Another Successful Opening Day!

[gutpile]

I've been on a roll, 5 bucks in 5 years! Not the biggest but should be tasty! I love Northern Michigan in November!!

[myfoot]

A buddy gave me a stick of deer sausage today with jalapenos and cheese.. mmmmmm . He got a nice buck with a bow 2 weeks ago .

[monsterwalley]

Cool Gut!!

I don't get to go till Dec. (kansas)
I've done pretty good as well in the past.

Don't know how much longer it will last. All the good areas are turning into "leased for hunting" ground.
I won't pay to shoot a deer, other than regular permit fees. I guess I can't blame the landowners People are
paying pretty damn good money to hunt here.

I'm not a trophy hunter, but I don't pass a good one up either though.

[gutpile]

I am fortunate enough to own 80 acres... I won't hunt public land but that's a story for another day!! The hunting gods have been good to me! This is the one I got last year...

Before

After

[monsterwalley]

Nice!!

Yeah, I don't hunt public land either, It's just all the farmers and ranchers are leasing their land to individual guides from out of state to
come in and hunt them. It is getting pretty dangerous around that area also. About 4 years ago a landowner with land next to my friends uncles land where we hunt had his nose cut off. He came upon a poacher and his two kids He's a real asshole, anyway he got in a screaming match and got cut up and left for dead. Long story short, he was able to get home and get help. They caught them and prosecuted. Gives hunting a real good name huh

That particular landowner has leased his land out for years and every morning of season he's always harrassing us for hunting our own land! He's scared to death we're gonna hop his fence and hunt his land I guess , Or that $10,000 "rack" is gonna come off of his place onto ours. Real pita.........

Then there is all the "out of staters" running around rampant anymore.

I'm about to talk myself out of hunting this year so I better stop typing now.

[Structo]

I noticed the apples on the ground there.

Is there an apple tree nearby? Or is that just chum?

I don't think you can do that in my state but I haven't hunted in years so I may be wrong on that.

Congrats on the venison.

[gutpile]

That picture was taken in an apple orchard! We have two on our property!

[tone chaser]

I grew up in Trenton, Michigan. Now i live in rainy PA

[wrea398]

Kool. Here in Pa. The first day of gun season was Moday the 30th. I got my buck at 8 Am and got my doe at 11Am out of the same stand. Quick season but the jerky and bologne will be a treat for the next months.

[lifer]

apples?? are you allowed to bait in mich.?

wow...you guys must have a huge population!

our illustrious game commish in PA would probably stone you, then crucify you
if you tried that here!!

[wrea398]

Yeah the PA guys would bury you. I have hunted near apple trees many times. I just hit a trail "on the way" to the apples. Legal.

[lifer]

Yeah the PA guys would bury you. I have hunted near apple trees many times. I just hit a trail "on the way" to the apples. Legal.

haha- i hear ya! you wouldn't believe what i've been harassed for by those a-holes with a half-assed badge on their sleeve. i've always been legal and respectful hunter....i believe in that. yet they treat you as a criminal until THEY decide you "check out" ok. i always remind them that hunters pay their salaries.

one time they said i was parked "too close" to a fire road. i guarantee i was held up at least a half hour! wtf is that crap, you know?? i had my grandfathers shotgun which is really old....no serial #. they didn't believe me....they implied i "rubbed it off"! haha-- i said to the idiot, well what are we going to do then? stand here all day??

finally, i got my senses and i told him he does NOT need my serial # anyway and i want my shotgun back. he knew i had him by his b***s. he had no legal grnds.
got my gun and drove off.