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Im getting mixed reviews, some have done pretty well some cant find a buck among our heard of does. What are you guys seeing?

There's a thread up in the Hunters Campfire. My story is up there, but I saw 39 deer, including five bucks in two days. Missed a ten pt, got an 8 pt.

I'm seeing lots of deer and hearing plenty of shots.

I have a buck in freezer already, and have been letting everything go in hopes of a monster. 2-3 Huge bucks in area, plus many smaller ones.......

Michigan bucks. Texted to me today......




1st is my good bud's cousin Al's wife's 9pt.

Next is my bud's 14year old son's first buck. Shot with my old Ruger 77 tang safety 243 and my 100gr SGK handloads......

Ken details on that 1st buck WOW! seen 11 deer in 2 days 2 spikes and a buck chaseing a doe couldnt count points, getting hit good with snow now! out of 11 hunters 4 bucks 2 8pts, a 6 and a big 5pt. with no brows aged 31/2

No details, John. I will be hunting with him tomorrow. He did say she hit it far back, and didn't find it until next morning. Plenty cold, so no worries, and the coyotes didn't get to it.

I hunted in some serious snow/wind this evening. Lots of deer, no monster bucks....

Did you make it to the UP? Im 10 miles west of Caddy, 16 inchs on the flat wind chill Zero and still snowing hard, they should be moveing after this front moves thru!

No I stayed south. I got my eye on a few huge bucks. Hope at least one is still alive! My god the weather is bad.

Just got a text of a 6pt my bud killed in da U.P. It is slim pickens up there right now........

I fig it would be bad up there not to mention the lack of deer, our #s are way down around here also! good luck getting one of them big boys! i did get a doe 2 days before the rifle started.

Real slow around the west end of M-55. People are taking a few, but nobody seems to be seeing the 2.5 year class and older bucks everyone expected with the antler restrictions going into effect last year.

The lack of hunters for a weekend opener was also surprising. It was like a Tuesday opener. One of the local TV stations had a story about decreased license sales. Jay's in Clare claimed a lot of people simply refused to spend the money and left without buying anything. I figure that'll produce extra funds for the DNR with tickets for hunting without a license.

We had very few hunters around here, i may have heard 20 shots on sat. and 2 on sunday! No real big bucks around, I think they didnt make thru last winter!

30" of snow on the ground, and I haven't seen a deer yet. Better than being at work though.

Bud took a 6pt near Escanaba today....

Saw 6 bucks on opening day, killed a 6pt at 8:45 and an 8pt at 2:30, both chasing does. The guys that hunt across the road from me usually really do well and came up empty this year. All the bucks were on my side this year


Yanked gut with this Crotts

Mac Bridge numbers are down 40 percent.

numbers seem way down to me as well and I'm hunting Eaton Rapids. Guys are not happy on Michigan Sportsman forum.

what county?

How many days have you hunted?

thought this was funny and accurate.

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=70659&d=1416398341

Screw that. Where exactly is your stand and when will you NOT be in it

This is my eleventh year hunting my land and it's possibly the worst year of all. Opening morning started out pretty good - saw 6 deer including a fawn spike in the first 45 minutes. After that it's just been the occasional sighting of the same 1 or more of that group. Where are all the 4 and 6 pointers I should be seeing? I've been letting a lot of spikes walk the last couple years, but they seem to have vanished along with about half the usual number of does. It's not winter kill because back when things were thawing in late winter there were deer everywhere.

Weather has been rotten, that's for sure. This is the first morning all week that I've seen sunshine, but the wind is cranking. Again.

It's discouraging. I'm off this week and planned to hunt every day, but with hunting being so slow I decided to take yesterday and drive down to Onekama and pick up a tractor I just bought. What an adventure that was. I left my house a few miles south of Mackinaw, picked up a rental trailer in Petoskey, then drove through Traverse City and on to Onekama. I had the tractor on the trailer and chains and binders in place just before 4 pm and because I had run into some serious lake effect snow heading South out of Traverse I decided to head inland across M-55 and pick up either US 131 or continue on to US 127, depending on visibility and road conditions.

I ended up going all the way to 127 and heading North toward home. Conditions plain sucked. I didn't arrive home until 10 PM- 6 hours after leaving Onekama.

Anyway, hunting is slow and the weather stinks, but at least I'm not at work.

I hear you. The weather/wind is nothing short of disappointing. Really sucks badly. I am supposed to meet a bud down by the Huron river to go hunt today around 2:30. Thinking of putting it off until tomorrow. High winds really suck. Tomorrow should be decent, I think. 25� but sunny with less wind(I hope). Some of the snow should melt over the weekend, here.

Which reminds me, I need to go snow blow soon