Here it is, early November, and first deer camp is coming up next weekend. I have been out bow hunting and muzzle loader several times. Could have shot a doe broadside at twenty yards a hundred times. But it was 10 minutes into my first muzzle loader hunt, and I just couldn't. This guy below I would take though, should he get weak and appear in daylight.
Below we see what we call the "leap of Life" She is fleeing something by jumping over a planting of Brassicas. Now that we have gone to 19 degrees, the starches have turned to sugar, and the whitetails love them.
Turks aplenty, and everywhere. Six feet from my office window.
I am hoping to meet this gentleman sometime before hard winter sets in...
Returning from the Far Ridge late afternoon hunt.
I know this one. He and his mate are familiar visitors to the farm.
Bear season here is over, and 37 were taken from this area. But still we see them on camera with regularity.
These two are feasting on an apple crop even they can never keep up with this year's crop.
A snarl warning the camera flash to bug off!
More snarling over who gets the last apple. These two are siblings, born spring of 2014. It is Mom's time to breed again, and she tossed them out, or got taken during the season. These two will be fine, and will den separately and go their own way come spring.
I'd take him with a bow...
The twins again. I see that the camera reads 2006, but these were just the other day. I did have a little six pointer blow the camera out, and suspect the year got changed during that battle. It has been corrected!
Well, camp opens Friday at noon. We'll try to get some decent deer, and decent pictures and come back with a post here soon! Let me know what you are doing this season!
Wishing you GOODHUNTING this season, Jack! I'll be back to check in on you! Youth season will be on the 14th and then rifle season the next weekend. Hope I get a deer or two this coming season. Last season (Jan 17, 2015) I got two hogs with one weighing 180 lbs. and I'm still eating on that sow. :) Have a great week! Marian :)
ReplyDeleteHi Jack: Went hunting south of town over a weekend in November and saw no deer. Was told by owners that there was a bear on the property but I hunted anyway on the right side of a ridge. So when I got there to hunt the left side of a ridge he said that they had killed a deer on the left side of the ridge and was looking for it when a bear showed up and roar at them so they ran from the bear. So I hear this after my Sunday afternoon hunt. I'm sitting looking right at a den at the bottom of a ridge and a bayou. I will not be going back. Hopefully, will get offered another place to go hunting most likely after Christmas. Right now it is primitive weapons. Rife season starts back on Dec. 24-21 of Jan and then back to primitive weapons till the end of January. Want to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and will be checking in to see if you got a deer or two. Marian :)
ReplyDeletePlenty of animals roaming around, always makes for a dreamy place. Would love to see more pictures of these beauties. :)
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