Live from the stand thread

Maybe a little to much slinging tequila before arrows? It looks like your leaning to the right quite a bit.

............May need to turn volume down on Jimi,sound system

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The recruiting day for women and girls was successful. About 30 female perticipants, and one girl shot a small stag. The journalist took some photos and wrote an article about it and we we featured in one of the local papers. I will be doing some more recruiting hunts this fall without my rifle, just mentoring new hunters. So far it has been really rewarding.
 
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Not live but from the morning. Opening day. Only a doe and a fawn spotted but a nice morning to be back in the stand

I miss hunting in Hemlocks. haven't sat among them in years.

This pic brings back a lot of great memories. not of big deer, but of big dreams....
 
I miss hunting in Hemlocks. haven't sat among them in years.

This pic brings back a lot of great memories. not of big deer, but of big dreams....
I am blessed to have lots of hemlocks. Most of my stands are in them. The branches weep down and give you perfect cover. I have a swath of hemlocks that is probably a mile long by couple hundred yards wide.
 
Half of one of our properties is Tamarack, planted in 1960s according to historical aerial photos. Great cover, but a pain when the needles start to drop. Beautiful yellows, covering everything.

The opener was slow for me, but I didn't expect much with temperatures being in the 70s. It's raining today - good time to build a Spey rod that I promised my guide in Alaska as part of his tip. RB Meiser blank...sweet stick.
 
I miss hunting in Hemlocks. haven't sat among them in years.

This pic brings back a lot of great memories. not of big deer, but of big dreams....
Those some of the last few survivors on my property. I need to take pics of behind that stand. It's the neighbors property where the hemlocks haven't been removed. Unfortunately you can see 100 yds because the bottom 20-30 feet of the branches are all dead. The younger trees like those in the pic appear to be much healthier. Hopefully they'll make a comeback.
 
Saw a spike opening day about 8am then nothing. Soon saw a fork ends one of our hit listers but 70 yards out around the same time. Dad had a spike and buddy only a coon. The evening was so hot only my son saw a yearling doe but 13 turkeys however the wasps found him about the sand time. Sat morning dad had a spike and buddy had a spike and a 3ptr early. Rain that afternoon so we called it at 10 and did a little work. Temps sucked but I love sitting in a stand.
 
Was 84 F here Sat afternoon ... and rain ... good day in the workshop though.
 
This monster showed up. So shaky I couldn't get a shot off.
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Went out for my 2nd hunt of the year on public land and this fellow hunter walked right under my stand.
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In the past 3 years I've also seen a wolverine, a fisher, and a black bear in this section of woods.
 
Went out for my 2nd hunt of the year on public land and this fellow hunter walked right under my stand.
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In the past 3 years I've also seen a wolverine, a fisher, and a black bear in this section of woods.
A wolverine in central WI?
 
We’ve had a number of fishers and bobcats in my area the past few years


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Out this afternoon, was 78 F and 4 does came out at closing. At least I figured out that I wasn't ready gear wise. 1st bow hunts are good for that. October lull time.
 
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Out this afternoon, was 78 F and 4 does came out at closing. At least I figured out that I arn't ready gear wise. 1st bow hunts are good for that. October lull time.
Isn’t that the truth. First time, I forget all the stuff I should have.

And that has included my release when I took a compound.
 
85 and humid youth season this weekend only heard one shot. Gong to be 90 tomorrow not even going to go out
 
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