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Looking ahead to next season - Lessons Learned
Posted on 1/27/23 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 1/27/23 at 1:37 pm
Deer season is still not over for me, I have until Feb 15th, but it's really feeling like the end. Lots of folks will be making their last hunt this weekend. I like hearing what other people have in mind when it comes to what they want to change. Can be anything, private vs public, gear, weapon, tactics, in-state vs out of state.
I didn't spend near enough time in the woods this year. I had an encounter on the ground for the 3rd year in a row and it's really heart pumping. I probably need to do more ground hunting. I build a quick natural blind once I find exactly where I want to sit, or sit in a treetop of rootball.
I'm planning an out of state trip, will be my first real out of state hunting.
I know I need some boot dryers. One time this season my boots got wet from a torrential downpour and the another time I went over them wading through a slough. Sure does suck spending all day with wet feet.
I'm fully entrenched as a saddle hunter now, but I want to find trees with maximum cover, which can be harder to climb.
Next deer I kill I'm backpacking it out, no dragging or going back to get the cart.
Staying home when the temps are in the 80s. I say it every year and I still break my own rule. Did it again this year. Spent 4 days miserable af.
I didn't spend near enough time in the woods this year. I had an encounter on the ground for the 3rd year in a row and it's really heart pumping. I probably need to do more ground hunting. I build a quick natural blind once I find exactly where I want to sit, or sit in a treetop of rootball.
I'm planning an out of state trip, will be my first real out of state hunting.
I know I need some boot dryers. One time this season my boots got wet from a torrential downpour and the another time I went over them wading through a slough. Sure does suck spending all day with wet feet.
I'm fully entrenched as a saddle hunter now, but I want to find trees with maximum cover, which can be harder to climb.
Next deer I kill I'm backpacking it out, no dragging or going back to get the cart.
Staying home when the temps are in the 80s. I say it every year and I still break my own rule. Did it again this year. Spent 4 days miserable af.
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Posted on 1/27/23 at 1:43 pm to SkintBack
I hunt til the 15th as well and the deer rut extremely late where I'm at. Last year I saw a monster chasing a doe around Feb 5.
Next year I will do more early season hunting. I feel like I missed on some deer by not going because it was too warm.
Next year I will do more early season hunting. I feel like I missed on some deer by not going because it was too warm.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 1:48 pm to SkintBack
I’ll try to spend more time on stand.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 1:49 pm to Marciano1
I will be 100% Sgt Shultz Hogans Heros
I see nothing. I know nothing
I see nothing. I know nothing
Posted on 1/27/23 at 1:58 pm to 257WBY
quote:
’ll try to spend more time on stand.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 2:54 pm to SkintBack
just getting started on year round rabbit and pig season.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 3:19 pm to EF Hutton
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I will be 100% Sgt Shultz Hogans Heros
Lmao
Who said old dogs can't learn new tricks
Posted on 1/27/23 at 3:24 pm to SkintBack
I found a great spot this year. My plan is go walk further in on some of the trails and put more cameras out to see whats going on.
Going make some hinge cuts and clear up a few shooting lanes before everything turns green.
Going make some hinge cuts and clear up a few shooting lanes before everything turns green.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 3:50 pm to tke_swamprat
Just for curiousity, why would one hinge cut a tree ?
This post was edited on 1/27/23 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 1/27/23 at 4:14 pm to EF Hutton
Just some small trash trees in the way. Just to provide some cover for the deer and enhance the area near bedding. Make them feel safe.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 4:32 pm to SkintBack
Didn't kill a deer this year. I'm fact, haven't shot a deer in Louisiana the past 4 seasons. I have passed multiple bucks and does waiting for something bigger or my daughter to shoot one. Worked out this year as she missed one and killed one. I killed an antelope in August in New Mexico so my season was a huge success in my book. Actually saw more deer than I ever have at my lease in chipola. Next year I'm shooting the first mature deer I see though. I need to break my streak.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 6:31 pm to SkintBack
Lessons Learned = ain't no ducks
Lessons Learned = very few squirrels in the woods (subdivisions are full of them)
Lessons Learned = hunting quail in Rapides Parish is a thing of the past.
Lessons Learned = The A-hole that has been sneaking onto our land and deer hunting changed his route of "sneaking in". He will be caught this next hunting season.
Lessons Learned = very few squirrels in the woods (subdivisions are full of them)
Lessons Learned = hunting quail in Rapides Parish is a thing of the past.
Lessons Learned = The A-hole that has been sneaking onto our land and deer hunting changed his route of "sneaking in". He will be caught this next hunting season.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 6:35 pm to SkintBack
I ain’t looked at the calendar yet, but hoping for a Tuesday Christmas. Edit will be Monday which is a step in the right direction. 
This post was edited on 1/27/23 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 1/27/23 at 6:37 pm to jgthunt
For me, I need to figure out late season here. I've hunted TN for 4 years now, and all the bucks I've killed have been during muzzleloader season, early November when the rut it hot. That is just a matter of being out there and being in a spot that I have vision and won't have people run up on me. I have my early season spot now. Into December and that 1 weekend in January though, I haven't figured it out. They stop running, it's more about hunting edges of fields which I just hate the idea of, partly because it's longer shots and I'm not that confident in my old gun past 125 (will be getting a new one this year, so maybe that changes). I want to be in the woods, climbing, finding spots where they are coming and going and such. I've gotten lucky once, but I've seen deer to shoot once in that spot in about 15 times out over the last 3 years. I know I just need a better late season set of spots, just haven't found them yet. Public land can take a while to figure out.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 7:23 pm to SkintBack
Buy a 350 Legend to get an extra week in January.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:36 pm to Tear It Up
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Buy a 350 Legend
Why the 350 legend over the 35 whelen? I’ve never shot the legend but didn’t that guy just lose a deer like a week ago with one? I’m not saying the 35 whelen drops every single deer every single time, but I do know that thing packs a punch and is ballistically superior.
Anyway, I haven’t really learned any lessons this year but I did find a new (to me) piece of public that I’m ready to put some time into next year. I’ve also figured out the rut (as much as one can) on a piece I’ve hunted the past few years. So I’ve already scheduled 3 weeks of vacation for next year to hopefully be right in the middle of the rut on both of those places.
Also, I picked up some really awesome and useful saddle hunting products this year. Backpack, clamps to hold my sticks to my pack, clips to hold my sticks to my saddle as I climb, etc. I can name some of those products for the saddle guys if any of y’all are interested.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:51 pm to SkintBack
Backyard deer are plentiful and bucks will be even better next year.
Lessons learned? I need a crossbow that I can shoot from my porch rocking chair.
Lessons learned? I need a crossbow that I can shoot from my porch rocking chair.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 10:32 pm to Crawdaddy
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I need a crossbow that I can shoot from my porch rocking chair.
I’d go with a ravin. Had an r29x sniper and they’re really accurate. They’ve since changed the sniper package to include a scope with dials instead of the ravin jackplate. Mine had the jackplate. Whatever you get, definitely look into the jackplate for it. Mount a quality riflescope on top of it and it will dial to 100 yards. There’s a piece to dial it to 200 but that’s excessive. A lot of people will say you can’t put a riflescope on a crossbow because of the forward recoil but quality scopes can handle that.
Posted on 1/28/23 at 9:36 am to SkintBack
My second year hunting Ozark Mountains with my son, and my lessons were mostly about huntable light vs. terrain.
If you don't plan your path carefully, and the sun crests at the wrong angle at the top of the hill, you are effectively blind hunting uphill.
Got a bit better by January in planning to hunt with the sun at my back in the morning and planning a return track with good sun angle as well. Have to plan sun and wind
Also related to light, I have some spots I really like to hunt that get only 3-4hrs of huntable light in the winter due to the terrain ("Dark Side of the Mountain") - so learned if I want to hunt those spots, no need to wake up as early, and accept it's cold as frick there.
If you don't plan your path carefully, and the sun crests at the wrong angle at the top of the hill, you are effectively blind hunting uphill.
Got a bit better by January in planning to hunt with the sun at my back in the morning and planning a return track with good sun angle as well. Have to plan sun and wind
Also related to light, I have some spots I really like to hunt that get only 3-4hrs of huntable light in the winter due to the terrain ("Dark Side of the Mountain") - so learned if I want to hunt those spots, no need to wake up as early, and accept it's cold as frick there.
Posted on 1/28/23 at 9:36 am to 257WBY
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spend more time on stand
ur going to get bedsores on your arse
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