Deer Hunting 2015!!!!!
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 1:52 pm
Finally have a chance to tell of my most favorite time of year, now past. So... sad.... Cant wait until next year!!!!
Had a great season filled with opportunities. Tough hunting this past season though. Worked longer and harder and traveled farther than ever before. Went into it with a new setup with a PSE Madness 30 as the limb cracked on my old XS. Begrudgingly I HAD to... I also changed broadheads this season from old style Rage to the Rage hypodermics. Let me tell you... AWESOME. Will never shoot a original rage ever again. The damage and accuracy of the hypodermics is sick. The bow... eh... It got the job done, but the 30 is nothing compared to what the XS used to be. The added speed with the 30 makes the bow jumpier (and its way louder) plus it loses brownie points for looks. Enough of gear review. Ill gladly give other reviews on gear (Ozonics, GoPro) if people want though!
So here is the brief recap.
VT - Nothing (by choice and lower than normal time commitment). Saw some does (got mom pardons), few spikes and a 3pt (that I let walk for someone else to enjoy or grow bigger) and found a dead 5pt someone lost (last year).
NY - Winter kill was high last year and it showed. Opening week bow got a nice doe and passed on a 5 pt and several spikes. Doe ran all of 50 yards and piled up on a heart shot. Saw some good deer activity but they then vanished. Halloween week, missed a beautiful 8 pt at 25 yards. Oh morale was low!!! For rifle, I only had a few days to hunt NY as my vacation time was just about used up. Few days before Thanksgiving, I got a 5pt that I grunted in from 300 yards using my DePauls Custom Deer Call I got made last year. Saw some does muzzleoader season and a 4 pt and hope they make it until next season.
Illinois - Ben and I decided to venture off to the midwest to pike county early Nov. After a week of sitting on stand sunup to sundown, the last day of the trip rolled around and I had come to terms with going home empty handed. Not to mention I was super pissed off I forgot my rangefinder that morning. Fell out of my bag. I dont know how I got so dumb lucky but there was spike and a 5 pt hounding a doe in front of me about 30 min to dark. The last 10 min of light rolled in and I heard grunting behind me and out popped a stud 11pt at 20 yards?? Must have judged it pretty close because he only went 100 yards before falling over dead in sight from a double lung shot. Good thing I bought an Ozonics. That was left behind also!
Happy New Year everyone! Hope 2016 brings everyone plentiful fish and game animals both big and small.
Had a great season filled with opportunities. Tough hunting this past season though. Worked longer and harder and traveled farther than ever before. Went into it with a new setup with a PSE Madness 30 as the limb cracked on my old XS. Begrudgingly I HAD to... I also changed broadheads this season from old style Rage to the Rage hypodermics. Let me tell you... AWESOME. Will never shoot a original rage ever again. The damage and accuracy of the hypodermics is sick. The bow... eh... It got the job done, but the 30 is nothing compared to what the XS used to be. The added speed with the 30 makes the bow jumpier (and its way louder) plus it loses brownie points for looks. Enough of gear review. Ill gladly give other reviews on gear (Ozonics, GoPro) if people want though!
So here is the brief recap.
VT - Nothing (by choice and lower than normal time commitment). Saw some does (got mom pardons), few spikes and a 3pt (that I let walk for someone else to enjoy or grow bigger) and found a dead 5pt someone lost (last year).
NY - Winter kill was high last year and it showed. Opening week bow got a nice doe and passed on a 5 pt and several spikes. Doe ran all of 50 yards and piled up on a heart shot. Saw some good deer activity but they then vanished. Halloween week, missed a beautiful 8 pt at 25 yards. Oh morale was low!!! For rifle, I only had a few days to hunt NY as my vacation time was just about used up. Few days before Thanksgiving, I got a 5pt that I grunted in from 300 yards using my DePauls Custom Deer Call I got made last year. Saw some does muzzleoader season and a 4 pt and hope they make it until next season.
Illinois - Ben and I decided to venture off to the midwest to pike county early Nov. After a week of sitting on stand sunup to sundown, the last day of the trip rolled around and I had come to terms with going home empty handed. Not to mention I was super pissed off I forgot my rangefinder that morning. Fell out of my bag. I dont know how I got so dumb lucky but there was spike and a 5 pt hounding a doe in front of me about 30 min to dark. The last 10 min of light rolled in and I heard grunting behind me and out popped a stud 11pt at 20 yards?? Must have judged it pretty close because he only went 100 yards before falling over dead in sight from a double lung shot. Good thing I bought an Ozonics. That was left behind also!
Happy New Year everyone! Hope 2016 brings everyone plentiful fish and game animals both big and small.