Oh Man, I would sure hate to wake up to find an apple sticker on my forehead when I went to shave. Humans are easy to pattern, take some advice from the old bountyhunter and never leave your home the same way 2 days in a roll. Congrats on the Doe Mike.
Sliv.. you always surprise me. You've certainly been around the block of life. I gotta ask though.. Did you have a mullett??
Mike, You kinda baited me into this post, thinking I would get to see a big ol' IL doe on the ground! I also hunt a lot of IL state prop, and have seen a lot of not so legal activity. Thanks for doing your part and reporting! Congrats!
Hahahaha.. That was what I was trying to do. Glad you picked up on my dry humor! If I just ranted about some baiter.. no one would care! Thanks man. Hope your doing well on your public pieces this year.
I've seen empty c'mere deer containers around deer stands on public land. Red delicious. They could have at least picked a variety of apple that tastes good. ick.
I've sure enough seen some chit over the years, been pretty used up. I would like to think if they made a movie version of my life, Russell Crowe would play the part. LOL. No Mulletts!
Ah... my bad.. guess I should have took one but was thinking of it at the time. Picture this though.. about 6 or 7 apples strung out over about 3 feet in the snow.. and an entire loaf of bread as well. Like bakery style bread. Uncut even. I guess I was a bit misleading with the apple "pile" comment.. more of a apple parallelogram if you will.
Bread too, eh? Must've been hoping for deer and possibly some geese as well. Broadening his horizons, if you will.
6 or 7 apples and a loaf of bread doesn't really sound like a hunter. Maybe somebody trying to screw with a hunter... or perhaps the person using the ground blind is photographer? I've seen small piles of corn by the parking lot where I now hunt. It's left by the 'nature lovers' with cameras.
You'll have to trust me that it was a hunter.. I really can't get into anymore detail though.. I feel it would be in poor taste. This area is closed to only bowhunters.
My area is closed to non hunters too. (they are supposed to stay on the trails only) That certainly doesn't stop the non hunters from being all over the darn woods. I heard just yesterday that a guy shot a doe out there just to find human footprints following the blood trail, pushing the deer. The hunter saw the guy but couldn't catch up to him. The guy pushed the doe to the other side of the river. It was a marginal hit anyhow, but having somebody push the deer certainly didn't help matters. ....but I catch your drift about your situation.
You obviously have not hunted on public lands that I have. ....and that's all I have to say about that.
