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Post by Mars on Nov 13, 2006 17:18:02 GMT 12.75
Went with my daughter and we picked up my tree-stand today. She searched around while I was taking it down and found many more scrapes and rubs in that pine thicket. At least a dozen scrapes and twice that number in rubs! I had a perfect set-up it seems until those dogs messed it up. Hopefully that guy found them and got them out of there.
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Post by Paws on Nov 14, 2006 6:59:04 GMT 12.75
You probably ought to leave the stand up. The deer will get used to the dogs if they behave themselves and if they leave qill quickly return to the area. Deer change routine pretty quickly but not habitat. They will alter the time of day they visit, maybe go noctournal, etc.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 14, 2006 7:28:01 GMT 12.75
Unlikely them coonhounds are still in the area. I lost a couple of them in my coonhunting days and thankfully found them both. One was eight miles from where I turned her loose when a lady picked her up and called my number on her collar. The other was five miles away and I got a call from a fellow hunter who spotted him dead on the side of the road and called to let me know and so I could get my collar back. Dog's seldom stay put when they're lost in the woods.
Like Phil, I'd keep the stand in pace and try again.
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Post by Mars on Nov 14, 2006 8:31:37 GMT 12.75
I'll definetly be back in there after returning from Mi. and In.. The dogs being run in there at night doesn't bother me but being in there 24/7 does pose a problem.The deer here have huge home ranges and 5-10 miles is nothing to them. I've seen dogs that got after deer while coon hunting and we had to go pick them up in North Carolina. A straight line distance of 25 miles let alone up and down miles. It could have worked in my favor by the dogs spooking the deer my way but I'm never that lucky.
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Post by Paws on Nov 14, 2006 9:05:52 GMT 12.75
Bait the suckers with some Kibble! At least you'll gat a possum or coon! ;D
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Post by Mars on Jan 8, 2007 14:15:14 GMT 12.75
This Saturday my daughter heads to Tusculum College in Greeneville. I recieved a phone call that a landowner has many deer on his property, especialy does, and if I would allow my daughter to come over and shoot one during the second youth hunt. Since it's part of the College they don't normaly allow hunting(never) hence why they have so many deer. A friend from ETSU set this up for her. I've told her to be on her best behavior as this may set her up for many years on her own little private hunting preserve.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 8, 2007 15:51:15 GMT 12.75
Sweet!!!!! Maybe this'll make up for the last youth hunt that went FUBAR on her! I'll say a quick prayer for her when I get in my stand on Saturday morning. I've got an invitation to bowhunt an exclusive ranch this weekend to crop some does that are raiding the food plots. It's a quail hunting preserve and the deer and hogs are tearing the place up. I'm very excited about it. Driving through, I saw eighteen deer in one of the food plots. The landowners applied for nuisance permits, so I can kill off some of the does. I just wish we could get some of that cooler weather ya'll enjoy. I tried to hunt yesterday, but it was eighty-two degrees with a hundred percent humidity.
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Post by Mars on Jan 9, 2007 2:02:25 GMT 12.75
COOLER!? Not by much. It's supposed to get up to 78 today and it's been raining all night except snowing up on the mountains. How many does are you being permitted to kill?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 9, 2007 6:59:05 GMT 12.75
The landowner has nuisance tags for fifteen deer of either sex. There will be eight of us bowhunting the place. I have a three arrow quiver attached to my bow. If I get three opportunities, I'll try to make the most of them!
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Post by Mars on Aug 19, 2007 16:38:30 GMT 12.75
Squirrel opens next weekend! Stay tuned for pictures.
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Post by Mars on Aug 27, 2007 7:46:57 GMT 12.75
OK, We didn't go out Saturday. I got up at 5am and it was 81 degrees out. Too warm for me. My daughter and I walked to Plum Grove today just to look around, about a 2 mile round trip from the house.Plum Grove was the home of Gen. John Sevier. We also stopped at the old YCC camp. My aunt worked there as a cook during the 70's-80's and I'd go with her to help out every now and then. The place used to be busy but now it's just one building used as a radio station relay point for the forest service and the kitchen/dining building.The pathways are still there but are overgrown and the other buildings are gone except for the stone foundations.
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Post by Paws on Aug 27, 2007 8:44:31 GMT 12.75
Things are getting pretty hot around here too!
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Post by Mars on Oct 6, 2007 23:04:30 GMT 12.75
Yea! Meghan and I drew turkey tags for Nov. 10-16. Either sex is legal. Looks like we will have wild turkey for Thanksgiving.
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Post by Mars on Oct 24, 2007 12:37:34 GMT 12.75
Oct 27-28- Youth deer hunt
Nov.3- Opening day of deer muzzleloader
Nov.10- Fall draw turkey hunt opens
Nov. 14- head to Michigan
Nov. 15- Opening day Michigan gun deer season
Nov. 17- Indiana opening of gun deer season
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Post by Mars on Oct 25, 2007 7:39:19 GMT 12.75
I don't know who's more nervous about Saturday, the daughter or I.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Oct 25, 2007 15:44:59 GMT 12.75
I sure do wish the young lady the best of luck on Saturday morning! It's gotta turn out better than last year's youth hunt! Do you "blood"? I was fourteen when Daddy blooded me and he was a teen when his daddy blooded him. This past year, I blooded Chicken after her first and I hope I'm around enough to be there when she has a youngun and it needs bloodin'. Sharpen the knives Dad; my fingers are crossed!
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Post by Mars on Oct 26, 2007 7:37:21 GMT 12.75
Nope, I don't blood.Smearing blood on a person just seems "satanic" to me. I don't normaly voice that opinion because people take it the wrong way and tend to get upset when something traditional that they do is not put in a good light by others. I'm a self taught hunter and don't have "traditions" handed down to me so I've had to decide on my own on certain traditions of others as too if I was going to adopt them.Blooding is one that didn't make it. Nothing against others doing it and I've seen it done a few times just not something I'm going to do.Though smearing ET with blood sounds like a good idea.
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Post by Mars on Oct 26, 2007 7:49:26 GMT 12.75
I'm definetly taking the camera with us. I hope to get the actual shot on camera. All I heard during the summer was I wasn't to shoot HER big buck. This week she's changed her mind to "I'm shooting the first thing that shows up". ;D She says since she was the last "youth" to kill a deer last year then she wants to be the first this year. She just might. The deer show up between 7:30am and 8:00am most mornings and the check station is 4 miles away.
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Post by ET on Oct 26, 2007 10:35:07 GMT 12.75
Nothing against others doing it and I've seen it done a few times just not something I'm going to do.Though smearing ET with blood sounds like a good idea. uh, no. ;D I think I can manage to get enough blood on me by myself. Mars do you still want to stay at my house when you're up here?
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Post by Mars on Oct 26, 2007 11:17:39 GMT 12.75
Thanks but no. I've made other reservations since Meghan will be with me. What time will you be home on the 15th or 16th? So I can drop the gun off. I can also take it to your parents if your not home.
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