Author Topic: 2008 Deer Season has Arrived! (Read 22088 times)

Kirk Allen · « **on:** November 03, 2008, 07:01:36 PM »

So how many of you have made it out this season?
This was the Buck I got yesterday evening. He came running to a rattle bag looking for a fight.

I won

Bow shot at 15 yards! He weighed in at a pleasant 225 lbs!

HarryVanderpool · « **Reply #1 on:** November 03, 2008, 07:48:21 PM »

DANG!!!

Thats a dandy!

Good job, Kirk!

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #2 on:** November 04, 2008, 07:11:40 AM »

The exciting part is there is an even bigger bruser running on the property. Sat last night and had about 12 does under me for 30 minutes but no Buck

Murf · « **Reply #3 on:** November 04, 2008, 11:03:25 AM »

Oh my, that will go a long way to filling the freezer!!

Deer hunting this year for me so far has been a good news / bad news deal;

The good news, I almost got one on Sunday morning.

The bad news, it was going down the road on the way to church.

Oh well, there's still time.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #4 on:** November 08, 2008, 08:09:05 AM »

It looks like the switch got turned on yesterday. We saw more bucks chasing does last night than any other day combined. In less than an hour we saw 5 different bucks, two of the shooters and they were all after 2-3 does.

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #5 on:** November 08, 2008, 10:16:23 PM »

Nice going, Kirk. I was down in the driing site a few days ago and scared up five doe and the fella with me about lost it. He wished he had his bow.

ESCANABAJOSH · « **Reply #6 on:** November 09, 2008, 07:49:51 AM »

missed out on bow season due to having to move ( i do have my first garage now though!) but heading to camp for opener of deer season(nov. 15), work even shut down for monday and tuesday! nice buck kirk, i'll have to see if i can do better

(doubt i will )

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #7 on:** November 09, 2008, 09:28:28 AM »

The trophy is in the hunt, not the size of the prize!

We have seen several true mosters on our place this year and we might get lucky this week.

I was suppose to go out this morning but we had an ambulance call at 2:30 in the morning that screwed that up. Patient is well, which is what counts!

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #8 on:** November 11, 2008, 05:50:40 PM »

Was going out this morning for what we thought would be a perfect morning and wouldnt you know it

................Fire call for a chimney fire and it was at one of our firefighters homes at 4:19 am.

Now for all those out there that pay no attention to a smoke alarm, PLEASE, dont be like our firefighter this morning who did not have a smoke alarm! We preach it all the time and to see one of our own not have one is disapointing to say the least.

Get one and keep the batteries changed when the time changes in the spring and fall! It may very well save your life!

Murf · « **Reply #9 on:** November 12, 2008, 01:25:39 PM »

Kirk, you bring up an excellent point, smoke alarms don't work without power.

A few years back I converted all of mine to hard-wired 120 volt models. They have a small rechargeable battery pack kept topped up by the house power, and which powers them in the case of a power failure.

Another big advantage of these detectors is that they are connected together, if one goes off, they all go off. Particularly handy if the one that trips is in the back of the basement and you are 3 floors up in the front of the house asleep.

In my case they also interconnect to my house alarm system, if one goes off it trips the 'panic' function of the alarm system, this turns on the power failure lighting inside and the strobe and siren on the outside of the house.

In the one case I needed it, luckily for a very minor problem, it made a) getting out of the house, and b) the fire dept. finding the house, much faster & easier!

BTW, the 'minor' problem was a raccoon trying to warm his butt in the chimney, this caused the smoke to back up into the house and trip the smoke alarm.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #10 on:** November 12, 2008, 02:11:00 PM »

Now I have heard of some crazy stories setting off smoke alarms but a coon warming his ass tops them all

The hard wired alarms are the way to go...........provided they have, as you pointed out, the battery back up for power failures.

Murf · « **Reply #11 on:** November 14, 2008, 08:56:20 AM »

That wasn't as bad as when my first wife decided she'd keep a pizza warm in the oven........

Darnedest thing about putting cardboard boxes in ovens huh?

Who knew that cardboard would catch fire when heated up like that??

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #12 on:** November 16, 2008, 12:28:54 PM »

The cardboard is to make the pizza crust crispy, or so I was once told by a home owner who called us for a burning pizza. She was so mad she wanted to sue the pizza company.

Between the rain and the wind we have pretty much been shut down on the hunting. Sat out several days in the cold then the rain and the deer seem to be locked down in the peak of the rut. Hope it turns around this weekend, which is when our gun season starts.

mike p · « **Reply #13 on:** November 17, 2008, 02:02:46 PM »

my doe i found another use for the lift

mike p · « **Reply #14 on:** November 17, 2008, 02:03:56 PM »

son sam got a coyote

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #15 on:** November 27, 2008, 08:39:54 PM »

Well, I just got back from running down to the woodshop to trun off used oil buring furnace that keeps it warm. I had the throttel to the floor of the gator, with the lights on as well and came within as foot of hitting a forkedhorn. That about scared the "stuff" out of me.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #16 on:** November 28, 2008, 09:13:34 AM »

Time for a new gator with a little more power

That way next time you can put the meat in the freezer

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #17 on:** December 05, 2008, 08:13:07 PM »

Well we have just this last weekend for gun season and it still looks like the deer have vanished. Numbers are down for the whole state.

Hope to get lucky in the morning!

mike p · « **Reply #18 on:** December 06, 2008, 07:48:41 AM »

Well there s normaly 4 hunters here on our family's 160 acres & in years past take 5-6 deer over the hole season. used to shoot mainly bucks, about 4 years ago we took the conservations advice & started shooting more does.
this year & last year we didnt see as many deer & only took 3 deer last year & this year only 3.
our neabors hunt 550 acres with lots of hunters & they said numbers are down across the fence alsc

so it appears the conservation guys wanted fewer numbers & they got it.
thats not what we were after , so were planning to put in another acre of food plot probly something different than the Whitetail clover that i have establested
& start shooting more bucks to keep numbers up, i hope .
the car ins co ,s probly dont agree but its all about meat & sport

mike p · « **Reply #19 on:** December 11, 2008, 07:25:30 AM »

check out this doe
http://www.kansas.com/news/updates/story/626780.html

joasis · « **Reply #20 on:** December 11, 2008, 07:30:49 AM »

An antlered doe, learn something new everyday!

Deer numbers here are growing enough that there is talk about making it mandatory to shoot a doe before getting a buck tag.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #21 on:** January 18, 2009, 10:30:15 PM »

This weekend was our last weekend of deer season and it was doe only. Hammered two yesterday afternoon. They went about 20 yards and piled up like a sack of potatoes! That made 4 deer this season! Freezer is full, as is our bellies!

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Author Topic: 2008 Deer Season has Arrived! (Read 22088 times)