monterra
01-19-2012, 11:46 PM
Well i guess it's time i stop just snooping around and start posting some pics. I have been hunting now for about 10 years. For the most part learning about hunting has pretty much been at the school of hard knocks, and thanks to a lot of useful posts from you guys on here. This year was probably my toughest to date, missing a few good opportunities. All in all i was able to bag my personal biggest to date.
My hunting buddy and i had hunted hard all long weekend an 12 to 16 inches of snow. On our way back to go pack up camp we decided to do one last hike. we both went up different ways hoping that maybe we would bump a deer towards the other, to no avail yet again. I arrived at the planned destination first and thought i would have a seat and wait for my partner. As i cleared a log to sit on a doe caught my eye at 232 yards just inside the tree line. As the deer were still in rut i decided to watch her for a while to see if she was alone. By now my buddy had found me and we got into a nice position with a good rest incase there was something to shoot. After 5 minutes the doe bedded down and just after that we saw a flash of movement not 20 feet away from her. It was a mature buck but how big? we couldn't see enough. He turned and walked out of sight, but the doe did not move, so we just kept waiting and watching her. FINALLY after 45 min she gets up and starts walking down the hill toward us until she was out of sight. We thought we were out of luck but we kept looking for the buck when out of nowhere there he was. Needless to say the rest is history. http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg519/jgriffioen/100_1168.jpg http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg519/jgriffioen/100_1167.jpg
I guess i need a joke too so here we go....
Two guys go hunting. Jerry has never gone hunting while Joe has hunted all his life. When they get to the northern Wisconsin woods, Joe tells Jerry to sit by a tree and not make a sound while Joe checks out a deer stand. After he gets about a quarter of a mile away, Joe hears a blood-curdling scream. He rushes back to Jerry and yells, "I thought I told you to be quiet!" Jerry says, "Hey, I tried. I really did. When those snakes crawled over me, I didn't make a sound. When that bear was breathing down my neck, I didn't make a peep. But when those two chipmunks crawled up my pants leg and said, 'Should we take them with us or eat them here?' I couldn't keep quiet any more!"
My hunting buddy and i had hunted hard all long weekend an 12 to 16 inches of snow. On our way back to go pack up camp we decided to do one last hike. we both went up different ways hoping that maybe we would bump a deer towards the other, to no avail yet again. I arrived at the planned destination first and thought i would have a seat and wait for my partner. As i cleared a log to sit on a doe caught my eye at 232 yards just inside the tree line. As the deer were still in rut i decided to watch her for a while to see if she was alone. By now my buddy had found me and we got into a nice position with a good rest incase there was something to shoot. After 5 minutes the doe bedded down and just after that we saw a flash of movement not 20 feet away from her. It was a mature buck but how big? we couldn't see enough. He turned and walked out of sight, but the doe did not move, so we just kept waiting and watching her. FINALLY after 45 min she gets up and starts walking down the hill toward us until she was out of sight. We thought we were out of luck but we kept looking for the buck when out of nowhere there he was. Needless to say the rest is history. http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg519/jgriffioen/100_1168.jpg http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg519/jgriffioen/100_1167.jpg
I guess i need a joke too so here we go....
Two guys go hunting. Jerry has never gone hunting while Joe has hunted all his life. When they get to the northern Wisconsin woods, Joe tells Jerry to sit by a tree and not make a sound while Joe checks out a deer stand. After he gets about a quarter of a mile away, Joe hears a blood-curdling scream. He rushes back to Jerry and yells, "I thought I told you to be quiet!" Jerry says, "Hey, I tried. I really did. When those snakes crawled over me, I didn't make a sound. When that bear was breathing down my neck, I didn't make a peep. But when those two chipmunks crawled up my pants leg and said, 'Should we take them with us or eat them here?' I couldn't keep quiet any more!"