Didn't go so well. No deer taken. No shots fired. About 8 hours spent.

I saw three groups of deer over the course of the day. All three were out of range. They all seemed to know I was there despite being downwind most of the time.

My next opportunity will be in November.

That is the way it goes sometimes. Hopefully you had a good time in the field.

Buddy wanted to go dove hunting this morning although I think all the birds have left already for points south. Sure enough, we saw 2 or 3 birds and got one. Ah well, at least we got out, although I am not sure it was worth getting up at 4:45AM for.

 

Hunting mornings in the early season is kind of overrated. I understand typically its cooler in the mornings, but most of the time you will do more harm than good.

Do the Charlie Chaplin walk is really a pain in the ass.

 

My wife use to say my hunting was more walking in the bush with a gun than bringing home meat.

 

This is why they call it "hunting" and not "shooting".
But last chance til Nov?
Well that ain't right?
If you have to work , just call in with Glaucoma gluteus maximus.
It's hunting time.

 

our gun season doesn't open until Novenber 15. there was an early hunt this weekend, then there will be archery season but gun hunting is Nov.

 

Could have been worse. Early doe season yesterday and I have a 10 point come strolling through broadside at 25yds about an hour before dark. I put the crosshairs on his heart and thought "your dead now you just don't know it" and then layed the rifle across my lap so I wouldn't get tempted.

I call him Zombie Buck now. Hope he makes it through the rut because I want him spreading those genes as much as possible.

 

My days of hunting with a shotgun slug are quickly coming to an end. Everybody around me is cheating by baiting (illegal in Michigan) and are using scoped rifles (legal). I'm gonna get a scoped center fire rifle before November 15th. With a scoped center fire rifle, I could have had 1 to 3 good shots.

Incidentally, today I barbecued some back straps from last year's deer. In a word: HEAVENLY!

 

My days of hunting with a shotgun slug are quickly coming to an end. Everybody around me is cheating by baiting (illegal in Michigan) and are using scoped rifles (legal). I'm gonna get a scoped center fire rifle before November 15th. With a scoped center fire rifle, I could have had 1 to 3 good shots.

Incidentally, today I barbecued some back straps from last year's deer. In a word: HEAVENLY!

If that's the case then the deer move bait pile to bait pile. You hunt the trails in between.

 

if hunting was always fruitful it would be called grocery shopping

 

anytime hunting is better than sitting on the couch though so there is that

 

When my wife asks what I’m doing during any given weekend during season, I tell her “taking my rifle for a walk.”

Sometimes I even get something.

 

I am an opportunist when hunting outside big game seasons. If I am not trying to fill a specific tag, it isn't uncommon for me to be mooching around with a rifle and a shotgun at the same time. Squirrel, rabbit, duck, pigeon, coot, muskrat, beaver, goose, jackrabbits, whatever. Anything edible that is in season and walks, crawls or flies.

 

Vegan old Indian word for poor hunter.

Worst day hunting is better than the best day at work, and a lot of other things too.

Shooting is sorta practice for hunting - hardly anyone practices fishing.

 

We use to get a Michigan tv station when I lived back east.The news article was talking about hunting seasons starting and there was a million hunters in the field. I laugh when they talk about people invading America by force.

 

doing a job outside of a small town in the mountains north of Boise and there are like 20 deer in town just eating grass in peoples yards..

 

Well... The deer around here (Northwest Michigan) are a lot smarter than the guys hunting them. 😆

 

We don't have to hunt, they just drop them off at our barn....

 

thats unfortunate, the hunt is what matters most, Well that and the backstrap.

 

(Actually it was on the 15th, not today)....not a whopper, just a yearling, but the meat is tender and mild. We've already eaten some.