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Who's starting to get excited for it? I like bow season but until I'm really successful in it I rely on the gun seasons to fill my freezer. Who's getting excited? T minus 3 days.

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No excitement here over any gun season. I will be out with the bow in NE Md.

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Well poo poo to you too. :)

I understand why though. Gun season is the reason I don't go out with a bow after all the gun seasons are over. I'd only go out in bow only areas after gun season.

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Same here, opening of "gun" season lost the thrill after I started bow hunting a few years back, My property borders a WMA and the deer trickle off the WMA all morning, "Boom-Flop".
But What I have learned to enjoy about opening day is "setting up" a youth or 1st time hunter and now My kids are getting old enough to go.

Slack

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Not to excited about it either but I will be out there also hunting in NE Harford county will be out definetly thurs and fri morning and evening last chance before the war starts sat. will also be going sat and sunday dad will have the muzzleloader and I will be carrying my bow. mom is actually having dinner early on thursday so we can go in the evening. hopefully we will get something good luck to everybody. ps anyone have the walkie talkies turn them on scan on sat and sunday and just listen. when I get board while hunting I just sit back and listen sometimes the conversations are preatyinteresting.

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Didn't you know that while talking on the walkie talkie the deer can't hear you? Also they can't hear you when BSing in the parking lot. Yeah, that is something I hate. I just stay away from all them and let them chase the deer to me. :)

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Is this Sunday one of the Sunday hunts in Md?

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yes

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Yes 11/30 is the Sunday open for firearms season in most counties that don't allow Sunday hunting. Hmmm... seeing as we can use bow during firearms season... does that mean we can use bow Sunday as well? I don't see why not, but thought I would get a consensus.

I will be out Thurs morning and all day Friday with my bow. As for Saturday/Sunday.... I am thinking that I will take my bow and sit on the far end of the property I hunt so that the orange army pushes them right to me. :D

Happy Thanksgiving Fellas.

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ok , since the only land i have been hunting all year is public and bow only the gun season only helps push the deer on that piece of land,
so i cant wait to bowhunt there wed or thursday of this week after the big push,

also i am pumped about opening day of gun i got picked to hunt in a lotery area in montgomery co , only 25 guys got picked to be there in sat. so for that im pretty pumped ,

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Getting packed today for tomorrow. Good luck to all!!!!

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That bad huh? I am guessing it went bad cause no one posted. It did not go well for me. Seen alot of deer, but also seenan idiot running behind them yelling my buck, my buck! when i talked to him he could not even say for sure if he hit it.

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me and my buddy was hunting public land in montgomery co, and we filled the freezers with a total of 9 deer on the day with a nice 7 pt with drop eyegaurd,
pics are at www.mdhuntingzone.com under harvest pics

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Link doesn't work for me, I see no harvest pic link on the main page and they want me to join to view the forums.

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rick this is me and my friends web site , i did not think you had to join to view forums, ill check into that and see what is going on , we are a new site so still working out the bugs lol, i would like you to sign up tho if you dont mind its free and pretty easy , would like to see some of your pics posted there also

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yeah the pics are in the forums under harvest pics ,, ( opening day public land )

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I just don't see the harvest pics thingee

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I saw a lot of deer but couldn't seal the deal. Most were running or were on the opposite ridge from me. Figures. I'll be going out this week hopefully as well as Saturday.

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I found the WMA off Ferrylanding Road while at work one day. How's that place for squirrel and deer?

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Sampson,
I walked that one a few years back in "off" season, but never hunted it.
I plan on doing my homework and scouting on a few WMA's this spring, and that one is on the list.

Nick

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I hunt Calvert Cliffs a lot and have been thinking about heading north a little. I saw that one a few years back when more interested in squirrel. I walked back about 100 yards but being I was supposed to be working I didn't go back much further than that. In Lusby I've seen three deer but only two since firearms season started. They ran into the direction of another hunter so I couldn't get a shot off.

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Man, i have not seen anything the last few days.

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Been hunting Meade? I didn't join this year for coaching youth football, but wonder how things are going over there.

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My wife has been sick this week and now I am. I have not even gone out this week. I have friends that went to patuxent river state park and my one friend said he saw 1 shoot through the bottom so fast he couldn't see anything through the scope except a little fur and a whole lot of trees. He then spooked a pack of them a little later.

I'm hoping to get out some this week and next weekend.

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Doug i joined this year and shortly after i regret it. they imposed a new rule thata buck must have a 15" spread to be a legal buck. The only thing i ever see there are 40-60lb deer and the feilds are becoming so overgrown it's really sad.
I do not see many food sources there and someone shot a 17lb deer. Hell a fawn should weigh more then that when born.
Not sure what needs to happen there but something does. Maybe charging more for the permits and putting some of the money back into the reserve. Maintaining the feilds and planting some food sources?

I have not hunted there except for some evenings when i take my son after school. If there was somewhwere else close i could take him after school i would.

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All the money that is charged for the permitt at Patuxent goes to paying the HCS staff . None goes towards the refuge . They are supposed to start strip mowing the fields ( call the refuge and keep putting bugs in there ear about the fields ) . I actuall like the new 15" rule I have seen many small bucks this season so we should have a very good crop of bucks .

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At the meeting they had decided to let all the fields either go back to wild or keep them mowed. Which ones I don't know. That was the govt agency that helps manage that area's decision.

I guess we'll need to adjust our strategies to finding the acorns since there will be no fields with plots in them.

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That's why i was saying charge more and put some money into the reserve. Have permit holders donate 10 hours per yearmowing grass and feilds, clearing the road ways and trails, ect...
15" rule is fine but maybe an adjustment for the youths. something like they had last year, 1 15" spread buck, 1 anything and 1 doe.

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Going to Patuxent Wildlife Refuge at Fort Meade tomorrow. I'd sure like to take a doe.

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Not a thing. 12000+ acres and 4 shots fired. Dang.

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Everyday I hunt there I saw deer . I killed this busted up 7pt yesterday on south tract

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It's my first year there and I guess I don't know where the deer are yet. [&:]

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I took an 8-pointer on 12/6 with black powder while I was hunting with my girlfriend. Had a chance at two does on 12/13, but it never quite worked out. Now hopefully I can get back out with the bow this week.:D