Pucky Freak
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Midwest fawns are fine eating, and that's a nice sized one you got. Enjoy
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Thank you. I couldn't be happier. Although I am already kinda missing the idea of hunting this coming weekend. I told my wife we could do family stuff, but it feels so much like a hunting weekend. I'm sure I will be super busy and it will fly by. Planning on getting my new smoker out and doing up a beef brisket on Sunday. Plus I have about 150 pounds of apples from my dad's place that I need to crush and press so I can make apple wine.Great deer! Well done and congrats!
If I had gotten a better look at him as he was coming in I would have been at full draw for 30 minutes just waiting for a chance, but I didn't realize he was what he was until he popped out from behind that tree.Congrats!
That was more than "nice buck" in my book, by the way!I'm pushing 25 years of deer hunting and don't think I've ever seen one that big in range.
I love it! I'm a squirrel short for 2019I have an unofficial goal of getting what I refer to as a Fall Slam: a squirrel, a duck, a goose, a turkey and a deer. So far I have a squirrel and a deer, but now I am turning my sights to turkeys, ducks and geese.
I had heard that about you.I love it! I'm a squirrel short for 2019
Good to know. I usually walk in to that stand along the old fencerow and it is like a deer superhighway with noticeable tracks, but on Thanksgiving it looked like a deer hadn't been through there in the last few days, but that is when they would have been harvesting. I live too far away to be able to drive the neighborhood and see what kind of ag activity is going on and I don't go down to the gas station to get breakfast with the farmers. So I don't know what their forecasted plans are either. So I just end up with whatever conditions exist when I get there to hunt... I guess I just have to control what I can and do the best with conditions as they exist.Whitetails really don't care about combines, tractors, etc. Equipment won't change their behavior. Once a field is picked there is less cover, so they're less likely to come out in the open during daylight. I usually shift my set up deeper into the cover after harvest. Also, deer may change their favored feeding areas towards crops that haven't been picked yet.
I had a stand that was dynamite when the corn was still in, but the years when beans were planted or after corn was removed it was worthless.
If you scout anytime between June 1 and Sept 1 you can tell how mature the crops are, which will give you the approximate week when they''ll be ready for harvest. The closer to Sept 1 the more accurate it will be. Any row crop farmer can show you what to look for, or I can explain it to you in a PM if you're interested. Beans are usually harvested soon after maturity, and corn is whenever they get to it. One example is where I live in central Iowa it was a very wet April and planting was delayed for about 85% of the crop. Average weather over the rest of the year made for a very late harvest overall.Good to know. I usually walk in to that stand along the old fencerow and it is like a deer superhighway with noticeable tracks, but on Thanksgiving it looked like a deer hadn't been through there in the last few days, but that is when they would have been harvesting. I live too far away to be able to drive the neighborhood and see what kind of ag activity is going on and I don't go down to the gas station to get breakfast with the farmers. So I don't know what their forecasted plans are either. So I just end up with whatever conditions exist when I get there to hunt... I guess I just have to control what I can and do the best with conditions as they exist.