shot at the 8 'cause he was bigger. The shot hit the ground about 10 feet in front of the buck. He jumped down from the stand and took a second shot. Same thing, hit the ground! He then ran to where the buck stood for the first shot and let one more fly... same thing as before. Then the nut case ran like there's no mayana after the buck thinking he would club it or something!! 400 yards at full throttle and he came out of the bush cluthching his chest and swearing like a drunkin sailor. Almost had a heart attack! When I tried my '06 two days before the season, I could have driven nails at 100 yards with it, so I don't know what he did. That day we went to the range and I put five rounds in an inch, almost two feet low at 50 yards. He either dropped the gun or something. Finally, on the last day I saw a buck about 100 yards away through thick brush. I tried stalking him but the leaves were dry that day and he casually walked away quicker than I could aproach quietly. Better luck next year I guess?! Oh yeah, some guy with a camper pulled in on the first day and had to leave the same day 'cause his wife fell ill or something. He came back on the last afternoon, closing day and decided to take a ride up the mountain with his atv and came back a half hour later with a spiker on the front end! That was a real kick in the pants! I spent three weeks in a prospector tent livin' on canned crap and this guy didn't even break a sweat fillin' his tag! Murphy's law I guess?! Atleast I got a whole lot of r&r and it was the first time in my life I took that much time off in a row. All in all it would have been nice takin' something home, but easier empty handed!

Well I tried walking one up this morning but a blizzard is going on here. Lots of blowing and drifting snow and wind gust ..WOW!! I would guess some of them at 35 mph. I gave up this morning and then went out this afternoon and climbed up in my tree stand. Even though the wind was howling and the tree moving around, and the snow blowing, at the end of the day I touched off the Wolverine II loaded with 100 grains Pinnacle 3f and a #11 cap and it went off like a hot summer day.

Saw nothing of course, but at least got to be out in the woods...

to those that celebrate turkey day, Happy Thanksgiving.

cayugad,

Well, I tried your thing - we have a very short time left in rifle season so I put away the inline and dug out the old Renegade out. Got it loaded up last night so I could run out as soon as curriculummeetings were over today at noon. Got to my favorite deer spot got up the hill by 3:00. Really foggy but you could see about 75 yards or so- I felt pretty good about my chances... just cleared the fence look up the hill and a whitetail doe was scooting across the hillside - I waited a few minutes hoping that a buck might be trailing her - no luck... got up on top where I can look down into a saddle and a clear draw sat down and watched. It was a little more foggy up there but I still felt very good about the hunt. Sat there until dark - right at dark another doe crossed the draw below me but i decided to pass 1. - darkenss and 2. ML season starts Dec. 3-14 does only but I still get to hunt and that is really what counts...

We only get one deer here so I am being a bit picky...

Good luck!

Have a GREAT TURKEY day everyone