Funny enough...I bought some Wrangler camo shorts in Vegas a while back for fun (and a smokin deal $5) Looks like I'll be putting them to use this yearAlthough the legs may not hold up well to the thorns & thistles[8D]
JDinAB

JD, sorry when I said 34 degrees, it wasnt official...that was what my ol Ford thermometer said this morning at 7am. It was a cold morning for us though...sorta refreshing ya know. I live just below San Antonio, Texas........God's Conutry!

Yes doubleA our time is fast aproching and I'm PUMPED!As I said we just need the right temps. But we will have to play the hand that's been delt us. I'm real confident and that's important. We'll be insome of the best Whitetail country anywhere! Good luck on your hunt and keep us posted.

Just hold on Halloween is coming and itcan neverbe nice for the kiddie's candy grab it seems.

JD, those are some great pics you have inspired me Ithink I will start packing a camera on my trips to the blind. I snapped a few pics when I set up earlier but being my good camera isn't back from getting repaired from the elk trip mishap, I have gone without. I just may have to take the crappy one for the time being!

Here is a picture of my home away from home...it also may become my new home by the end of the season!!!!

Here is my main window a nice little meadow/staging areathat is surrounded with willows before the deer filter out to the alfalfa fields bordering these woods. I have setup so I am as far back as possible (100 yards) from the fence line which acts as their mainpath to and fro. Also directly in front of the blind is a cutter trail (50 yards through a smallsaddle)that the bucks use moving out of the willows/brush bedding areato the NE of my blind location, the majority of the does bed directly in front of the blind (which is N) but actually enter about 50 yards to the East as the 5 strandfence causes grief for the fawns. I also have a small shooting lane trimmed to theWest which is the backside of a large hill on the alfalfa. I like to hunt deeper in transitionbut this area just doesn't allow it, this is considered big bushfor the ML zoneas most the cover in the surrounding areas is small bluffs, sloughs, wind rows, etc.

Nothing to really look at but hopefully I can get a few snaps of some game in the coming sits. I am also bored, can't hunt till the later this week (provided the wind cooperates) & well this just keeps a guy going.






Best of luck to all in your upcoming hunts...keep us posted!

Just alittle guy mount taken at my cabin in the forest fringe a few years back. Needed something to add to the decor, so figered what the heck....Like I mentioned the wife don't care for them hanging around the house...boo! I now have my mans room finished and hope to start adding to the decor yearly. I am doing a Euro on the moose I took this fall and a good whitetail would be a great start.

Damn nice buck skeeter, that's what I'm talk'n about!

Skeeter...your area looks alot like mine except I'm in deeper the big trees. I always thought about using a blind but never really took the plunge. I love the vantage with tree stands, but there are some spots a blind would be ideal. Have you used it for bow hunting? Nice buck too! As for the wife not liking them on the wall, tell her to accept you the way you are. When I was dating my now wife, I brought her in to my place and said see "see those" pointing to the deer on the wall. They will always be part of my life, accept them and you will be part of my life as well (no lie). She did, and since then we have had many compliments on them as well as my other mounts. I find as long as they are done well they really do compliment a room. We have had a few people come over who don't like it but they don't stay long. I always say to my wife, if and when I leave this earth she'll look at those animals and see a part of me in each one, as she recalls thestory behind every hunt that Ialways talkedabout. She truly enjoys them then! I actually took a great horned owl to my taxidermist last nightCan't wait to get him back!!
JDinAB

Thanks fellas.

JD I have bowhunted in a similar blind & took afew animalsout of them. This one has a smaller shooting ports on 3 sides with the shoot thru screen but it to low for me comfortably to shoot on even terrain with the bow. The larger zippered flaps can be tethered down and this is what I'd do with this blind if using during archery. The blind pictured is a Ameristep Doghouse it works for 2, we are hoping to possibly video a couple of kills this year in the ML zone so I needed a bigger blind and building a permenant didn't make sense as I picked this thing up for 100 bucks on close out sale. This area pictured you can't tree stand hunt it effectively the trees are not large enough diameter for my 235lbs frame and the ones thatwould work aren't situated in the best location. Howeverthe real problem isI have deer bedding within 100 yards of the fenceline not bumping them would be near impossible, this wayI can slip in quietly and watch things come to life. It doesthe job at keeping the elements out which is the main concern and deer really don't pay any attention to it I have found. Ipicked up a snowcover for itthis spring off ebay...so if we ever get that white stuff I can adapt. I have treestands but it seems everywhere I hunt a pop up blind has more potential, this is the first one that truly does what it says pops up in a minute but better yet tears down in relatively the same amount of time. Your right though a treestand does offer a great vantage, it also is more practical for archery..if possible!

As to the wife, I am working on her. Got her to want a bear rug for the LVR in front of the fireplace, so I haven't lost the battle yet. I really can't complain she doesn't baulk at my hunting to much and lord knows she is left holding the bag a lot this time of the year. So Ichoose to appease her in this regard...at least for moment.

PS: Calling for the possibility of flurries on the 31st with a high of 4! Yeap that halloween does it every year it seems...although the weatherman are not reliable either!

Good Luck on your hunts. If all goes as plans we'll be in the Canadian woods at the crack of dawn Sun. morning hoping for a glimpse of that monster Canadian whitetail! Hope the weather cooperates, looks like the end of next week will be the best.

Good Luck