Getting Warmer

[Greybeard]

[bushden]

It was brutal out today I had the kids out shooting getting ready for the hunting test. 4 hours and I am beat.

Edited August 25, 2021 by bushden

[deadonshot2]

It is getting close. A cam I watch already has a fully shed buck in Iowa.

[Greybeard]

3 hour walk around the back side of the river because it was too high to cross to get my camera.  I was soaked when I got back, so I should have just crossed the river and gotten half soaked.  The card had corrupted so I only got a few pics of a doe.  The rest of nearly 400 were no good for nothing.  Henri got inside the camera.   

[deadonshot2]

3 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

3 hour walk around the back side of the river because it was too high to cross to get my camera.  I was soaked when I got back, so I should have just crossed the river and gotten half soaked.  The card had corrupted so I only got a few pics of a doe.  The rest of nearly 400 were no good for nothing.  Henri got inside the camera.   

That sucks but beats sitting at home. I am heading out tomorrow to check cams I set in March and put a few more out. I will see how committed I am when that temp starts rising.

[Roon]

It is still the summer yet we find a reason to complain.

My goal every year is meat in freezer by October, buck hunt till I'm board usually 2nd week of November. 

Then knock down a big doe and call it quits.

Nothing beats killing a deer at 80° no fat no fur and better tasting

[Recurve hntr]

I killed my best buck ever November last year. Sitting in ground blind wearing a collared shirt and jeans. I was meeting my wife and friends for dinner 20 minutes from where I was hunting. It was 76 degrees that evening. I’ll never forget it. I had the deer on cam the night before. I was sweating like a pig. I found first blood but had to back out so my wife wouldn’t kill me. I got to dinner , had blood on my pants and looked like a train wreck. My wife being the awesome wife she is still went with me after dinner to help trail, gut and drag deer out of the woods.

[Greybeard]

26 minutes ago, Roon said:

 

Nothing beats killing a deer at 80° no fat no fur and better tasting

Killing a 70# fawn in January when it's zero.  No spoilage and tender as can be.

[Kype]

8 minutes ago, Recurve hntr said:

I killed my best buck ever November last year. Sitting in ground blind wearing a collared shirt and jeans. I was meeting my wife and friends for dinner 20 minutes from where I was hunting. It was 76 degrees that evening. I’ll never forget it. I had the deer on cam the night before. I was sweating like a pig. I found first blood but had to back out so my wife wouldn’t kill me. I got to dinner , had blood on my pants and looked like a train wreck. My wife being the awesome wife she is still went with me after dinner to help trail, gut and drag deer out of the woods.

keeper. my wife would do the same!

[Roon]

23 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

Killing a 70# fawn in January when it's zero.  No spoilage and tender as can be.

You need a fridge, it can be 100° and I get no spoilage and still hang weeks before cutting.

And yet shoot nothing under 1.5 years old, everyone 85lbs hanging.

No fat or fur to deal with,

Each is own

[Roon]

34 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

Killing a 70# fawn in January when it's zero.  No spoilage and tender as can be.

And if you're killing#70 fawns your hunting elk or moose lol

[Recurve hntr]

58 minutes ago, Kype said:

keeper. my wife would do the same!

Yes sir. She’s the best. Glad to hear you wife would do the same. 

[JHbowhunter]

37 minutes ago, Roon said:

And if you're killing#70 fawns your hunting elk or moose lol

a january button buck would weigh 70# in my area.   Fact

[Roon]

21 minutes ago, JHbowhunter said:

a january button buck would weigh 70# in my area.   Fact

Hanging or hoof zone 007 60 at best 3rd rut lucky to get 40lbs no guts

[hunterbob1]

12 hours ago, deadonshot2 said:

That sucks but beats sitting at home. I am heading out tomorrow to check cams I set in March and put a few more out. I will see how committed I am when that temp starts rising.

Better you than I.Good luck.Pack lots of Gatorade.Post finding's.