Indiana Hunters
10-30-2010, 09:07 AM
#62
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location:
Posts: 1,000
I don't really have any promising connections. There is an outfitter up here that owns 14,000 acres that offers memberships to hunt whenever you want, at this point i may be forced into something like that just to get through this season until i find something else. I figure this late in the game, i'm probably going to have to spend money to hunt, be it on a lease or otherwise. I may try knocking on doors but i'm not holding out much hope that it will get me anywhere. That is a tough sell to begin with and usually the ones who tell ya yes are the ones who told the entire county yes as well.
10-31-2010, 07:05 AM
#63
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location:
Posts: 37
saw the same 6 or 8 point, and a doe last night, while my buddy 50 yds away saw a doe and two yearlings. he shot the doe, im kinda glad he did because her leg was all infected and torn up either from barb wire or a coyote. when we got down, her yearling kept blowing over where we found her
10-31-2010, 05:28 PM
#64
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: So. Indiana
Posts: 288
I'm in shock. I called the friend of the family this morning where i have hunted for 10 years and he told me he is allowing no hunting this season. I have no place to deer hunt. I managed to wiggle out of the family trip to Gatlinburg to go hunting and now i find out my spot of over 10 years if off limits. Unbelievable. His reasoning was because he had too many people in there last year. Didn't make any sense to me as he's the one who gave them all permission in the first place.
You don't have any state land in your area?
11-04-2010, 06:18 PM
#66
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location:
Posts: 1,000
Mississinewa is about a half hour away, but i'd sit out a season before i would hunt a place like that. Just my preference. Very very crowded from what i have heard.
I did luck out though and get a place to hunt today. My wife is an OB Nurse and got me permission at one of the doctors house. He lives just outside city limits on a private road, he is the very last house on the road and lives in a woods that stretches almost a mile and a half long and has a huge lake about 300 yards or so to his east. He only lets one person hunt and nobody had asked this year so it is me by myself in here. I'm not sure how much he owns yet but am going over there on Monday to talk to him and take a look. Looks nice from google earth though. Says he has deer coming into his yard and eating his plants.
I did luck out though and get a place to hunt today. My wife is an OB Nurse and got me permission at one of the doctors house. He lives just outside city limits on a private road, he is the very last house on the road and lives in a woods that stretches almost a mile and a half long and has a huge lake about 300 yards or so to his east. He only lets one person hunt and nobody had asked this year so it is me by myself in here. I'm not sure how much he owns yet but am going over there on Monday to talk to him and take a look. Looks nice from google earth though. Says he has deer coming into his yard and eating his plants.
11-05-2010, 05:12 AM
#67
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: The Hoosier State
Posts: 314
Sorry to hear about your luck bigbuck. Hopefully something will work out for you. Almost one week to go until shotgun opener and I can't wait. I am hunting on my parent's property in Monroe county. This year my dad and I have decided that if a deer that is not a young buck presents a shot it is going down. We have had too many does in our area lately. I think it is the time to take care of that. We have had two nice 9 points on our trail cameras but you just never know what will show up once the rut kicks in. It looks like we will have some nice weather for opening weekend. Not too cold and not too hot. Good luck to everyone!
11-09-2010, 10:55 AM
#70
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location:
Posts: 1,000
I ended up securing a 2nd place to hunt this weekend. A good friend that works with my wife said her dad owned about 30 acres but he doesn't hunt there as his family has some prime hunting ground in another location. I went out there yesterday to check it out and he had some real hogs mounted on his wall. Anyways it's not a bad area, has a creek that runs around the perimeter of the woods, and the neighboring properties are very thick and only hunted by 1 person on each property. The landowner has bowhunted back there a few times during the week after work and has seen 6 different bucks. I can see why he would hold out though after seeing what he has shot at his other ground. I saw at least 25 scrapes and a lot of good trails. He had a stand already up and told me i could use it and i put up one of my own as well. Been shooting the gun the last 2 days, it's ready to go.