Friday, December 20, 2019

All those deer summertime photos-hunting season they are gone

Well if you are like a lot of people who have a pretty good size acreage and hunt there is a good chance you have game cameras around the place so you can get a pretty good Idea of what type of critters roam it especially at night..Its just amazing the amount of critters that come out at night that you never see in daytime. possums-raccoons-bobcats-bears and more..but since you are a deerhunter its those Bucks that you are interested in just like me.You watch them all summer and then come the first week in September they rub off the velvet and they all turn nocturnal..Then comes October when the main breeding takes place and half your bucks do not show up at all..Now what do you do??All your plans to get that 10 point are gone along with the deer..At my place I had 13 bucks from spikes to 10 points on camera.Come October only 4 were showing up..Except for one nice 8 point that came up by the house with some does to feed for months but never showed up on camera ..I am pretty sure my problem is I border a big chunk of national forest and that's where they go..It does not get hunted because there is no access to it..
  So here it is November and most does are bred so now the bucks have to move a lot to pick up a scent of a hot doe and the leaves are mostly gone..
   Once again sitting in my blind passing up a few deer that I have never seen before and here comes a really nice big bodied 8 point which ends up in my freezer that I have no pictures of and have never seen before...I would say that's the story of about 75% of the deer I get..I would sure like to get the one I see on camera..How about you????

Sunday, December 15, 2019

2019 season is about over except for Rich guys

Its hard for me to believe 2019 is just about over except for the special rich people who can afford $1000 bows to hunt deer..I have been on this planet for a long time and its hard for me to swallow the price of everything for hunting.Rifle ammo $20 to $50 a box--I still have my first box of 30-06 from 1970 $1.89 my Mossberg Rifle with a 1.5 to 4 power scope and special work to have magazine load from bottom all told $119..Now I looked at my hunting mags from this month and the rifles they were showing went from $899 to $4100 !!! That's nuts..My binoculars are 8 power with great field of view and fit in the palm of your hand weigh about 3 ounces.Hardly know they are around your neck.They had some called Swarovski that were $3800..just what the hell do you see with them and they weighed a pound and appeared about 8 inches wide..Who and the hell would want that brick around their neck.My little pair are in my jacket and zipped up nice and dry and protected while I am plowing thru the brush..To top it off I was in the big city looking around and the Ford dealer had a F-150 for the hunter that has has it all $104,000  that's not a misprint..and I wonder why the magazines all say they are losing hunters..Is this what it takes for a new hunter to get started????
Then I can see why hunting is going down..Then we throw in this countrys overpopulation and shortage of public places to hunt and the many insane laws..Does not look good..