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Jeff!

Good luck to you on your hunt ,and remember pic's are important.I know all to well how every guy need's time away since I just got back and it sure make's a difference for sure . I sent you an e-mail ,I guess you'll get it when you get back .Have a good time and have a couple for me .

nubo

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Well guy's! it's me again ,I just got back from hunting .Today it was raining hard most of the day, and I never thought that I was even going to get out. Late this afternoon the rain subsided to a light drizzle, and some of my best hunting has been in this type of weather .Anyway's hunting I went. As I got to the property I'm hunting the owner's son decided to come with me .So we set up a game plan and away we went. As I got up into my treestand the sun was trying to come out ,so I figured this would be good since it's been raining all day, the deer will likely want to get out to feed .I climbed up in my tree and thought this was going to be a good night ,then the wind picked up.I hate the wind ,you can't hear and deer hate it as well because it nulifies thier defences against preditor's and hunters ,I was sitting in my tree and at times I thought I heard something but nothing appear's, That darn wind . After a couple hour's I get a cramp in my leg ,I go to stand up in my stand and as I turn toward the tree a chipmunk was staring me right in the face ,I almost fell out of my stand this chipmunk scared the crap right out of me ,but I guess I scared the crap out of him as well because he never touched the tree on his way down till he hit the ground. As it turned out the wind never stopped until I got back to my truck .I never seen a deer tonight, this is a first in this bush. I'm not surprised! the weather just didn't co operate today ,so hopefully tommorrow will be better . I guess I forgt to say that I spent an hour in the bush this morning setting up my scent and hanging my cloth's in the evaporator shed and spraying it with scent away all for not .Better day's ahead I'm sure .

nubo

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Hey nubo----seems like we are having the same problem with the weather,just not cooperating.Either its very windy,raining or both and the weather is seasonably warm.It will get better im sure-GOOD LUCK

P.S------did ya get my e-mail?

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Extreme1 !

Unless you just sent it I haven't got it yet, i thought maybe you were a ticked at me or something .As for the weather it seem's to have followed me home from the moose hunt .I'll try again tommorrow night .
I'm gonna put my impact Archery cosmic sight back on for tommorrow ,My Spott Hogg isn't doing the job in the low light condition's ,maybe next season I'll get a light for it.

nubo

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A little ticked at ya-a bit,im not getting any moose steaks this year;)
Naw----I sent it yesterday morning-about a page and a half.Please dont make me type it all over again[:o]

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Jason!

No seriously I never recieved it unless someone deleted it but the kid's don't go into the mail ,so I'm not sure where you sent it .check your sent box and maybe it's there and you can send it again without re writing it LOL.
Sorry about the Steak's but I do have some moose left from last season.
I guess that's no good either because they're not fresh LOL.

nubo

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Well guy's ,I just got back from hunting this morning .I was on stand by 6:15am everything was great when I arrived the wind was right and blowing in the perfect direction ,I heard something moving in the bush's about 6:45 but it was still too dark to see anything ,then it started to rain hard .I was hoping that it would be a brief rain but no such luck ,it then changed to sleet and then rain again .Within a couple of hour's my hand's were soaked so I changed my gloves, but it didn't take long for those gloves to get wet as well.I sat till 10:00am ,as long as I could take the dampness ,my intention's were to wait till 12:00pm but I couldn't take it any more .As it turned out I got out of my stand and went for a short walk, just to find that a nice sized buck had crossed the muddy road behind my treestand sometime in the night.The track is a good size, but I'm not sure that he's the buck that I've been chasing or not .I won't get out again till Wed night ,so maybe leaving this area alone for awhile will
do it some good, and maybe the weather will get a little better hopefully.
I don't mind the cold ,but this rain and sleet just make's it hard to stay in stand long.So Wed night it is and maybe I'll see something .

nubo

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Nubo
Well my opening day in WV was not as good as I'd hoped. I saw 2 does in the morning, but they never came closer than 60 yds. Then in the evening I watched a doe & fawn, along with two small bucks feed about 80-100yds away for 2 hours. They stayed in a 20 yd circle the whole time, just feeding back and forth. Then about 45mins before dark, the two bucks decided they'd had enough of each other and began to spar. I watched them spar for about 15mins until they pushed themselves over the ridge. I was hunting on the ground in the evening, and about 15 mins before dark I had a BIG raccoon come walking right up to me. He got within 6 feet of me. LOL, he never saw me sitting there. The weather was crazy though. About 2pm a cold front came through and wind, rain, big temp drop...it got nasty. But hey, it was still better than work :D Mabye next time!!!

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Still no luck!!!

Havent seen any of the buck from my stealth cam except the one that I missed on a severe downward angle. ( Im still kicking myself in the butt over that one)
I havent even seen any doe in the last four outings. The weather has been terrible though.
Saturday I sat in the afternoon pouring rain and decided to call my wife on the cell phone to check the radar loop on the weather channel. She said it was all green with rain and no breaks for quite a distance to the west. I decided to pack it in early and when I came home the rain was letting up. I checked the radar and noticed the fringe of clearing was almost upon us. In the next half hour the sun was peeking out and the winds died down. Man was I mad! I still had about an hour of daylight and simply could not make it back to my stand in time.
I guess she was fed up with all the hours that I had left her alone with our 5 year old and wanted me home, although she still swears that the radar loop she saw was indeed what she said it was.
Have time to get out tomorrow pm but they are calling for an inch of rain.
I will have to see what happens....

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MR D!

The weathers been terrible here as well my last 2 outing's I haven't seen a thing as well.Thois isn't normal I usually see something even if it's out of range.The forcast here for the next few day's is calling for rain ,but I won't get out till Wed and maybe Thurs but if the weather doesn't co operate then I'll wait till Mon and Tues .I know that the buck I've been chasing is still in the area since I seen him last week, and there was sign of a good buck on the road crossing into his favourite hiding spot,so I presume it's the buck that I've been chasing .I need for him just to make one mistake and he's on the wall. I obviously didn't scare him too bad if he's still hanging out in the same area . I just know he's gonna slip up sooner or later .

nubo