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LIVE from the Saddle 2024
- Thread starter Bigterp
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Was too cold to give an update this morning.
-1 windchill for Maryland opener in the mountains. According to my phone, it’s warmed up 4° since daylight. Lol
-1 windchill for Maryland opener in the mountains. According to my phone, it’s warmed up 4° since daylight. Lol
Sometimes I wonder why I do this
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Yup. Been there lol
That was all the snot in my beard completely frozen this morning
Dsabhunt
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2 degrees with the windchill. Let's hope whoever is digging around in here for acorns shows up
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Rockin’ the IWOM! Nice!!
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Shoot somethin team mateGamecocks win.
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Filled a boot crossing a creek. Lucked out and had an extra pair of socks. Prime time, let’s go.
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Packing extra socks??? I usually seem to end up with only one glove.
Got my deer packed out, and had such a weird exchange at the parking lot. I'm walking up to it and see a guy leaving a note on my car under the wipers. Right before he gets into his truck to leave he sees me, gets out and approaches me.
He asked me do I use a set of Tree Styx. I was completely caught off guard by what he asked and awkwardly replied yes, as those are my sticks I use. The guy got dead serious and asked if I stole his.
I got a little ticked off with the accusation and how quickly he asked that. Then it hit me he's probably talking about climbing sticks in general and not the actual brand. I asked him to clarify if he meant branded Tree Styx or generic climbing sticks. He replied generic. I laughed as I was thinking how the heck does this schmuck know I have tree styx.
He apologized and ranted how ticked he was they were stolen.
He asked me do I use a set of Tree Styx. I was completely caught off guard by what he asked and awkwardly replied yes, as those are my sticks I use. The guy got dead serious and asked if I stole his.
I got a little ticked off with the accusation and how quickly he asked that. Then it hit me he's probably talking about climbing sticks in general and not the actual brand. I asked him to clarify if he meant branded Tree Styx or generic climbing sticks. He replied generic. I laughed as I was thinking how the heck does this schmuck know I have tree styx.
He apologized and ranted how ticked he was they were stolen.
I think every sit I did during gun season here I dropped a glove out of the tree. I really gotta get one of those fishing hook set ups you have. For good reason is why I usually bring in 3 pair of gloves.Packing extra socks??? I usually seem to end up with only one glove.
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I have thought about extra socks a ton of times but never put them in the pack. I wished I had some at least 2x this season.
@NMSbowhunter , I didn't bring an extra hitch cord but I will tie one on for Spaghetti SRT tonight while everything is in to dry out
@NMSbowhunter , I didn't bring an extra hitch cord but I will tie one on for Spaghetti SRT tonight while everything is in to dry out
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So we had some Alabama cold weather 26-28 that morning so I told myself I need to change socks at the base of the tree because my feet will be sweaty from the bike in. I never changed them that morning hunt so I still had them in the pack. My feet did relatively well but did get cold after 4 hours. I’m not usually an overly prepared guy, just lucked out this time!Packing extra socks??? I usually seem to end up with only one glove.
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mschultz373
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Last day of rifle for thanksgiving split. Dead calm and silent. I shot 3 deer in this area last season and always saw game. None so far. Spy the two derelict stands in the photo
One of the best sits of my life so far today. 32 deer. Only got down to restock the hand and foot warmers and move my tree closer to the majority of the action.
What a day on stand. It's comical to me how the roles of father/kids change as we get older.
When I was a kid, I had no patience for hunting. No confidence on stand I would see something. He had to instill those skills in me.
Fast forward to today, Non stop hilarious drama on stand. First, he realizes he dropped his vape somewhere on the way in. Youd swear his world was crumbling around him.
We see doe non stop for close to an hour. Not a half hour goes by and starts with how dead the woods are and nothings around, saying there's more action in morgues than this place.
When the sun rose, the glare drove him insane and starting complaining how much this stand sucks because of the sun.
Then at 10 o'clock, right on cue for him, he has to take a dump while doe are bedded not 50 yards away.
Then an hour later he goes for his thermos, and something was wrong with it so his coffee was cold. That rant lasted 5 minutes while following up again how dead it was.
I tried to ease his mind showing him cam photos from nearby how many bucks pass by this stand. He starting laughing and said those bucks wouldn't get caught dead being near a crappy stand like this.
Babysitting all day and this is the deer hunting I live for. Drama never ends lol
When I was a kid, I had no patience for hunting. No confidence on stand I would see something. He had to instill those skills in me.
Fast forward to today, Non stop hilarious drama on stand. First, he realizes he dropped his vape somewhere on the way in. Youd swear his world was crumbling around him.
We see doe non stop for close to an hour. Not a half hour goes by and starts with how dead the woods are and nothings around, saying there's more action in morgues than this place.
When the sun rose, the glare drove him insane and starting complaining how much this stand sucks because of the sun.
Then at 10 o'clock, right on cue for him, he has to take a dump while doe are bedded not 50 yards away.
Then an hour later he goes for his thermos, and something was wrong with it so his coffee was cold. That rant lasted 5 minutes while following up again how dead it was.
I tried to ease his mind showing him cam photos from nearby how many bucks pass by this stand. He starting laughing and said those bucks wouldn't get caught dead being near a crappy stand like this.
Babysitting all day and this is the deer hunting I live for. Drama never ends lol
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I set that scrape again that I hunted back on Friday evening. It's in an interesting spot where open woods butt up to thick pines and the area the scrape is in is a micro transition of young volunteer pines and brush that is only about 6 to 8 feet tall. From the stand it is really easy to see how it lays out. Basically, it is a narrow strip of cover that runs from one thick area to another and connects two East/West cruising corridors to the North and South of big, thick bedding areas. When I find active scrapes in this sort of spot I pay attention.
Yesterday I took a doe tarsal with me and drug it East to West from the scrapes about 75 yards in both directions and then hung it near the scrapes. I climbed the same tree I was in the other evening. The tree is a little smaller than I like but it has excellent cover. I just climb up and ease around into a little pocket of cover and I am very well hidden.
Nothing showed, and I will let that spot rest. I do think that I will eventually kill something there, maybe not this season, but I am guessing that this is a perennial scrap, so time will tell. I don't think it is a primary scrape spot. The cover is just not dense enough, but post season I need to dive off in there and look for a primary scrape location nearby.
There was nobody in the woods yesterday afternoon. It was night and day different than two days prior. I guess they ran out of ammo, lol.
Yesterday I took a doe tarsal with me and drug it East to West from the scrapes about 75 yards in both directions and then hung it near the scrapes. I climbed the same tree I was in the other evening. The tree is a little smaller than I like but it has excellent cover. I just climb up and ease around into a little pocket of cover and I am very well hidden.
Nothing showed, and I will let that spot rest. I do think that I will eventually kill something there, maybe not this season, but I am guessing that this is a perennial scrap, so time will tell. I don't think it is a primary scrape spot. The cover is just not dense enough, but post season I need to dive off in there and look for a primary scrape location nearby.
There was nobody in the woods yesterday afternoon. It was night and day different than two days prior. I guess they ran out of ammo, lol.
