2020-21 Hunting Season

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Justincase said:
Way way fewer shots this year than last. I'd say less than half
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We have alot more hunters down here this year. On opening day from 7am-720 I heard about a dozen shots. We always get the guys shooting early.
There were 6 vehicles parked at the 1100 acre stateland near our property. Usually there are 2-3 vehicles.
This is just one end of the stateland, most hunters use the other end.
 
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Criticalt said:
We have alot more hunters down here this year. On opening day from 7am-720 I heard about a dozen shots. We always get the guys shooting early.
There were 6 vehicles parked at the 1100 acre stateland near our property. Usually there are 2-3 vehicles.
This is just one end of the stateland, most hunters use the other end.
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Yikes. That's kinda good though. We need more people hunting so it doesn't become a distant memory and antiquated.

Almost half the shots I heard, 17 of them were before sunrise.
 
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Saw one little doe hanging around the edges of the backyard yesterday but thats it.

I have guns ready to go as needed if something presents itself but I dont know that I'm even going to bother going out this year much if at all. :mad:
 
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I’m going Friday afternoon until Saturday. I have a DMP for 9P so I hope to get one. It’s hard to get one for that zone. I also have one for 9A but there isn’t much land to hunt in 9A and it’s a popular spot with a large gold course and plot of private land across the street. I think they head over there pretty quickly.
 
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I'm hoping to take a walk around the woods on Saturday. I guess I should really get my gear cleaned and ready to go.
 
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Saltwater60 said:
I’m going Friday afternoon until Saturday. I have a DMP for 9P so I hope to get one. It’s hard to get one for that zone. I also have one for 9A but there isn’t much land to hunt in 9A and it’s a popular spot with a large gold course and plot of private land across the street. I think they head over there pretty quickly.
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Where is 9P? I'm headed down that general direction Friday to Sunday?
 
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Should have gone out today. Went this morning to get a haircut before they shut everything down again.

Just couldn't seem to find the motivation to go.
 
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camper4lyfe said:
Hopefully the answer isn't "you"
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That’s why I stopped hunting for years. My dad and I were walking in the woods to hunt for an after lunch run and a huge buck(didn’t know it at the time) ran through some pine trees on a property boarder I was hunting. I had it all lined up but didn’t take the shot because I had no doe tag and couldn’t identify it. A guy eating lunch on his camper front porch saw the deer and just went blasting away at the deer. He fired seven shots. My dad was about 5-6 feet away from me and yelled get the fuck down and get behind a tree. He could hear the rounds wizzing over and around his head I could not. I was 16 and never heard him say the f-word before. I remember hiding behind a tree laying down with my shotgun pointed in the guys direction and asking my dad you want me to fire a few back? My dad was unarmed as usual. He said no so I refrained. Apparently it was a large 8 point we heard about. I don’t think my dad or anyone else ever said anything to the guy. I stopped hunting for 20 years after that.
 
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camper4lyfe said:
Hopefully the answer isn't "you"
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Ten years ago my girlfriend called me at work and said there were gun shots VERY close to the house. We own all the land around our house so I went home to check it out. There were 2 holes in our house. Somehow the bullets didnt make it into the house. I never found out who did it. No snow on the ground to track them.
 
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Criticalt said:
Ten years ago my girlfriend called me at work and said there were gun shots VERY close to the house. We own all the land around our house so I went home to check it out. There were 2 holes in our house. Somehow the bullets didnt make it into the house. I never found out who did it. No snow on the ground to track them.
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Probably a good thing you couldn’t track them... in hindsight. Amirite?
 
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I did opening day til Monday over near Windham.Very few shots fired all 3 days.I saw a bear cub and had a chance at a 6 pointer.It was a little out of what I consider pistol range and I was about a mile and a half from the nearest logging road.Its been many years since I wanted to drag a deer that far.Hell, I use a pistol cause I dont want to have to walk 100 yds to pick up a deer,lol.Lot of shooting over here in Columbia Co.My friend Nick and his wife have a couple and my neighbor up the hill was shooting about midnight last night,I assume theres a dent in the coyote population today.
 
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stokes said:
I did opening day til Monday over near Windham.Very few shots fired all 3 days.I saw a bear cub and had a chance at a 6 pointer.It was a little out of what I consider pistol range and I was about a mile and a half from the nearest logging road.Its been many years since I wanted to drag a deer that far.Hell, I use a pistol cause I dont want to have to walk 100 yds to pick up a deer,lol.Lot of shooting over here in Columbia Co.My friend Nick and his wife have a couple and my neighbor up the hill was shooting about midnight last night,I assume theres a dent in the coyote population today.
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I had my Glock 20 with me just in case I has a shorter shot.
But the 2 does I got were about 50 yards so I used the shotgun.
If they were within 30 yards I would have used the 10mm.
 
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Justincase said:
Man, it is miserable out here today. Glad I slept in.

Just heard a barrage of about 12 shots all from the same general direction. I can't even fathom a circumstance that would justify or explain that.
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Ahhhhh, the spray and pray method of deer hunting.
I used to work at my buddies deer processing shop.
I skinned the deer.
You wouldnt believe some of the beaten carcasses people brought in.
The worst was a 14 year old girls first derr. It was a 130lb doe with 9 slug holes in it that we could find. I told her father he might want to get her some professional help.
She had the blood lust look in her eyes and 2 blood battle marks on each cheek.....obviously applied by her dad.
 
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Justincase said:
Man, it is miserable out here today. Glad I slept in.

Just heard a barrage of about 12 shots all from the same general direction. I can't even fathom a circumstance that would justify or explain that.
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I once did a mag dump into a tree to divert a group of running doe’s towards one of my sons and his buddy :idk: They we’re moving way to quick for me to even try. It worked...somehow
 
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Had a little fork horn come to our apple tree this morning. He didn’t come fully into the yard, but the kids really enjoyed being able to watch it for a while.
 
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