ThePennsylvanian
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So you can't hunt anywhere until the 18th????
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Yeah....unless I drive a long way which I normally don't do. All the woods close by to where I live are on the quota system and I don't have anymore quota permits but my friend offered me his guest permit on a gun hunt. Later part of Nov a place opens up archery only blocks that are first come first serve and I will get to hunt in there whenever I get a chance until early Jan
ThePennsylvanian
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Not to knock how yall do things, obviously it's working for everyone there, but that would 100% kill me and I'd definitely be moving
MNFarmHunter
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Every state's hunting regs is nuts in its own way. FL seems nuts, PA is completely nuts and I'm sure people would say the same about MN.
ThePennsylvanian
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I wa smore referring to not having some public that I could hunt at any point if wanted to, regs be darned, it's honestly why I live where I do now, I could hunt 4 states with an hour and a half. I hunt wv as often as I hunt pa, no break in season up to 3 buck tags, hunting every Sunday!
ThePennsylvanian
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But I guess I better learn Florida's regs because I'm down there often enough that I'm gonna start turkey hunting there in the spring
Jimdude
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Well, fall bow ended yesterday and extended permit starts today till December 31. I passed a big spike on day 2 that I would have gladly taken yesterday. I had 2 close encounters this past week but couldn’t get a clear shot. This coming week I’ll be hunting in a friend’s yard. He says he has a serious deer problem so I’m going to wack a few doe for him. I’m on vacation the 7th-15th. I will be hunting hard 3/4 day sits in a sacred spot that I haven’t visited since I hung my cameras in early September. It’s a 2 mile hike with the last 100 yards going straight down. Don’t know how I’ll get a deer out but I’ll cross that bridge when I get there. Maybe my rappel rope and ascending equipment. The non cellular camera ended up in the better spot because I forgot the antenna in the truck and knew I wouldn’t have time to get it and get back to the better location so that sucks but I can’t wait to see what it has. The cell cam is on an old logging road that has a scrape they tend to use annually. Last year’s target 10pt showed up to check it 2-3 times this year which is a good number being that they don’t typically like to travel on the road with all the thick cover that surrounds it. If I don’t get him by the 15th, anything brown goes down.
Good luck in the rut boys!!!
Good luck in the rut boys!!!
U so picky...hehehe
Jimdude
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Don’t worry, I get less picky as the year goes on lol.
Pics or it didn't happen......hahahahaha
MNFarmHunter
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My next will probably been Veterans Day weekend. After that, it's solely dependent upon the wx and whether I can even get to my hunting area.
It's entirely possible that I'll be skunked this year.
It's entirely possible that I'll be skunked this year.
Silvio
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Keep the faith MNFarmHunter…it only takes a moment and they usually happen fast…so be ready and pay attention while on stand…leave your phone in your backpack…good luck
67 degrees but my only day to hunt! Let’s go!
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dhoff545
Member
Well I'm on the board but not this board. OK public land, with the smoke pole. 4 of us went down Wednesday evening after work and took 2 bucks off the edge of a wilderness area. Nothing huge, a 5pt and a 6pt. but we're checking into a hotel in Joplin right now and got rained on for 2 days so I'm pretty happy with that for what was a pretty short miserable trip in hard country. Unfortunately no saddle on this one. So no points on this one but I still have a couple buck tags.
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Ok...between a quota of mine and 2 opportunities as a guest I've been/will be hunting the same wma in all seasons. 2 days in archery and killed a doe and saw a couple spikes, 2 days in muzzleloader was slow but did see a couple deer, and now a gun hunt coming up. I talked to a biologist who works this particular wma and he explained things that kinda changed my thought process and I'm trying to look at this place differently than I was before.....this property is 9k acres, 9 miles from top to bottom north/south, and never wider than a mile east/west. There is a single road right up the middle with a handful of side roads shooting off not very far. The east is bordered by a brackish lake the whole length and the west is saltwater river whole length. The north border is residential homes and the south boarder is a fence with woods continuing down south into safe zone for hikers, bird watchers, etc.
What the biologist said is they monitor trail cameras pretty much year round and after the first archery hunt most all activity is after dark. Because the property is so narrow the animals can hear every single vehicle that drives down the road. There is vehicle traffic year round but not a whole herd of trucks 3 days in a row....I don't know why I never thought of that before..kinda dumb... So after the first hunt the animals are on to the fact it's that time of year.... There are really only 2 or 3 large areas that are the furthest away from the nearest parking areas. 1 is a slightly elevated sand ridge that is kinda the same habitat I hunted the 2 previous hunts... It's thick palmettos and scrub oaks with some live oak hammocks mixed in. They got plenty of food, water, cover..... The trail to get to this area is 99% of the time on the upwind side off the woods the deer are in once the sun comes up.. Being so close to the ocean u can almost always count on east/northeast wind mid day to dark and the trail is east side of the woods... To access the woods from the downwind side u would have to get thru a swamp that I really want no part off... It's too deep to walk and so much vegetation covering the surface it would be difficult to paddle a boat over...well u probably couldn't paddle...u need a push pole... Anyway... So to get in there to hunt u would have to come in from the upwind side and bust thru thick thick stuff to get onto the downwind transition edge and there is no guarantee that the edge will even be able to be walked.. It could be just a jungle.... I'm 100% confident there are bucks in there to be found
The other large area is the salt marshes and the islands of woods out in them on the west side of the property...it's a long walk to get out there thru palmettos,gallberry,sandspurs and sugar sand....and again u are walking in on the upwind side once the sun gets up I'm also 100% sure there are bucks to be found out there too...
From what I can gather it seems that the animals are spending the day out in the salt marshes and moving in and out at dawn/dusk. Early morning before the sun gets up and warms the ocean there is couple hr period the wind will be consistent out of the west...once the ocean gets warm the wind will switch to blowing inland off the water....it has been this way almost every hunt so far.
In my head it's making sense to get out on the marsh early and and try to play the crosswinds and set up to were I can see a long way north and south and hope to see something crossing the savannah to or from the islands at a longer distance. Hunt till 8-9 when the wind starts getting funky and then get down and go explore the thick stuff that is close to the marsh edge for an afternoon hunt....but then on the other hand I could use that short window of west wind to bust thru the thick stuff on the sand ridge and post up and hang out till the wind changes then continue slowly working thru there....visibility will be really limited and short shots....
u guys think that's a sound plan? Other options are the really thick stuff that is closer to the roads but they all get hunting pressure...not a whole lot of other people make it into the couple long walk areas...I know some good spots close but I feel they are more a 50/50% chance bucks will be in those areas. Or another option is park somewhere I've never been before and rarely see other vehicles parked and go explore and hope into some fresh sign in those areas that have really no terrain features at all that everybody ignores...
Ok...between a quota of mine and 2 opportunities as a guest I've been/will be hunting the same wma in all seasons. 2 days in archery and killed a doe and saw a couple spikes, 2 days in muzzleloader was slow but did see a couple deer, and now a gun hunt coming up. I talked to a biologist who works this particular wma and he explained things that kinda changed my thought process and I'm trying to look at this place differently than I was before.....this property is 9k acres, 9 miles from top to bottom north/south, and never wider than a mile east/west. There is a single road right up the middle with a handful of side roads shooting off not very far. The east is bordered by a brackish lake the whole length and the west is saltwater river whole length. The north border is residential homes and the south boarder is a fence with woods continuing down south into safe zone for hikers, bird watchers, etc.
What the biologist said is they monitor trail cameras pretty much year round and after the first archery hunt most all activity is after dark. Because the property is so narrow the animals can hear every single vehicle that drives down the road. There is vehicle traffic year round but not a whole herd of trucks 3 days in a row....I don't know why I never thought of that before..kinda dumb... So after the first hunt the animals are on to the fact it's that time of year.... There are really only 2 or 3 large areas that are the furthest away from the nearest parking areas. 1 is a slightly elevated sand ridge that is kinda the same habitat I hunted the 2 previous hunts... It's thick palmettos and scrub oaks with some live oak hammocks mixed in. They got plenty of food, water, cover..... The trail to get to this area is 99% of the time on the upwind side off the woods the deer are in once the sun comes up.. Being so close to the ocean u can almost always count on east/northeast wind mid day to dark and the trail is east side of the woods... To access the woods from the downwind side u would have to get thru a swamp that I really want no part off... It's too deep to walk and so much vegetation covering the surface it would be difficult to paddle a boat over...well u probably couldn't paddle...u need a push pole... Anyway... So to get in there to hunt u would have to come in from the upwind side and bust thru thick thick stuff to get onto the downwind transition edge and there is no guarantee that the edge will even be able to be walked.. It could be just a jungle.... I'm 100% confident there are bucks in there to be found
The other large area is the salt marshes and the islands of woods out in them on the west side of the property...it's a long walk to get out there thru palmettos,gallberry,sandspurs and sugar sand....and again u are walking in on the upwind side once the sun gets up I'm also 100% sure there are bucks to be found out there too...
From what I can gather it seems that the animals are spending the day out in the salt marshes and moving in and out at dawn/dusk. Early morning before the sun gets up and warms the ocean there is couple hr period the wind will be consistent out of the west...once the ocean gets warm the wind will switch to blowing inland off the water....it has been this way almost every hunt so far.
In my head it's making sense to get out on the marsh early and and try to play the crosswinds and set up to were I can see a long way north and south and hope to see something crossing the savannah to or from the islands at a longer distance. Hunt till 8-9 when the wind starts getting funky and then get down and go explore the thick stuff that is close to the marsh edge for an afternoon hunt....but then on the other hand I could use that short window of west wind to bust thru the thick stuff on the sand ridge and post up and hang out till the wind changes then continue slowly working thru there....visibility will be really limited and short shots....
u guys think that's a sound plan? Other options are the really thick stuff that is closer to the roads but they all get hunting pressure...not a whole lot of other people make it into the couple long walk areas...I know some good spots close but I feel they are more a 50/50% chance bucks will be in those areas. Or another option is park somewhere I've never been before and rarely see other vehicles parked and go explore and hope into some fresh sign in those areas that have really no terrain features at all that everybody ignores...
Id say with the pressure that property is seeing along the road, the best area will be the low pressure areas, I'd say you hit this nail on the head! go hunt it!
What going on fellas? U guys getting out there or youz mugs take up crochet
dhoff545
Member
I'm working on my ***** hat for the next woman's march.
JK. I took Monday off so I'll be out Sun, Mon and maybe Tuesday morning hunting the best front we will likely see before peak rut. Though next weekend might have some pretty good weather too.
Jimdude
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I’m taking vacation all next week. I’ll be hunting hard everyday. This week has been near or at 70 every day and next week should be about 60 every day. I’m expecting good things to happen in the big woods.
We northerners complain when it’s to hot during the rut we complain when it’s too cold during the rut. Sounds like you southerners never complain…just hunt your a##s off. Got to hand it too you Beast!!