Tough hunt as usual. The Mosquitoes are always horrible, but this hunt they were as bad as I have ever seen. Gave up on the Thermacell's after the Sunday morning hunt and just dowsed down with Deep woods off.
Had a buck surprise me at 20 yards, came out of an Oak mott that did not even look like a trail was there and we had a staring contest for about 2 minutes as I tried to slowly turn and get the gun up. He was not having any of it and bounded off thru the Waist high grass into another Oak Mott. seen a couple of does with no shot opportunities.
The new Federal warden officer West seems like a good fella. This year you have to write your permit # on each piece of flagging you put out and it made a world of difference. I noticed that this cut down on the mass flagging of every viable trail out there. Wed. morning on our way out the only Visible flagging I seen was where a truck was parked.
The tally board is back, but was not updated after the Sunday hunt (Probably because the harvest log only showed 3 deer and 1 hog brought in after that thru Wed. morning.). It was just basic showing the number of Bucks/Does/Hogs. It did not show how many hunters were in the refuge each day like the old board did.
As of Wed. Morning 10 AM only 10 Bucks / 9 Does / 3 hogs were in the harvest log. We never seen a Hog while in the stand and only (1) crossing the road on our way out for lunch.
(1) hunter killed 2 bucks and 2 hogs.
Had a buck surprise me at 20 yards, came out of an Oak mott that did not even look like a trail was there and we had a staring contest for about 2 minutes as I tried to slowly turn and get the gun up. He was not having any of it and bounded off thru the Waist high grass into another Oak Mott. seen a couple of does with no shot opportunities.
The new Federal warden officer West seems like a good fella. This year you have to write your permit # on each piece of flagging you put out and it made a world of difference. I noticed that this cut down on the mass flagging of every viable trail out there. Wed. morning on our way out the only Visible flagging I seen was where a truck was parked.
The tally board is back, but was not updated after the Sunday hunt (Probably because the harvest log only showed 3 deer and 1 hog brought in after that thru Wed. morning.). It was just basic showing the number of Bucks/Does/Hogs. It did not show how many hunters were in the refuge each day like the old board did.
As of Wed. Morning 10 AM only 10 Bucks / 9 Does / 3 hogs were in the harvest log. We never seen a Hog while in the stand and only (1) crossing the road on our way out for lunch.
(1) hunter killed 2 bucks and 2 hogs.
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