Giving up on #1 and #2?
I went looking for #2 yesterday and even drove an hour round trip to knock on a door. No one was home.
My delicate emotions aren’t letting me confront #1…he dead (I bet). At some point I may regress.
Round up!It appears there is a, uh, “major ranching event”going on that has pushed all these whitetails in here.
Nice buckHi folks, your pal @Dos Perros here primed and prep'd for the third annual installment of my home state archery finale, to commence between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
You may have followed along in years' past, including last year when I finally (after many years of failing) managed to kill my first deer with a bow. https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/2nd-annual-kansas-scraps-hunt.245815/
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I have noticed better cell reception in the area this year so, armed with my MagView, I should be able to add more interesting updates as the hunt progresses. I'll also be adding story updates (videos) to my Instagram @sons_of_the_sod. So pour yourself a drink and settle in. I saw two pretty tremendous bucks in November so if they didn't get killed during rifle season things could get interesting. My freezer is completely empty so you better believe Ima send it.
Thank you for the thread. I’m sorry you didn’t harvest, but it sounds like the trip was very rewarding in other ways.Well dudes, as you can guess I didn’t get a buck, or any deer for that matter. Spent the final afternoon stalking whitetails but there were so many I’d inadvertently bump one I didn’t see and they would take out the ones I did see. It’s pretty amazing how even in that open country they can melt in and disappear, does especially. They can curl up and put their heads down and you just can’t see them.
Certainly feels like there are less mature bucks running around. But there are plenty of does so the future looks bright.
I really love hunting the wildest places of my home state. I can imagine the frontier and hard white dudes being scared shitless and sometimes getting scalped and mutilated and worse. The country is still harsh in different ways and the folks out there have created tight communities, probably out of necessity. That has been my experience throughout the west. Everyone I come across is friendly. I’ve had people offer to let me sleep on their couch or in their barn. At first they don’t understand that sleeping in my truck or on the ground is an intentional escape from comfort.
It was also a good time to reflect, and plan the next year, what I want for myself and my family.
Thank you all for following along, coming on the hunt with me. I enjoy sharing. Makes it less lonely, more fun. With any luck by next Christmas I’ll still be a shitty deer hunter and we can do it again.
Happy New Year folks! Now, I gotta go see about a meme video…
Happy New Year, and thank you for bringing us along. I look forward to your "scraps hunt" every year (since you started a few years ago).Well dudes, as you can guess I didn’t get a buck, or any deer for that matter. Spent the final afternoon stalking whitetails but there were so many I’d inadvertently bump one I didn’t see and they would take out the ones I did see. It’s pretty amazing how even in that open country they can melt in and disappear, does especially. They can curl up and put their heads down and you just can’t see them.
Certainly feels like there are less mature bucks running around. But there are plenty of does so the future looks bright.
I really love hunting the wildest places of my home state. I can imagine the frontier and hard white dudes being scared shitless and sometimes getting scalped and mutilated and worse. The country is still harsh in different ways and the folks out there have created tight communities, probably out of necessity. That has been my experience throughout the west. Everyone I come across is friendly. I’ve had people offer to let me sleep on their couch or in their barn. At first they don’t understand that sleeping in my truck or on the ground is an intentional escape from comfort.
It was also a good time to reflect, and plan the next year, what I want for myself and my family.
Thank you all for following along, coming on the hunt with me. I enjoy sharing. Makes it less lonely, more fun. With any luck by next Christmas I’ll still be a shitty deer hunter and we can do it again.
Happy New Year folks! Now, I gotta go see about a meme video…
Yes #1 is dead. Archery killed pre rifleI went looking for #2 yesterday and even drove an hour round trip to knock on a door. No one was home.
My delicate emotions aren’t letting me confront #1…he dead (I bet). At some point I may regress.