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LIVE from the saddle 2023

DelaWhere_Arrow said:
Noticed babies/juvies making their own nests in late September, so how does that timing stack up? Never paid attention to squirrel rutting before.
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I actually don’t know the logistics of the squirrel rut but I have noticed an increase in action in December lol
 
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Second hunt using a RM1 and I gotta say, I don’t think I like this on my tether at all. I think I trust it, but obviously I don’t because my prusik is set 6-8” below it. I may try on LB instead, and maybe it’d be more comfortable if I was in my saddle platform as opposed to this old LW hang-on, but this is the tree I want today. jury’s still out on this thing. I just don’t see it being idiot proof, and unfortunately that’s what I need.
Sitting between a couple of ag fields, a small food plot that’s dried up by now, and a small pond that’s thawing as I type. Trynna fill my last grocery tag for the year and make up for some meat that spoiled due to a long tracking job on a warm day. Hoping to slot a nice nanny while she’s transitioning cover as the day warms up. They usually come through at daybreak or stay in the big fields until the warmer temps turn over from the frozen night.
There are about 95 squirrels having it out with each other, but I only have one small game arrow and I want to use it on a bunny I’ve been scoping.
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Keep using it they’re great. You’ll grow to trust it.
 
Last sit of the year. Wife told me l can go away in the morning so kids can decorate for my birthday party. Best possible day plan ever. 39...wow. still a while to go before i need to wear real diapers under the 'hunting diaper ' that my wife call saddles. Sitting at edge of what appears to b bedding. Decent size doe or buck only. Hope you all had a good season!
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HuumanCreed said:
Last sit of the year. Wife told me l can go away in the morning so kids can decorate for my birthday party. Best possible day plan ever. 39...wow. still a while to go before i need to wear real diapers under the 'hunting diaper ' that my wife call saddles. Sitting at edge of what appears to b bedding. Decent size doe or buck only. Hope you all had a good season!
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Happy birthday! And many more.
 
Happy birthday @HuumanCreed you are just hitting your prime, man! You’re like a 3.5YO buck sporting a solid 155” set of sparring gear into the spring and leaving signposts in every thicket you can smell a doe near! Like Rocky Balboa in the fourth movie, lifting trees over your head in the dead of a Siberian snowstorm and fueled by the challenge of your rivals! Like Indiana Jones in Temple of Doom, damned if you’re gunna eat that monkey brain and hold on to your potatoes!
No seriously, happy bday and smoke a fat slab of venison as a gift to yourself.
 
DelaWhere_Arrow said:
Happy birthday @HuumanCreed you are just hitting your prime, man! You’re like a 3.5YO buck sporting a solid 155” set of sparring gear into the spring and leaving signposts in every thicket you can smell a doe near! Like Rocky Balboa in the fourth movie, lifting trees over your head in the dead of a Siberian snowstorm and fueled by the challenge of your rivals! Like Indiana Jones in Temple of Doom, damned if you’re gunna eat that monkey brain and hold on to your potatoes!
No seriously, happy bday and smoke a fat slab of venison as a gift to yourself.
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I feel older. My feet are freaking cold. This is the latest l have ever been in a tree. My army issue cold weather boot is not enough....really need to look into HuntWorth Heated boots or something.
 
HuumanCreed said:
I feel older. My feet are freaking cold. This is the latest l have ever been in a tree. My army issue cold weather boot is not enough....really need to look into HuntWorth Heated boots or something.
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Bro you don’t sound like Rocky in the fourth movie with that talk…I’m throwing up softballs here! Lol
 
HuumanCreed said:
I feel older. My feet are freaking cold. This is the latest l have ever been in a tree. My army issue cold weather boot is not enough....really need to look into HuntWorth Heated boots or something.
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You need good boots or socks man it’s gorgeous……. Not deer weather but hey! Just off wind I’m gonna kill or burn it out…. Got no signal for pics
 

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I went out today and tried them again. I started out in a little swamp that had sign of buck bedding. I set up and stayed about 30 minutes then talked myself into the idea that the sign was not fresh enough so I climbed down and decided to just walk a big loop around some hard to get to areas and see if I saw something better. Well. I did find something that looked good. I found an old logging lane with thick bedding to the west bordering some pines. There were some fairly fresh rubs along it and a scrape that had fresh deer tracks and some very large poos in it.

I set up in a pine overlooking the lane. I had great cover from a small cedar close by. I ended up seeing doe (maybe 2) at 3:30 about 60 yards out in the thick stuff. It was a good hunt. I felt like I was on some good sign. It was pretty remote where I ended up hunting for the evening. I don't think anyone had been in there. I plan to go thoroughly scout that area post season.
 

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Deer here don’t mind the water. Camera has bucks and does crossing at least once a day every day. I’m up against a big field so hoping if I shoot something it will be down in eyesight. I will be extra selective this evening. I did get some good late season scouting in as well. Lastly, I’m in a split tree and not super high up. I’m hoping it’ll provide the cover I need to get a shot. E2FCF872-5553-4170-9BCD-4229F162BBF8.jpegFF1EF1CF-4DC0-42E5-82F8-463DE9CE1171.jpeg
 
I decided to keep the phone in my pocket for a change, but went out for a hour after work today, targeting a bedding area that a very kind gents on here let me know about recently. (Seriously the kindness from people and advice on here is probably at least 50% of the reason I have had some success, the other 50 I figure is 40% luck, 10% me, though that may be generous. Anyhow I digress... )

I had two doe work in around 5 from quite a ways away, was able to hear and then see them at about 80 yards before swirling winds caused them to wind me and somewhat spook, but I think they never saw me and the wind switched, so after running off about 60 yards and hanging out there for 15 min or so they slowly came back and I was able to find one again/hear the other, just after last light she came back thru roughly the same area and I watched her path to the bedding area, sneaky little sidehill cut that I missed on initial scout. I might have had a shot about 10 min earlier and could see her silhouette clearly, but legal light had passed so the bow stayed on the tree while I watched where she went. Hopefully that was not only the ethical/legal right way to go, but also didn't educate her to my presence with a bad shot, and I'll get a chance tomorrow. I need to make a slight tree adjustment depending on the wind and I think I'll have a good play on this pinch point she came around. Now the decision for the morning- set up in roughly the same spot, with the sidehill adjustment, assuming at some point deer will be coming out of or (if I sit all day) going back into that bedding, or hike in a bit in the direction she came from, to have a better chance of daylight shots. Woods seemed a bit more open there which is why I didn't keep going today. (And it being a new spot I wasn't exactly sure where the deer would be coming in from). Tomorrow may be my last hunt for the season so I'm trying to not put too much pressure on myself, but the debate is on. I suppose the wind direction(s) will help me decide on the AM, and I may just climb down midday and move if I can think of a reason.
 
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