Yea, those georgia deer arent the corn fed brutes of the midwest. I bet that was hard to get used to.
Put my ladder stand up Sunday. Set it up in the same place as last year...right on top of a big scrape. Last year's shot was 7 yards.
I built this 13' x 13' x 11' triangular "tree house" for my "kids" 2 years ago between 3 beech trees 16' up ................... it just happens to be located on one of the best deer spots on my acreage . Covered the outside of it with leafed branches annually. The 3 surrounding beech trees and numerous smaller beech below keep their dead leaves till spring providing nice cover.
I have my stand set up in between some beech trees. They provide great cover. A permanent stand is on my list of things to do...makes taking the kids hunting a lot easier...they have a hard time sitting still.
My neighbor is building a "shooting shack" as I call it. So far, it has 2 levels and a deck! Talk about hillbilly deluxe! It is literally on his property line overlooking another neighbors property since his property has no deer for the most part. And he wonders why his generator got stolen. He shot a basket rack 7pt off a corn pile (illegal in Indiana) last weekend that MIGHT net a whopping 35" LMAO. It ran off and died in the pizzed off neighbors yard! ROFLMAO!
Up date one shot thought I had a perfect shot on her. She made it to a 200 acre golden rod field 7 foot high. Opening day shotgun 16 Nov. 2 campers packed and ready.
My 14 year old grandson got his first deer on opening morning… a little nubbin buck. You can imagine how excited he as...
Just pulled in from Northern Maine. May not be the biggest, but 180 lbs was the tally. Only deer I saw for the week. Only deer shot out fo the camps. That's Northern Maine though.
Went up the driveway and sat in my lawn chair behind the woodpile this afternoon. Saw 3 turkeys, all hens, and I could have filled my bag limit on squirrels within a 50yd radius - really need a good .22 target type pistol to accompany the .270 during deer season. Heard a few shots off in the distance packed it in around 3:30 as it started sleeting, supposed to rain hard tonight thru tomorrow and change back to snow on Wednesday morning - just in time to go back to work
Ruger SR22 can be had for under $400 new. I think the walther version is cheaper than that but I have never shot one. My ruger eats anything with a velocity over 1200fps (which is almost all 22 ammo anymore) and has never malfunctioned. Not exactly a target style though. For a target pistol, look at a browning buckmark target or ruger mk3 target. Both offer bull barrels and flat tops for optics.
Was out shopping with the GF today and stopped by a new gun shop in town, real nice folks. They had a Ruger 22/45 MKIII target - under $300 out the door, didn't think twice after I saw prices on the MKIII targets elsewhere - which are heavy. Included a weaver style rail so I'll be adding a small scope. It's eating all the cheap federal brick stuff, remington's and of course CCi with ease
I was able to get Monday and Tuesday off........I wish I had the whole week off since bow season was no good for me this year.
Things look desolate on my wooded acreage. I walked the perimeter after the snows the last few days and could only find 2 sets of deer tracks coming into my northwest corner heading down into my bottomland. My neighbor to the north did not cut his 60 acres of standing corn yet, I have a feeling they are just going to hide out in there. Those 2 tracks did walk by 12' from my "afternoon" ground blind, so I think I'll be sitting there Monday morning. At least we'll have snow on the ground during the beginning of the week here.
You guys are too lucky to hunt on snow -or atleast the stuff that stays on the ground for more than a few hours - if I only had pics of the "Ghost" - a mainframe 10 I knew was in the area from mudtracks early in the season, only to track him to a creek one lucky snowfall here (cowtracks) -he slipped me in the creek never saw sign of him again
