C’mere deer!

[6wheeler 586]

Nice plot. Great pics too. I have seen several does here. Lots of corn and beans around me yet. I bowhunt over my plot. It is just 40' wide and 70' long with 2 pie pumpkin hills planted on one end. I learned from my neighbor, that Deer and Elk really like pumpkins. He raises Elk. I grow pumpkins in the gardens but have never left them out after the season. I have always given him the leftovers. I tried the pie pumpkins last year. I watched as the deer worked the plot. The waited until the pumpkins were a little over ripe and stomped on them and ate them all up. With the winter peas and radish and buckwheat mix I use, we have deer showing up here all winter too. And in case anyone was wondering? They do not bother my gardens. I tell my wife, "We must have enough other stuff here for them".  Good Luck Hunting.

[Ed Kennell 35,796]

I finally got some deer on the cam during daylight hours.     I'll pull the card and post them when I get back.   Headed North tomorrow to hunt the lease in Cameron Co.

We made the deer camp meal this afternoon.    Deer steak, gravy and biscuits.   The recipe is in @stevasaurus   steve's  recipe thread.

 

[Pullstart 59,733]

Best of luck to you, my friend!

[Ed Kennell 35,796]

I'm back from 5 days in the big woods.  We did take 2 bucks and 6 doe and one guy missed a bear at 20 yds. when his inline muzzle  loader failed to fire ...3 times.  Nothing came home with me but memories and a few pictures.   The bucks were just not in rutt.   I'll try again in 2 weeks.

 

While checking a new area, I found some iron.   It's clear this was a sawmill.

 

This was about 1/4 mile from the sawmill.     Is this part of the engine?  Those studs are 1 1/4" dia.

[Pullstart 59,733]

Awesome pictures Ed, thanks for sharing!  I went outside last night to put some wood in the fire and came about 15 yards from a buck bedding in the middle of my front yard!  I paused, he stood up slow, did his hissing/blow warning, then I backed back into the house to show Mrs. P, but by then he was gone.  I’ve been busy or gone all month, I’m looking forward to getting into my stand here in the next couple weeks.

[Pullstart 59,733]

 Just wanted to point out, Meat Eater on Netflix is a great show to watch getting all ramped up for a hunt!  Now if I can get into my tree soon!

[Pullstart 59,733]

I haven’t even shot my bow yet, so I figure I might as well wait until next week for shotgun season.  I slung a few bits of lead at the swinging targets today and was a bit high and right.  I’m now as close as the shooter can get the gun.  I don’t plan to have a clear shot much past 60 yards, unless the deer is in one of my trails.  

[Ed Kennell 35,796]

Just came in from a 4 hour sit in the lower tree stand in a cold drizzling rain.   Saw 2 doe three different times.  I did have a pic on the trail camera that is interesting.  I'll pull the SD and post the pic next trip.     

I'm heading back to the BIG North Woods next week for the last days of bow season.

[Ed Kennell 35,796]

Finally,   had a nice 8 point show at 4:30 this evening.  He followed a doe in and they stopped at 56 yards.   They spent the next 45 minutes there, but never offered a shot.

The rut is on.

[Ed Kennell 35,796]

I just checked the cam at the lower stand where I saw the buck last night.  The lower stand is below the green fenced pasture in the middle of this picture. The doe and buck were there at midnight and 3:30AM this morning.

If they show up in the daylight tomorrow or Tue., he may be in trouble.  I'll be in that stand until I leave for the North on Wed.

Since I won't be using it, I removed the pumpkin patch stand.  I haven't had a deer on this cam all season.  I thought deer liked pumpkins?

 

[Pullstart 59,733]

Be safe out there, gun hunters.  Oh the joys of being a father, I found this note this morning!  

[Pullstart 59,733]

First light I dropped this guy.  I can’t tell if he’s the 8 in the trail cam or not but he’s got tall tines...  I’m sitting for a while to see what else might come in.   He was in pursuit of a doe in my tall grass, I heard him grunting every 5-10 seconds.  It took a few responses from me to stop him for a shot.  I shot, he walked maybe 20 yards and dropped.  Woo hoo!

 

 

[The Tuul Crib 7,332]

On 10/22/2019 at 5:04 PM, Ed Kennell said:

I finally got some deer on the cam during daylight hours.     I'll pull the card and post them when I get back.   Headed North tomorrow to hunt the lease in Cameron Co.

We made the deer camp meal this afternoon.    Deer steak, gravy and biscuits.   The recipe is in @stevasaurus   steve's  recipe thread.

 

Mmmmmm!!!!

[Pullstart 59,733]

So the food plot was not effective today to bring the deer in, but I imagine it helped to keep them around.  They’ve been busy in the last couple days...

 

 

[Pullstart 59,733]

Nothing runs like a deer being dragged by a Horse!

 

 

[Pullstart 59,733]

My brother in-law is about 2 hours away in Mount Pleasant, MI.  He’s had a pretty successful day too!

 

 

[oliver2-44 8,852]

I had a successful hunt at the Farm as well.

There are not many acorns at the farm this year.  So I raked up a 5 gallon bucket of them and dumped a pile by my feeder, and spread some along a trail along with some corn.  A small 4 pt buck stood at the feeder for 20 minutes eating at the acorn pile.  About 5:45 this fella trotted thru at the edge of the field.  He found the acorn/corn trail and came my direction. We have a restriction that a bucks horns have to be 13" wide inside (outside the ears).  He measured 14-1/2", 10pt, first 10 pt I've taken at the farm in about 15 years.  He lifted his head where I got a good antler look, and he dropped in his tracks.

 

 

[WHNJ701 4,164]

I could have had a big 8 pt this morning didn't want to wreck the truck at 50 mph at 7am!  I haven't hunted in years but thus year put up a feeder and a camera behind the house. been some neat some stuff stopping by the feeder

[steelman 250]

Nice bucks guys! I tagged this guy in Ohio recently and am gun hunting my property in Calhoun County (MI). Saw a couple little guys this morning but waiting for something bigger. One of my field’s didn’t get planted this spring and the deer are dining elsewhere😩

[Pullstart 59,733]

This morning’s hunt was a flop before I even hit the tree.  I was about 10 yards from the tree in really crunchy snow and soil from the cold snap and I ran something big off from my plot.  I didn’t like the sound of the ground from the start, but I wanted to sit anyway.  I have a feeling the deer took all it’s friends along for the run, I just got a face full of cold wind and nothing but a baby bunny hopping around.

 

A coworker of my wife has a 17 year old son who really wants to hunt but hasn’t ever had the property to do so.  State land hunting is borderline unsafe from the saturation of hunters.  Too many people get shot by trigger happy fools.  He’s coming out today for an afternoon hunt, so I’ll set him up in one of my stands and hope for his satisfaction of a successful day!

[Pullstart 59,733]

12 hours ago, oliver2-44 said:

I had a successful hunt at the Farm as well.

There are not many acorns at the farm this year.  So I raked up a 5 gallon bucket of them and dumped a pile by my feeder, and spread some along a trail along with some corn.  A small 4 pt buck stood at the feeder for 20 minutes eating at the acorn pile.  About 5:45 this fella trotted thru at the edge of the field.  He found the acorn/corn trail and came my direction. We have a restriction that a bucks horns have to be 13" wide inside (outside the ears).  He measured 14-1/2", 10pt, first 10 pt I've taken at the farm in about 15 years.  He lifted his head where I got a good antler look, and he dropped in his tracks.

 

 

 

 I don’t see any pictures... but the story sounds great!  Can you try to upload the pics again for us picture readers?

[oliver2-44 8,852]

2nd try on the Deer pictures @pullstart.  Interestingly this is the 2nd time I've loaded pictures straight from my Google photos and it hasn't worked.  I can see them if I open the post back up, but no one else does.  I'll avoid loading from google photos from now on.

[Pullstart 59,733]

Yep, that’s a good one!

[Ed Kennell 35,796]

WTG guys.   Some nice bucks there.   I just got home from northern Pa where I finished the Pa bow season.  I saw quite a few bucks and passed a bow shot on a couple.

I spent most of the time in a blind overlooking one of our food plots. 

 

I rattled in a couple buck inside the 40Yd range and let them walk, but unfortunately had the bow in hand instead of the camera.

Doe were always on the feed.

 

I did have a close encounter with this guy.  Elk season was last week.

When I got this buck on the cam 300yds from the house last week,  my standards rose quite a bit.  I'll save my tag for rifle season in two weeks.

 

Note the right beam sticking well out past his ear.

 

[Pullstart 59,733]

This is why we do what we do!

 

We started processing today, we decided we’ll make a whole bunch of burger.  I just couldn’t hack the back straps into burger, so I tossed some in the fridge for some steak and eggs, steak and burgers, steak and steak, or anything else.  Oh yeah, steak and bacon!

 

This is the first batch.  Along with seasoning, we toss in a pound of pork sausage and a slice of bread to help keep the meat together when cooking.