What are you hunting/fishing?

[RON PARRISH]

GWG8541 We are in a three deer county so have one tag left there.

[GWG8541]

RON PARRISH good deal, 3 is about my limit with my current freezer space. If my sons get one, guess who’s freezer space they take up, which I don’t mind as long as they understand it could be consumed at anytime by the owner of the freezer.

[PapaSop]

Between me and the three sons, we have four in the freezer and 14 tags left unfilled. Gun and bow. Cmon Wi., really! Oh, btw, the gun kill was down this year statewide. Hmm.

[RON PARRISH]

GWG8541 I have just the opposite problem. My son in laws raid my deer stash!

[cdavis]

RON PARRISH congrats on the buck and being an ethical hunter. Sometimes it just has to be done.

[Ridley Acres]

kudo’s on the ethical harvest, some things just must be done.

[cdavis]

PapaSop me and my son took 4 bucks total. We have 10 doe tags We will not be using. Plus the week of Christmas we could take 4 more does that don’t count against our bag limit. I think it’s ridiculous.

[PapaSop]

cdavis said in What are you hunting/fishing?:

PapaSop me and my son took 4 bucks total. We have 10 doe tags We will not be using. Plus the week of Christmas we could take 4 more does that don’t count against our bag limit. I think it’s ridiculous.

I believe muzzle loader is on now with a four day antlerless to follow. We’re done.

[Ridley Acres]

cdavis PapaSop The number I see laying along the road should indicate WI could let us harvest more. Unless the law makers like higher insurance rates and spending time and resources cleaning up the roadkill.

[bocephus]

Ridley Acres Drove through Wisc. a few years ago and couldn’t believe the number of deer laying along the interstate.

[Ridley Acres]

bocephus And it really doesn’t even matter the time of year.

[ND Mike]

RON PARRISH good on you to take one out under those circumstances. I did that last year. He had been shot in the lower leg either earlier in the day or the day before.

[craigrice]

I Youse to drive my semi threw west Virginia and see and watch the deer eating the grass on the side of the road because of the road salt in the soil it was the easy access to salt for them

[calldoctoday]

RON PARRISH congratulations on a nice deer. You have to do what you have to do sometimes & you did it right! You will be rewarded.

[kyle]

PapaSop
Here is why the number of deer are down in north Wi. My son took this pic on sun of opening weekend . I cant even tell you how many hours I have sat between bow, gun and now muzzle loader to see only 5 deer . I’m sitting in the stand right now with the smoke pole hoping the fresh snow and below zero temps get them moving.

[GWG8541]

kyle hang in there. I love the snow to make them easier to see and track, but hate the long waits in the cold. Good luck.

[kyle]

GWG8541 thanks. Smoke pole season ends tomorrow so I took the night off of work tonight. When my son started hunting at age 10, I build a heated stand . Makes it alot easier sitting then the old days when i would sit in a foxhole with a wool blanket . I must be getting old…or smarter

[HerbcoFood]

kyle Being turned into a frozen ice block is overrated.

[bocephus]

kyle Nothing wrong with being comfortable when you hunt.

[twilliams]

kyle I hear ya, I don’t sit unless it’s in my permanent shack or a pop up with heat. It’s a difference of getting cold in 3 hours and leaving or sitting sun up to sun down. A lot of people say that’s not hunting but in the end when I can sit out there from sun up to sun down not having to move or go get lunch I’m spending more hours in the woods compared to other folks. To each their own style of hunting. I have seen and shot way more deer with this method. I am looking at buying two more permanents this year for my other property. Here is the one I built a few years back. I just blacked out the inside and window framing is blacked out now too since this pic.
September-middle November bow hunting I will sit in a treestand