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Headed to Coffeeville AL to kill some quality time. Long overdue. Stay tuned. When I hunt wit this bud, he normally gets some venison.

Sounds like fun, hope you're successful!

Deer season still open down there?

Or up there for you?

Isn’t that where they filmed deliverance?

Good luck👍

Yep, closes the 11th of Feb I think. Hog season stays open.

Don't get too drunk to hunt this time !!

Brother Paul is hoping to get lost and “run into” locals.

Great plan. Good luck, Paul!

I may just film my own version while I am there.

Have a good time.

Looks like a great trip is to be had, Have a Ball!! Not like that, you know what I mean......Have fun anyways.

Have fun hope you get a deer.

Bon chance Barnard

Ever ride this, Paul?



RAGBRAI starts in my town this year. Maybe have been 3 of them here, since I moved into here.​

No, but it's where all the characters oriiginated.

Have fun Paul

Best of luck,
Post up pics if you score,,,well harvest..

Did it in 2016. It was a southern route that was surprisingly hilly.

lol. I have spotty service at the lease, but I'll post if I can.

Deer season until Feb. 11? I've been hunting in the Deep South for decades, never heard of such a thing. In Georgia it closes Jan. 4

Enjoy and best of luck!

*Paul removes a couple ribs and sets a full length mirror against a tree*

"I sure have a pretty mouth..."

~ Grin

Good luck on the hunt!

Whew, that's a relief. When I saw the thread title I thought you might be coming to Colorado again.......

From Va. DWR

Odds on Paul "pitchin' vs. catchin' ?


Good luck on trip !!

I think it was in ‘16 when the old guy was going out to dip his tire in the MO, and whilst riding down hwy 34 he got run over and killed out west of Glenwood.

Fast moving pickups and bikes don’t mix too well.

Closed on January 14th in the Georgia I live in.

Arrived at the camp. Service sucks.

The camp is pretty cool.

Paul, what rifle(s) are you using this trip?

Christensen Mesa 6.5 Creedlord.

👍👍 I’ve been lookin at those sheds for the same purpose once we put in our pond

Ohhh. You got the magic sprinkly dust.

Lol.

(Nice gun..)


Camp looks comfy.

I remember that, Scott. Think 2016 was the last year the bike ride started in Glenwood.

Y'all even gots the legmotricitee an one of them fancy radiorange ovens even.

Hell, that ain't camp, moor like to a manshun

Alabama runs late.

Overrun with quail?

pic DMc

That is cool! It’s a quiet morning here with a light frost. Birds are singing. Owls hooting back and forth. I pileated woodpecker sounding off in the bottom. Slowly easing along getting a lay of the land. There are remarkably steep bluffs on this lease. 3 food plots. Impenetrably thick stuff in places. A few unexploited opportunities for woods stands.

Lots of signs. Just heard one blow about 300 yards away.

The morning hunt is done. No venison but enjoyed it. B

Put some swag in the photo next time, brother Paul.

Official sunset is at 5:27. I’ll get a feel for how good this Trijicon Credo 3-9x40 is over the course of the next 30 minutes. Clear skies. Moon doesn’t rise for a while. Open field. It should take me to 30 minutes after sunset.

What, did you forget your spotlight?

Yes. When I retired we bought a place in Alabama solely for the unique late January/early February rut, and season that accommodates it.

I killed my second of three bucks last week and have one more to go.

Public and Semi-public (ie paper company) land...no stands, still hunting/stalking.

It's simply becoming my favorite time/place of the year...

What do you use the duelly for, Paul?

Coolio.

I have a fleet of bicycles.

No deers or piggies yet?

Another 3 hours before last legal shooting time. We have talked to quite a few people in the surrounding area. Nobody is seeing anything. Rain is 4-5 hours away. Maybe that’ll get them moving.

Haha. You sound like a friend of mine who used to be a naval aviator and then went to commercial pilot. Had plenty of dough. Had a small fleet of motorcycles for people to go riding with him.

Hope that works out.

Your leaseholder person have any cameras out? Have the critters gone nocturnal?

Maybe they'll come out to feed before the storm gets there. I'm selfish, I wanna see pics of deer who met their demise at your hand

. I do have a fleet of bicycles. That’s my buds truck. He has a tree service. Just heard a rifle boom about a half mile away. Wasn’t my bud. Maybe it bodes well for them moving.

I had a big sow in my crosshairs last night back at the camp. About 40 yards away. Had my 10/22 with a muffler. Would have to be an ear shot. Couldn’t quite steady up enough to guarantee the shot. Stepped on a pine cone trying to move to a tree I could use for a rest. She eased off.

That picture is AWESOME DMc. 👍🏼

Am I remembering correctly that you are up near Bankhead NF?

Maybe one of them will present an opportunity when you have a steady rest tonight Paul,

good huntin'

You guys have fat chicks in camp and you didn’t invite LBP? Come on man…😀

Have a great time Paul and I look forward to the pictures of meat stacked high.

. This one had prop scars on her back, so may have even been out of his league.

The wind just picked up out of the south. Blowing my scent straight toward the food plot. It’s about 3/4 mile of trails and dirt roads back to the truck. I’ll probably bail early from this location and tiptoe back to the truck

You didn't check the wind direction, Brother Paul?

#accuweather

Dang man that sounds like a blast man have fun

Yes Mr. Cantore, I did. But as you well know, wind can and often does shift ahead of frontal boundaries. I also checked the weather radar. As often happens ahead of a frontal boundary, rain cells often pop up. I am in one of those now.

You didn’t check the weather forecast, Brother Paul.

Hope you sneak up on a dink anyway, Brother.

One hour left in my season. Love my time in commune with Mother Nature, even if the only thing I kill is time.

Trying to explain wind and weather to a retard that is always indoors is an exercise in futility. They can’t understand that wind swirls and changes or that weather is not entirely predictable.

You’re a retard, Brother

It’s dead calm and has been for about 30 minutes. That anomalous blow was short lived.

Hell yeah, brother

Just heard another rifle shot.

Hope you get one Paul!

Ron

We got shut out but had a great time. I'll post some more pics later.

Got any pics of the fat chick?

You know he does, but he's gotta photoshop himself out of the pic before he can post.

😂

Let's talk about that Paul luck for which I am renowned. While I was gone I got a text from Laurie asking if I could talk. I called. As she was sitting at her computer, our cat who had been lounging right beside her, let out a loud scream as if in pain. The cat thrashed about confused and continued moaning in pain.

Backing up a bit, we got the cat for my stepdaughter 12 years ago. I didn't want a cat. I don't really like them. But, I wanted even less to be the bad stepdad, so I relented. In true cat fashion, the cat hated everyone in the world but me and it was obsessed with me. It made a ritual of coming to me wherever I was and head butting me until I rubbed her, and I'd have to rub her until she was done.

The cat had spontaneously lost use of everything from mid back rearward and was in extreme pain. The short of it is that Laurie had to have Cat put to sleep. I wish I could have been there to have undertaken that burden.

The look on Cat's face when she was getting the rub she demanded.



As previously mentioned, we saw zero deer in 2 days of hunting. A few does showed up on camera during the day, but we saw nothing. No bucks detected by camera at all for the full 60 hours we were in the area. On queue, today:

The topography of the area is absolutely fascinating. Most of the region is undulating hills with pine tops and hardwood bottoms. His lease is a series of ridges with deep, steep gorges and some rocky bluffs and rock formations. It is in stark contrast to the surrounding area.

There were plenty of signs of deer and the rut. Some scrapes were still being maintained. Everyone in the immediate area said that the deer, and bucks in particular, has largely just stopped moving during the day, and nighttime movement was minimal. I did find two places that look like good future stand locations. I much prefer being in the woods to being on plots.





This is a major deer crossing that is ripe for covering with a stand.



I enjoy plot watching, but noting beats being in the woods, hearing a rustle in the leaves or a twig break and wonding if it's an approaching deer. The shooting houses take away the auditory experience that I so enjoy.



The Credo performed great. I left mys stand location at sunset on the last evening. It was overcast. I slowly walked back to the truck, constantly evaluating the scope's light gathering and the reticle elumination against a variety of backgrounds. It got me to 30 minutes after sunset. Up until the 25 minute after sunset mark, it would allow me to make out any antlers the deer had. The last 5 minutes against a dark background, I wouldn't have been able to assess a rack, but could have centered up on a chest.

A couple of pictures kinda capture the essence of the southern hunting experience.

I met Johnny, my buds friend. We went to his place. About a dozen motor vehicles graced the yard. Two dogs lived under the front porch. Chickens clucked and scratched and the rooster constantly sounded off. Inside his house, that he built of course, was a trophy wall that had some impressive hardware hung on it. This is the sign at the entrance to Johnny's drive.



As I sat in the shooting house, I looked down and softly chuckled. A propane heater sat at the ready for a rare cold day. Sunflower seed shells lined the floor, a few snack packages and drink bottles had been discarded. Of course there's the empty skoal can. Last, and perhaps most important, is the wasp spray. It's really art that tells a story. The same story that's told by shooting houses all over the deep south.



A southern hunting trip isn't complete without a mid-day visit to "town" to eat at the local restaurant. We walked into the restaurant a little after traditional lunch hours. We were greeted by Foxy, the owner/manager/host. Her voice had a high pitch, gravelly/raspy two pack of cigarettes a day character. She was sweet and playful. Juicy, the 15 year old boy who works at the hardware store, was the only other customer. We both ordered "Jo's burger" and tater tots. I became interested in the "Special Item" and asked Foxy quietly, because some new customer customers had come in, what DO DO was. She laughed and said that those were fish. A few minutes later she emerged from the kitchen with a slightly built older black woman who was the chef, and explained to her that I thought they were serving DO DO and a special item. The chef got a kick out of it. It was a good experience with plenty of "honeys" "babys" and "darlins" sprinkled into the conversation. We returned the second day of the hunt. Foxy was glad to see us and praised the experience she provided as so good that we had to come back for more. I quickly fired back that I was giving them a chance to redeem themselves. And so began another dining experience of good natured banter and and laughter.

We're actually 2 hours or so straight east of you. To paraphrase the SNL skit of Sarah Palin: I can see Georgia from my yard:





Great pics, and glad you had a good trip. That's what it's all about. I killed my last buck and a couple of does and am headed home to Idaho soon until Turkey season here.

This is what its all about^^^^
Great thread Paul, thanks for taking us along.

Just got another text from my bud. He's seen (cell camera) a total of 5 bucks and 6-7 does feeding during the day today. Has anyone ever studied the effect that post Mexican meal gas has on deer?

Only advise I can give........

Never trust a fart

Nope. But then I've never sat in a stand or "shooting house."

Paul, you are quite the sports writer! Enjoyed it. Do they let you use dogs on deer? Any pigs back there? Sorry for the news on your cat. I like cats. Looks like there could be squirrels back there. Alan