2023 Live From The Tree

You guys and your short term illnesses. You have 16 weeks of family leave act to work with. Man up and work with it

Randy Wieland wrote:

You guys and your short term illnesses. You have 16 weeks of family leave act to work with. Man up and work with it

In a few more years that will be a paid time off as well.
I like to take a few days off here and there for the woods until late October, then I want a couple weeks to my self with no work or side work. Tell the woman I only do house chores at night and just stay in the woods as much as possible. Maybe even sneak in a few duck hunts

Anyone looking to hunt the rain? Should be a good opportunity to capitalize on.

Youbetcha wrote:

Anyone looking to hunt the rain? Should be a good opportunity to capitalize on.

Not a huge fan of it due to blood trailing. If it is just a light rain no problem, but heavy rain and lighting are a no go for me.

Will probably sneak out tonight if it holds out, but tomorrow looks rough.

Justin riegel wrote:

Not a huge fan of it due to blood trailing. If it is just a light rain no problem, but heavy rain and lighting are a no go for me.

Will probably sneak out tonight if it holds out, but tomorrow looks rough.

I should have added as its tapering off and being in the tree as it lightens up and stops. Fully agree on heavy rain making it tough to blood trail.

If it’s not a thunderstorm then I’ll be out. If it’s a steady light rain I’ll be out. But down pouring and thunderstorms I’ll be home wishing I was out.

Snuck in close to some beds earlier and the wind seemed to be all over in the swamp so I went and had lunch and now shifted with the wind to the edge of field near the beds.

Looks like a prime spot!

Youbetcha wrote:

Looks like a prime spot!

I didn’t see a deer. But it started pouring and thundering at 645. So I’m heading back out now. Rain is just starting to fade off.

The deer must have stuffed them selves full before the storm. I didn’t see a movement this morning, that doesn’t ever happen on this property. I’m shifting gears and changing properties for tonight, hunting a new small 20 acres I got access to that butts up to wild river state park.

Property change got me some meat in the freezer

Nice, congrates.

Nice! Looks like she didn’t go 20!

The DNR has reported this as through the first week of the archery season. I’m guessing that these deer taken with cross bows traditionally were from hunters not hunting during archery season prior to this year.

“We have recorded 790 deer being taken with a crossbow, which is running about 40 percent of our total archery harvest,” said DNR Big Game Program Leader Barb Keller.

It would be nice if they could add a question to know if they were on public or private.

Leaves are dropping pretty fast. Big difference since I sat here last week

Got out for a couple hours last weekend with my oldest boy, mainly checking new areas since we couldn’t sit until dark.

Sitting the only spot I have confidence in with this weird east/southeast wind. Good luck.

Youbetcha wrote:

Sitting the only spot I have confidence in with this weird east/southeast wind. Good luck.

I was just busted by mama doe. She blew at me 4 times and ran off. Scared me. I never seen her come in. All of a sudden she was blowing 20 yards behind me.

Im pissed. Deer came from downwind. Had 2-4 blowing at me

Youbetcha wrote:

Im pissed. Deer came from downwind. Had 2-4 blowing me

The doe came from upwind from me, but where I was it must have been swirling, she was blowing hard at me. I seen 2 fawns run away and then her. Mom alert was ringing. She would have had a pass, I was hoping for Mr buck but I haven’t seen him in 2 weeks

Did you have your nose jammer on?

Youbetcha wrote:

Did you have your nose jammer on?

I didn’t have my back pack today. Rushed out to fast. So no nose jammer, just dead down wind, guess I needed some dead up wind

Going to get out for the first time this coming weekend. Havent been able to scout or hunt at all but hunting a dense population area. Have you guys had any luck with rattling or are we still too early?

Weather looks….well not my ideal choice.

Walleye Hungry wrote:

Going to get out for the first time this coming weekend. Havent been able to scout or hunt at all but hunting a dense population area. Have you guys had any luck with rattling or are we still too early?

Weather looks….well not my ideal choice.

I won’t touch the rattles for 2 more weeks.

Youbetcha wrote:

Had 2-4 blowing me

Go on!

CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Carter Johnson wrote:</div>
Had 2-4 blowing me

Go on!

Fixed

Walleye Hungry wrote:

Going to get out for the first time this coming weekend. Havent been able to scout or hunt at all but hunting a dense population area. Have you guys had any luck with rattling or are we still too early?

Weather looks….well not my ideal choice.

I personally dont like calling or rattling anytime of year. But I wouldnt touch any of that for a bit.

If you have secluded water I would hunt that this weekend. Small pond, little swamp with some kind of water in it anything.

I rattle using the black rack and have had success doing so. I won’t make a peep until the youth weekend. I believe that’s the 19th or 20th weekend. And then I’ll use the black rack on different properties and areas I hunt

Normally that deer that comes into a rattle or call is going to circle downwind to be sure. I normally dont have shooting lanes downwind unless im in a pretty open area.

Got my first real sit of the year in, pretty quite tonight. When I left the house there was descent breeze and cloud cove but the storms passed and by the time I sat down there was no wind and all sun! Got warm out. To warm for this guy this weekend, mid next week looks like a nice cool down to get back out.