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Here we go folks; one week from now many of us will be re-uniting with friends and family at hunt camps across Ontario for the November Rifle Hunt. This is bar none my favourite hunt of the year and the culmination of my years preparations.
I'll be going to the family camp in WMU49 for the week. After a taster with the moose hunt in which we saw several deer, including some bucks, im ready to go!
Good luck to all! Be safe and have fun!
Yup gettin stoked. Im hoping the action around here will pick up by then.
Just spent the last five days at the camp and I'm ready to go back for almost 10 in a week.
Saw douzens of partridge (got 5) and five deers, but no moose, I have a feeling it's going to be good again.
I look forward to this week all year. Good luck to everyone and have a safe and successful hunt!
My bag is already half packed!! Seriously it is. Gotta pick up beer and some food tomorrow, quick check through all my gear and I'm ready. Off tomorrow then four long long days of work to go. Will take my daughter out for Halloween then off to the camp Sunday morning. Can't wait!
I'm hoping to get my camp setup on Wednesday, and planning on heading in Saturday morning, get my stuff to camp then off to my cousins camp for our wild game dinner/party. I inherited the chefs position at this party so I will be spending Friday night getting the menu ready.
Bring on the rut.
To help put everyone in the mood, nothing like a bit "o" Yoopers to help! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9yhhflmvY
Looks like I will get a week of hunting 'mono a cervidae' behind my place and then I'll join up with the camp for the 2nd week. If I shoot a deer during the 1st week, I'll donate the meat to the camp pole. That way I can hunt with the gang the 2nd week on camp tags...win win !!
Good luck all....hope what you're hunting for shows up in your shooting lane and your aim is true !!!
Hunt safe.
Hey it's the first week of the Controlled Hunt (shotgun) as well.....looking forward to it...I have only missed deer hunting once in over 47 years and that was because I was in Florida for a month hunting for 2 legged dear!
Not impressed with the 14 day weather forecast - not dropping below freezing for the first week and opening day - RAIN!
Good luck everyone!
I have a couple days off work the first week to host dad at my place, no bucks but tons of coyotes and fox. I will get to take the wife out hunting in the evenings, I hope we can wrestle something up for her but just getting out is important.
Good luck boys and girls and May you all have a safe and rewarding hunt.
Good luck to every one. Im heading up to the cottage for two weeks of deer hunting.
I've been cut down to only the first three days of the rifle season by 'circumstances'. Will be hunting solo and leaving my place at 2AM Monday for a 3 1/4 hour drive straight to the bush (55A). It's a meager deer population area but I've hunted it for 40 years, why stop now, lol.
im heading upto WMU 48 sunday at noon.
Did you get to use your tag that year?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brampton Mike
Two weeks at the camp, hounds are ready to rock and roll. We only have two doe tags for 14 guys!!!!!!! We had 7 last year and left 3 on the table by intention. Weather looks great. This is our 105 th year at Middlebranch Hunt Camp, WMU 63A.
Have fun, play safe and enjoy the hunt and your neighbours. We are all in this together.
Interesting...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart22
http://www.insideottawavalley.com/ne...nch-hunt-camp/
I'll be up at our camp next week. I'm ready to go NOW!!
I leave first thing Saturday morning for wmu 49. Chores and trail cleaning on Saturday and have at her Monday. We have one doe tag but will not fill it. Herd is too low in our area.
Just finished checking my trail cameras after being away for a couple of weeks. Lots of deer pictures. Really looking forward to my 2nd year of deer hunting. Good luck everyone!
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Good luck and play safe..It is not looking good for me to make it to the camp this year but my heart will be there listening to the hounds open up on that first frosty morning. That to me is deer hunting. Dutch
One more day of work!!
This just happened to come across my desk today. I thought it was quite well written and worth sharing. Good luck to all.
HUNTERS ARE THE WITNESSES OF THE WILD.
OUR PASSION DRIVES US TO RISE EARLY IN THE COLD DARK HOURS OF THE DAWN AND TO TRAVEL MANY MILES TO LOSE OURSELVES IN FAVOURITE LANDSCAPES, THE ONES THAT RESONATE IN OUR SOULS.
WE MAY GO WITH FRIENDS OR... FAMILY BUT AT SOME POINT WE END UP ALONE, MOVING QUIETLY, TOTALLY INVOLVED WITH THE BREEZE, THE UNDERGROWTH, THE HIDDEN PLACES IN THE VEGETATION AND THE VAST, OVER ARCHING SKY.
WE BECOME PREDATORS, AND THUS ONE WITH THE ECOSYSTEM - NO LONGER CASUAL OBSERVERS, BUT FULL PARTICIPANTS. WE ARE THERE, WHOLLY AND COMPLETELY, AND OPEN TO WHAT WILL COME.
AND SO IT IS THAT WE SOMETIMES COME HOME FOR THE FINAL TIME AT SEASON’S END WITH OUR TAGS UNFILLED, BUT OUR HEARTS OVERFLOWING. A SUCCESSFUL HUNT DOES NOT REQUIRE A KILL, ONLY THE POSSIBILITY OF ONE. IT IS THAT POSSIBILITY THAT PLACES US OUT IN THE HEART OF THE LIVING WORLD WHERE WOLVES TROT CASUALLY OVER THE ALPINE RIDGES, SMALL BIRDS DRAG THE SUNRISE INTO THE WIND AND BIGHORN SHEEP SURVEY THE WILDERNESS FROM HOLLOWED OUT BEDS ON HIGH TALUS SLOPES.
SOMETIMES WE FORGET WHAT THOSE WHO DO NOT HUNT CANNOT UNDERSTAND, BUT IT IS NOT THE KILL THAT MAKES US HUNTERS. IT IS THE WITNESSING, THE BEING THERE, AND THOSE INTIMATE MOMENTS OF DISCOVERY WHEN THE LIVING WORLD REVEALS ITSELF TO THOSE WHO WORK SO HARD TO FIND IT.
THAT IS WHY WE WILL BE THERE AGAIN IN THE COLD AND THE RAIN AND THE SNOW, WORKING HARD TO PENETRATE TO THE MOST SECRET OF WILD PLACES AGAIN NEXT SEASON. BECAUSE AT THE HEART OF IT, WE ARE NOT SEEKING DEATH. WE ARE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN, AND CELEBRATING, THE INCREDIBLE RICHNESS OF LIFE.
THAT IS AT THE HEART OF WHY WE HUNT.
I'm as excited as a 13-year old girl at a Taylor Swift concert!
Here are some pics from 2014 to get y'all in the mood...
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105 years wow! Tell us some more about the history and the events that have happened over the years!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart22
Beauty pics NP - especially the hound and deer under the tree.
Great pics .
Excellent! Our 97th year at our WMU 47 hunt club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart22
Good luck everyone! Just finishing up my packing and leaving this afternoon. I might throw a pair of shorts in with my clothes.