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This afternoon is the last of deer season. Tomorrow I start trapping varmints. I'm surprised more hunters don't trap, I have a bunch of fun and really look forward to seeing what I've caught everyday.

Catching pigs is a lot of fun

I have 20 feeders out and cameras on half of them. And only get pictures of hogs every 3 - 4 weeks. I don't know why they leave but I'm glad they do. Last time through they rooted or pushed a feeder over and of course it landed on the solar panel.

Bastards

I think shooting pigs would be way fun unfortunatly for me anyway is whenever I've been in Texas the ranches I hunted on were pig free.

It's time to get Rocky in the game and do some shed hunting.

I doubt I will get out before Jan. 31 for bow in Wisconsin. I will likely sell my Savage .223 Rem with a bull barrel and buy a compact .223 Rem that is much more practical for hunting. There is about 17" of snow on the ground and will be below - 11 F for a few nights. If it warms up , I might try fishing by the power plant on Lake Michigan for Brown trout and sometimes a big northern.. never did it before .

Hoping to get back to the camp and do some coyote calling and kill as many pigs and Aoudad as possible.

Was out last week dialing in my 375 H&H M70 with its new scope and mounts for a hunt in Alaska over the coming 4th of July.

I’ll hunt coyotes and pigs when I’m not cutting firewood or hunting arrowheads until April when the saugeye start to bite. Then it’ll be crappie and saugeye fishing until it gets too hot and we’ll transition to nighttime catfishing for big flatheads and blues.Dove season in September to carry us through. It’ll be deer season again before we know it.

Well...I'm going to keep hunting deer until 2/10.

After that, catch up on farm chores, get back to shooting a couple times a week, and see if I can call a few yotes in.

Chase rabbits

Shoot skeet, 5 stand and sporting Clay's

Shoot pistols

I'll be winding up the habitat work in the next week or so. Girdling, hinging or dropping trees to release the better trees (Oak & Black Cherry).

Planting a couple hundred acorns in the basement. Mostly hybrids.

Cutting apple scions.

Trimming current oak saplings and cleaning out their tube shelters (several 100).

Got a couple impulse-buy Kimbers that I need to decide whether or not I'm going to keep.

Continue working up loads for 7mm-08 and .30-06 for Barnes bullets.

Start on loads for a Montana .223 with 62 grn TBBC's. I'd like to whack a deer with that next season.

Probably go steelhead fishing. Haven't done that in about 10 years.

Most importantly, spend time with the grandkids!