mich gun seasen

[wrenchman]

opening day is fast comeing i went this past sunday to the range and checked my gun and the sons and worked on the blinds.
I no there is a few guys on here from mich and am wondering how there seasen is looking i can say it looks like the deer numbers are down aot more then the dnr is saying.
They did get the corn out this year and i am lookig for the seasen to be fun if nothing else.
Good luck to lonewolf and fiji i hope you seaen goes good i will try to post some up dates. and picks if i can remember how.

[wrenchman]

heading out sunday i wont be back till friday good luck every one.

[wrenchman]

Been a ruff week i have missed two adult does i wish i could blame the gun but it is just the nut behind the stock i checked the gun i did killa button buck despite my shooting skills.
My cousin killed a 4 pointer we have yet to see the big buck i seen early in the youth it was seen on the property beside ours last nite but no one has killed him yet.

[wrenchman]

sorry for not setting the pick better

[FIJI]

thats about all the time I was in the woods for the opener. Found an illegal treestand right where I was hoping to hunt. Set up in another area and enjoyed the rising sun.......until the neighbor's dogs came running through,

Gave up and went to town for breakfast instead. Trucks parked EVERYwhere along the road - sure no shortage of hunters this year

looking forward to getting out for the ML season. I prefer hunting in snow


right now Im trying to find a spot to bag a drake wood duck to have mounted for the shack

[Mr. 16 gauge]

Gave up on Michigan deer hunting long ago......got tired of sitting in the woods and seeing nothing but squirrels and other hunters (LOTS of them!). Hunted N.C. a couple of years ago and it is definetly much better!
Also, I think that all the bickering on the websites about antler restrictions, baiting vs nonbaiting, cross bows, ect. had left a bad taste in my mouth.....why are hunters so ready to restrict/abolish someone else's way of hunting, but demand the right to do it "their" way?
.....I just don't get it.

[wrenchman]

The way it works in our camp is if you are legal you are good with us.
Being a person that has hunted other states i do have to agree that there are lots of politics to hunting in mich.
Like when i take my kids hunting i incourage them to shoot what they want i dont care if it is a doe buck or a yearling as long as they have a legal tag for it i let them decide.
Hunting is about getting out and haveing fun first and the rest will fallow.
16 gauge i would have to say you need a new area and a new group of guys to hunt with guys that just want to hunt.
I will be heading out with my son sunday and when we go out i dont intend on me killing deer thats not why i am there.

[wrenchman]

Took the son out today he did real well he shot a 6 pointer with my shot gun that i hae misse 2 does with he showed the old man up.
I just have a pick of the deer hope to hae one with the happy 15year old tomarrow.

[wrenchman]

The happy 15 year old we were sitting together and we seen a deer far out from us he used a premose doe bleat and called it in when it got to us it was a 6 point.
I bought him a savage 311 double and he wanted to shoot a deer with it well he pounded it with a load of buck shot and put a bad hurt on the deer but it moved farther in i handed him the slug gun and said shoot it again and he did and put it down for good.

[wrenchman]

one more of the happy kid it is his fist horned deer

[Mr. 16 gauge]

16 gauge i would have to say you need a new area and a new group of guys to hunt with guys that just want to hunt.

I've tried several different areas, and I usually hunt alone. I'm not out just for a kill, either, but it's getting extremely boring and frustrating not seeing anything, anywhere.

Congrats to your son; that's a nice buck. He looks a bit tired in that first photo....what did you do; make him drag it out all by himself? I have had two Stevens 311 shotguns; one in 12 & one in 20 gauge. Gave the 20 gauge to a friend, and the 12 gauge now has headspace issues, so it sits in the closet.

[wrenchman]

he was tired got up at 4 am to drive to were we are hunting

[Mr. 16 gauge]

Well, managed to tag a small spike this morning at around 8:45 with my muzzleloader......quite an interesting story, and I'll put more up in the traditional muzzleloader forum (along with pics) later.

[wrenchman]

congrats and i must say u did it the hard way after the bow seasen and the gun seasen a legal buck get hard to come by.

[popplecop]

Last day of our anterless season, 10"s of fresh snow still snowing, winds 2-30 mph from the north. Think I'll stay home.