My 2009-10 season Recap (Pictures)
 

Here is my 2009-10 season in a nutshell. Just some pictures of what I have going on as far as setups and everything I only saw like 3 or 4 deer all season so there's no pictures of game sadly. I wish my season went better for me but that's not how the dice rolls.

Hope you guys like them however. Let me know what you guys think. (I was trying to have pictures from every hunt I went on but my mom took her camera back after about 5 hunts hahah!!)

Ryan.

Waiting for Mark to show up and meet me to leave for Maryland.

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Arrived in Maryland Setup camp, getting ready for the first hunt.

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Shots of Camp

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more shots of camp

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One of the first setups I hunted. An old road thats no longer in use.

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Some of these look the same but some are from the morning and some are from the evening.

After Being Unsuccessful in Maryland I came up to PA again and tried my luck up here.

The Tracks Don't Lie.

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I'm fairly sure this is the first hunt I did in PA, this is where I saw my giant buck last year, This year it wasn't the case. However It was the only place I saw deer.

The first two are pictures of where I saw my buck last year.

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This is looking the opposite direction

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some Pictures of myself in that tree Setup. (no animals to shoot so I took some pictures of myself.

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This is what I had to do to get service up in that stand. Can you guess what I was doing??

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onto my 3rd hunt (I think) I say I think because It may be the 3rd one I had the camera for because I know for sure hunt 4 isnt my 4th hunt just the 4th I had the camera for.

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more of hunt 3 setup on a oak flat kinda Just a place white oaks were dropping worse than a hail storm.

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A Different View of the same hunt.

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Me In my ultimate camo Taken from my phone, It was getting dark and still haven't seen anything.

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Hunt 4ish. Like I said hunt 4 may just be the 4th time I had my camera with me.

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Shot from my climber friends father in laws property they saw a 160 running in here later in the season (was killed in rifle season). My genius self forgot that I needed a bow holder because I wasn't in one of my pre-hung stands. So I got to sit there and hold it all night.

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(hunt 4tr)

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another one from hunt 4 Trying to stay positive. Its tough sometimes but hey If its the passion that you have, Its not a problem to stay positive when your not doing as well as you had hoped.

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All In all I dont consider my season a failure. I saw a few deer. 3 or 4. Took about 25 hunts but I finally saw a one horned spike. Then the last day of the season I saw a doe and a spike not sure if I saw another spike they were too far anyhow. I would have been tickled shooting a doe but thats how it goes.

Sometimes your Up and sometimes your Bust. And when your up its never as good as it seems and when your down it feels like you'll never be able to get back up again but life goes on.

Hopefully my 2010 season will be a lot more productive. I hope that I can score something for my team I still can hunt in PA and MD but I Dont have the time to. The bottom line is I'm safe and didn't have any major incidents to speak of. Not like last year where the guy pulled a Gun on me.... That was a scary day in the stand.


Ryan.

Thanks for posting' great pics!

Just bypass MD next year and come to IL, I will take you. Cool pics.

That sounds awesome and everything but door to door I have around 290 bucks in the entire trip that includes campsite eating WELL, gas, liscense, everything you need. lol and 290 is a high estimate. How much ballpark would it cost me?

Ryan.