I’m headed out shortly for opening morning of Michigan’s firearm deer season.
Good luck this morning to all who are headed to the woods.

Good luck!

You’re getting ready to head out hunting for the day and I have yet to go bed. 😁. I got into the Ken Burns Country music documentary coupled with a slight case of insomnia. I’ll be sleeping in while you’re hopefully gutting the deer of your dreams. 👍

Be heading out myself soon, weather should be good today! Happy Hunting All!

Good luck guys. I just got home from SD, taking kids to school and then hitting the sack.

Stay safe and have a great hunt my fellow Michiganders!

Nice day in the woods today.
Deer were moving well today, I saw 5 bucks and 9 does. None of the bucks is bigger than a small 8 point so no kabooms from my stand.
How was everyone’s day?

A bit nippy this morning, 27 degrees with a 6mph breeze blowing in my left ear from the window being down in the blind - wind chill was 17 degrees.

Ran out of coffee at 10:00am and the Mr Heater started sputtering so I was done for the day. Saw 2 doe.

My son and Nephew just called as they were heading out for day Two.....one deer just before legal light yesterday that was probably a buck, and several does was all they saw.

Handful of does is all i saw.

Someday I will make it to Michigan deer hunting. The way my relatives are going, a couple years and I will have the place to myself.

There is two MI threads interesting
Good luck and safety to all the MI hunters

Took a 7 last night
Feel Blessed
Hoping some others kids friends etc also get the chance
Hank

Good luck to you!!!

Congrats!

Drop em guys!!!!


We need pics!!!!

Haven’t popped a cap yet.
This morning at 5:50am as I climbed the ladder to my blind, a doe I didn’t see in the bright azz moonlight blew at me. And blew and blew and...
Needless to say I saw nothing this morning besides the noisy bitch.
Tonight a wannabe 6 point came through (his brow tines are about 5/8”. And I’m being generous)
This is the fourth time he’s been around.
Thinking I’ll have the nephew put a 250 gr. Flex tip 450 Bushmangler in him. The nephew has yet to shoot a buck. He’s killed a few does, this buck just has his name on him.
It’s amazing how well binoculars work. Even in the thick woods. Take note Ren and Slummy, you needs binoculars. 😉

I use em turkey hunting.
Got a small pair in my vest 10x
Big feilds
Make out a birds head periscoping in em.

My son called me on the way out of the woods yesterday......fresh venison in the back of the Truck! Had a buck come waltzing by him, so he invited him home for dinner! Said he sat in my old spot, told him I had chosen it for a good reason.

He'll be back out to help hic Cousin shoot one today.....

Sometimes Dad knows things that surprise kids. Keith, congratulations to your son on his new dinner guest of honor.
Headed out in about 10 minutes, hopefully the noisy bitch doe isn’t hanging around my stand this morning waiting to catch me sneaking out there in the moonlight.

Fugging educated does
Passing on lessons to the rest of em.
You guys have a doe tag in MI????
Drop that bytch with a break down shot.
Let her lay their for scent until your done hunting .
Might draw in a buck and get a shot on him also.

If I see that noisy nosy Old biddy today she’s getting a 250 Flex Tip!
Landowner Doe tag

Thats cool to let nephew take that buck

Binocs are the most important tool to me

Hank

I used to take care of that with a cigarette butt in the ear. Now I carry thin veggie grocer bags to stick in my ears for shooting. Wish I had done that years ago when the left ear could still hear a high pitched alarm clock.

Now when I hear a squirrel barking at me and I look toward the sound, the sucker is actually to the left of it about 35 degrees.

That plastic is great re causing no ear pain and prevents cold wind ear ache.

Apparently the kill em all/10 tags at a time antler less tags in the CWD zone is paying off.

Three of us hunted the first two days in west Newaygo Co. covering 80 acres. We saw 8 total sightings among the 3 of us.
All small does and was probably repeats of the same 2. Used to see that and more apiece each day.
Couple small forks and spikes on the camera, but a lot of coyote pics. One pic had 3 coyotes in the screen at once.
Guess they are helping the kill em all program.

Gave up and came home today. May go back for the day later this week depending on the weather.

just checked and i'll be giving late season antlerless a try, Christmas Day hunt...!

Today was mass immigration time for the deer. 10:00 am a bunch of does and fawns came from the North at a trot. I counted 19 and they all went for the bedding area. 10:40 am another 10 or so does n fawns came hustling in from the West.
It looks like I own the sanctuary spot for the surrounding areas. I’m leaving it alone till Friday when the nephew gets here.

Deer drives big in your area?

No mostly small farms mixed with river bottom land and woods. Plus houses lined up along most of the roads. There was a bunch of shooting North and South. Some of the deer coming from the West were wet, meaning they had crossed the river. Maybe all of that bunch were, they were hauling azz so maybe I just missed that.
There’s a possibility that there were folks doing drives, we’re new here and I don’t know hardly any of the local hunters.

Well, my nephew shot his first buck today. 11:45 am. A nice little 6 point.
The hit was center left shoulder. The Hornady 250 gr. Flex Tip turned 90* down and exited between the left front leg and the brisket. It never got inside the chest cavity.
We tracked him on a good blood trail, and when we found him he was down and very sick with his antlers tangled in an autumn olive bush. Coup de Grace was administered immediately.
Disappointing performance even though the deer was down. I found the plastic tip from the bullet on the ground with a pile of white hair.

Last night the educated doe slipped up on us 2minutes after legal shooting time. We tried waiting her out, but she was loitering close to the backside of the blind. She blew and took off into the darkness raising the alarm all the way. Bitch.
I have a score to settle with her in the next couple of days. She’s a lone doe and came in looking hard at the blind, so if she comes back I think I’ll recognize her. Would it be racist or sexist to say that all does look the same?

Profile that bytch .....
Then pop her in the noggin.

Lol!!!

If she blows

She goes


I heard that somewhere...

145am??

How far was the shot?
I’ve had less than favorable results with those flex tips in my .35 rem. They seem to blow up like a varmint bullet. I have a 450 bushmaster but haven’t had a chance to hunt with it yet. Guess I better find a good bullet before I take a chance with it. Congrats on a successful hunt and tracking job

I heard it was if she blows, she’s a keeper!

Oops, fat finger syndrome. It was 11:45 am. Meaning almost lunchtime!
The shot was at 104 yards. He stopped in the middle of a shooting lane and I ranged him with my Leica Geovids.

I got a 6 point 2-1/2 year old in the U. P. on Sunday. No bait, no blind, on public land. That might not mean much to the non-Michigan hunters here, but it is outside the norm.

Congratulations Youper!
I hunted a lot of state land around Crawford Kalkaska and Otsego Counties during my 30 years living there. Took a good number of deer in those locales.
The toughest part was getting far enough to get away from other hunters. Those forests have so many two tracks that you couldn’t find a place more than a mile from a road.

My nephew hunted over by Rose City. He thought he was a badass by walking in a couple of miles away from a road until he killed a decent buck that far in a couple of years ago. Took him and a friend the better part of a day to get it out far enough to finish the job with a quad. Kids... 🤣

Good luck Mark!

Good luck, I’m headed to lease in a little while.

One early opening morning I walked in about 1-1/2 miles to a ridge that I found on Satellite photos. Set my folding hunting chair up and poured a cup of coffee waiting for dawn in an hour. About 45 minutes later, here come headlights from a different direction. The truck stops not 75 yds away and 3 guys pile out.
They were on a new logging road that came in from the opposite direction. It took those guys till about 5 minutes to legal shooting time and they headed off in different directions. I could hear crunching in the snow coming toward me and then stop. As it got lighter there stood a buck watching where one guy walked off. I waited the 4-5 minutes till 6:52 am legal time and shot him. He ran toward their truck and died in the logging road not 25 ft. from the parked truck. After a few minutes here comes a couple if those guys, obviously thinking it was one of them who shot. Imagine their surprise when they found me gutting the buck off the side of the logging road.
It was a long drag to get him out of there, but I wasn’t going to leave him anywhere near them while I went back and drove my truck around.