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Deer Season...Part II

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How is everybody doing? We have three does. I have gotten two and son has gotten one. Was out between tower and Embarrass the other day and saw something I have not seen before, A sharptail.

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I passed on two fawns today. I hunt for meat. I don't have a warm place in my heart for fawns, but it's not the last day of the season with unfilled tags yet.

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How is hunting in the snow?? I wish we had some where I hunt! It sure looks and feels like winter out there.

Steve...Don't feel bad about passing up fawns. You don't get a whole lot of meat off of them anyways. By the time you get the hide off and de-boned, you have about enough meat to bring over to Zups and get 3 or 4 weenies made. grin.gif Well, on the other hand, fawns are pretty darn tasty-like eating veal! wink.gif

I am getting pretty darn excited to head back out again this weekend! Good luck to everyone hunting this week!

Justin

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Nothing like a little snow to either confirm or deny the rumor that you're actually hunting in a place that HAS DEER! grin.gifgrin.gifgrin.gif

Not much snow, just enough to tell the tale. grin.gif

Ran across a scrape that looked like someone exploded a grenade in there after Monday's snow. Bucky was not at home. No doubt he was out servicing his whole group of desperate housewives, but I'll come knocking again soon. blush.gif

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stfcatfish: I read your post on another thread about giving your spot to another party and having to settle for a subpar location yourself. It gave me such a feeling of melancholy. I don't know about this deer hunting sometimes. It's such a mixture of things. There's this big slot of a season in the NE but it slides through my fingers in fits and starts. And then it's a couple pages in my journal to read next season. Sometimes a deer meanders nonchalantly into a shooting lane and the season might be over or I sit and change locations and the lack of deer seems a judgement of some kind upon me. "Why the heck am I perched on this swaying poplar in this particular place and on this particular night for anyway?" And then I'm at the Duluth Christmas Parade of the North with my daughter on my shoulders (can't do that much longer), orange hats everywhere, with the WI season just about to commence and the MN season with its last weekend. Where did that all go. And get stuck at home because of commitments and smell the neighbor's woodsmoke and the tang of this peculiar November air with a heaviness and an expectancy to it and wishing I was in the woods.

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stfcatfish: I read your post on another thread about giving your spot to another party and having to settle for a subpar location yourself. It gave me such a feeling of melancholy. I don't know about this deer hunting sometimes. It's such a mixture of things. There's this big slot of a season in the NE but it slides through my fingers in fits and starts. And then it's a couple pages in my journal to read next season. Sometimes a deer meanders nonchalantly into a shooting lane and the season might be over or I sit and change locations and the lack of deer seems a judgement of some kind upon me. "Why the heck am I perched on this swaying poplar in this particular place and on this particular night for anyway?" And then I'm at the Duluth Christmas Parade of the North with my daughter on my shoulders (can't do that much longer), orange hats everywhere, with the WI season just about to commence and the MN season with its last weekend. Where did that all go. And get stuck at home because of commitments and smell the neighbor's woodsmoke and the tang of this peculiar November air with a heaviness and an expectancy to it and wishing I was in the woods.

Yes, you have it exactly.

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Some of you are so poetic...it just runs thru my blood to hunt and fish. Its like defining what porn is. I can't quite put it to words, but I know it when i see it.

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Hunted with a fellow FMer today on one of his stands near Tower and popped a nice fat yearling 3-pointer. That'll be about 50 pounds of sweet tender meat for the freezer, and it takes the pressure off. Now, for that doe . . . . grin.gif

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Nice job Steve, good to see that you'll be enjoying some tasty steaks and burger this winter. I'm planning on being out near the house at o'dark hundred tomorrow morning until i have to take Jr. to a birthday party. Same deal on sunday, with maybe a couple hours in the evening....sure would be nice to have some straps with onions/bacon and a couple sauteed garlic cloves on the plate sunday night!!!

Good luck and safe hunting to everyone this weekend.

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