We awoke Saturday morning to minus three temperatures, but it was still and sunny outside.  The fishermen took off for the lake and I took off for the woods.  The depth and duration of the snow and its effect on the deer concern me.  We’re going on two-plus months of this.  It has got to be hard on them.  The fresh snow was two days prior to my visit, but in a day-and-a-half of woods’ wandering I found only one new deer track.    They can’t wait that long to eat in these temperatures.  

As mentioned I found no sheds.  I did find one young doe carcass and saw lots of coyote and other predator prints, squirrel prints and some porcupine trails.  I probably should have tried some coyote hunting, but thought my time would be better spent refining my familiarity with a couple of potential deer and turkey ambush points.  I found a new hot deer stand location and will tweak another by seventy yards based upon my scouting. 

Doing some scouting.  Trying out the Targus Grypton Portable tripod (I’ll detail that more in a future blog) mentioned in Photographing Your Hunting Trophies.  The pack is practice for an upcoming adventure I’ll announce in a future blog.

This guy was hanging out in the sun.  We’ll talk more about him and his willingness to sacrifice in order to help us try out a new product in a future blog.

By all accounts ice fishing wasn’t that great.

 I think the best part must have been lunch.

One of my favorite things about going to Deer Camp is checking the trail cams.  As much as I like it there, I am usually excited to get home and check the SD cards. 

I was surprised and elated to see this guy survived gun and archery season.  Looks like he lost a tine off the left side.  Click the title to see the video. 

Surviving Buck

It was also funny to see this gal eating right at the beginning.  Click the title to see the video.

Eating Doe 

Overall it was a great weekend.  dv’s Best Black Bean Huntin’ Chili got lots of compliments.

happy hunting, dv

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