Who's Going

[Drake]

Just three more days and deer rifle opens. Who out there goes deer hunting? What's your largest/trophy deer? We're not deer hunters ourselves, but have got to try some pretty good deer meat recipes that folks have made, just got some canned deer meat with the garlic, but still a little partial to the sausage.

Woodman, I know you're heading out. Talked to your dad and we got a chuckle out of your grouse story Does Tiff deer hunt too? Hope the deer hunting goes well for you!

Good luck to the hunters out there!

[woodman]

Drake- Yes, Tiffany deer hunts also. The buck fever is really flowing in our house right now. We have been packing all week, and buying food. I have been to fleet, gander and Walmart looking for some good buys on stuff I probably don't need.

[BIG ISLAND DUDE]

I will be hunting out of the Palmer residence on the southeast side of town. Dad cant make it this year so Im hunting with a freind, it will only be his second time hunting and I think he'll be treated to a good spot. Ive got three decent bucks the last four years and have seen many a does that I always pass on. I might take a doe this year just for the heck of it. This WILL be the year that I get my trophy. Did my uncle Scott get reelected the City council? Hope so, hes a good guy.

Good luck to all.

Blackduck, IMHO, is the best dear hunting in the state.

[bojangles]

leaving fri a.m, were hunting s/e of blackduck. i think im starting to loose my mind. checked everything 3-4 times. looking forward to staying at the drake this year.taught i saw da thirty pointer.

[Bushwacker]

The rest of the "Bushwacker" crew is already up there right now, and I am leaving in 37 minutes!!! I can't wait. We have done pretty well the last four years. I shot a very nice 10 pointer that is now on my wall, a heavy 8 pointer, and my uncle shot a nice 13 pointer that is on his wall. Before that, we never really shot anything bigger that a small ten.

[Wiskers]

I also hunt in the Blackduck area. I will be heading over there Friday after noon. I hear you got about 7" of rain.. sigh sigh.. might have to bring the RP just to get to my stand.. LOL...

This ott to be an interesting year.. Our 4wheeler trails are all water and our bridges over the cricks are flooded.. man oh man....

might have to stay at the cabin and sip hot totties.. LOL... or head over to Funkly..

[woodman]

No luck today in the Hanson hunting party.

A pack of wolves went throught the hunting area last night and ran all of the deer out. Hopefully they will be back tomarrow.

[Perch Jerker]

We had 7 guys south of B-Duck and got 2 (doe & spike). Not a lot of shooting. No snow and warm weather was nice for hunting, but snow helps out spotting deer and keeping them on the move.

PJ

[Bushwacker]

What's with the wolves in the area this year? One guy in our party had a fawn and a nice doe come flying full speed past his stand, he put the doe in his scope and noticed a black object chasing them. He looked at it and it was a huge timberwolf. By the time he looked back at the doe he took a shot and missed and the wolf veered off in the opposite direction as the deer. The party next to us had two big brush wolves go under his stand on Saturday.

We ended up going 4 for 7 with one really big bodied 6 that had the smallest rack I have seen. Either a real old deer on the rack decline, or one that just didn't have it genetically. The field dressed wieght was close to 200 lbs.

[Drake]

We've been hearing that some have seen some of the wolves out in the area that they are hunting, but they are saying not as many as last year...just depends on the area.

Hunting has been good for some, while others have said they aren't seeing many. Had one guy who got a 10 pointer on opening day that weighed in at 210, he was pretty happy with that one, followed by a doe the next day. Another solo hunter had a buck and a doe; father/son team with spike buck and a doe; group of six with one doe so far; group of eight had a combination of bucks & doe for 11 and a group of three left with a doe.

Had thought we were going to get some snow but that's out of the forecast again, but the weather is still going to hold in the 30's & 40's the remainder of the week and through the weekend...not the best for tracking the deer but at least not as miserably cold for the hunters like last year!

Woodman~You and Tiff going back out in the woods again? Your dad hunting?

Good luck to all the hunters...let us know how you do!

[woodman]

Drake- We are heading up to Northome on Thursday because of Veterens day and no work. We will go up again on the weekend and hopefully shoot a couple or all 7 of them. Dad is hunting and has only missed a running 6 pointer that tried to run down Tiff on Sunday. I chased it out of the woods and was running towards Tiff when my dad yelled at her and she looked up and the Buck was about 10 yards away running right at her. It looked up and veered off and ran across a field. Dad took a poke at it but missed.

[Wiskers]

Well it was not as wet as I was expecting but was still pretty wet.. A few stands we could not get to.

In our party we had 15 hunters and harvested 13 by Sunday. Nothing on Sat. but all on Sunday..

I have hunted 25 years now and have never even seen a buck bigger than a small spike or small basket rack.. Well this year I got my big deer.. 200# 9 pointer.. I was shaking sooooooooooo bad.. LOL...

Over all we got 8pt 195#, 9pt 200#, 8pt 200#, and a two forks, the rest are does and fawns.

Over all it was a good first weekend.. Did not see any wolves this year by us. Lots of bear sign though.

[woodman]

Tiffany was using a Primo big can call this morning and called in a 210# 8 point buck. She was sitting in my stand and he come out of a swamp looking for that doe. I believe in the can now. She was so impressed and the deer came within 30 yards of her and did not even see her.

That is all the deer we saw today. Back up north on Sat.

[Wiskers]

Thats a beauty..good job