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Post by grizz1 on Aug 25, 2013 22:51:28 GMT -5
There seems to never be a dull moment around my house. Only 9 days left before we leave for Alaska and my list of things to do keeps getting longer, not shorter as planned. Blake and I did get one food plot planted today although with the drought and 100 degree temps it is more like a dusting place for turkey. Craig is coming back from NC to build a cabin on his property, so will need to set him up with tools and all the stuff I have stored for him needs to go back to his farm. The materials for Buck's deck are on site so have to build his deck on his hunting cabin before I leave and need to paint two rooms for a neighbor and the North side of my own house. Have postponed a few jobs until we get back and now I'm seeing deer and turkey everyday which has my mind on fall bow hunting, not work. The 32 degree mornings and 55 degree days in Alaska have started looking real good lately, these temps we have are wearing me down fast and no rain in sight they say.
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Post by LongSpur39 on Aug 27, 2013 10:13:30 GMT -5
The drought is unreal out there. I've been hearing EHD is appearing more and more? Is that true? I hope you get wet weather very soon!
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Post by grizz1 on Aug 27, 2013 22:32:32 GMT -5
Honestly Scott, I haven't heard of any problems yet near me. I'm afraid I will though, anytime. It was bad last year in late Aug, Sept and first of Oct. The deer are going to the creeks to cool off, finding water in very few places so is concentrating everything. The Mosquitoes are terrible right now, not sure why, I thought they liked wet weather and swamps. If the midges are as thick they will be biting the deer at those few watering holes I bet. If it cools down I'll take an ATV and ride a couple miles of the creek on the ranch and see what I find.
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Post by LongSpur39 on Aug 28, 2013 14:26:57 GMT -5
Yeah that's weird skeeters are bad. I can't remember where it was. But my buddy said his cousin found most of the dead deer close to any water sources. He said they lost some good bucks they were hunt in. A couple right before the season. Its terrible way for the deer to die. Very sad and sickening.
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Post by grizz1 on Aug 28, 2013 21:50:56 GMT -5
Yes Scott. last year deer were found close to water, often in the water and many of them were good sized bucks. Last year the Rancher found a decent buck in the creek just East of my house, the deer could not get up the banks to escape and was too weak to run far in the sand. He finished it off, called the warden and was told to remove it from the stream, they gave him a permit to keep the antlers.
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Post by LongSpur39 on Aug 29, 2013 4:44:49 GMT -5
Man seeing deer suffer like that would turn my stomach!!! Just a shame.
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Post by grizz1 on Aug 31, 2013 0:16:11 GMT -5
Today I worked outside in the very dusty 102 degree weather. Did some mowing at my friends deer camp this evening, still 98 degrees, washed off with garden hose before I got in my truck to drive home. In Denali today the high was 55 with a light rain, I'm suddenly looking forward to cooler, damp weather so in 4 days we plan to be out of here. Took some of my tools to the deer camp that are needed in the cabin building and was assured by my hunting buddy that there would be a cabin to stay in when I get back from Alaska. All I can say is, you better hope it cools off Craig cause that is a lot of work to get done in 2 weeks with 100 degree weather for one guy.
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Post by LongSpur39 on Sept 4, 2013 19:52:06 GMT -5
Hard work in the high heat. I hope it pays off bigtme!!
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Post by grizz1 on Sept 30, 2013 21:32:04 GMT -5
Sept 29th, first day of serious bow hunting. I didn't make it to the woods until 9;30, since I had a 500 mile drive the day before I had to sleep off, but we saw 3 bucks soon after getting to the East farm. One was a decent 8 point but he bedded down at 80 yards and shooting him wasn't meant to be. Couldn't find any turkey so we worked on 3 of our ladder stands. The last one needed a lot of adjustment so while I was at the top letting pressure off the ratchets, Blake was working at the bottom of the ladder. Evidently the boards I had under the legs or the leaves had a nest of ticks underneath as Blake soon had thousands of them crawling all over him. We made a bee line for the house to change clothes and wash off all the ticks.
Evening hunt, I decided to try the creek bottom East of my house on the neighbors place. Within 10 minutes we began seeing deer. Blake and I waited on 3 doe to get to us that were feeding across a hay field as we hid in the creek using the bank for cover, They passed behind a large Maple that had blown down giving Blake a chance to draw and he trusted my judgement on distance which caused him to shoot about 1 inch under the big doe. Recovered the arrow and continued to hunt, seeing more deer within minutes. By the time we quit for the day we had seen another 14 deer, all doe, bringing the total for the day to 17 deer, and 0 turkey.
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Post by grizz1 on Oct 31, 2013 9:16:04 GMT -5
Oct 31st, deer are tearing things up at night, not seeing the daylight activity for a few days though. Rained yesterday, last night and still raining this morning, hard rain at times so just waiting for movement to begin. Have my annual Bronchitis so getting soaked is not a good thing and coughing doesn't seem to help the deer hunting. Looks like it's hunting from the garage and front porch today.
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Post by grizz1 on Nov 1, 2013 22:44:43 GMT -5
Nov1, an evening hunt, 2 doe came out, one of them hit all the scrapes on the West side of the corn field. Tomorrow youth season opens, Blake will have the .270 so we can extend the range, probably hunt here at home in the big open fields and save the East farm for bow hunting.
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Post by grizz1 on Nov 3, 2013 22:02:08 GMT -5
Having the .270 did not help any this weekend as the deer movement was real good. We had hoped the rut would get started but it has been slow to get underway. On Sat we saw a big 8 pt in my corn field but the 600 yards was just too far. Sat evening had an 8pt , spike and 2 doe come to within 25 yards and passed on all of them. The 8 would score about 100 and Blake wanted a larger one. Sunday, only a spike for the morning hunt here at home. I helped the Rancher vaccinate 550 cattle to end my day of hunting. In the evening Blake saw 3 bucks, the 8pt from Sat, a forkhorn and a huge 9 pt. He wanted to shoot the 9 pt but wasn't quick enough to get a shot before the buck got away.
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Post by grizz1 on Nov 8, 2013 23:58:00 GMT -5
Nov 7 Jack took a button buck from the East farm, this evening the 8th he took a big doe. Dewayne took an 11 point, 230 lbs score in the 150's. Chasing was going on for many of the guys, I only saw one small buck trailing, a doe feeding and the wind blowing 30 mph all day.
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Post by 4Pointer on Nov 10, 2013 19:52:37 GMT -5
Glad to hear to you guy's are on the move on gettin into the deer ,, CONGRATS TO ALL ,,
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Post by 4Pointer on Nov 10, 2013 19:52:39 GMT -5
Glad to hear to you guy's are on the move on gettin into the deer ,, CONGRATS TO ALL ,,
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