11/7 Check In

[Greybeard]

45 minutes ago, electric10162 said:

You are the only "hunter" there. The rest of those guys are walkers at best. The reason why I stopped putting in for that hunt.

Wasn't going to do it but tagged out with bow. Last minute decision and didn't  have time to scout it good enough. Walking a cliff now to try to spot one bedded

[Greybeard]

Congrats 126 !

[electric10162]

2 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

Wasn't going to do it but tagged out with bow. Last minute decision and didn't  have time to scout it good enough. Walking a cliff now to try to spot one bedded

I loved hunting there but the bad outweighed the good.

[Greybeard]

5 minutes ago, electric10162 said:

I loved hunting there but the bad outweighed the good.

Nice terrain  to hunt. Don't  think I'll run into another hunter here. Wind gusts are covering any sound made walking. Only if this place still had the deer it used to. Still better than sitting home.

 

[electric10162]

1 minute ago, Greybeard said:

Nice terrain  to hunt. Don't  think I'll run into another hunter here. Wind gusts are covering any sound made walking. Only if this place still had the deer it used to. Still better than sitting home.

 

Beautiful country mountainside. I used to like sneaking along the tops looking for bedded deer below. 

[Michael Britt]

28 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

Nice terrain  to hunt. Don't  think I'll run into another hunter here. Wind gusts are covering any sound made walking. Only if this place still had the deer it used to. Still better than sitting home.

 

What happened to the deer? Too many predators?

[electric10162]

14 minutes ago, Michael Britt said:

What happened to the deer? Too many predators?

Mis-management. You can't kill every doe on site, every year,  and expect the herd to bounce back every year. 

[Greybeard]

13 minutes ago, Michael Britt said:

What happened to the deer? Too many predators?

Unlimited doe and eab besides predators for 3 decades. Drew in hunters from 1 deer States who shot every doe they saw to take home the meat. It's  a miniature model of what's happening in the State. Before the hunt opened you could drive through the park anytime and see dozens of deer from the road. Now you can hunt 8 days all day and be lucky to see one or 2. No doe, no mature bucks will hang around. There's been fewer every year that haven't  been shot off by AR to begin with. Haven't  seen any sign of one yet this year. Used to find monster rubs and scrapes all over. State had a good venue here if they had managed it right. Lot of p&y bucks taken out the first few years it opened

[Roon]

The state needs to rethink our seasons I take full advantage of early season not to shoot the 1st thing I see so I can activate my buck tag my buck this year was 1st one in three years.

I shoot early because I like the no fat build up and summer coat they still have. 

I would love to see gaps in the seasons like we use to, instead of just a run away freight train  until end of February.

That said quite morning fog lifted and one 4pt finally came for a walk past.

I've yet seen any heavy rut activity however this guy hit every scrape along the path he came in on just no nose to the ground looking.

We'll see happens this afternoon 

[Michael Britt]

Just voted for the first time as a Warren County resident, against all the Deadheads of course. Now let's hunt!

[Roon]

58 minutes ago, Michael Britt said:

Just voted for the first time as a Warren County resident, against all the Deadheads of course. Now let's hunt!

If the whole state voted like Warren County did the state might be a state everyone wouldn't have an exit plan for.

Yes time to hunt, settled in let the game begin lol

[hostak126]

2 hours ago, Roon said:

The state needs to rethink our seasons I take full advantage of early season not to shoot the 1st thing I see so I can activate my buck tag my buck this year was 1st one in three years.

I shoot early because I like the no fat build up and summer coat they still have. 

I would love to see gaps in the seasons like we use to, instead of just a run away freight train  until end of February.

That said quite morning fog lifted and one 4pt finally came for a walk past.

I've yet seen any heavy rut activity however this guy hit every scrape along the path he came in on just no nose to the ground looking.

We'll see happens this afternoon

Last year I had covid and shotgun season was rough. I saw some deer, but were too far from the blind for me to shoot. I got my bow license this year with one goal of filling the freezer. I did eab and got both a buck and a doe, Got the button this morning and while the goal was three deer I'm probably going to go for another before thanksgiving.

[hostak126]

1 hour ago, Michael Britt said:

Just voted for the first time as a Warren County resident, against all the Deadheads of course. Now let's hunt!

 

3 minutes ago, Roon said:

If the whole state voted like Warren County did the state might be a state everyone wouldn't have an exit plan for.

Yes time to hunt, settled in let the game begin lol

I did the opposite. I went hunting, dropped off my deer at the butcher then voted

[AllGameTasteGood13]

Zone 14 - just got settled in stand 

[Greybeard]

Forgot it was election day. Voted weeks ago