82A success

Well after yesterday’s windy mess, the deer came out to play today. Legal light came and it was wonderfully wind free and frosty. Most puddles were ice covered on my walk in to my watch. As I walked slowly to my stand, which is about a km walk, I noticed a doe feeding on apples. Unfortunately for me, she heard me but was unsure of what I was, so she stomped and trotted away wagging her tail. A short 10 minutes later as I’m making my way through the bush, movement catches my eye. Out of some tall grass stands a small buck at about 30 yards. He’s unsure of me and we are having a stare down. After about a minute (but feels like forever) he turns his head which allows me to shoulder my Winchester 94. I was able to put one right through the vitals. He never even flinched. I thought I missed so I chambered another round and...he just fell over. I gave it 10 minutes then went in to pull him out and tag him. It’s great to have some venison for the freezer. On the drag out I came across that doe again eating more apples. Thanks to a friend for lending me his game cart, I saved my back. I just might buy my own lol.

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Congratulations!

That's a nice one . Congrats

I'm in 82A also. Nothing yet for us. Congrats on the deer. Lots time still for more.

that will be a nice tasting deer, congrats!

Nice deer congrats

Great looking deer, going to be some good eats there
Congrats

Congrats!

Congrats. Your 94 looks like it has stories to tell.


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Nice! Cool gun man!

I'm 82a as well and I've seen nothing. Congratulations on a great eater!

Thanks everyone. I inherited that 94 a couple of years ago from a family friend. It’s got no bluing left, it’s chambered in 32 special. This is the first deer I ever harvested with it.
As for my spot in 82a, I’m actually surprised at the lack of activity. Trying to help fill my dads tag has been difficult. I would have expected all the bucks to be chasing the does like crazy, but I haven’t seen any evidence of this. I’m not sure what to make of it.

I've only lived here for 3 years but the locals tell me the 2013 winter was very hard on the deer herd. I suspect there's no activity because there's no deer in the area. Lots of coyotes though! Holy crap I can hear 3 packs from one location I'm hunting. I have nothing against coyotes specifically but I think a thinning needs to occur.

Last two years in 82a succesfull on my first day in the bush.

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On crown land Topher? Hard to get permission up here. Everybody hunts!

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On crown land Topher? Hard to get permission up here. Everybody hunts!

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He's at my camp - private.

Went from seeing 17 deer during October. And not 1 deer this week at all. Seeing fresh tracks so I'm assuming their moving in the middle of the night. Been a stressful week.

Hunt 82A , saw a doe and fawn Monday, they seem to be out at night. I think population is away down. First buck scrape was last week. Think might be a spike , by the tracks. They moved on the snow last night, after the storm. I Don't shoot does , leave her to build up the population again . old243

Well that's that. We got skunked this week. Not one sighting. First time ever.

Congrats

We got 4 for 8 guys in camp . All bucks .... 5 , 4 , 2 point and a button .
Glen

We also hunted 82A. Eight guys in camp and we did not see a single deer. We did morning and night watches and pushed a few bushes and nothing. Very few shots and very few fresh tracks. I guess the population is WAY down. We'll see if we can get one during muzzleloader season, Very disappointing.

I hunted 82A last week and was successful opening morning. Saw a nice doe out about 350 yards but that's out of my comfortable hunting range and wasn't long and I had a buck come walk in to 20 yards behind my blind. I was able to get a clean shot on him about 7:45am Monday morning. I heard a number of shots in the morning, so definitely some success in the area. I then switched to WMU 80 for coyote, and had another buck walk 15 yards behind my blind, but already had my tag filled but always good to see deer out moving. I'm hunting private property in both WMU's and hunt solo. Happy Hunting.