Feelslikefar.
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lol And literally 30 seconds after posting that…. The wind is a blowing.
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Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
That is wild! I can’t imagine hunting and managing in that environment. What a challenge.
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Wow explain the scenario? Can you not put up a gate?
Locked gates do very little this time of year. Fences are down for snow and people just drive around gates, go through neighboring property, whatever it takes. They know no one is around and they can go all the places they want to go that they know they are not suppose to. And it is just bad timing to go trespassing across property when there is already an ongoing poaching investigation. Normally this time of year there is no access because of snow.
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Have you turned this guy in?
PatinPA
5 year old buck +
In PA I've always said the trespassing gets worse as the year goes on and people get more and more desperate to get a deer. Usually towards the 2nd week of rifle season and then late archery/muzzleloader seasons are just a free for all. I think everyone thinks well everyone else is done so I should just have my run of wherever I want to go.
Yup, but haven't heard back as to who. It's always a gamble. Sometimes it turns out to be someone I know just tooling around, and then it just gets awkward. But usually it is someone with a history acting on a feeling of entitlement trying to take advantage of a situation.
Feelslikefar.
5 year old buck +
Sounded like it's raining. Melt that snow!
That's why I stopped hunting the muzzle loading season years ago, I'd see more people in two days of ML than I would in 20 days of bow/gun.
Got to where if I wanted to hunt with my ML's, I'd do it during the regular gun season rather than constantly bumping into the Walmart Warriors.
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
I've seen this happen. For a number of hunters, getting a deer every year seems to be a validation of their "manhood" or that they're a good hunter. Desperate - to me - is not a good frame of mind to be in as a hunter. Safety concerns (of all sorts), breaking laws, etc. I know trespassing has happened locally, as well as shooting a nice buck after dark with a rifle on the last day of archery season here. It happened at another camp near ours on our mountain .... desperation to take that buck. I heard the truck flying down our mountain road that evening right after the shot. What "hunting skill" is required to shoot at night with headlights?? Some people just don't care.
I've feasted on tag soup some years, some from passing on deer, and some from just not seeing any deer. I never felt "less of a hunter" in any of those situations.
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
I hunted out west with a (un-named) relative of mine. He always wanted to "get his big deer". In our after-hours travel of some of the roads to our camp....we would see some super-dandy bucks that were feeding on the grass on the road-sides. Quite common with mule deer. He always wanted to go back with a light and take one of those bucks.
I never could understand what he saw in wanting to poach one of those bucks.....and told him I would not be involved.....nor would my truck be used for such things. I asked him: "how are you going to tell the story about how you got that nice buck on the wall?" He never did answer that question......and never shot an illegal buck with me along.
Feelslikefar.
5 year old buck +
Fisher this evening. First time I've gotten them at the top of the hill. I get loads of pictures of them down closer to the road.
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Foggy47
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FINALLY! The first daytime pictures (three pics at twi-light in the last two days) since the first weekend in November (opening firearms season). That is almost 5 weeks without a daytime deer picture on my property. You cannot chute 'em.....it they ain't out in daylight hours. Crazy how nocturnal the deer have become. these days.
Feelslikefar.
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^ All week I've been asking myself "Is it the second rut? I haven't seen a deer all week?" (at work, where they're damn near tame, you can walk by them ten feet away and they don't run. I can see as many as 40 a day, But I haven't seen one all week. Finally, leaving late tonight I caught the silhouettes of 7 or 8 out in a feild eating.
And while I was typing that, this hit my phone.
Fisher and coyotes in the same night, it's no wonder there's so few turkey.
And while I was typing that, this hit my phone.
Fisher and coyotes in the same night, it's no wonder there's so few turkey.
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Hoytvectrix
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From my last camera pull there were a couple of clips from the rut that I thought were kind of interesting. I don't mind using solar or paying extra for batteries to run the cams in video mode if it means occasionally getting to see things like this:
