Woulda tagged out

 I had to do alot of running to do on Monday , so I didn't get to go hunting. Tuesday I went deer hunting but only saw doves and squirrels. More of the same on Wednesday, but today..... 

I got to the stand and heard rustling in the dark until daylight then a buck came from behind me at 20 yards. I think he is the 7pt I have seen out there prior. I saw him 2 more times within the next couple hours. Then just when I was getting ready to get ready to leave, I was standing up turned around in the stand. When I turned back I saw a really nice 3 year old 8pt at 45-50 yards. He was at the end of my comfort zone and I had alot of limbs in the way so I couldn't get a shot anyway. He hung out for a couple minutes then just turned and started to cross the neighbors field. I tried grunting him back and even tried a rattling sequence to turn him, but he had other plans. 

The one deer I would've shot and I never even got a chance..... hope he stays around. Gun opens is a couple weeks. 

 🤞

Great week

 Well, it is deer season, so I deer hunted. Monday morning, I saw one deer. I hunted Tuesday morning, I saw 12 doe's and 3 different bucks. The biggest of the 3 was a 6 point with no brow tines. He's about a two-year-old, he walked right through my kill hole at 26 yards, and I let him walk, still early. I hunted Wednesday morning, and saw squirrels and coons. 

So this morning, I went out duck hunting because I wanted to. It was a great time, I shot fairly well and I ended up with 2 wood ducks and 1 smiley.

Next week is kinda messed up, I will be out of the field all day Monday with the boat. And I'm finally going to have the annual fish fry with Jake and his family on Wednesday so Thursday might be out too.

I'm going to try and go deer hunting... when I can.... they are chasing.

1st official field hunt went..... ok?

Well, with the cool temps and possible freeze I am putting the rose bush to bed. All I can do is cover it in leaves and hope it comes up OK next spring. 

The boat is in the garage for the season however I'm still waiting on the windshield cover to get done. Since I had the boat in the middle of the garage I decided to loosen the lower unit screw and check for water. 

Again the why me? hit me in the face, of course when I dropped the screw I had some mocha foam come out which is indicative of a water leak. 😡😲😡😡 I only ran it 4x's.....for an hour apiece.

The marina just contacted me and I'll be getting it in on the 3rd, to have them go over the lower unit again. And since I had 1 complaint I decided to tell them about the inner bearing seal not being replaced, which I wasn't even going to bother with until this other happened. So it seems my boat issues continue even after the season is over.

 

My hunt was like a 3 stooges movie, just a comedy of errors. New blind... set up facing the wrong way.... wind change (had to move decoys 4 or 5 times).... and had 1 failure to fire. I saw plenty of birds but with the way I was facing they were coming from behind me, not optimal. I would have done the whole set differently and will remember this next time...😞

 

I did have one thing work really well. I have been thinking about an improvement to my decoy delivery system and this is what I came up with.

There's a truck accessory place in town and I have gotten bed liners from them in the past. They pay to have them disposed of so they give them away for free. They are incredibly easy to manipulate just with a knife and can be use for many things. My neighbor took a bottom and uses it to tow dirt and rocks around the yard, like a sled. I've used one to separate my decoys and wheeler section in the trailer.

This time I cut one up and added sides to my sled... this increases my decoy haul by at least 8 or 9 decoys, and I don't worry about them falling out. When I get back to the trailer the sides fold down and it fits the same as before in the trailer. 👍

That's my set up in and out and works really well. I figure with the extra decoy hauling ability I should be able to make one trip with all my geese.... that'll be awesome. I can't do the same thing with the other sled because they wouldn't fit together if I did, I wish I could. Anyway, I didn't get any video because my phone kept disconnecting with my gopro.... so that sucked.😪

I did get ONE lone goose and ONE lone mallard, I did knock the rust off and have made some improvements to my set up, to aid in rapid spread deployment and exfil.

I know, 1 goose and 1 duck is better than getting skunked but..... damn.

Next week I'll break out the deer gear again and give that a shot for a week or two. Then back to duck hunting for another couple weeks before deer gun opens for a couple weeks.... busy. 

Same old same old

 Well, I went deer hunting Monday and Tuesday, I saw all the main characters.

Wednesday I got up left the house, as soon as I sat down in my stand it started raining. I turned my data on my phone and looked at the weather. It was nothing but green all the way to Milwaukee which means, a lot of rain. So, I waited in the rain until 8:30 decided it wasn't going to stop. I was done, got up, got to the truck got halfway home, and it stopped raining. It hasn't rained a drop since. 😡

I should have gone out this 🌄 it was nice and cool, but I'm kind of done with deer hunting until 🎃Halloween👻  anyways. 

🦆 and goose opens on Saturday. Monday will be my first day for 🦆 season this year, I'm super stoked. I got a buddy at work that wants to go to he is also stoked. 

I hope its going to be a be a good year,🤞. 

My first days 🦌 hunting

 So we finally got some cool weather. Yesterday was in the forties, this morning was in the thirties.Went out and did some deer hunting.It's a good time saw, two deer.These guys...

Yeah, he's looking looking at but he is only 10' away. He never stopped or snorted he just kinda walked off.... really, really slow.

This little guy came in this 🌄.

I also worked on my decoy trailer and set up a new blind for duck hunting, I am ready.😉👍

Next week looks good also, so I'll be able to get out all weekend. I've got some projects to get to in the afternoons so it should be a busy week. Hopefully a decent buck or even a good doe will come in at 30 yards or so 🤷‍♂️, hopefully.