Bow Season At Last

Doug

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Well, tomorrow is our season opener for deer where I live. I can't get out for the morning hunt, but I will be out tomorrow afternoon. :dancingbanana:

Here in Southeastern Ontario there seem to be a LOT less deer around this year. And for sure we had severe late winter mortality in some areas because of deep snow and too damn many coyotes. :mad: April was a killer month.

Anyways I have three tags and all three can be either antlered or antlerless depending on the area. So I really don't care if it is a spotted fawn that blunders into the kill zone, it is in mortal danger! :cool:

And for anybody that only shoots eighteen point bucks with a single shot at impossible ranges, y'all have a nice day, y'hear? :rolleyes: I don't care if YOU don't shoot fawns and does...............:wave:

Doug
 
A buddy of mine shot a spotted fawn a few years ago and he proudly proclaimed that it qualified for" Pokeoneyoung" I got a kick out of that. No need to aplogise for shootin the youngins. Good eating and good management!

Good Luck!
 
I have let them walk (like most of us, I guess), but I also remember the late 70s and early 80s here in Ontario when we had a major celebration if somebody in the deer camp saw a fresh track or fresh s**t. Most years we shot one or none, with six to eight men in camp for a WEEK. :eek:

The antlerless draw was a major boost to the deer population (before that, your Ontario tag was good for any deer, AND a bear! :rolleyes:). But the biggest boost has been a succession of mild winters one after the other so we kind of forgot what winterkill was all about. Now we have had a bad winter and a LOT more coyotes around, deer numbers are down and will be down more I reckon.

So "make hay while the sun shines!" :dancingbanana:

Doug
 
Doug said:
I have let them walk (like most of us, I guess), but I also remember the late 70s and early 80s here in Ontario when we had a major celebration if somebody in the deer camp saw a fresh track or fresh s**t. Most years we shot one or none, with six to eight men in camp for a WEEK. :eek:
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Back when they were scarce, my dad crawled on his stomach for 300 yds putting a stalk on a fawn, and got it. It was the only deer they saw all week and they were hunting over 1000 acres.

The season was only 4 days in some areas as well back then...
 
hey Doug.
wakey wakey,its 4.45 :pits time to get up,the coffees on;)
happy hunting:shotgun: while some of us peons have to work:(

ps.. oh ya dont let them kick you azz this time
 
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Well I got out this morning in the pouring rain 5:50am I was on stand and not a single movement except for chipmunks and blue jays. Packed up and went home around 10am deer dont tend to move much in the pouring rain if it were drizzle there might have been some movement but I dont blame them for bedding early when the weather is like this.

Good luck to every who is going out tonight be safe and shoot straight ;)
 
I've been ready to go, and waiting patiently for this day. Pulled out my back on monday...my season may be over even before it started!!! Anyway, good luck to all of you, and happy hunting. Don't forget to post picks.
 
sheephunter said:
A buddy of mine shot a spotted fawn a few years ago and he proudly proclaimed that it qualified for" Pokeoneyoung" ....
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Those aren't spots...they're tenderness indicators. I've shot a couple litl'uns in the past, and they make for "cut'fork eatin'". I took a little fork horn muley buck this year with the stick and string. He's eating very tender, and he was shot at one of those ridiculous ranges (but I trash a Blackhole Block every year out to 90yds until it looks like you put it through a paper shredder). Anything with a bow is a hunt to remember.
 
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Packed up and went home around 10am deer dont tend to move much in the pouring rain if it were drizzle there might have been some movement but I dont blame them for bedding early when the weather is like this,
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Ive noticed that if it rains for a really long period of time, the deer have to get up and move to dry out...Ive had deer come in a few times while it was pouring rain, only most of the time it had started raining the night before.
 
Well I have blood on my shirt and fresh liver soaking in milk for tomorrow night's supper.............:dancingbanana:

But it was my bow-hunting partner Burt that connected with a nice buck, not me. I heard the shot about 6:45 this evening - Burt's stand is only about a hundred yards as the crow flies from my stand. It was a tricky tracking job because everything is wet, but after about an hour I found him dead as a door-nail. Good shot, tricky angle but a double-lung pass through.

So I still have my three tags AND a half of a buck! :D

I will be out there tomorrow morning for my turn............

Doug
 
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