Congratulations on getting your deer. Looks like the rack has a wide spread.
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Congratulations on getting your deer. Looks like the rack has a wide spread.
Very nice.
Very nice buck congrats
We had a great hunt this year in WMU 60 Been quite a while since we experienced one like this. In total for the two week period we knocked down 10 deer. * The first week, 4 does and 4 bucks and 2 the second week. 2 nice bucks, one dressing out at 184 lbs. My grandson and son only hunted the first week as my grandson had to get back to Calgary. He wound up shooting 2 deer, a nice doe and a very nice buck that dressed out at 167 lbs. He out did his dad and I. Niether of us even got to see a deer that week and I didn't see a deer either week.
All in all it was a great hunt, the dogs worked well with chases just about everytime taking the majority of them out the wrong way or through the posted hunters.
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Awesome hunt, congratulations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bo D
Very nice!
So happy you guys did good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bo D
Congrats on the great hunt you had Bo D
Congrats on the deer hunt.
You made it sound easy, That's the easiest hunt I've read about. Lol.
Good job and looks like it wasn't easy after all having to boat it out. Well deserved deer for sure, enjoy!
We are in WMU 53A, just south of WMU 49. It is crown land across a lake that is land locked by private land. There is crews on the three other sides (no one on the lake side), two groups push deer on the lake side and the other hunts stands.
I load up the ATV at the cottage and when it is far below zero that includes the boat motor. Then it’s off to the boat and a 5 minute ride across the lake. It takes about a half an hour to walk up the hill to some tree stands. From the time we leave the cottage to the stands it takes about an hour. We hunt from sun up to sundown and have got deer arriving and leaving the stand and why we go in at legal light and leave to be at the boat at legal light. The hill is so steep it only takes 10 minutes from the stands to the boat. It takes two hours to get an animal back to the boat after knocking it down after waiting half hour after the shot for it to expire.
I had hunted Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday from sunrise to sunset, about 44 hours. Being over 50 my days of hunting a week plus straight like this is over so I took Wednesday off (took the wife to town shopping) and got the buck Thursday Morning. Most people we invite hunt a day or a week and never come back. My son has brought young guys over the years and it’s the same. It is cold, hard long days all alone but we have a very high success rate because of the hard work.
The guys I moose hunt with elsewhere in the province also have a high success rate because we don’t spend time in camp when it’s light. You really need a holiday after hunts like these and I welcome going back to work. You do get a year of great eating venison that makes it worth it.
To keep in shape I exercise and have game camera’s in the area I check on to see what going through. Salt blocks bring the deer around after they leave the deer yards. We find if there are bucks around, they leave in the rut and new ones come through. The deer I got this year and the last three I hadn’t had a picture of all year.