Cabin fever 9 degree hunt

[crooketarrow]

   I really don't know how cold it's been here all week. But with the snow and wind everyday. It's probely been in the single numbers ,low teens with the wind chill. I've hunted every evening since the 21. Our season ends the first. Not to soon for me. I get a little burned out late season when the wind blows.
    I missed the best part of NOV. because of a fall but still hunted 32 days. Saw 26 bucks killed a 2 1/2 year old 8 point. I'd wish I'd let pass now but sometimes it's now or never. At the time I thought he was bigger and older than he was. I let 14 small bucks pass.
   I know where your comeing from truthfully I was feeling perty along. No one I know of is bow hunting in WV. At least not around here.
  It's amazzing the older you get the better the fire place feels when the wind blows.

[Stringman]

A late season firearms season started this weekend and a buddy asked me to buy a tag and hunt with him. I haven't hunted a drop since shooting that little buck a month ago, so I felt like gettin out. I strapped on my little side shooter and walked out an set down next to a corn field. Had t been sittin there but a few min when this dude stepped out across the field. It is a doe only season and he was a couple hundred yards away (pics with my binos and phone lined up... Not easy!)





Then righ at dark 3 does started walking toward me along the edge of the corn... 1 round sailed harmlessly over her back... That was a fun, cold, hunt!

Scott

[JackCrafty]

You are a tough man, John!  I can't just sit there in the cold like that any more.  I've got to have lots of those chemical packets that make heat.  I put one in the tip of each boot and mitten.  If that's not enough I smash a few more and put them around my neck under my scarf...

[iowabow]

Well scott i have a short scrub osage tree/bush behind me and this tree that will work as a blind in the late part of the day. This was the best with the wind issue.

[iowabow]

One more then i have to hunt

[iowabow]

No deer tonight proving the deer play book is written in gibberish.

[iowabow]

Nice buck Scott

[crooketarrow]

  Be a little hard to get a arrow to far there.
  Here the deer are tearing the honeysuckle patchs and the cut corn up. We've shot 11 doe's in our split doe seasons. Off this farm all most all were going across 2 different fields to the cut corn. 3others of my other lease. I have 1 more marked for death here. Todays our last day of doe' season. Last day period. I'm all doe'd out but have a friend coming out this evening.
  I REALLY DON'T RIFLE HUNT BUT SHOOTING DOE'S OFF A HILL TO OUT OF THE TRUCK NOT HUNTING.

[iowabow]

Wow big bucks run backward patterns . Got to shoot a monster tonight but missed just not use to that 46 pound bow after hunting with 60 # bow all winter. I really wanted to take a deer with the milkweed string but its looking like a no go. Here is an arrow in the dirt and snow as a bonus.