Ricky Spanish wrote:The nay?
Had six (6) different people start in last August on me.
"When we gonna hunt?" they all said.
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You get there and ...hello?
I'm sick of it.
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SpinnerMan wrote:This was my worst season ever. The Nays dominated. I love hunting and being in the outdoors. I don't need to get a lot to be happy, but my season was so bad, I really had a hard time not bitching towards the end of my archery season.
The biggest nay was my deer season. I deer hunted a lot. I saw exactly one deer while in my stand all season (saw maybe 5 walking in or out). That one deer was a nice buck that I shot and lost after hitting it where I was 100% sure I had a dead deer. After leaving for 2 hours, 5 hours later (7 hours after I shot him), I am pretty certain he was still alive. I actually had two things pop up in my feed that emphasized how unlucky I was. One was a video of a guy shooting a buck that I'm sure he hit it almost exactly where I did and you can see blood pumping out immediately. I found about 10 drops of blood total. The other was a guy that tracks hit deer with his dogs. He had a diagram that showed lethal (recovered) and non-lethal shots. My arrow was in an area that showed 100% recovery.
To add insult to injury on my not seeing anything. My buddies would hunt the same spots on different days and see deer. But it wasn't just deer I was not seeing, I wasn't seeing anything other than tweedy birds. I got picked to log all wildlife I saw while archery hunting. For all of October and November, when the survey ran, I believe I saw a grand total of 6 squirrels and 1 cat. That's not 6 squirrels in one day. That is 6 squirrels over about 2 dozen outings. 1 squirrel every 4 times out. And absolutely nothing else. No turkeys, no raccoons, no foxes, no other critters of any kind. It got quite discourage to grab the log sheet practically every day and check that I didn't see anything.
The only yay was my wife had a lot of fun duck hunting. While she didn't get any shooting, we had a pretty good amount of action the 4 or 5 times she came out with me. One day we had about 20 wood ducks over the course of about 2 hours buzz us in range. I would have maybe shot twice if I was trying (I had my gun, but it was all about her) because they came out of nowhere and were moving so fast. It was exciting. The other times we saw ducks or geese and had a few almosts to keep it exciting.
However, the season is not quite over. I'm on the fence of going goose hunting. I'm in Illinois and we got a few inches of snow, but none of the lakes are frozen. Will that move geese to the cooling lake? I doubt it. I think I'm going to drive down to the clubhouse and check the logs today. About a half dozen pits were hunted this morning (we can check remotely what pits are signed out and who is in them). I'm think I will drive down and if they had any luck I'll go. If they all scratched, I'm not up for sitting in a blind all day hoping today is finally the day my luck changes.
I did a Maine sea duck trip. The trip was great, but as far as the actually hunting. The third and last day when we packed up, the guide said "you all are snake bit." Not exactly the hunting we were hoping for on our most expensive trip to date. For the most part my season has been snake bit.
Ricky Spanish wrote:Just for the hell of it take a crack at them random wood ducks or perhaps focus on decoying and hunting them that way.
You are hunting where they are feeding. I really think most of them are just stretching their wings and not interested in anything but the joy of a fly around or maybe just nervous nellies that jump from one tucked away corner to another. On the rare occasion we see them above the tree tops, you have a decent chance of them decoying to your mallard call. I'm assuming those are birds that just arrived and are looking for somewhere to put down. They either feed on the duck weed that is in the many little corners of our club and not in the more open water our blinds are on or they fly off the property to get acorns or whatnot since there is not a lot to eat on a strip mine with the shoreline lined with buckthorn. But all the protect like coves and pockets on our property does provide them tons of security to roost. I have several spots if we didn't have to hunt from a specific blind I would toss my half dozen woody decoys.Ricky Spanish wrote:In Arkansas
SpinnerMan wrote:However, the season is not quite over. I'm on the fence of going goose hunting. I'm in Illinois and we got a few inches of snow, but none of the lakes are frozen. Will that move geese to the cooling lake? I doubt it. I think I'm going to drive down to the clubhouse and check the logs today. About a half dozen pits were hunted this morning (we can check remotely what pits are signed out and who is in them). I'm think I will drive down and if they had any luck I'll go. If they all scratched, I'm not up for sitting in a blind all day hoping today is finally the day my luck changes.
Wholeheartedly agree on the 5.3. Thing sucks. Had to buy a new engine for my truck at 132k miles.Anotherone wrote:What worked and didn’t work for you this season?
Yays: Oxyvan waders, 3 seasons with no leaks and cheap too.
Browning Silver, it went bang when asked.
Higdon pulsator worked for the 3rd season as advertised.
Nays: Amite River swamp, very few birds.
LA east zone duck season split didn’t do diddly squat.
GM 5.3 liter V8 is an oil burner, bring back the 350 or get out the game.
They say next year will be a barn burner. Lol!
Anotherone wrote:That’s wonderful, I’ve got 131k on mine right now. Lol.
Anotherone wrote:That’s wonderful, I’ve got 131k on mine right now. Lol.
Anotherone wrote:There are no cheap trucks anymore, seen Ford wants 40k for their little maverick (well equipped). I may be putting another motor in my raggedy ass Z71 soon?
don novicki wrote:Happy that all of my vintage gear has held together and in working order for this season. I doubt I'll ever buy anything else ever again although I may look at one of those seats that Divebomb sells so I don't have to lay flat anymore. Other than that most stuff would have worked if we ever got an influx of ducks like we once did....
don novicki wrote:Happy that all of my vintage gear has held together and in working order for this season. I doubt I'll ever buy anything else ever again although I may look at one of those seats that Divebomb sells so I don't have to lay flat anymore. Other than that most stuff would have worked if we ever got an influx of ducks like we once did....
Rick wrote:Other than bullets, the only thing new that saw the field with me this season was a fleece hoody Duluth Trading Co. had on sale for around $20 delivered. Was marketed as around-the-house-lounging wear, and it's thick woolly fleece would be an incredible burr and debris catcher, but what a great layer it made under a hard shell on our "feels like single digit" Christmas holidays.
Didn't wear it more than a few times, but, knowing what I now do, would have paid a whole lot more for it.
Pretty sure Pork Chop ordered some for his clan, and am curious what the North Dakota verdict was?
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