Lets go! You got 5 more points in ya. Get it doneI'm back in a tree. I have today, tomorrow, and maybe a day next week to fill a doe tag. I can't remember the last year I didn't shoot a doe.
Don't love this spot no real fresh sign, but we'll see. I shoulda set up the first spot I scouted but it's too late to run back there.
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Ha, I dont think I could figure it all out if I had 3 life time to do it.
Good luck!Hoping to get one more sit in this weekend, that will be it for me
Jealous, been wanting to get a dog to squirrel hunt with for a while now. Be interesting to see how long it takes him to start sniffing them out for youGood luck!
Possibly you all don't care lol but I forgot to update you on my birthday hunt; the first with my pup. He turned 1 last month. Done a ton of obedience work with him. Lots of retrieves. Teaching him to find shed antlers but haven't worked much on teaching him to find squirrels besides when we're on walks saying squirrel when we see them and then commanding him to go get it so he chases one up a tree. Unfortunately we didn't see many on the ground on our hunt, he didn't know what exactly he was sniffing for, but boy would he go searching for them when I told him to. He was unsure what to do with them when the first one hit the ground, the second he saw fall and was ready to get it but then still like wth do I do with this now. By the third he was amped up and ready to toss it around and play with it lol. For the first try, he was amazing. He listened better than he ever has and most importantly he had the freakin time of his life which made the day so awesome. I loved it. I think he'd be an amazing duck dog but my wallet sure doesn't need me to start a new hunting venture haha.
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Oh I know, but while my bucks are still holding, I ain't worrying about a doe lolYou can enter a second buck it will just count as a doe.
The public places I hunt, the crops on private will get rotated and the deer may summer just a little different than the one before, but they always cut 2 weeks or so before season opens and when they do, the deer shift to they're usual haunts and they use same areas each season and like I said earlier, bucks always seem to show up within a day or 2 of the year before.interesting. i need to keep that in mind.
on my public, they plant stuff and change what/where they plant drastically which shifts the herd (bedding and feeding). my MO is to find what/where they planted in late summer and start looking for fresh sign and put up a few cameras for inventory. during season, i scout for a few hours and then hang where i scouted a few days ago. rinse and repeat. i just hunt fresh sign. i'll try to keep better notes this year but i'm a little skeptical for my situation.
has anyone noticed this using notes or cameras on public?
@Will Harris I just looked and here's a couple pics from public I hunt, last year and this year, same buck, same scrape, a year to the date, first time to get him each year on camera. He then would spend the next 2 weeks or so in the general area before moving on. Closest I've came was one morning this year he was on a camera about a 100 yards from me, but it's so thick I never knew it.
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It made me unbelievably happy, man. Hoping to build on it a few more times this season. Anyone have any favorite squirrel recipes?Jealous, been wanting to get a dog to squirrel hunt with for a while now. Be interesting to see how long it takes him to start sniffing them out for you
Yup, that sucks. Live and learn. Gotta have the phone out earlier or not at all lol. I'm hoping to get out Friday. My bow is itching for one more chance. Cameras show a lot of deer moving this morning.. probably because we're supposed to get 2-3" of rain tomorrow and 60mph gusts. Wishing I would have got my blinds down when I was out with the pup. Hopefully they survive the winds and I don't have new purchases to make for the kiddosI went this evening. 5-6 years ago I found some good sign this time of year while squirrel hunting and I've never made it back there. So I slipped in about 1 pm and sign looked nearly identical to the past, so I quickly found a tree and climbed up. Well bout 4 I had a spike come by, about 445 I could hear something coming in the flooded timber, so I got ready, listened to it for probably 2 minutes before I saw it, deer at about 60 yards, then a 2nd, and a 3rd angling towards me. Finally they popped onto dry land about 40 yards from me. 3 doe, angling to the south, they piddled under a red oak then started towards me. Never heard anything else so I decided to video them, lead doe was at about 25, went to unzip my jacket pocket and get my phone and quiet as I could I unzipped it about an inch and she FLIPPED OUT. Other 2 didnt know what the hell but she run back to about 50 and kept looking around, they went to her and they started angling north at 50 yards headed away from me, as the last doe got out of sight when i see another deer at 50 come out of the water, never made a sound and followed the doe's It was a 15-16" wide 8 that was that tall off his head. Not really long tines, just tall racked. If it weren't for spooking that doe, I'm confident I'd had him come by at 20-25 yards, oh well... that's how spooky and pressured these deer are here.
That's rough, I try to keep my phone tucked in the back side of my bino harness or in an unzipped pocket myself.I went this evening. 5-6 years ago I found some good sign this time of year while squirrel hunting and I've never made it back there. So I slipped in about 1 pm and sign looked nearly identical to the past, so I quickly found a tree and climbed up. Well bout 4 I had a spike come by, about 445 I could hear something coming in the flooded timber, so I got ready, listened to it for probably 2 minutes before I saw it, deer at about 60 yards, then a 2nd, and a 3rd angling towards me. Finally they popped onto dry land about 40 yards from me. 3 doe, angling to the south, they piddled under a red oak then started towards me. Never heard anything else so I decided to video them, lead doe was at about 25, went to unzip my jacket pocket and get my phone and quiet as I could I unzipped it about an inch and she FLIPPED OUT. Other 2 didnt know what the hell but she run back to about 50 and kept looking around, they went to her and they started angling north at 50 yards headed away from me, as the last doe got out of sight when i see another deer at 50 come out of the water, never made a sound and followed the doe's It was a 15-16" wide 8 that was that tall off his head. Not really long tines, just tall racked. If it weren't for spooking that doe, I'm confident I'd had him come by at 20-25 yards, oh well... that's how spooky and pressured these deer are here.