If any of you tMBers are interested in a guided duck or goose this upcoming season user farmerbrown will be getting into the outfitter business. I have a wide variety of places to hunt waterfowl and a track record of killing a few. If that interests any of y’all you know how to slide into those DMs.
So far today I've seen 2 racoons, 7 turkeys, 2 does, and 2 fawns. Even if don't shoot a buck this weekend, it's been a good day considering my dad didn't even prep anything until Monday. Already gone through 2, 50lb bags of corn, and put a 3rd out this morning, in less than a week on the one stand we have huntable right now.
Too fucking hot to hunt here. Did see a doe while drinking some wine on the back porch this evening though.
Shit when our season opens it’s still gonna be too fucking hot. Last year I hunted the first few weekends with camo only up top, shorts and flip flops on bottom
Seen some big boys this year, but none close to the house. Does and spots, and a few spikes/buttons. That being said, we've got a couple months til things get moving.
Canada goose season is open, dove opens in a few weeks, grouse mid sept and ducks the week after that. I love the fall.
Put a new ladder stand together last weekend, got my bow ready today and picked up a few new arrows. Need to get off my ass and put the stand up this week. TN has an early, buck only, archery weekend this coming Friday-Sunday. It’d be pretty coool to take one in velvet.
Antelope hunting this weekend for 3 days. Abbreviated compared to the last time I went and going with a different buddy this time. Should be fun although I'm not as fired up about it as last time. Kind of want to sit on my ass and drink beer and watch football instead but you only yolo once as they say.
Went yesterday and adjusted my two ladder stands. Its Timber company property so my first stand is a large 1200 acre clear cut that has about 12 acres of baby pines roughly 15ft tall and thick. I am backed up to a ditch bank and have roughly 150 yards to the pines. Got a gravity feeder and mineral plot. Other stand they just 5th rowed and thinned the pines on the other side of the ditch and I have a stand roughly 80 yards away on a pine. Across the road is baby pines that are really thick as well. Hoping to draw them out of the bedding areas. Not a lot of mast trees and most of the planted crops are miles away. Most of what they are eating is natural browse, so hopefully my gravity feeders, mineral plots, and peanut butter draw them in. Tons of hogs as well as I am near the Pee Dee river, so no cob corn this year.
friend of mine just got on a lease on timber property. That's a whole different way of hunting from what I'm used to. Seems like the only clearings are roads and there is a tree stand every 50 yards.
We have 8 members for 4k acres, so it's not bad. But the areas to put stands are lacking solid size trees. The animals are there however
I've got an elk and antelope tag for Wyoming this year. My first tags for either. Planning a week in October when both seasons overlap. Gotta sight in my .338 Lapua soon.
Oh hell yeah. Bought preference points for Wyoming antelope rifle this year for the first time. Also thinking of doing the same with elk. Tips or thoughts after your hunt would be awesome.
Didnt see squat but squirrels and rabbits. Lots of standing crops still so going to be rough luring with corn and peanut butter
2nd morning this year on my swamp stand(sat oak stand Monday morning). Put out my feeder about a month ago. Put peanut butter jar on a tree on Tuesday and sprinkled a pack of kool aide on my corn as well. PB is gone and saw nothing this morning til 915. Temp went above 80 so I moved on out to the truck.
Most of the deer in our area are hitting the fields pretty hard. Got a hookup on a 50 acre peanut field I'm going to sit Sunday evening around 630 til dark. See how that goes
I can't imagine sitting in a tree stand in this weather. I'm thankful our bow season doesn't start until 10/15.
That was the weekend total. Had three different sunflower fields we hunted over. This years opener was a hell of a lot better than last year’s hurricane fest.
Man more power to people who can deer hunt for 10 hours at a time. I like a cooler of beer and someone to sit with
I love the alone aspect of it. My phone is constantly ringing all summer long due to work and it’s so relaxing to not hear that or anything else while I’m out in the field.
Bow season starts tomorrow and I moved my stand today on impulse. This is new land, mostly all soy beans (just harvested) with a big peninsula of hard woods in the middle. I’ve got it on a huge oak tree on a point along the tree line but at 15’ I have branches that are way above my head, yet 20’ out they droop down into my flight path a bit. I’m thinking of removing a section of ladder to make my stand close to 10-12’ high but I’m wondering if that will bring me too much into the deer’s line of sight.
Picking up my compound bow today. Boss’ uncle sold me his BowTech for $200. Every archery shop I went to in the area was pricing me with packages of over $700 out the door. Will be posting pictures later this AM.