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St Vincent Island

Sorry they uploaded twice those are a few pics of the terrain from the first and last day of the hunt. The rest of the time it was storming so I didn’t take any lol
 
Weldabeast said:
Explain that morning rule again....u have to leave camp by a certain time but can't climb a tree before sunup?
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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.
Basically get up at 5:30 and get out of camp and straight to the tree you’re gonna hunt or you miss the whole morning hunt because you can’t leave camp until 9am if you don’t.
 
They really seem to use that rule for safety in my mind. They don’t want someone walking around right before sun up and accidentally getting shot. It really discourages stalk style hunters and favors the still hunters. If you’re caught wondering around between 6:15am and 9am, they can make you leave the Island. So even if I shot one at like 7am, I wouldn’t get down and find him until 9.
 
Weldabeast said:
And from 9 on till dark u can walk and hunt..
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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.
 
You should plan on coming with next year @Weldabeast … it sucks being gone from the wife and kids from Wednesday til Sunday morning but the trip is a great learning experience and was a lot of fun outside of the wind and rain
 
Reallly cool hunt Inwent a couple of times several years back Killed a doe and a couple of hogs We took the cast. nets with us and fed every body fresh mullet Keep saying I am gonna do it again You definitely should go
 
Tapeworm said:
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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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.
 
I went on the primitive weapons whitetail hunt this past January with a group of buddies. Camped on the west end by Indian pass. If any of you were there you probably saw us dragging all our gear across in a jon boat attached to a seadoo lol. It's an adventure hunt for sure. All of our group saw whitetails (half of the group were hunting with bows) and several of us got to see sambar deer. We're going back again for the PW hunt in two weeks. Going to camp west end again. I'm ready to get down there.
 
Im 99% sure u aren't allowed to kill snakes on all of Florida public land....unfortunately I see dead snakes pretty regular from A-holes who can't just leave them alone
 
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I have a nice diamondback skin because I used to have a guy who would go hunt with me....he claims that the snake was being aggressive and chasing him and striking at him...he shot it and was gonna leave it out there....I called b.s. and no longer invite that guy....the guy at the check station wasn't happy and said we/he was lucky that there wasn't an FWC officer there that day...I didn't want to see it dead but also didn't want to see it go to waste either.... Leave the snakes alone fellas please
 
I got lucky and found a buck Thursday. Ended up fishing/tending camp for the rest of the weekend while my two buddies hunted.


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coosa1 said:
I got lucky and found a buck Thursday. Ended up fishing/tending camp for the rest of the weekend while my two buddies hunted.


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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!
 
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