No, we are way south. Our land is about 60 miles south of Alpine Texas , heading towards Terlingua and Big Bend. Also there are some black bear encroaching our area coming up from Big Bend National Park.
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NMachine
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Oh. Nice country down there. Black bear numbers seem to be on the rise nationwide.
Yes it is. I also grew up 24 miles from Ft. Davis, beautiful area where we hunted Aoudad all year round, it was great. Why I ever moved away I'll never know.
Glockula
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Northern Wyoming waterfowl and grouse
BushMaster-15
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I tried that neighborhood once and spent most of my time leaning on my stick bow and trying to catch my breath!
22250Rem
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Out changing SD cards on three trail cams in my friend's woods. Lots of leaves have come down in the last few days, but still more to go. You can see a lot more from the ladder stand I put up in late August than you could just a couple weeks ago. So right now, this is what it looks like in one of the areas I hunt. I nicknamed that ladder stand "The Jungle Stand" back in August because it was such a jungle in there, but there's deer trails in there, too. Here's late August:
. Climbed up into it today and took some pix and the view is much nicer than it was not too long ago. Couple more weeks it will be even better.
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. Will be hunting with the slug gun and handgun from this stand. No rifle big game hunting allowed in this area but anything else is good, including muzzle loaders during muzzle loader season. About 150 yards west of the ladder stand is the pop-up blind that stays up year- round and will soon be used for crossbow hunting. Here's what that looked like this morning;
. and the view from there looks like this:
.. Was also carrying the Single Six convertible with the 22 WMR cylinder in it because squirrel season is open. Too bad there was nothing moving anywhere in the area. Had to settle for yet another gun pic on a trail cam versus a gun pic with a squirrel.
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. Climbed up into it today and took some pix and the view is much nicer than it was not too long ago. Couple more weeks it will be even better..
. Will be hunting with the slug gun and handgun from this stand. No rifle big game hunting allowed in this area but anything else is good, including muzzle loaders during muzzle loader season. About 150 yards west of the ladder stand is the pop-up blind that stays up year- round and will soon be used for crossbow hunting. Here's what that looked like this morning;
. and the view from there looks like this:
.. Was also carrying the Single Six convertible with the 22 WMR cylinder in it because squirrel season is open. Too bad there was nothing moving anywhere in the area. Had to settle for yet another gun pic on a trail cam versus a gun pic with a squirrel.
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Patocazador
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What's with his left antler? It looks like a forked main beam. Is it a "mule moose" like a mule deer?
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Non typical?What's with his left antler? It looks like a forked main beam. Is it a "mule moose" like a mule deer?
Random 8
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Winter wonderland here in Northern Minnesota. Just the right amount of sticky snow overnight. Unfortunately we're on the wrong side of back to back hard winters. Deer are few and far between. Of some 30 hunters I'm in contact with, only 6 filled tags, and 3 of those are youth who can take antlerless.
I'm sure the old 760s seen some dry spells over the decades and understands why she hasn't gotten to warm up this season
I'm sure the old 760s seen some dry spells over the decades and understands why she hasn't gotten to warm up this season
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What we have here today is a 8x6 home with 6 to 8 feet of headroom. Double 3/4 plywood walls with no wall studs. Stairs, privacy fence for private moments. Rubber floor and lawn chairs you sink too far into. Smack in the middle of a 50 acre home place.
Hugger-4641
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Didn’t have phone signal to post this earlier , my day was spent here, literally in the middle of nowhere. Beautiful day in nature even if still didn’t see any shooter bucks. Does and scrubs were all over, so after next week I'll be taking culls and does.
For those who know me and are wondering, this is a new hunting area for me. Private land, and the Mississippi River is about 500yds behind me.
For those who know me and are wondering, this is a new hunting area for me. Private land, and the Mississippi River is about 500yds behind me.
Armored farmer
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This is an active scrape 88yds from my hunt blind window(in the background).
One of several trees in a rubline in the same woods as my blind.
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22250Rem
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Thread revival time: Thought about this thread this morning while taking down the pop-up blind at my buddies place about 60 miles southeast of where I live. He's up in the hills of the Finger Lakes at about 2200 ft. of elevation with a lots of snow still around. Snows all melted where I live, a few hundred yards from the shore of Lake Ontario, which is only about 240 something feet above sea level. Elevation changes everything in winter. Nobody got anything from the blind this past season, but my hunting buddy got a decent doe less than 50 yards from it in the last few minutes of daylight on Jan. 1st, the last day of muzzle loader season except he was uphill from where the blind is.
...Here's the blind this morning when I got to it,
.....Couldn't even see very far into the woods because the snow was just damp & heavy enough to pile up and freeze on all the tree branches and cut the visibility. Light, fluffy snow would have been blown off the branches with the slightest breeze. Couldn't see into the woods at all back on Oct. 25th when the blind was put up before gun season & before the leaves came down..
.. Got everything taken down, folded up, and into the truck.
.. This blind has now been used in two different locations for two seasons and no deer have been taken from it yet. Oh well; maybe next season. Got plans to move a ladder stand from a spot I hunt near me down to this area, maybe 100 yards into the woods from where the blind was. The fun never stops. This is that ladder stand near me back on January 19th, before the snow in my neighborhood all melted.
...The "where I hunt" plan for next season will again be my buddies place in the hills with just some re-arrangement of blinds & ladder stands.
...Here's the blind this morning when I got to it,
.....Couldn't even see very far into the woods because the snow was just damp & heavy enough to pile up and freeze on all the tree branches and cut the visibility. Light, fluffy snow would have been blown off the branches with the slightest breeze. Couldn't see into the woods at all back on Oct. 25th when the blind was put up before gun season & before the leaves came down..
.. Got everything taken down, folded up, and into the truck.
.. This blind has now been used in two different locations for two seasons and no deer have been taken from it yet. Oh well; maybe next season. Got plans to move a ladder stand from a spot I hunt near me down to this area, maybe 100 yards into the woods from where the blind was. The fun never stops. This is that ladder stand near me back on January 19th, before the snow in my neighborhood all melted.
...The "where I hunt" plan for next season will again be my buddies place in the hills with just some re-arrangement of blinds & ladder stands.
Bazoo
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I mostly handgun hunt. I like to sit up against a rock or tree and overlook a trail. Pretty short visibility most of the time unless you're overlooking a beanfield (which I never do).
