So what do you remember about your first hunt in the snow? I'll go first. My girlfriend's father (when I was 19) took me out to the mountains to do some hunting in the snow. I had been hunting for 3 years and had yet to see a deer in the woods while hunting (I am not kidding). So Ed takes me out and sets me up before dark in the middle of a snow storm. I was hunting with an old lever action .3030 Winchester. Ed slipped away into the darkness and told me he would come get me in a few hours. Well as the sun rose I thought I saw a squirrels tail dance on a tree limb. Well I was wrong, it was a doe looking straight at me only 40 yards away! I slowly eased my gun up and squeezed the trigger....I shot right over the doe's back and she hauled butt over the ridge. I was so bummed that I let 3 years of hunting go to waste by missing my first shot on a deer. But that experience drew me to hunting in the snow and the mystical qualities of hunting that are summoned up by the white stuff. Let's hear your first snow hunting experience.
First gun season, fell asleep 75 yards further down the ridge from my uncle, he came over at dark and showed me the deer tracks less than ten yards from me.
2006 - Virginia. 12deg. and blowing snow, sideways, as I walked to stand in the dark with my Switchback. I paid something like $190 to hunt one weekend. I was the only person bow hunting in camp.....and I never saw a deer in 3 days of hunting. 1st time here (in the snow) was a few weeks ago. I'll try to find some pics. That's MNKK in the tree.
When you live in northern Illinois.. all past snow hunts blend since they make up the majority of December and beyond hunting. There is always snow on the ground.. pretty much til March... even sometimes April. I remember a few years of snow in October.. those were always fun.. but haven't had one of those in a while.
On my first I killed my first deer. I was gun hunting the 2nd season here in Illinois, and a light snow had fallen the night before. I was sitting on the ground next to my dad and out of nowhere this huge doe (still the biggest doe I've killed) steps out of a ditch 10 yards from us. My first bowhunt in the snow, I was again on the ground, sitting in a fallen pine tree. I had a doe eating off the top of the tree not 5 yards from me, but she smelled me and took off before she gave me a shot.
I can remember my first bow hunt in the snow. It was a long time ago we got an early snow in the beginning of november. I didn;t see a deer from stand, but it was so cool. Walking out midday there was a buck dogging a doe across the road.
Heck growing up in Michigan every year there is snow hunting, My best memories are going back to 1968 when I was 5 years old and tagging along with my dad while he was hunting. We used to climb into these bush's in the middle of a field and deer would file in all around us knee deep in snow.. Man those were the days.. Walt
I am hating the snow right now....been without power for 2 days and in the teens overnight. I shoveled a 40 yard long driveway and carport by myself with 20+ inches of snow. I will be laid up for a week.
To be honest i dont remember my first snow hunt, Im usually hunting in the snow here in NY about 60% of the time. We had 5 inches on the ground for our bow opener here in oct 17th this year, and i've even hunted turkeys in the snow too!
my first hunt in the snow was in January and we dont get much snow where i hunt at all. i hated it. we spot and stalk and that snow was so darn crunchy that we couldnt get within 200 yards.
ive never touched snow before whats it feel like ? Is soft and cushy ? Does it hurt if it goes in your eye ? does it freeze the string and make it break? Can you get snowburn ? Sorry just summing up the rumors ive heard , im from australia and im too far north for snow sounds awesome though
