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Looks like you might have to raise the ceiling Dave.

Muzzle loader season ended in WI yesterday.

Yeah, no room for an angel.

We might rig up a string for the angel so we can dangle her from the top like a bungee jumper or a mountain climber.

Can we get a stick drawing of that please?

I'll just post a picher when it's done.

Is that the Ruger .22 that has caused you to utter many profanities?

I love my Single Six. It's my favorite gun by a good margin and one of the last one's I'd let go of. You'll really like yours. I like the grips on it.

Congrats on the hunt of the suicide deers. I've never even seen one with a smokepole in my mitts and you get two in 90 seconds. Nice work.

Can you shoot mulies or do you need a seperate tag?

Stan, those S&W's are great. My bil has one as well. I'm in love with it but so is he and won't part with it. The triggers on the S&W's can't be matched on a revolver as far as I've been able to tell.

LOL!!

"I don't always shoot fawns... But when I do, I call them small does."

Here are a few pics of my scouting expedition yesterday. It was great to be in the woods. There are a ton of deer where I was. Something about food being available...

Here's my favorite pic of the day. Heading down the logging road to a new spot I'm going to try next year opening day deer season. I really like this pic for some reason.


Grouse tracks from bird that ran in front of me on said logging road. I didn't have a big desire to chase him through the pines with a .22lr rifle.


Big Red Wagon at the turn-a-round.


Wider shot.


big woof hoof


Been awhile since I stumbled onto a pile of these but I did. I was smilin like heck at the bedding area.


Fresh specimens of both...also near beddig area.
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Bedding area is right on the edge of the tall pine/ "buggy whip" popple edge.
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The taller pines in the background is where the terrain starts to drop into the "beaver bog". The trees further back are the other side of the bog.
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This is a hole on a beaver hut. No beaver tracks anywhere around, but they were there...the evidence was left in the destruction to a lot of the trees. For some reason in all the excitement of my new found area, I didn't snap a pic from the new stand site. I'll be surprised if I don't at least see a dandy from it.
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I'll grab one in a few weeks when I go back to get the trail cam's. I'm keeping my fingers crossed the SD cards worked in them and nobody finds the cams.

and... mandatory pic.Ruger 77/22 w sights (kinda rare) w/ Nikon 2-7x32 Prostaff

Nice!

any antlerless is what the tag says, so whitetails, mulies it don't matter. I try to avoid the mulies, they don't taste as good

"Woof Hoof"



Nice pics Tom

I shot a mulie buck with my bow and brought all the meat into a processor and turned the whole thing into jerky. In one weekend my neice and nephew ate it all. Little stinkers!

Thanks Rooster. There were some damn big woof tracks in there. As far as I could tell it was a pair. Male/feamale? I saw lots of woof tracks but it seemed to be from the same two.

I'm pretty excited about this area. It's a "walk in only" so no motorized vehicles. The human foot traffic ended at approximately 200 yards. That gave me a chuckle. It's not like I'm going on a big expedidtion but I walked in 1/4 mile on a very easy trail and it was devoid of human traffic....more smiling like heck.

The swamp area gave me three obvious tree stand/blind options without even digging in too much. I was on the north end of the logging road and all the stands were good for anything but a south wind.

I haven't even begun to dig on the south side of the cut yet. There are litteraly miles and miles to scout. I doubt I'll have it to myself but I don't think it will be crowded by any stretch either.

Two kids ate a whole deer??????????????

Big kids, with big belly aches I would imagine.

Nive pics Tom. No snow left in our hunting area. 54* here this PM.

Dont know if I mentioned this or not, but did you folks see the 2 monster bucks shot this year in MN? One was the kid from Sebeka and the other was in Todd County? The Todd County one was less than mile from my stand. I still tear up thinking about it.

So far this winter is stacking up to be good for wildlife. Keep your fingys crossed!

Pretty much! It was in my parents freezer because I lived in an apartment at the time. I had brought some back with me but pretty much all of it was still in the freezer at the folks. My neice and nephew got to grandma and grandpas on a friday and the neice called me on Sunday night and asked if I had any more of that yummy jerky that was in the freezer. I said "what do you mean WAS?! There should be A LOT in there!" She said "nope we ate it Unca Jim"

I would be a little upset, even if it was Mule deer.

I never understood the fascination with them stinky yucky deer. sure they are bigger and the bucks grow bigger racks (when allowed to). but on a whole they are on the decline and are stupid as a whole.

with my job I get to see many out of state hunters come out after the "elusive" mulie. problem is they see a 140" class buck and think it's big so they shoot them. sure the rack looks nice (compared to their white tails) but its actually a small deer by mulie standards. ok maybe not "small" but it aint the bruiser they think when they shoot him. the problem lies when those bucks don't get the extra year or two to mature and get to a "trophy" level. I'm not a trophy hunter by any means, but I understand it, so I try to let young bucks pass that have potential for those who do. I get it, it's just not my cup of tea. ok rant off. sorry to get sidetracked. any of ya'lls want to come hunting either species out here just let me know, I have a few spots set aside just in case.