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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    I went out yesterday looking to run an arrow through a turkey or two. I had reports that they were using a bean field pretty hard so I set up on the edge or it within 20 yards of an obvious spot where they had scratched at the snow. There were tracks all over and I was hopeful that they would...
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    Afraid of the dark??

    I got into hunting late in life, so I was in my mid thirties when I was walking into some public ground in the dark about an hours and a half before legal shooting light. I was 1/4 mile from the truck when I hear a whole pack of coyotes sound of directly ahead of me. They were probably 1/2 mile...
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    As they lay

    First off, love hunting in the snow. Second, I love getting a chance to run an arrow through a whitetail buck. I was very fortunate that the slight amount of arrowing I did to this buck was enough to clip a vein or artery and he died. Still not sure how I got so fortunate.
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    I waited a few minutes until all of those bucks cleared out and then I got down and packed up my platform and sticks. I went to find the arrow and was not terribly impressed. I walked in his tracks and I could see he was definitely bleeding, but I couldn't figure out if it was going to be...
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    I'm pretty tired, but I have a busy day tomorrow (have to butcher a deer) so I'll post the recap before I go to bed and not leave anyone hanging. I got out to the grain bins where I could park and walk in to some river bottom ag fields backed by a complex of sloughs and riparian woods. It was...
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    Not quite 12 hours later... It doesn't look like much, a little blood on the arrow and some hair on the snow, but I'll tell you what, if you can't be good you better be lucky.
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    Pretty much all loaded up, just need to change clothes and then I am going to head out to hunt in the snow. Not sure what to expect, but I'll try to make the most of an afternoon outside.
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    SFC B's yearly folly.......

    First, I love Norske Nook. I usually hit the one in Osseo on my way out to South Dakota. Second, I have been meaning to go to Vortex just to see it. I dated someone in high school who had family in Barneveld and I would sometimes go to their family get togethers at a bowling alley on a country...
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    Well I didn't see anything this morning. I ended up getting down from my tree around 10 am and then moving to a part of the farm that is right along the river. I wanted to explore a little and was hoping that I would figure out where the turkeys had moved to. I walked quite a ways and a lot of...
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    I'm going to try something new; a morning hunt the day after firearm season ends. I probably have to pull out by 1 so I can get back home in time for a Friendsgiving thing my daughter is hosting. But I am hoping I will see something. There's a good chance the turkeys will be around and maybe a...
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    I ended up sticking around the house working on the honey do list. But I am gearing up for an all day hunt on Monday.
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    I'm trying to talk myself out of trying to get out tomorrow afternoon. It would be last chance to get out before Illinois' first firearm season will sideline me for the weekend. I could possibly get out on Monday after three days of deer being chased by the orange army, but then my daughter...
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    BY the time I got out to the woods and up a tree it was about 2 and I was going to have about 3 hours to hunt. I had seen a coyote out in the middle of a picked bean field as I walked in. The Coyote was about 300 yards north west of me and he was hunched up taking a dump out in the middle of...
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    Well it happened. I was laid off. It was coming down the tracks like a slow freight train and I was hoping I would have a new job lined up before it happened, but so far non of the irons I have in the fire have led to that next job. With all that said, I'm going hunting. I'll be up in a tree...
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    Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread

    Yeah I need to start expecting that deer will come from the wrong spot. It just happens too often. Interviews are going good. I have been looking for a while but so far no one has taken the bait. But this past week I have had a lot of interest, which is good since I will be losing my job on...
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