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Muzzleloader Season
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Decided to sleep in this morning, I've hit the woods every weekend since opening bow. Hit the woods today at 1pm and jumped 4 does off to my right in the front of the woods while walking through the corn field to hit the back. Pretty well ruined my day. I hunt a small woods that is really used as a pass through. I have only seen deer after 10am and mostly evening. They do bed down in the front fork but they use the center from the highway to the fork heavily. Probably wont even go out tomorrow. I have my ML tag and bonus to fill but if its to dang cold i doubt i'll fill them.
Good luck
Nathan
Good luck
Nathan
savageayape
Plinker
I haven't seen even 1/4 the number of deer that I usually see by this point in the season, but I'm not giving up yet. I'll be in a tree around 5:00 a.m. and ready Sunday morning. It's been a long time since I failed to kill a deer in any given season. There are still a few weeks left. It's not too cold to sit in a tree.
I bought a brand new TC Omega muzzleloader and Nikon Omega scope back in October just in case I didn't have a good buck on the ground by the close of firearms season. Since I scored early on one, I'm staying in my warm bed and skipping muzzleloader and late archery seasons.
Good luck to those who are still hunting. You're definitely a tougher bunch than I.
Good luck to those who are still hunting. You're definitely a tougher bunch than I.
jmiller676
Master
Saw 6 this morning. They didn't want to hang around for the party to start though.
trophy hunter
Sharpshooter
my wife killed a decent 9pt sat. morning while it was chasin a doe...
she saw 4 does after she shot him and i was just over the hill i seen a 6pt..so over all a great morning here..
she saw 4 does after she shot him and i was just over the hill i seen a 6pt..so over all a great morning here..
was trying a spot I scouted out at Atterbury now that the shotgunners are gone. Didn't see any today but hooked up with another hunter and he told me I was in a decent spot.
Then he gave me a couple of other places to check out, turns out he grew up in the area and always fills his freezer.
I love meeting good people
Then he gave me a couple of other places to check out, turns out he grew up in the area and always fills his freezer.
I love meeting good people
redneckmedic
Grandmaster
I saw 14 last night and a nice 6pt this morning. They were showing encouraging signs of a second rut, I even watched two separate sets of buck lock up and afterwards stiring the does around. None were really shooters or too far for as dark as it was getting. Yotes are a problem on the farm I was hunting so an over night lay and chill was out. 6pt was a good size this AM about 30yrds out but we are trying to show conservation on this particular property so I let him walk. All the does must have slept in.
Sunday
I got out Sunday evening for a while. Sat in the stand for a while, not much moving, moved to another part of the farm to sit along a fence row next to some corn that only had a couple of passes around the perimeter taken off. Got to the fence row just in time to watch a doe at about 35 yards come out of the standing corn, and move to the next field. I have yet to see any "shooter bucks" this season.
I got out Sunday evening for a while. Sat in the stand for a while, not much moving, moved to another part of the farm to sit along a fence row next to some corn that only had a couple of passes around the perimeter taken off. Got to the fence row just in time to watch a doe at about 35 yards come out of the standing corn, and move to the next field. I have yet to see any "shooter bucks" this season.
whipfinish
Marksman
Hunted all weekend. Saw several does but I think that the full moon has the deer eating and being active all night and sleeping in. Been seeing more activity in the afternoon when temps rise. Looking forward to this weekend with all the corn now down.
Muzzleloader season can be pretty tough , hang around food sources late in the evening and near bedding areas early in the morning. May see a decent buck at mid day. Even all the does are more skittish after being run all over the woods regular fire arm season.
yeah, I'm hoping with the lesser number of hunters in the woods things may settle down a little.
I plan to get out this weekend after skipping the opener. Decided to hold off the first week to give the deer a chance to breathe and hopefully be a bit less skittish after being hunted hard during shotgun. Be interested to see how much of the corn on the other side of the creek is gone. On the last day of shotgun they had harvested maybe one or two rows.
