Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting So, who all got skunked this year?

Tired of reading all the post about great hunts and deer killed this season I got skunked. Let's hear from everybody else who came home empty handed and what happened. Unless I'm the only one

I was able to be out more this year than I have been in over a decade, and was completely skunked. Other than opening weekend, I haven't even seen deer, just dead ones other guys are bringing in!

Still, best year for me in ages. A bad day in the woods is still far better than a good day at work.

Well, I got skunked too. I saw a few legal does and a couple of spikes, but we still have meat in the freezer from last year. I just didn't see anything worth shooting.

I was 0-2 in MN and Nebraska but went 2 for 2 in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

I saw bucks in both MN and NE but nothing worthy of making boom.

ME! I didn't see anything except beavers, raccoons and a skunk!

Can you shoot beavers?

Leave my beavers alone.......

Grin

POW! WHOP!

Don't worry Tom I didn't Noslerize them..

Hell with a 270 they'd have gotten away anyhow.......likely swim 200 yards before collapse.

I got skunked in New Hampshire. I actually saw only one deer. No chance for a shot. I imagine I smelled bad.

Longbeard I saw NO deer in NH during the season

I was gonna just hang out at a check station so I could see a few....

Well, wasn't exactly skunked for the season, but an unpleasant weekend therein.
Had an acquaintance that stated he would like to go elk hunting. So the weekend before opener we went for a look~see in a possible spot. So after arriving late, we climb a short distance to a vantage point. Instead of planting and glassing, he decides we HAVE TO go over there, then over there, then no over there. And then he says he just can't see why an elk would even be there. At this point my only thought is, "you are welcome" .
Available weekend rolls around and we head off to another spot I know. I thought it was awful odd he insisted we take his outfit no matter what, along with his camper that could not touch gravel roads. On the mtn, we climb and climb and he decides 2 hours before dark we should find a different way down than we came up. Saw elk on bordering private land and it was too close to call. I thought maybe he knew exactly where they were since his GPS was being fondled every 14 minutes but no dice.
Next day we go to some private land I had permission to hunt and the owners stated they do not grant access to state land. So in the field my acquaintance doesn't think they have the right to tell us not to cross onto state land from their land, at which point I tell him he will be going that one alone. Next day, same private land, acquaintance insists the landowners let him park in a location other than designated, at which point I tell them the designated parking is fine. However they gave in and let him go where he wished. I later called the land owners and sincerely apologized for bringing such a jackass along.
And those were just the hilights. And that was the end of my hunting with people I have never been afield with. Forgot to mention the 28" tall muley he passed.

I only got in the woods three times this season. A normal season for me would be more like 10 to 12. All I saw was a small doe that I passed on and a huge buck that I only got a quick glance at in some very heavy fog. No deer in the freezer for me this year. Oh well has helped with the drive for my upcoming elk hunt this fall.

Matt, we've got to find some pigs! I don't like having an empty freezer....

I spent more time hunting this year than in many years. I saw one buck but there was too much brush between us to shoot. I had a doe tag but didn't even get a chance at that. It was still a good season.

I didn't kill squat, but went down swinging! I spend about 20 days chasing whitetails and 9 straight from daylight to dark hunting mule deer. I saw one giant muley on the first morning at daybreak...a 200" double drop beast at 450 yards. He walked over a sandhill and i never saw him again. I never saw anything else over 170 to shoot at. I had a blast anway.

Laffin'

Amen! I'll pm you later tonight!

Wow, looks like a lot of fellow Alabamians came up empty handed as well!

Killed two nice bucks in California, skunked in Oregon and had to cancel my Idaho wolf hut, so skunked there too I guess.

skunked as far as horns go.
shot 2 does for the freezer.

Last time I got skunked was in 98, course I had getting hitched on my mind then.