No arrows sent this weekend. We ended up hunting the same bull Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. Very vocal bull, he bugled/chuckled around 20 times Saturday and probably 40 times Sunday morning. He has cows and will scream his head off at our calls but won’t even risk coming a hundred yards from his cows to get more “cows”. Very fun playing cat and mouse with him though. Pics: Saturday sunset and Sunday sunrise in the elk woods.
Need more info... Have you been able to get below him or same level, inside say ~100yds? And after getting him to respond, start raking a tree? Or just try to get him more fired up by copying his calls and cutting him off? I need to see more elk down pics this year...
Did some scouting with @Jezzy670 yesterday in a spot we both had encounters with good bucks last year in November. I put a trail camera on a trail leading into a peninsula along a lakeshore that we know holds good bedding...and cottonmouths. His dog almost got bit yesterday. The mud is pretty thick and nasty right now, making it hard to access. I am hoping that trail camera will help us establish how often that trail gets used for future annual patterns as well as this year.
I oddly enjoy looking at the different from stand pictures - how different the landscape is some of us hunt in is drastic!
Im setup for tonight and after a buck in an urban spot. Snuck to the edge of this cattail patch, hoping to catch him before dark. The deer have been active on a mock scrape right at dusk.
Was going to head to stand but it is pouring now and supposed to continue for the next couple hours. Guess I will throw in the towel for today. Hopefully get in stand tomorrow afternoon.
Just woke up from a siesta to a deer coughing presumably from acorns. Warm and steady breeze, suns about to drop behind the ridge. Cue the deer!!
hunting wasn't in the cards this past weekend in Michigan for an avalanche of reasons, but I hung some (non cell) cams and a hang-on stand deep in a swamp that about killed me. I will kill a buck from that stand. Checked the other cams we set up last month and saw a few shooter 8-10s (for MI public land...100-130.) Nothing PY or bigger, although they and a couple legit Booners are always around. *********************** all 3 of my cell cams in WI are now out of juice, I am heading up this weekend to hunt and swap batteries. Hopefully after the first night I'm tagged out and won't even need to swap batteries because as of Friday evening I was still getting shooter bucks in daylight before the batteries crapped out. I might check in a couple times this week but I am busy AF at home and work and need to get a lot of stuff done before the weekend. GL everyone! -E
Heading out for the 1st hunt of the season. Will be in a new stand so will see how that goes. Good luck to everyone going out.
I’m set up for the morning sit. The consolations are finally right for a move on the bucks I have on camera across the rosd.
No deer sighted yet. If the bucks were going to come by here they would have done so already. I’ll go ahead and sit until 9:00 - 9:30 to see if a doe comes by. I’m not sure why though. I really don’t want to shoot a doe down here this early.
7 more days and bow season opens, rabbit too 4 doe 2 fawn and just the single 8 pt I've been seeing were in alfalfa last night. BY now in years past I'd have seen bachalor groups of 3-5. Apparently across the valley there have been herds of buck seen, as many as 11 in a group. Marrow Back ,all private owned with several hunting compounds. They will be busy.
Well didn’t see anything here. I pulled the cameras SD card and it shows this is an evening stand. The SD card also showed this guy I have seen on other cameras and has added another piece to the puzzle as to where he is bedding. I’ll be in the stand this afternoon.
