mn trucker

last week of muzzle season and i haven't seen a thing. i think i'm done with stand hunting now it's time to just walk. i took the week off and i can't get motivated to go anymore.It's been a long season with just 1 doe taking with bow in Nov. i passed a few small bucks and now when i just want meat i don't see anything. hope you guys are staying motivated and good luck.

thanks for the advice all through out the year i manly just read and not talk

cayugad

I know exactly how you feel. It has been a long season in Northern Wisconsin. I have not seen any bucks this year, and I do not want a doe. Actually I am not as meat hungry as I used to be, because I could have shot a doe if I wanted to.

I got on a good big track and a smaller one,this morning on one of my skid trails. With the new snow it was easy to follow. I was hoping they would lead me to some solo large tracks but no such luck.



I walked them out to the marsh and all the way to the National Forest. I got to thinking that while it was fun tracking them, I would probably find a large doe and a smaller one at the end of the track. So when I hit the forest road, I walked back home. It's now snowing again, so things are going to be a little ruff later. Right now sitting by the woodstove with a cup of coffee is a lot better then having snow fall down the back of my collar.

Good luck to you. I hope you get some meat for the freezer...

flounder33

Things have been slow for me in southern Minnesota also. Personally, I think a nice fat doe would be perfect for our table but Iwould also take a buck. I just have to think the numbers are down here.My own small woodlotdoes not have the deer we've had in previous years. I have some other great places to hunt but things have been slow. I see tracks and other deer signbut I am convinced that the deer are doing almost all their moving at night. Anyway there's afew days left, I hope you have some luck.
Art

Semisane

I feel for 'ya, guys. Here's a picture I took from one of my stands Saturday morning. Have taken one 110 lb. doe so far, and passed on at least a dozen does and eight bucks of 4 points or less. In our club, we allow two does per man, one five or six point buck, and two bucks of 7 points or more. However, none of the guys shoot a five orsix unless it obviously anolder deer.

Rut won't kick in around here until the third week of December, and the big bucks just aren't moving much yet. Seeing a lot of good size tracks though.

frontier gander

4th season hunters in CO had some beautiful weather today, 73*!! Looking at rain on saturday. Just a real crappy year for hunting. Hopefully next year is back to the normal, freezing weather and snow.

Semisane

Ain't nothing "normal" 'bout that. Just plain freaky.

cayugad

Semisane... how far from your stand to that feeder?

Semisane

It's 125 yards to the feeder - 170 to the tree line at the back of the food plot. That brush line you see at the front of the food plot is actually a small bluff that drops down about twenty feet. Sometimes, when the wind if right,I sit right there in the brush at the top of the bluffand have a "close up and personal" with the deer on the plot. Earlier this year I watched two does, three yearlings, and two spikes playing tag on the plot. Got a real good chuckle.

BowHuntingFool

I killed a Doe opening day this year with my bow and another one a week later, it seemed like that was last season it's been so long ago[8D]! Were gitting 3 -5 inches of snow right now so should be a quiet sit in the AM!

I hear ya its been a LONG season! I have had success with my Bow and my Rifle. I'm still wanting to kill something with the Flintlock though! I'll be out again in the morning but I tell ya its getting harder and harder to get out of bed at 4:45 am nowadays! We still have 4 weeks of hunting left here in Wisconsin so I'll hunt till Jan 6th as hard as I can! Hopefully kill something in the snow this late season!

...then its Coyote calling time........

Bake North

We have the cold weather but the freezing rain we got the night before our muzzy season opened 2 days ago is not helping.Not seeing a lot of deer this year
but some years it happens,frusterating but just have to keep plugging away.Heading back out tommorow.