Wisconsin rifle season

I am not seeing a post up for the orange army hitting the woods this weekend. Did I miss it?? I will be out east of Rice Lake in my old tin blind at the farm. Looking forward to it.

Good luck to you all hitting the woods this weekend over in Cheese country.

buschman wrote:

Good luck to you all hitting the woods this weekend over in Cheese country.

I am not a sconny hunter but I know many will be partaking there. Weather looks pretty good next week too, with colder temps coming. Stay safe and enjoy the hunt.

Good luck Busch!!

We’ll be hunting just west of you on our land by Balsam Lake

Mom and the boys will be in the heated Stump blind Saturday, I’ll be in my tripod in the swamp.

After Thanksgiving we’ll be hunting Trego/Minong and staying at my dad’s cabin

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I’ll be in Lincoln County between Merrill and Tomahawk. I’ve been getting some nice pictures on the trail camera. Lots of standing water in the woods hopefully it will freeze up next week looking at he forecast.

B-man, thats funny. I am usually up in Trego and Minong the weekend after thanksgiving as well. Not hunting but my brother is in Trego and family cabin is up on the Minong Flowage. Always thought about hunting the state property across from our place but never have. Hate to ruin someones hunt is my worry. We usually fill necessary tags before going up after turkey day at the farm.

Good luck all hunting in sconi. Looks like a choice spot B-man.

Richland County. Spending more time taking care of Dad. Don’t know how much effort I’ll put in

Good luck deer hunters. May your aim be good and your bullets find their target.

weedis wrote:

Looks like a choice spot B-man.

It’s a pretty cool spot, doesn’t look like much in the picture, but there’s a funnel crossing in front of it through the swamp/pond that the deer use to move from hardwoods to hardwoods.

When they cross, they’re out in the open and give me a lot of time to decide if I want to shoot them

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Good luck cheese hunters. Cant believe Im missing yet another deer season up there. The life of a bird hunter is not always easy!

I’ll be hunting sconny also. A place called the Mead. Near Mosinee. Which is close to the Wi river.

Good luck fellas! stay safe!

Randy Wieland wrote:

Richland County. Spending more time taking care of Dad. Don’t know how much effort I’ll put in

So how is your dad doing Randy? PM if wanted or text.

I will be at my usual place looking out the sliding glass doors in the dining room. If I get real adventurous I will sit out on the front porch.

glenn57 wrote:

I’ll be hunting sconny also. A place called the Mead. Near Mosinee. Which is close to the Wi river.

Might be some wet areas glenn. Hope you got boots.

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Nice B-Man, good blood!

MX.. it’s a bit wet but good where we are at.

But sheez it’s as quiet as the Mn opener in northern Mn

Wasn’t going to eat another $200 tag this year waiting for a wall hanger

Shot the first buck I saw, his name is Yummy

Pulled the trigger in the swamp, he ran 75 yards and died on “Little Italy”

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Nice BMan, congrats. Not much happening by me, really quiet. Was bowhunting last night and there was a Robin out bopping around, crazy fall again. Hope to see some pics of boys with bucks. Good luck.

very nice!!! congrats!!!

Congrates B-man!

Congrats B-man! That’s a nice buck.

Was high and dry here. No deer seen or shot. Brother said it was about as slow of a sconny opener he’s seen.

Hunted just outside Alma, WI and passed up a basket rack just after first light and a fawn this evening. Not much for shooting. Our group of 6 and 2 kids took 2 does, but everyone saw deer.

I’ve got too much on the to do list tomorrow and early in the week to get out, but I might run over on Thanksgiving and sit the morning and see what’s wandering through.

Crawled into the same stand i shot my bow buck in this morning. Not an ideal ‘gun’ stand but a good starting point and easy to slip into for a morning hunt. Nothing but squirrels from daybreak till 10 AM and then all hell broke loose. What started out as a buck fawn that snuck in on me turned into 6 deer in total, 4 adult bucks, the fawn and one unknown. Somehow they came in without me hearing their footsteps (this area has a lot of leaves on the ground and I usually can hear them walking in), which the way I set this stand up (for bow) you can’t see them till they are nearly on top of you (when they come from the south, same way my bow buck came) so in no time flat it went from no activity to having 6 deer in under 40 yards. Something spooked the buck fawn and they all scattered. About 20 minutes later i catch sight of a nice buck coming in at about 60 yards. Looked wide as all get out and decided I would try to shoot him if I could, wasn’t a buck I recognized but it’s not uncommon to have travelling bucks in November. He gave me a clean shot at about 40 yards, and he dropped right where he stood. This was the first deer I’ve shot with the 6.5 creed moor, while he never took another step I will say the exit hole and would channel wasn’t all that big so shot placement is definitely key (bullet broke the shoulder and blew out the lungs, just missed the heart). This rifle will be my sons once he fits it so thinking I may test some heavier bullets to try and slow it down to give bullet more time to expand (currently shooting 130gr hornady interlocks).

This is the first time in 30 years of hunting in WI I have filled both my bow and rifle buck tag.

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buckybadger wrote:

Hunted just outside Alma, WI

Ma and I were on a road trip of sorts today and ended up coming up to Alam from Winona and stopped at the Red Ram for burgers and fries. I chatted with a hunter who was taking a lunch break. He said his dad has 400 acres just out of Alma. He said thus far, about 1:30, they hadn’t had any luck but we did see a couple guys with a nice buck behind a pick-up in a field just south of Nelson. We came home by way of Kellogg and Plainview and saw a few vehicles parked but no orange in the woods.It was a nice day to hunt. I was surprised at how few hunters/vehicles we saw in both states.

Tom P. wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Randy Wieland wrote:</div>
Richland County. Spending more time taking care of Dad. Don’t know how much effort I’ll put in

So how is your dad doing Randy? PM if wanted or text.

Roller coaster. One day blood pressure is 78/50 and next day is 140/82. Lots of
Confusion.

Neighbors got Out of their stands about 1/2 hour early and spooked all the deer bedding on fence line. One
Of the bushel basket bucks was in there and I got a glimpse. Otherwise 2nd worst opening day I’ve experienced on this farm. So much disliking gun season BS nine day army hunt

Evening had 3 Does and a Fork out in the front yard 25 yards away, should of gotten a picture for those that did not see any. Just a joke son.

Randy Wieland wrote:

So much disliking gun season BS nine day army hunt

I recall your stories in the past about the Wisconsin gun season there too.