No moon this year...

Is anyone planning to put in any sets? I plan to drop an Otter float set at the cabin, might put in a couple Fisher sets but don’t to put boots on the ground until opening day.

i brought traps one year to deer camp, but where I wanted to set them were also some of my best places for deer so I didn.t ans with as tired as I was deer hunting , I haven't brought them with since.

I think about it every year but other than a couple dps near the shed I don't want to be traipsing around the woods during good shooting hours.

Several times when we hunted the first weekend up north and had a fisher tag I would set 4-6 body gripper sets. Have not for a decade, hardly see a fisher or sign anymore.

Bryce

Getting everything ready, if I owned more land I'd love to have a deer camp but as it stands I'll be hunting my better half's family farm

I hope yall shoot all of them! Lol. Just recieved this picture. Another set ruined.

I set some fisher sets a few years ago, strategically placed them around the property so the guys going to their stands could check them for me. Got a text from my buddy opening morning that I got one. Worked great!

Yes, I'll drop a few DPs and a couple of fox/yote sets around the property when we get to the lake on Friday

This is what we do- if we set... same thing with weasel boxes, easy to drop them off and check on trails.

I have the granddaughter hunting deer for the first time, she is 14 and said she is not shooting a doe, bucks only. Youth hunt saw a fork right at closing, came in facing us from the neighbor's lawn, told her to look at it in scope, she said I can't do this. It was about 80 yards and turned into corn. She exclaimed why didn't you tell me to shoot, I could have had him when he turned. I said you said you couldn't do it, she said " because I was so panicked ", so I said I guess we know you're ready to kill one. As cold as it will be opening morning, I am glad we are in a tower blind with a heater.

it is good practice to look at every one through the scope and get calm

Forecast for opening weekend looks nice, but cold. 12 for a low Friday, 8 Saturday and thats here in Sheboygan County. You boys up north better put the wool snuggleis on. Lots of shooting around here this afternoon, every back yard is a gun range the weekend before opener.

We have some lanes in our food plots and the corn in two fields was combined Friday so we are in good shape. We will be hunting where we can each shoot 2 anterless. I doubt we will shoot 4 deer but today when we selected our stands we decided it will be brown and down this year. This will be my 2nd year hunting in farm country with food plots etc. Really a whole different feel to the venture but the venison tastes good. Yes it will be cold but the deer are moving a lot the last 3-4 days.

Bryce

We hunt public land and this morning the boy and I walked in to check his stand site. Couple weeks back we hiked in to find a trail camera on a tree probably 10 feet from where my son has sat while hunting for last 8-10 years. We hiked in again today and yes camera is still there. But on our way in my son says there is a deer. We stopped in our tracks. Put the dog on sit. Here come this 6-8 point buck walking right towards use. Wind was right and it strolled by at 38 yards. I ranged it later when we walked back out. Seeing as the camera was still where my son usually sits.He decided he will sit in different place near the trail the buck was on.
The buck would have been an easy shot with the bow or cross bow. My son was carrying a 20 ga with bird loads. I only had my walking stick. Sure was an encouraging site to see.
My son was bummed about the camera still on his stand. Always chance one take on public land someone sitting where you want to be when you get there. All I know for sure is unless something major happens. We will be some where in that 2x3 mile chunk of woods for opener.

Mac

My buddy was cutting corn yesterday at his farm in Layfette County and told me that he pushed a very large 10 point and about 6 does into the woods at one area and 2 smaller bucks in another feild.
No one else hunts it so I will probably head there.

A piece of land that the owner will let you hunt in Layfette county with out 10 people laying claim to it , you should definitely get over there. if I wasn't headed north I would say stop and pick me up on the way I never saw such a thing around here before that actually had a deer on it. I would bring the beer and lunch.
he not have any family or they all made him mad?

2 relatives hunted it about 10 years ago but stopped from " not seeing any".
No one else in his family hunts, or cares for venison

I got to deer hunt already this year with my grandsons in SD with the youth tags. One got a deer while I was with them, This weekend I will have a passel of grandkids here at the farm shooting deer. Have been seeing a couple dandies.

We have 2" of fresh snow on the ground in NW Wisconsin that will be here to stay for gun season. I'd rather deal with 8 degrees -than brown or rain. Conditions should be right... from all the beer talk, it looks like the forecast is going to be drunk and cloudy in a few camps