Good luck to all the gun hunters tomorrow. Stay safe and get your deer!!

It opens tomorrow?

Opens here in Arkansas as well.
Stay safe, check those deer stands I would say use a safety harness, but then I'd be a hypocrite because I don't. Lol
Good luck

How many do you have hanging already?

160 don't even leave his house to deer hunt.

Good luck

Buddy shot one with a bow this morning, tracked it a good ways where it ran through a neighborhood, we got the deer but it was a fiasco.

I'll be carrying my 7

Blessings and Success to All

… tell the story

This is a pretty densely packed neighborhood of lake houses, keep that in mind.

He shot the deer and while tracking it it got up and ran, he backed out and waited 90 mins. I went and helped him track. We tracked her to the front yard of the resort and lost the trail, she doubled back and crossed the road and laid up in cattails beside some cabins, it was there we bumped her again. She took off running pretty good and my buddy said "well she looks okay" I said Screw this and took off running for the bridge, she got to the end of the peninsula and jumped in the river and swam across, she kept running and swimming through the little channels until she laid up behind someone's garage, I tried to back out but she got up and ran though the last canal on the map, I ran around and there was a guy in the yard so I explained what happened but he was sure the deer didnt run through the yard, I started looking along the shoreline and the homeowners dog found the deer under the dock that was on shore for the winter, deer took off back across the canal, I went running to go around the yard and the homeowners dog bit me, thankfully just got my boot.

Blood was gone at this point and I wasn't exactly sure where she went but I had a good idea, we walked to the canal where the trail ends and she was laying on the bank under a propane tank, we managed to back out without spooking her and I went and talked to a lady on her ring door while my buddy snuck in behind the garage and tried to shoot the deer, first shot missed but she didn't move and he put a second in her, at that point I ran up and finished it. Drug the deer across her yard and loaded it in my buddies trunk. All's well that ends well.

I like model 7's too. I believe I am going to carry a 280 of some sorts tomorrow.

Mines a Browning SS A-Bolt 7mm Mag. I shoot 139gr Hornady Interlock bullets When Im hunting over cut corn or beans

Good morning,dark in the swamp,good luck to all the hunters and be safe.This deer opener marks Willow Creek Hunt Club 83rd year,all the original members have left the earthly woods behind.Have a great season everyone.....

Good luck folks. I won't get to hunt for the first week, so somebody shoot one twice for me.

Almost " Daylight in the Swamp" Rick... Blessings

Hope you all fill your freezers and get home safe. Have a great season!!

Post pictures, your view or deer either way its fun to see how others hunt.

My daughter got it done right away in the morning. Fork buck.

Atta girl!!

Yep this is the day that trappers who have been in and out of these same spots for the last couple of weeks get the stink eye from deer hunters that showed up yesterday.

Yep that's why I pull up stuff a week before and back in private land following the season end. It has seem to work for both of us. State land I just wait till deer season is done.

Cool,

Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this?

Whats the problem the fact it was near houses or the poor shot? Seems a errant shot can happen to anyone and hunt where you have permission. If that's not the problem then what is?

I'm guessing he was talking about shooting at it by a propane tank but I think he missed the part that it was a bow and not a gun.

"Hunting" neighborhood deer, then wounding it and chasing it through people's yards. And I agree. What a black eye that must have put on ethical hunters. And I would venture that folks that put up the money for a cabin on a lake are mostly city folk, and seeing wildlife in their yard is probably a big part of why they buy that cabin.
Some guy chasing a wounded deer through their "subdivision", legal or not, won't earn many points for hunters.

Next time I'll just let it die in someone's backyard without bothering to look for it, that's probably the most ethical thing to do.

1 dead deer in the whole thread? Come on MN pull the dang trigger.

Hiding our activities is why half the non hunters are non hunters

catering by Hiding hasn't helped.

I pulled one off the road, didn't think it picture worthy though

Hiding our activities is why half the non hunters are non hunters

catering by Hiding hasn't helped. [/quote]
And shooting deer in a development and chasing it, wounded, through people's yards does remarkable good things for our sport? Give me a break!
I am a hunter, trapper, and fisherman, among other things, and I would be furious if such a thing occurred on our property and would take pains to make a case it didn't happen again.
In a setting like what was described, you can bet some of those folks actually feed those deer, legal or not. I'm not here to debate whether or not people should get attached to neighborhood wild animals. I am just pointing out that harvesting what amounts to residential deer falls in the same category as "trappers" making sets in places they know they shouldn't. Same stupidity, same results. Bad for all ethical hunters and trappers.
Now, are you going to say I'm wrong?

"Residential deer" are archery hunted heavily in a lot of towns and cities here in Iowa.

Movement here has sucked. I never saw a buck until 1:15 today.

You might need to increase the amount of corn you're putting out.

It wasn't shot in a development, it was one lunged with a bow and ran quite a ways. Not everyone lives in Alaska and can hunt miles from civilization. Once the deer ended up there what should he have done? Let it die in someone's yard or do everything he could to finish it.

Nice buck Dustytinner!! That's what most of us dream of when we pass out on deer season eve.

Can't bait in MinnowSota lol

Have yet to put one on the ground no hunt today not feeling well.

Have any of you Mnguys noticed any of these in your local WMA’s? This one was at the start of a “ Hunter Walking Trail” in a local WMA today. Our hard earned taxes at work!

Yes, they are trying to stop the spread of invasive plants. Starting this spring you will also be required to bag your feces and take them out of the woods with you. They don't want to introduce any corn to the WMA's.

And the token deer hunter was out for the photo op, so called hunt one day, wow.

I saw that too.

We have five but no big ones yet I have a 160 acre lease lot of deer grandkids do the shooting

I shot mine yesterday

Nice buck 30-06!! Way to get it done

Im moving to Wisconsin in the Spring

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Good to know all of our other Wildlife management challenges have been solved so we can focus on boot brush signs.

Two piles of wolf crap about twenty feet away! Maybe they were voicing their opinion of the program also!

Yes, they are. Some cities even have urban deer management programs.

Got my buck yesterday and i dont hunt for rack, meat to eat.

Good for you! You can't eat the horns anyway. Movement here has been almost nonexistent. Does are still with the fawns and no scrapes or rut activity.

Today it seems the action has started, nothing moving all week and nothing on camera, today the cameras blew up with bucks running all day long,

So it was a dink huh? lol

Just razzing you friend!

It was absolutely flat calm here today and no one that I know saw anything. With a little breeze tomorrow, hopefully things pick up. I have lots of time yet and I am not worried about it.

I think the first round of breeding is done. My cameras became active again 4 days ago now they are starting to go quiet again. Been keeping more involved with the rut this year. Quite interesting.

It appears that this year my focus is how fat I can get from sitting all day and binge eating sandwiches. I have over 50 hours in the stand so far but each day is getting a little more difficult.

In this area its neat how the hunt changes with groups a half mile away. One group isn't seeing deer and a half mile away the others have filled out.

My parents place is only a couple of miles away and our peak days varied 2-3 days too. Strange.

Buddy of mine got his finally today. He saw one other buck today after shooting his. On the way home from the book fair at school just after dark I saw deer on almost every single field I went by so they were out. Saw one decent buck neck outstretched doggin a doe. I’ll be in the stand tomorrow and excited to pull the chip
On my camera when in walk by on the way in. SEnwimd is not great for my two main stands, but I’ll just need to be on watching over my left shoulder to see them coming before they wind me! Managed to catch my first muskrat of the year yesterday so I’m feeling optimistic! Happy trapping and hunting! ScottW

Im finally getting out for the first time this year. Brought Emmett for good luck.

Good luck Sam and Emmett!!

I like the peek hole

Thank you backroadsarcher. BvrRetriever, that peek hole has helped cause the death of a few critters, sure helps hide the kids movement.

I like it!!! Outdoorsman for life!!

I really hoped that wasn't just a pee hole that you let the kids look through.

I should have taken a picture of the other one. We wrote " for peeking not leaking" around it when George was little. He thought it was really funny.

Well 160 the bucks down here by the Iowa border are still chasing the does, Filled my cheap tag with a nice doe Friday a.m.grinding meat making sausage today, Taking some to landowner when done.

Yesterday morning 7am

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Are you on a phone ? … if so screenshot and crop

All I am seeing is does with fawns. They get up, go to the same spot to feed and turn around and go right back where they came from. You can just about set your watch by them. Each stand has its own group of deer that I see each time I go out.

Congrats

ill have to figure that out,that was for savell's comment

… big animal

… congratulations

More so than ever in my experience! Still hoping a roamer comes through so I don’t have to shoot my 90 lb 8” spike I keep seeing! Happy trapping! ScottW

Ps, Hilltop Trapper, that’s a DANDY! Congrats

thanks,was chasing a doe,dropped him right in his tracks at 70 yards,had one picture of him and was holding out,saw lots of deer.i sit all day.i saw him opening morning but was to far away chasing a doe across a field,and then he shows up the last day.what a wonderful way to end a great season.

Backstraps for supper! Haven't had much time to hunt, but I was able to talk the boss into giving me the day off. It was George's turn to go with me. We had a yearling doe in front of us at one point, but it's a buck only zone. A five point stepped into the clearing about twenty minutes before the end of legal shooting. He stopped and stayed quartering hard towards us for about ten minutes. George was shaking like a leaf the entire time. When the buck wasn't turning broadside, George started begging me to shoot it in the head so it wouldn't get away. He finally turned and I shot hit him right over the heart at about eighty yards. He ran about thirty yards and tipped over. George came unglued and started smacking me and screaming, it was really funny to watch. A really fun hunt for the boy and I.

Very well done Sam!

Geez, that big boy is a stud! Congratulations.