This is what I'm doing. The piece we spent so much time on in IL this year and last is a tough place to hunt. I'll hunt there some next year, but not as much. There are not a ton of places to set up and I think we burned the property out pretty fast. The rest of this year and next I plan on hunting the family 560 acres here in WI more. We have some great bucks, close to home and stand spots are endless.
With the hip replacement, I never got to scout it this year. Maybe I'll look it over after this season is over. I'm also working on getting in on a lease with 3 other guys on 400+ acres in Northern Calhoun county. Really hoping this works out.
John, if you figure out how to dump that curse send it my way. I've got and empty freezer and lots of tags unfilled. I've tried changing it up, changing properties, hunting different states, growing facial hair, changing equipment...I'm getting downright stupid with what I'm willing to try. Where can I get one of those camo thongs?
I still think it is the Diamond Don syndrome. Two years ago Crik and Mobow get lost with John. I meet Mobow the same time and John and I haven't killed a buck since, it is the Mobow Curse
Any thread that has a deer and a camo man thong is an epic win!!! OP just keep at it or switch things up for a while just for the heck of it
You may have been the only one in the area not hunting it this year. I can't remember a year that I have seen so many vehicles parked along the roads. Good luck with that Calhoun ground, there are some dandies running around over there.
I just painted my toenails 'Broadway Burgundy Frost' and my fingernails 'Timeless Pink'. Perhaps this will break the curse.. I'll let you know.
You know John I can always send you over tater they say his belly rubs work for alot of different things!!!!!
Walt how you like that apache rest? Did it come with the tape or whatever they call it to quiet it down?
Try this it sounds crazy but works. You have to know a mature bucks bedroom to do it. Take a stand with you and walk right into the beding area and kick him out you may have to try a few spots to find a bedded buck. Hang the stand in a spot right there. Wait for him to come back. It works a lot for me in late season. Sits can be long but he will always come back to the safe zone.
You know, now that I think about it, this all started after you sent me those stands last year. Damn you GERM!! OK, hopefully you have undone the curse now.
Thanks for the reply Walt and I ordered one from this very site the other day. Have a Very Merry Christmas!
I'll blame Mobow or even Germ. But I think it's still John's fault. Yesterday I went out... saw 8 deer, the only one that came close was a buck that came running up to me while I was walking out of the woods. He wasn't really a shooter (tho' my standards are getting pretty darn low...) I yelled 'boo' at him before he ran me over. I wondered what had spooked him and then when I got out to the road there were people walking out of the woods with a dog running loose. (dogs are supposed to be on leashes and the hikers are supposed to stay on the trails but apparently few hikers can read or follow the rules) Of course the area they went through was a main deer travel corridor next to a bedding area. That afternoon I hunted in an area not far from the foot trails... but there no human tracks in the snow so nobody had been out there for at least two days. 15 minutes before dark a giant doe and fawn start coming down a deer trail that would put them 12 yards from my stand. I'm almost beyond caring about antlers anymore and I have space in my freezer so I get ready for this doe. Wouldn't you know it, right then, two of the world's noisest hikers/joggers come down that foot trail. The foot trail is about 130 yards away from me.... but they are so damn noisy that the deer get nervous and run off. AGGHH!! Nobody has been down that trail in at least two frickin' days and yet somebody has to show up 15 mins. before last shooting light when I have deer just about in range. So.. the pink fingernails and red toenails wasn't the trick. I was hoping it was because then John would need to consider painting his nails to get rid of the curse. heh heh.
