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They did away with the water taxi service, I took my boat. Have to make two trips to get my buddy, myself and our camping gear/hunting gear and bikes acrossdid u have a boat or did u pay for a ride
You are required to be at you tree or blind half an hour before sun up (legal shooting hour begins) so not to interfere with hunters during prime legal shooting hours. If you aren’t gone from camp at least 20 minutes before legal shooting hour, you cannot leave the camp area until after 9am.Explain that morning rule again....u have to leave camp by a certain time but can't climb a tree before sunup?
Yes sirAnd from 9 on till dark u can walk and hunt..
There was a group of guys from south Florida that were somehow affiliated with Fl Camo, they were all stalk hunting and had scouted over the summer. They came up empty handed. By Saturday they were asking us where we had found the two bucks we shot at (I missed a 6pt, and my buddy had missed an 8pt the following evening about 150 yards from where I missed mine. Shooting arrows when the wind is over 30 mph was rough. From the ground, it might have been a little better though. The whole trip ended up being a good marketing opportunity because only me, my buddy and one other guy there hunted out of saddles, and I was the only Ddrt/SRT climber so every evening and some lunch hours, I was asked about the saddles, show them how we got up the tree… shooting from the saddle, platform options… all that good stuff. I was ready to go home by the time it was over lol.And from 9 on till dark u can walk and hunt..
No guests on the whitetail hunt just you. However….I wanna go real bad.....u are allowed a guest on whitetail hunts? I think the sambar is u and no guests
I went this year and there were no fenced off sections and the NWR ranger warns you prehunt that “there are 2 red wolves running around and it is a felony to shoot them. They are not coyotes and the hog have been eradicated (haven’t seen a hog in 3 years now on the island) so you can only shoot the legal animals that you hunt.” You can’t even kill a snake (we had a 7’ rattler roll into our camp for about 20 minutes on Friday). So for anyone who goes moving forward, the red wolf are running around out there. They did however have sections closed to hunting for the eagles nesting zones. The island is huge. We walked over 6 miles each day and didn’t cover 1/3 of the island. All in all it was a good time. I saw a sambar hind one morning. They are huge. I’d love to luck up and draw that particular hunt some time.An old acquaintance hunted it several times with a group application
They brought a couple boats and drove themselves to island
They’ve been twice and got a nice sambar one time
He said put in as a group cuz it’s a bitch getting a sambar out even with help
Whitetail tags are usually easy to get
The red wolf project was in a fenced off-limits section and they weren’t roaming the island
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Man that muzzleloader hunt seems like the time to go. Cooler weather, less wind and they are probably in pre rut right now! Awesome deer!I got lucky and found a buck Thursday. Ended up fishing/tending camp for the rest of the weekend while my two buddies hunted.