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2022 Deer season
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I spent a couple of decades out in the cold each season.
Either on the ground or in an open tree stand.
My very first day deer hunting was a disaster.
I had read "everything I needed to know" from hunting magazines of the day.
I washed all of my clothes and coveralls (insulated of course) in baking soda to eradicate smells.
I then moved to the cover scent.
The only thing that was available at the time locally was fox urine.
Wanting to be thorough, I doused my coveralls in fox urine and ram them through a neighborhood laundry dryer. (Yeah, bad idea)
I tossed the coveralls in a garbage bag overnight and off I went in the morning.
I got to my wooden tree stand well before sunrise, wreaking of fox urine.
I climbed up into the stand and sat down.
It got up to 70 degrees that afternoon and there I was, roasting in insulated coveralls and just about choking on the smell of fox urine
I left at dusk after seeing nothing all day.
I redeemed myself the next morning.
I rewashed the coveralls (different laundry mat) foregoing the cover scent.
Twenty minutes after legal shooting hour on day two I dropped my first deer.
A respectable 9 pointer.
Well damn. Watched a nice tall ten walk into my daughter's field. Clean miss. Saw seven does and two nice bucks this morning.
Finally made it happen. My first buck. About 5pm on the 4th. He was hot on a doe that had just come through the minute prior. Grunted and stopped him @ 28 yards broadside. Bolt hit a little high, but clean pass through, double lung.
Season in Franklin county way down this year. Normally harvest totals over 2000 for season but only about 1300 this year. Lowest number in years. Blue tongue killed us. Hope it stays away and deer can recover somewhat for next year.
I think the low harvest number is partly due to DNR lowering antlerless quotas down to 1. I'm just south of Metamora and 100% agree the herd is down , especially mature deer. We found 11 dead this year and who knows how many we didn't.
On a typical year we take about 7 doe off my place. We started dialing back in recent years and just letting the kids take a doe . This year it's zero doe and will probably stay that way for at least a couple more years. Hopefully we don't have another outbreak next year .
spencer rifle
Grandmaster
Tried again this morning. A few white flashes off in the distance, but none stopped or in range. Pileateds though.
He scrapes are back in business here as well. Saw a nice buck following a doe this afternoon at work.
Yep. Foggy and still so far this morning. Squirrels must have slept in.
Red squirrels. Like normal squirrels, on meth. My goodness their driving me nuts.
hoosierdaddy1976
I Can't Believe it's not Shooter
Hoping to get out tomorrow.
Watched a doe and fawn for a half hour. Too cute to shoot. Didn't think it would ever brighten up today. Sunrise just kind of happened reeeeeal slow.
