Team 7 Thread

[Mschmeiske]

Made it to Ohio and pulled cams this afternoon. One shooter on camera and another questionable one. Tomorrows the opener, we’ll see how the next four days go!

 

[BlessdHuntr]

Season starts a week from tomorrow. Looking forward to breaking in my new method 2 saddle.

 

[ofor]

Made it to Ohio and pulled cams this afternoon. One shooter on camera and another questionable one. Tomorrows the opener, we’ll see how the next four days go!

Good luck in Ohio

 

[Samcirrus]

My day to go out hunting was today.... but its pouring rain all day! Will try again tomorrow morning before I have to take my daughter to the circus by 4:30.

 

[OspreyZB]

Feels like a killin' day here in Jersey. Chilly morning, bluebird skies, and a stiff northwest wind. It's go-time.

 

[Thetrueredneck]

Getting ready to head out for the first sit of the season. Haven’t done any boots on the ground scouting due to workin so dang much but it will be nice to get out in the air again and hopefully my cyber scouting skills work lol. We shall see.

 

[krub6b]

My day to go out hunting was today.... but its pouring rain all day! Will try again tomorrow morning before I have to take my daughter to the circus by 4:30.

I believe it was Fred Bear who said a rain shower is a reason to keep hunting not stop hunting, lol. I'm not that dedicated this early in the season myself though, .
There was a nice congregation of bucks in the bottom fields of my family farm the last 2-3 weeks, but hay fields have been cut and oaks and persimmon trees are starting to drop here so I'll be heading to the ridges tomorrow evening watching a pretty good persimmon patch.
Good luck to everyone going out today

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[Mschmeiske]

Found some red oaks/pin oaks dropping near a marshy swamp and also a bean field. What do you boys think? Beans still looked fairly green if that matters. Had a good buck near the swamp on 9/1 and 9/10 but nothing after that.. not sure if he moved to a fall range or just dodging cams.

 

[baz77]

Found some red oaks/pin oaks dropping near a marshy swamp and also a bean field. What do you boys think? Beans still looked fairly green if that matters. Had a good buck near the swamp on 9/1 and 9/10 but nothing after that.. not sure if he moved to a fall range or just dodging cams.

They've been hammering the oaks for about the past week down here....That's my focus for the foreseeable future.

 

[OspreyZB]

Found some red oaks/pin oaks dropping near a marshy swamp and also a bean field. What do you boys think? Beans still looked fairly green if that matters. Had a good buck near the swamp on 9/1 and 9/10 but nothing after that.. not sure if he moved to a fall range or just dodging cams.

So how'd it go, did ya end sitting there?

 

[Mschmeiske]

So how'd it go, did ya end sitting there?

Ran into 2 people on the way in, but I sat the edge of the swamp with acorns nearby and a 3pt came strolling through at about 40-50 yards around 630 or so. That was it for the evening.

 

[dalton916]

Hunted public this morning and never climbed a tree. Trails everyone, saw fresh tracks where it was possible to see them, but never saw a rub, never saw a scrape, never saw an acorn, nothing that made me say “here, now, climb”. Walked 2.5 miles just slipping, listening and looking.

Pulled out at 1230 and went and got some slaw dogs.

Came back home and hunted a private spot a few miles from the house. Saw 2 on the way in. As soon as I got set up and as soon as I started strapping on my release a doe runs right up to my tree and stands there broadside at a max of 5 yards. She was right here…..

Did she walk in the direction she was going so I could kill her??? No, she hangs a right, trots about 25 yards and stops again. You can’t see her, but she’s in the green circle….

About an hour later I had 3 does come through on the other side of the ditch….

Finally had one more doe right at sunset that I heard and got a glimpse of, but then she vanished. No idea where she went.

There. That was my day, lol.

 

[Samcirrus]

I believe it was Fred Bear who said a rain shower is a reason to keep hunting not stop hunting, lol. I'm not that dedicated this early in the season myself though, .
There was a nice congregation of bucks in the bottom fields of my family farm the last 2-3 weeks, but hay fields have been cut and oaks and persimmon trees are starting to drop here so I'll be heading to the ridges tomorrow evening watching a pretty good persimmon patch.
Good luck to everyone going out today

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I don't have any rain gear....lol... I can sit through snow no problem, but I hate having to dry everything.....ill be saving up to get some good rain proof gear for next season!

 

[Samcirrus]

Hunted public this morning and never climbed a tree. Trails everyone, saw fresh tracks where it was possible to see them, but never saw a rub, never saw a scrape, never saw an acorn, nothing that made me say “here, now, climb”. Walked 2.5 miles just slipping, listening and looking.

Pulled out at 1230 and went and got some slaw dogs.

Came back home and hunted a private spot a few miles from the house. Saw 2 on the way in. As soon as I got set up and as soon as I started strapping on my release a doe runs right up to my tree and stands there broadside at a max of 5 yards. She was right here…..

Did she walk in the direction she was going so I could kill her??? No, she hangs a right, trots about 25 yards and stops again. You can’t see her, but she’s in the green circle….

About an hour later I had 3 does come through on the other side of the ditch….

Finally had one more doe right at sunset that I heard and got a glimpse of, but then she vanished. No idea where she went.

There. That was my day, lol.

At least you were there! You'll get one tomorrow! Maybe be nearer the ditch? Idk...

 

[dalton916]

Well…..they’ve been crossing the ditch until today. I’m seriously considering climbing a tree just across the ditch tomorrow evening (can’t hunt public on Sunday), but I have another spot I may well go to. My son and a friend of mine hunted it this afternoon. There’s a ton of deer, but it’s THICK. It’s aggravating to see 20 deer in range and not have a shot, lol

 

[Thetrueredneck]

Opening day is here and gone. Put quite a few miles on some public before I found what looked to be a hot oak stand, didn’t have anything come by but I did see the world record armadillo though lol.

 

[Mschmeiske]

Debating on sitting those acorns/swamp again this evening after seeing that small buck. Don’t leave deer to find deer? But I’m uncertain…. If I do sit there again this evening and don’t see much else, time to try something different.

 

[OspreyZB]

Plenty of time to do some poking around to see if you can find anything better, then if not you have that spot to fall back on. If that bean field is green, that's a good place to start looking. Green beans will be more of a draw than red oak acorns right now, but if there's white oaks dropping that's another story. I've done pretty good early season by finding big tracks on the edge of a bean field, then following the trails/browse lines back toward bedding.

 

[ofor]

Got out a little late on Saturday afternoon. Set up in an oak transition with acorns dropping and a couple fresh rubs. No deer came by.

Saw my first black bear in the wild earlier that afternoon while squirrel hunting with my son. That was very cool. Bear are uncommon in the county we were hunting in but word in the area was that a sow and cub had been spotted in the area and they were destroying the locals bird houses.

had severe thunderstorms and heavy rain roll through tonight so worked on the honey do list instead of hunting.

 

[krub6b]

Watched a lone doe feed past me at around 80 yards eating acorns. Gonna be hard to pattern deer with all the acorns dropping around me right now.

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