Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

[walrus]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

Here's a story that hits close to home, why, I have deer all around my property.

http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues...ings/karenwood

[gscott13]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

Here's a story that hits close to home, why, I have deer all around my property.

http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues...ings/karenwood

i remember this well... we talked about it in my hunter safety course...

about a year later my father was almost shot by some ******* who was in a group that touched off a couple of rounds trying to jump something... a round hit the tree about 30 feet above my father's stand... he hasn't been back n the woods since...

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

about a year later my father was almost shot by some ******* who was in a group that touched off a couple of rounds trying to jump something... a round hit the tree about 30 feet above my father's stand... he hasn't been back n the woods since...

This is why deer drives should never be attempted by triggerhappy idiots. "Oh yeah, I'm just gonna randomly touch one off and try to scare them out of that swamp/thicket/whatever."

Honestly, my family has never seen it necessary to try and push deer out of hiding - go scouting early, find a place to put a blind or a treestand, and put your time in. If you did your homework, you should see something. Over a period of years, you can adjust a blind's location relative to deer patterns and habits until it produces deer a majority of the time (though I realize this is a lot easier when you hunt on private land).

[gscott13]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

This is why deer drives should never be attempted by triggerhappy idiots. "Oh yeah, I'm just gonna randomly touch one off and try to scare them out of that swamp/thicket/whatever."

exactly...

and put your time in.

or as my father called it, "getting away from your (my) mother"

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

Got my buck late this afternoon. I was on stand, on a drive, once the drivers went past me, and I was out of the drive I walked back to the trucks, so I could go pick up the other guys, so they didn't have to walk so dam far. I get to the trucks, unload and case my gun, as I'm about to open the door of the truck I see a nice buck running across the corn field, so I hurry up and pull my gun out of the case. I only had enough time to get one shell in, pulled up and plugged him just as he was about to jump a line fence. Overall, I was mostly just lucky. The rack wasn't real impressive, it was a 9 point, because it had an extra brow tine on one side, but the body was HUGE, he weighed just over 200 lbs fully dressed out.

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[Hopkinja]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

Buck season doesn't start in PA until Monday. Most of the schools have that first day off (making a very long Thanksgiving weekend).

The three days before Thanksgiving are bear season.

[hockeyplayer1015]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

Was able to get in the woods today for my 1 day this season, ended up getting a 7 point tonight on afternoon watch, my first buck of my life. Roughly 110 pounds, probably 2 1/2 years old or so. I'll have pictures up later this week hopefully. Same thing happened last year (same stand, actually), except it was a 95lb doe instead.

[hockeyplayer1015]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

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Ended up dressing 115 or so.

My friend got this 9 pointer the week before, dressed 170.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2422/9point.jpg

[Plante26]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

If not for booze, this deer season would've been a total waste.

Muzzleloader season for the next seven days. Hopefully a turn in the weather will get the effers moving.

[hockeyplayer1015]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

If not for booze, this deer season would've been a total waste.

Muzzleloader season for the next seven days. Hopefully a turn in the weather will get the effers moving.

It has been real tough going over to the east too so far from what I've heard. Only this past weekend did anybody start seeing a lot of deer.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

If not for booze, this deer season would've been a total waste.

Muzzleloader season for the next seven days. Hopefully a turn in the weather will get the effers moving.

You aren't alone. My family's season was officially a bust.

My dad and uncle are looking forward to their third consecutive trip to Alabama in January, hopefully they can stock our freezer down there.

[fritz]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

[goldy_331]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

*white deer video*

Does white deer meat taste like chicken? Until it snows they must be a lot easier to shoot.

[ARM]

Re: Whitetail deer hunting - 2009

Until it snows they must be a lot easier to shoot.

Except for the part about it being illegal. We had an albino "grey" squirrel around here for about a year, until it disappeared in the fall when the leaves fell. I'm guessing some hawk spotted a meal from a mile away.