What are you hunting/fishing?
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bocephus I have only got to hunt 3 days so far. The weather was too nice those days. I am off today but the wind is gusting 60 mph so I am staying home. I did get a call from my Dad last night. He went and sat in an abandoned farm yard and harvested his buck. He was pretty excited when he called. I’m proud of him. He is 71 and still gets it done. He did have to call my youngest brother to help him load it in the pickup. Here is a pic of him with the deer and his youngest granddaughter.
ND Mike You have more winds coming as well, we just started clearing up here in Washington and was cold this morning. Lots of new snow on Mt. Rainier this morning. The rivers and streams are starting to recede and the sun is out so you have something to look forward to in a couple of days as far a sunshine coming.
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processhead thanks. I’m glad he filled his tag. With our deer populations you are not guaranteed a tag every year anymore. Especially if you put in for a buck tag. Sometimes you can go 4 years or more without a buck tag. When I was younger it was a 100% guarantee. Times have changed for sure.
What are the things impacting the deer population in your area?
We had an EHD outbreak that temporarily set us back about 10+ years ago, but our herd numbers are back and whitetail permits are plentiful. I think mule deer permits are still somewhat limited.processhead it is a combination of things. We had record number in the early 2000s. You could get as many extra doe tags as you wanted. The Game and Fish aggressively tried to reduce numbers. They did and then the winters of 2008-2011 decimated the deer herds. As of late we have had 2 bad years for EHD outbreaks. Kind of a perfect storm of bad things.
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ND Mike Give him my congratulations, I am of the opinion that every deer is a prize. Nothing wrong with getting help loading, I am sure it is just the start of paying back all the years of him helping his sons. I was always happy to help my dad as it meant he was still out there with us.
bocephus I fully agree! He was always there for us.
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ND Mike You have more winds coming as well, we just started clearing up here in Washington and was cold this morning. Lots of new snow on Mt. Rainier this morning. The rivers and streams are starting to recede and the sun is out so you have something to look forward to in a couple of days as far a sunshine coming.
johnsbrewhouse Glad to hear you made out OK with all that nasty weather. BC was really swamped it looks like. Sad, Beautiful country.
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johnsbrewhouse Glad to hear you made out OK with all that nasty weather. BC was really swamped it looks like. Sad, Beautiful country.
calldoctoday They got flood bad up north of here near the Canadian boarder. I have a couple of friends the live near Bellingham that one was flooded out of his home and another where she was stuck in hers for a day and a half until the river waters receded. The problem with the friend that was flooded out, he has three kids and has COVID on top of that. They were worried this morning about a town called Sumas, it borders Canada and the river is having a problem in Canada along with a major pump station going down, so they were on evacuation stand-by orders. I went over the river by my house this morning to get my labs done, it’s high, but not at flood stage anymore. I has two power dams upstream and on large lake reservoir. As long as the freezing levels stay low, we should not get any snow run-off from the mountains again. They had 14" of rain in less than a week at Mt. Rainier, not snow, rain last week. they got snow the last two days and the freezing level was low. We had 27 degrees this morning.
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calldoctoday They got flood bad up north of here near the Canadian boarder. I have a couple of friends the live near Bellingham that one was flooded out of his home and another where she was stuck in hers for a day and a half until the river waters receded. The problem with the friend that was flooded out, he has three kids and has COVID on top of that. They were worried this morning about a town called Sumas, it borders Canada and the river is having a problem in Canada along with a major pump station going down, so they were on evacuation stand-by orders. I went over the river by my house this morning to get my labs done, it’s high, but not at flood stage anymore. I has two power dams upstream and on large lake reservoir. As long as the freezing levels stay low, we should not get any snow run-off from the mountains again. They had 14" of rain in less than a week at Mt. Rainier, not snow, rain last week. they got snow the last two days and the freezing level was low. We had 27 degrees this morning.
johnsbrewhouse That was a whole lot of water in one place at one time. Glad you are OK & hope your friend makes out ok too, especially with the kids & all.
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cdavis
I did a double take when I first saw the picture. That branch on the tree looked like a long tail at the first glimpse.processhead I did exactly the same thing & thought it was a cougar for a split second before I realized the long tail of the cougar was just a branch & just a short tell of the Bob Cat. Impressive cat though.
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bocephus I have only got to hunt 3 days so far. The weather was too nice those days. I am off today but the wind is gusting 60 mph so I am staying home. I did get a call from my Dad last night. He went and sat in an abandoned farm yard and harvested his buck. He was pretty excited when he called. I’m proud of him. He is 71 and still gets it done. He did have to call my youngest brother to help him load it in the pickup. Here is a pic of him with the deer and his youngest granddaughter.
ND Mike congrats to your dad and may he have many more hunts in his future.
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bocephus I have only got to hunt 3 days so far. The weather was too nice those days. I am off today but the wind is gusting 60 mph so I am staying home. I did get a call from my Dad last night. He went and sat in an abandoned farm yard and harvested his buck. He was pretty excited when he called. I’m proud of him. He is 71 and still gets it done. He did have to call my youngest brother to help him load it in the pickup. Here is a pic of him with the deer and his youngest granddaughter.
ND Mike thats awesome. My Dad deer hunted until he was 82. I hope I can reach that age, let alone deer hunt.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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ND Mike thats awesome. My Dad deer hunted until he was 82. I hope I can reach that age, let alone deer hunt.
GWG8541 me too! He had double knee replacement 2 years ago and he still will do at least one walk a year with us.
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Fun evening last night with deer up close and culminating with a nice big doe coming in for a shot to let me fill my antler-less bonus tag. This little buck came in and hung around my stand for a bout 5 minutes while I snapped some pictures.
The doe ran about 70 yards and painted a colorful trail that even this color blind old guy could follow. Went back this morning and even found my arrow she had run off with before going down.
Apologies to anyone who finds this a bit graphic.
Paul
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processhead For some reason or another your photo did not load
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Yeah I was trying to load them from my cell phone and it would not load the pics I took. Will have to try again when I get home.
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Yeah I was trying to load them from my cell phone and it would not load the pics I took. Will have to try again when I get home.
processhead You are way out of my league then. Just the fact that you got the written part in there from a mobile phone is amazing to me. We will be on the lookout for it tomorrow hopefully.
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Yeah just was hoping to share some enjoyable moments this evening.
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I have 7 more days to go before getting into the piney woods on east Texas for the weekend.
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I have 7 more days to go before getting into the piney woods on east Texas for the weekend.
HerbcoFood Good luck, my deer hunt is over, I didn’t get one but brothers did so it was successful.
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HerbcoFood Good luck, my deer hunt is over, I didn’t get one but brothers did so it was successful.
bocephus thanks, I haven’t even begun do to timing, but I have 3 on the calendar and one duck hunt.
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