WI-GUN OPENER

Who says I’m going to bed?

Good luck hunting guys. I will be east of Neilsville and south of Marshfield in the bussling metroplis of Lynn (Sherwood). Here’s hoping not too much rain and all of your deer down on Saturday, so you can have a great night of celebration.

As always hunt safe!!!

Mark

Good luck hunting guys. I will be east of Neilsville and south of Marshfield in the bussling metroplis of Lynn (Sherwood). Here’s hoping not too much rain and all of your deer down on Saturday, so you can have a great night of celebration.

As always hunt safe!!!

Mark

I’m still amazed by how late your gun opener is but I guess it’s tradition and your all used to it.

I’m still amazed by how late your gun opener is but I guess it’s tradition and your all used to it.

I can’t even sit still. My trigger finger is really itchy. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Good Luck to all, and to all good luck getting to sleep tonight.

I can’t even sit still. My trigger finger is really itchy. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Good Luck to all, and to all good luck getting to sleep tonight.

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I am assuming that it was taken with a bow as it says 2004, there has not been any open gun season yet this year in WI, right?

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I’m pretty sure that one was taken last year during the gun season. I saw that photo turn up in a deer hunting magazine just the other day.

Lenny Jamison

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Sorry Gator, that deer was shot 2 weeks ago with Bow near Mondovi. Another hog on the adjacent farm was taken 3 days later scoring mid 180’s Non-Typ.

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I am assuming that it was taken with a bow as it says 2004, there has not been any open gun season yet this year in WI, right?

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I’m pretty sure that one was taken last year during the gun season. I saw that photo turn up in a deer hunting magazine just the other day.

Lenny Jamison

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Sorry Gator, that deer was shot 2 weeks ago with Bow near Mondovi. Another hog on the adjacent farm was taken 3 days later scoring mid 180’s Non-Typ.

Well I’m back after a beautiful 11 days in the north woods. Our group of 12 guys got 6 bucks. Lots of small ones passed up but not as many deer seen as in other years. This is in Ashland county. Season opened with rain and 40’s and finished with lots of snow and 20’s. I got a nice 10pt dressed at 180#. Pics coming soon.

Well I’m back after a beautiful 11 days in the north woods. Our group of 12 guys got 6 bucks. Lots of small ones passed up but not as many deer seen as in other years. This is in Ashland county. Season opened with rain and 40’s and finished with lots of snow and 20’s. I got a nice 10pt dressed at 180#. Pics coming soon.

Well not much news on my home front. I ended up shooting a doe and a fawn. The total for our group this year was 14 does and fawns, and two small bucks (that shouldn’t have been shot!! Old timers don’t believe in game management) All in all it was kind of slow for us. We never saw any of the big bucks that we have on the 500 acres we hunt. No one in the are even seen them. WEIRD??? How’d everyone else do?

Well not much news on my home front. I ended up shooting a doe and a fawn. The total for our group this year was 14 does and fawns, and two small bucks (that shouldn’t have been shot!! Old timers don’t believe in game management) All in all it was kind of slow for us. We never saw any of the big bucks that we have on the 500 acres we hunt. No one in the are even seen them. WEIRD??? How’d everyone else do?

Good job on the game management Jeff
Two young bucks out of 14 is allot better than 14 young bucks taken and best of all you will be passing on the new ways of game management to the next generation!

Good job on the game management Jeff
Two young bucks out of 14 is allot better than 14 young bucks taken and best of all you will be passing on the new ways of game management to the next generation!

We have been doing the QGM for the past 6 years. If you look at the pics on the game cameras I posted the results show. The ones I posted aren’t all of them even. It has worked really good for us. Our buck doe ratio is 1 to 3 or 1 to 4. It used to be 1 to 20 or 30 and the one buck was a scrubby little 8pt most of the time. It is nothing to sit in my stand now and see several 3yo dear go by and pass them up in a night. Trust me it works. I know guys don’t like to shoot does but sometimes you have to swollow your manly pride and take out those big does and some fawns.

We have been doing the QGM for the past 6 years. If you look at the pics on the game cameras I posted the results show. The ones I posted aren’t all of them even. It has worked really good for us. Our buck doe ratio is 1 to 3 or 1 to 4. It used to be 1 to 20 or 30 and the one buck was a scrubby little 8pt most of the time. It is nothing to sit in my stand now and see several 3yo dear go by and pass them up in a night. Trust me it works. I know guys don’t like to shoot does but sometimes you have to swollow your manly pride and take out those big does and some fawns.

Krisko-You hit the nail right on the head about does. I can’t figure out how people can practice QDM without harvesting does!!! The land where I hunt is surrounded by guys that refuse to shoot does, but want to harvest only big bucks. When I can sit and watch a field in the early bow season and there are an average of 15 does and 2 bucks, the ratio is definitely out of whack. But, you can’t tell the older guys there anything. But, it is there land so what do you do?

Krisko-You hit the nail right on the head about does. I can’t figure out how people can practice QDM without harvesting does!!! The land where I hunt is surrounded by guys that refuse to shoot does, but want to harvest only big bucks. When I can sit and watch a field in the early bow season and there are an average of 15 does and 2 bucks, the ratio is definitely out of whack. But, you can’t tell the older guys there anything. But, it is there land so what do you do?

I gunhunted some new land last year. The older fella that owned the land said he didn’t want any does shot. I asked him why??? He said that if you shoot all the does the bucks won’t stay in the area. Two hours into the hunt on opening morning I had a group of 8 does and fawns go by about 20 yards in an open field.

I gunhunted some new land last year. The older fella that owned the land said he didn’t want any does shot. I asked him why??? He said that if you shoot all the does the bucks won’t stay in the area. Two hours into the hunt on opening morning I had a group of 8 does and fawns go by about 20 yards in an open field.

That’s why we have a thing called EAB….b/c of misconceptions like that….A rutting buck can and will travel 8-10 miles outside it’s “normal range” in search of a hot doe…Nothing really guarantees a buck staying on somebody’s property.

Having a ton of does on your land won’t keep bucks there..it’s not like a college party or something…

That’s why we have a thing called EAB….b/c of misconceptions like that….A rutting buck can and will travel 8-10 miles outside it’s “normal range” in search of a hot doe…Nothing really guarantees a buck staying on somebody’s property.

Having a ton of does on your land won’t keep bucks there..it’s not like a college party or something…

Good POINT Slop. I know we had this problem when I first hunted. I would go out bow hunting and see 30 does in a field and maybe one buck during the rut. There are so many does the bucks can’t breed them all. I know we had a tough time starting the QGM with our group and neighbors. The thing is if you can have someone show them the results and tell you neighbors to give you 3yrs. You will see it working. Those bucks that you would have shot as 2 1/2yo 6’s and small 8’s are now 5 1/2yo Bruisers. I have proof it works. The only thing is you don’t always get to shoot that big one. This year shows it for me. I didn’t shoot any bucks. I ended up with 2 does and a buck fawn. Granted I shot a buck but….you need to thin them too. We take our DeerCam Pics and decide which ones are to be culled out to and you don’t have a choice but to shoot them if you see them. You get the nasty rack ones without brow tines or ones that look like a long horn bull. I can tell you that we have, after looking at our pics this morning 9 Boone and Crocket bucks on the land we hunt. They are all 5-7 years old. We have an awesome crop of smaller bucks coming up. So you do the math. Well good luck on pushing the QGM GUYS!!!

Good POINT Slop. I know we had this problem when I first hunted. I would go out bow hunting and see 30 does in a field and maybe one buck during the rut. There are so many does the bucks can’t breed them all. I know we had a tough time starting the QGM with our group and neighbors. The thing is if you can have someone show them the results and tell you neighbors to give you 3yrs. You will see it working. Those bucks that you would have shot as 2 1/2yo 6’s and small 8’s are now 5 1/2yo Bruisers. I have proof it works. The only thing is you don’t always get to shoot that big one. This year shows it for me. I didn’t shoot any bucks. I ended up with 2 does and a buck fawn. Granted I shot a buck but….you need to thin them too. We take our DeerCam Pics and decide which ones are to be culled out to and you don’t have a choice but to shoot them if you see them. You get the nasty rack ones without brow tines or ones that look like a long horn bull. I can tell you that we have, after looking at our pics this morning 9 Boone and Crocket bucks on the land we hunt. They are all 5-7 years old. We have an awesome crop of smaller bucks coming up. So you do the math. Well good luck on pushing the QGM GUYS!!!

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after looking at our pics this morning 9 Boone and Crocket bucks on the land we hunt.

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See you in September/October

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after looking at our pics this morning 9 Boone and Crocket bucks on the land we hunt.

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See you in September/October

If you take me fishing this next summer….you’re in!! I took two fishing buddies out this year and filmed them. No bucks but have a couple of good doe kills!

If you take me fishing this next summer….you’re in!! I took two fishing buddies out this year and filmed them. No bucks but have a couple of good doe kills!

If that’s all it takes to get a shot at a deer like that, I’ll schedule 3 days a month for you next summer…