Is anyone else having a horrible season?
12-13-2008, 04:12 PM
#33
Super Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Seagrove N.C. USA
Posts: 7,281
RE: Is anyone else having a horrible season?
ORIGINAL: rustynobles
I have only missed 5 hunting days this season, and still only seen 5 deer since september. Please someone let me know that I'm not the only one. I know it's not a competition, but it's depressing when everyone around me has either killed monsters, or tagged out. I've killed a single doe, and have an empty freezer now. I'm using scent control, keeping the wind in my face, baiting (where it's allowed) and trying to stay in the shadows. I just don't get it. If anyone has any tips (besides buck bombs, and attractant scents, because I already use them) that may help me improve my luck the remainder of this horrible season, please let me know.
I have only missed 5 hunting days this season, and still only seen 5 deer since september. Please someone let me know that I'm not the only one. I know it's not a competition, but it's depressing when everyone around me has either killed monsters, or tagged out. I've killed a single doe, and have an empty freezer now. I'm using scent control, keeping the wind in my face, baiting (where it's allowed) and trying to stay in the shadows. I just don't get it. If anyone has any tips (besides buck bombs, and attractant scents, because I already use them) that may help me improve my luck the remainder of this horrible season, please let me know.
Because of this sucky economy, I haven't even gone deer hunting. [:@]
Being broke sucks.
Whats worse is, its only going to get worse.
No jobs = no money.
12-14-2008, 04:37 AM
#35
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ontario
Posts: 153
RE: Is anyone else having a horrible season?
I'm from Ontario and it hasn't been too plentiful up here either. Rifle season was incredibly warm (t-shirt weather) and our gang of 14 was only able to muster up 2. There is an unusually high amount of corn still standing in the fields to be combined around this area. In muzzleloader season, our gang of 2 only saw one deer all week (coming out of a corn field to a creek) and we got him but that was it. Several other gangs around here reporting the same type of luck.
12-14-2008, 06:12 AM
#36
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: grottoes,va.
Posts: 764
RE: Is anyone else having a horrible season?
ORIGINAL: vapredhunter
I killed the 9 point in my avatar pic during bow season,haven't seen a good buck since. seen a ton of does and passed alot ofsmall bucks.
I killed the 9 point in my avatar pic during bow season,haven't seen a good buck since. seen a ton of does and passed alot ofsmall bucks.
12-14-2008, 06:40 AM
#37
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Ohio,mid
Posts: 1,275
RE: Is anyone else having a horrible season?
I saw leagal shooters in PA during the bow season but no shots offered. Now in 1st week of gun I saw over 150 deer in the six days in the field. No legal bucks (must be 4 points one side to be leagal in my WMU). Lot's of young spikers and Y bucks. In Ohio i am seeing a lot of deer. I hunt Licking County and it has and will be successful on the private ground i hunt. It seems as though the Wisconsin boyos are really not seeing deer. This is being said on more than just this site.
12-14-2008, 01:03 PM
#39
RE: Is anyone else having a horrible season?
ole DD aint doin to good this year as far as seeing shooters ...Ive seen a few deer just not one I wanted to harvest ...we have a late muzzleload season this next week and Ill be out there hunting but its getting late in the 4th quarter ...but just being in the field makes it a great season for me.
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