went hunting instead
#11
10-10-2010, 10:40 AM
The weather is great here still. I have been getting all of the riding in I can before the rut shows up and it's cold.
I'll be out with the bow tonight though.
I'll be out with the bow tonight though.
#13
10-10-2010, 02:18 PM
NEVER deer hunt on opening weekend. The biggest collection of morons on earth assemble that first weekend and shoot up everything that moves. I deliberately avoid opening weekend completely. After that 90% of them never go out again and you're pretty safe.
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10-10-2010, 11:28 PM
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Spring ahead a few years and I was stationed at Malmstrom AFB in Montana. A friend and I are taking a lunch break up on the side of a hill. Down below, a frozen creek and a guy comes along and sits down on a log. Starts to eat a sandwich and begins looking up our direction. I have on a red coat and hat and buddy has a bright orange vest and hat. Guy down below picks up his rifle, points it directly at us and starts looking through the scope. I pulled out my .357 and touched off a shot in the air. Guy takes off running, slips, drops rifle, picks it up and exits the area. Same afternoon and I was by myself sitting by a big tree stump. Two guys were looking right at me with binoculars so I left. Haven't been deer hunting since.
To the OP - congrats on the deer!
#20
10-11-2010, 08:46 AM
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I used to deer hunt some when we lived in Tennessee. Went out with my brother in law once. So he puts me up in a treestand in the middle of the night and sneaks off a few hundred yards. I sit up in that thing freezing for several hours waiting for something to come along so I can plug it. Nothing around but 2 squirrels raising hell with each other. Other than that it's just me and my frozen ***. I looked straight down and there's a frickin' fawn playing right under the stand. I didn't even hear a twig snap. That's about the time I had a revelation that my luck would be much better in the bedroom with my warm wife instead of out in the woods trying to plug bambi. Even that hasn't been working out too good lately.