-
The SH Membership has gone live. Only SH Members have access to post in the classifieds. All members can view the classifieds. Starting in 2020 only SH Members will be admitted to the annual hunting contest. Current members will need to follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Click on your username 2. Click on Account upgrades 3. Choose SH Member and purchase.
-
We've been working hard the past few weeks to come up with some big changes to our vendor policies to meet the changing needs of our community. Please see the new vendor rules here: Vendor Access Area Rules
Live from the tree 2017 version
- Thread starter Erniepower
- Start date
Thanks guys.
I'm not a southern hunter at all (NJ), but it can be very warm here early season. I usually give them the amount of time I think they need and get right on the trail. If that means I have to go back and track at midnight or 1 am, so be it. That's what my high powered flashlight is for. I've been hunting a management program after work the past 4 years which makes it much more difficult on me early season. We are supposed to be out by 1/2 after hunting time ends. I can push that if I'm on a tracking job but I can't go back in the middle of the night. I just do the best that I can and deal with the rules/limitations that I have to.
I'm not a southern hunter at all (NJ), but it can be very warm here early season. I usually give them the amount of time I think they need and get right on the trail. If that means I have to go back and track at midnight or 1 am, so be it. That's what my high powered flashlight is for. I've been hunting a management program after work the past 4 years which makes it much more difficult on me early season. We are supposed to be out by 1/2 after hunting time ends. I can push that if I'm on a tracking job but I can't go back in the middle of the night. I just do the best that I can and deal with the rules/limitations that I have to.
DXD
Member
Red, I have been in similar situations twice before. Both times unable to find, after extensive searching with flashlights in the dark well into the night. Both times had to call it, go back out next day to find predators found my deer first. That's the breaks sometimes. I have never been in a situation though where the warm temperatures were the other "predator" I am competing with to find my deer first. I asked the question of spoilation time out of curiosity, nothing more. Not typically a situation we need to deal with "up North". Good job and persevering in tracking your deer.
I am not sure how you southern guys do it. Opening weekend here in WI with 80 temps and I just can't bring myself to go sit. I have 4-1/2 months to hunt with the bow and prefer the cool to cold temps. The mosquitoes are terrible in the swamps I hunt right now.
It's the humidity that gets you down here. Well, and the skeeters and gnats. We had the dip in the Jetstream bring us unseasonably cool dry air the last couple weeks. This morning that changed. I've been having coffee and tinkering before daylight with temps around 70, not breaking a sweat. This morning it was 73* when I walked outside, but about 237% humidity. I was pouring sweat within ten minutes.
I have an entire gear system (clothes, climbing method, sling, platform, etc - literally everything) specifically for temps above 70. The hunting isn't great when it's that hot any way, so my stinky sweaty nasty gear gets dedicated to that time. My most efficient and comfortable gear gets stowed until i'm not sweating like a dog.
I hunt near Angola prison (The Green Mile!), and between the hills, swirling winds, the incredibly aggressive mosquitos, gnats, ticks, red bugs, poison ivy, canebrake rattlers, I question my sanity pretty regularly. When I've had enough, I hunt the swamps, where we lose hills, gain water, and swap the rattlers for cotton mouths.
I'll let you in on a little secret though. When I hunt the Midwest, and no one is in the woods because its warm, I'm running around like a kid in a candy store. Anyone can hunt cold now with the technology and knowledge on clothing options. It's definitely an advantage to be used to the heat.
I understand it was out of curiousity, I didn't take it any other way
. I have had 2 other times where I lost a deer that I found. One was a buck that I had to wait overnight and it rained 3 inches overnight. I just couldn't find the bloodtrail in the thick stuff that night. The other was a doe that I gutshot. She again went into the thick stuff and bedded quickly. I didn't realize how close she layed down and I just went to double check my arrow. She got up and took off. I trailed her all over the next morning and I did find her, but unfortunately the coyotes got her first. They left me nothing but the spine and head.The meat on this one was not looking good so I'm not taking any chances. So as not to be a complete waste I took the opportunity to do a trial of the gutless method on her in my backyard. It took me a little under an hour, and I would have been packing out 37 pounds of meat on the bone, plus probably another 10 or so for hide and head. I did not try to get much off the ribs and neck as the flies and yellowjackets were coming out bad so there would have been a little more meat to pack.
Way to stay in the game Red!! Sometimes these things happen!! At least you recovered it.
Back at it again first two days and 4 hunts hoping to make it happen tonight!!!
In the tree and after bucks tonight. Not much going my way though but we'll see what happens. Deer everywhere off the side of the highway on my drive. Sweated my butt off on the way in. I use the sun to keep me in the shadows as I approach this bedding area but the clouds came out as I was walking in. Jumped at least 4 under my tree as I snuck in. That being said I'm in a tree and you never know what might happen!
Had the biggest buck I've seen in GA at 35 yards (I think) and I couldn't seal the deal. I'll tell the story tomorrow. I'm too much of a sad panda to type it out right now.
Sent from my Galaxy S8.
Sent from my Galaxy S8.
That sucks... maybe you'll get another shot at him...Had the biggest buck I've seen in GA at 35 yards (I think) and I couldn't seal the deal. I'll tell the story tomorrow. I'm too much of a sad panda to type it out right now.
Sent from my Galaxy S8.
Had the biggest buck I've seen in GA at 35 yards (I think) and I couldn't seal the deal. I'll tell the story tomorrow. I'm too much of a sad panda to type it out right now.
Sent from my Galaxy S8.
Sounds like a successful recon mission. You already located, next steps are to close in and destroy, er harvest, the target.
Go get him! Always a positive spin on things.
Had a little one walking around under me for 15 minutes a little before dark. Should have some good footage.
First sit in the kestrel. Nothing but a few turkeys. This tree was actually awesome for hunting from but would need to be preset. Just too many forks and limbs. A little over half a mile walk and was covered in sweat time I got up the tree.
- Joined
- Sep 28, 2014
- Messages
- 3,096
How are you not covered sweat?Had the biggest buck I've seen in GA at 35 yards (I think) and I couldn't seal the deal. I'll tell the story tomorrow. I'm too much of a sad panda to type it out right now.
Sent from my Galaxy S8.
Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
I'm sure he was. I'm 800 miles north and I was!
