WHAT KIND OF VOODOO MOJO DID YOU PUT ON ME????? In the stand this morning at 5:30.....just aftr daylight I see a nice big doe heading out across the corn field away from me...I hit the bleat and nothing.....hit the grunt and nothing.......grunt snort wheeze and she spins in her tracks and comes right back at me.......I stand up and right as I see that she is a he ..he she sees me! TINY TINY little 4 point rack...same deer I almost hit with the truck on the way there. I would have passed on him as I don't wanna use my either sex tag on a little spike. I'd rather take 2 more does......ANYWAY at about 9:00 ( oh yeah I forgot my phone AND my watch this morning....left the woods thinking it was about noon....9:30 AM) I heard something behind me and turned to see 3 does ( two large one small) coming up the trail behind me right toward my stand. I wait and they stop nd make a left turn to cross teh river....never even came close to getting their attention or getting them to come closer....About 9:20 I hear something coming through the corn stubble pretty fast.. I turn and look to see an 8 point buck coming pretty fast up the edge of the corn. (Big body crappy rack.... wide but very short and swept forward) I never even had time to get the bow outta the rack. He stopped for about half a second broadside at 20 yards and my bow was still in the holder....he took off and was moving so fast I got ready thinking a bigger buck or maybe a yote was chasin him. ..SO take this damned curse offa me woman!

Come on Grace. Lift the curse. Steve's a good guy. Besides, as one of the poor working class with his ass hanging out of his britches that should mind his own business and not worry about tax increases, he probably needs the meat.

Hussein's stimulus package might not come soon enough. You want to be responsible for starving his family?

roflmao!!!!! good one.

No curse, nor prayer, was incanted. Nor a pin-stuck voodoo doll of Steve was set in my freezer. Could be Steve is a closet ARA and subliminal messages are preventing him from hunting.


ANYWAY at about 9:00 ( oh yeah I forgot my phone AND my watch this morning....left the woods thinking it was about noon....9:30 AM) I heard something behind me and turned to see 3 does ( two large one small) coming up the trail behind me right toward



Confuscious say..

Time does not fly when you're not having fun.

Like I said, it's cold in those deer stands. A game warden at a local power plant lake was trying to convey to me the best time to fish that lake. He said, "Think of a day like the most miserable, cold windy day you've ever spent in a deer stand. That's when you need to fish this lake."

It was a good way for him to put it, because I knew right away exactly what he was talking about.

BTW, I'm making chili today and I'm out of deer meat. Damn I hope Steve gets one soon. No sense in everyone being deprived.

RF


It's true it's naturally colder at higher elevations...but a 15' deer stand? You guys are funny. It's probably just as cold on the ground, but you're usually plodding along down there.

I find myself lugging my muzzleloader around in lieu of the shotgun this fall. Deer seem to fill the freezer faster than turkeys.

True, a great deal of how cold it is in a deer stand has to do with perception. It's psychological. But some of it is reality. Even 15 feet off the ground you are usually more exposed to wind. Not to mention that you have to sit still.

Ohiosteve

Your 2nd mistake.

you musta missed it ..I got 2 in the freezer already. One I got another a buddys car got.

I know...I pay attention.

It didn't make as good a story though.

When I think back to the times I've been nearly frozen. And I mean cold to a dangerous degree, I've been deer hunting.

And it doesn't take much elevation to really increase wind speed. Topography can accelerate wind speed at ground level too. One of my best spots happen to be a very good funnel.

I do a lot of deer hunting at ground level. At the opposite end of the spectrum, a ground blind can be wondrously miserable too. Sitting or standing on frozen ground is quite a treat.

gonna go tomorrow and cut out a ground blind I think...or rather cut some branches and stuff to make a quick one...the deer here are used to people being there all the time, so the scent is not a big issue BUT due to that they are ALWAYS looking for you.

Aw I see you have a huge sinus infection today. I'll let that voodoo pin sit for a while in your forehead/nose.

Run free today deer!

LOL......actually I filled a hypodermic syringe with warm salt water and filled my sinuses as full as I could get with it....burned like hell and made me gag but seems to have helped a lot....3 big mugs of hot tea also...the deer may still be in trouble tonight....

Ohiosteve


Winter storm in the forecast?

My half crazy new-age sister-in-law introduced this to my household. I had my doubts, but the thing really works. And it might be easier to control than a syringe.

http://www.healthegoods.com/product/cerami...itute/neti-pots

Yeah, the deer will run free all the way out onto the interstate where some unlucky person will be killed when the deer ends up coming through their windshield :-(

Ok chicken little. Whatever you say.

Ohio State Highway Patrol reports 28240 deer-vehicle collisions in 2006, up 3.3 percent from the 27337 crashes reported in 2005. There were 12 fatalities and 1024 injuries.

Ok Wayne. I get it.

(Or are you saying we need about 27,337 more hunters out there?)

Or more deer-resistant cars.

They wouldn't be as much fun, though.

funny you guys are saying this GRACE YOU MIGHT NOT WANNA READ ANY FURTHER............I was driving south down the interstate this morning to the next town ...saw a buck in the ditch obviously hurt BAD but alive. I honestly thought I saw blood where an arrow had went in. I called highway patrol and the dispatcher said she already had a car dispatched and asked me if I wanted the deer. I told her no as I thought it was shot and I wanted the hunter to get it..she said no its legs were broken. I turned around and went back north to get the deer I exited and did the flip to go back south to where the deer was as I drive past he is gone and I see a patrol car stop on the north bound side. I see the woman deputy assume her best barney fife crouch and BLAM. Gets in her car and drives a few feet further, gets back out and BLAM...back in her car and drives a few feet, back out and BLAM...Keep in mind I am on the southbound side now watching this occuring on the north bound side. I watched the cop shoot at LEAST 5 times and she was still following the deer in her car and shooting when I got disgusted and left. I only had a quick run in in the town south so on the way back I called the highway patrol again and asked if the cop ever hit the deer. The dispatcher said yes and again asked if I wanted it.. I told her yes and when I stopped to get him, two guys had walked out across the plowed field to see it. I asked if they wanted it and they said no but they would help me load it up. Seems they heard the deputy shooting and said she shot
" ABOUT THIRTY TIMES" ......anyway when I got him home he was a wreck ( this is where the tough part comes in) his back legs were both broken and upon investigation they had been for quite a while. He was walking on the exposed broken bones, and the skin and tendons were still holding the feet on but they were just flopping. the skin had actually healed up around the exposed bones and the bone itself was worn down SMOOTH. I ended up getting the tenderloins out and giving the rest to the dogs as it was in BAD shape.

Thanks for the warning I stopped reading at the word interstate. So now I can't read this thread no more as everyone will comment on whatever happened.

not THAT bad grace...more of a commentary on the pathetic shooting of a highway patrol lady. and the toughness of a deer.

nope...wife said they smelled bad ( I am so plugged I cant smell anything) so the entire thing goes to the dogs..You can't imagine how bad I felt cutting up those big strips of loin into dog food....btw wife helps me process wild game all the time so it wasn't an icky factor.

I read it at Enviro by accident. Dumb TWATFUCKER state trooper. Musta been her first day and she called in sick for the firearms classes. Poor deer. Even tho he was shot once, imagine the terror he must have felt with all that noise flyin around him and richocheting off the ground. Hopefully he was in shock and unaware. Now that you got your buck for the season you can retire your firearm to the basement.

I don't firearm hunt for deer grace. I know you will find this hard to believe but I cannot stand what I call slob hunters. Around here , every yahoo with a shotgun runs to the woods to get some "free meat" during slug serason. They shoot at anything that moves so I stay home.

Damn Grace...ease up. Its getting worse. Today I got soaked and was standing under the stand doing a quick repair and getting ready to leave when I looked up to see a buck watching me......that makes three deer this year I have missed by a total of 5 minutes ( leaving too early or they show up right before shooting light)

I love my voodoo doll! Need to put a bit more sugar on his heart area today.

JESUS WOMAN... I am sweet enough already.....my wife has to take insulin whenever I get near her already!

Pass the bread here comes the baloney!


I'm bored. For the first time in I can't remember how long I'm a single woman. My husband flew up north to visit with my family in PA for 3 or 4 days. He's taking my godchild out for a nice dinner as he missed his wedding in July (I went up w/o him). He never met his new wife. Their names are Eric and Erica. And tonight they had plans with another couple to go out, and THEIR names are Eric and Erica. He's an English teacher, she teaches French. He's taking them to Ruth Chris Steakhouse at the casino. The happening spot in town. He took my parents to Red Lobster for lunch. Now he's over my sister's house. He's staying 2 doors down at my niece's house (sister's daughter). She's renting this house from my sister with her best friend. It was my sister's father in law's house but he passed away last year. They remodeled it for her, refinished the original hard wood floors, new kitchen, the works. It's a big, 2 story house and she's only paying $350/month plus my sister cleans it as she's got OCD when it comes to cleaning. She dusts her shoeboxes in the closet. Are you bored yet? Then my husband will drive to NJ on Tues. throught the Pocono Mtns/Delaware Water Gap to stay a few days with an old friend, then drive to Bethlehem, PA to stay with our Danish friend whom we met in 1987 and have kept a long distance friendship all these years. Peter is married now with 3 kids. He married a college professor. He has a really interesting job, nuclear something or other. Travels the world, mostly to China and Egypt. So I'm twiddlin my thumbs this Sat. night don't know what to do with myself. I wish I was in PA too. I feel so alone.

This post has fuck all to do with the topic.

ROFL!


I truly do love you. You never dissapoint. Used to tho...

I'm the same RF I've ever been. You're just lonely and bored by your own admission.

Why don't you come over? I have Becks and Lowenbrau. I won't tell you what's cookin on the stove top.

That bad, eh?

Wait a minute.....it ain't some portion of the anatomy of a cat abuser is it?

Egad...

LOL. No, I wouldn't touch that with a 20' pole. Btw, you're not the same ole RF, by your own admission.

I never said that.

Do you understand we would have both been banned at Elink by this point of the thread for violating the rule of having light banter without including AL?

LOL LOL. True.

You may have not said that verbatim, but you've alluded to going soft or similar. But between me, you and the lamp post, I know you're the same.

I said I have maybe mellowed just the tiniest bit. That doesn't mean I have lost my identity.

Yeah, I concur. I know you've still got it when the occasion arises. Anyway, I don't even know what thread we're in but we should get back on topic.

Take up trapping and you will not get cold. In fact you will be sweating on the coldest days of the year because there is so much work involved . Working a trap line is WORKING A TRAP LINE.