last day for whitetail in my area

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Well the end is near last day for whitetail in my area:( .I'm gonna wake up bright and early and pray for some kind of luck.I have hunted 9 days in 3 different locations in Manitoba only to see one legal deer.I am seeing sign everywhere tracks,rubs,scrapes but no deer.It is suppose to be -10 for a high tommorow with flurries,wind 25km's out of the NW.Anybody have some last day advice.Good Luck to those still searching like me.:redface:
 
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Well the end is near last day for whitetail in my area:( .I'm gonna wake up bright and early and pray for some kind of luck.I have hunted 9 days in 3 different locations in Manitoba only to see one legal deer.I am seeing sign everywhere tracks,rubs,scrapes but no deer.It is suppose to be -10 for a high tommorow with flurries,wind 25km's out of the NW.Anybody have some last day advice.Good Luck to those still searching like me.:redface:
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the story of all my hunts this year:mad:
 
Sounds like perfect hunting conditions to me! Flying snow and the wind will make it very quiet to work slowly upwind. I would hunt the edge between some agricultural land and the bush or the bottom of a draw/funnel.

Good luck!

Brobee
 
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the key may be grassy sloughs with lots of willows. I find that if it is cold out or fairly windy they will either be in the heart of the big bushes with grassy bedding areas or grassy sloughs surrounded by thick red willow. Taller grass that is, approx waist high. Depending on how strong the wind is they will not want to come out of the bush. They are more than likely to run around inside it.
 
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I will be hunting bush approx.a mile from agricultural land it is public wildlife management.It is a mixture of birch,poplar,oak,and spruce.We have about 6"
of snow on the ground there has been flurrie activitey all day.the area I am hunting has not been hunted hard but driven very hard that is why I like to get off the beaten path and do some still hunting in the bushes.No luck yet.
 
Good luck. Seriously.

I've been out quite a few times this season and after the 2nd week, no one is seeing any deer during legal hours. Everyone I've talked with agrees that the deer in SE Manitoba have gone nocturnal. I too was going to head out this morning but decided against it, -25C with a north wind in my face for 9 hours, waiting for a critter that may or may not cross the trail I'm watching isn't my idea of fun anymore.... used to be, but not anymore. I prefer bow and muzzle loader season now, also theres alot less a$$holes out shooting from the roads during Sept. and Oct. Just my 0.02
 
Turbo, my sentiments exactly. This is the first year that I have given up on rifle season. Last year was too much setting up and waiting only to have the hunt ruined by hunters driving across the field and spooking everything. There is only the wife and I at home so we don't need that much meat anyway. We hunted muzzleloader season and filled the 3 tags we got, so we are set for winter. I even sold off 2 of my Deer rifles, and am looking at getting a .54 cal muzzleloader to go along with my .50 cal Deerstalker.
 
To the south east I have seen more road shooting and tresspassers durning muzzel than rifle, and wrost part, they own thier own land. We can't sit and hunt on our own land with out some inbred door knob dingle nut job driving around with a gun at the ready, I have taken down so many plate numbers my hand hurts. The first three days where like a war zone down there. I would like one of those repeating black powder jobs with the night vison, like everyone else does down there
 
Sorry to hear that. In our area it was good, but we don't have the population you do. The modern muzzleloaders shooting 150-200 yards have made this easier for those that want to hunt from a truck. We need more wardens to put these guys in their place.
 
I borrowed my buddies Darton FireForce cross bow for the muzzle season. And will be buying one in the near future. They're quieter and faster to relaod if you miss. Plus it has roughly the same range as a muzzle loader .... just some food for thought.
 
Well I jumped a doe and yearling at 7:45 this morning tracked them seen them once again high tailing it through the bush.Man were they spooked easily.So 10 days out 3 deer sightings.Not very good.Not a great deal of trails either.So now I am debating on what to have for supper deer license sandwiches,deer license stew,or maybe I should save them for a later date and make deer license jerky out of them.Well theres always next year!!!!!

Licenses for the year $135.00
Gas for hunting $325.00
Getting to hunt for 10 days,spending countless hours trying to outwit a beautiful elusive big buck:dancingbanana: :dancingbanana: :dancingbanana:
PRICELESS....................
 
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Well I jumped a doe and yearling at 7:45 this morning tracked them seen them once again high tailing it through the bush.Man were they spooked easily.So 10 days out 3 deer sightings.Not very good.Not a great deal of trails either.So now I am debating on what to have for supper deer license sandwiches,deer license stew,or maybe I should save them for a later date and make deer license jerky out of them.Well theres always next year!!!!!

Licenses for the year $135.00
Gas for hunting $325.00
Getting to hunt for 10 days,spending countless hours trying to outwit a beautiful elusive big buck:dancingbanana: :dancingbanana: :dancingbanana:
PRICELESS....................
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yea i hear where you are coming from lots of xmas tree decorations in my wallet as well
 
Spent 3 weeks hunting north of Brandon. First day we saw 23 deer (no bucks). Thought it looked good for meat at the least.Second day.....POOF. Deer disappeared. Never saw more than 3 or 4 a day after that, and usually at long range and making it longer in a hurry. Averaged 5-6 miles a day, pushing some of the thickest bush imagineable. Our party varied from 2-8 guys and our best days occured with 2 or 3 hunters. The deer we harvested (3 bucks and 4 does) all came from very small bushed areas or cattailed slough bottoms. We did find a vary large number of yodel dogs and believe they may have taken the deer numbers down. Very few calves seen this year.

Yodel dog season will start next weekend for us. I am declaring war on them.:mad:
 
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Yodel dog season will start next weekend for us. I am declaring war on them.:mad:
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about right. I am off Friday and I think that is what my plans are for it.:dancingbanana:


In regards to deer populations I agree that they are down. I heard from a fellow, down the line a ways, that a fellow hunter feels the coyote population is as high as many many years ago when he used to run a registered trapline. The deer pops were down then and are down today. A few years and what the hunters don't get, mother nature will put the reality check on the yotes.
 
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I second the call for the lack of good sized deer. Hunt NE of Brandon in the Langford hills area. Once teemed with deer. Had a tough time seeing any shootable animals as it was way too warm, +12 one day, and bazillions of yotes. A few tough winters with lots of snow and relentless shooting all summer and into the fall by some groups does not help the situation. But deer are like cockroaches, ya can't kill them all and they will repopulate
 
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