Team "Camp Rack em Up"

[CampYJewel]

Nice Pictures!!!!  If I had a camera I would probably check it every day being tooo excited!!

Well the trip to MT went well.  We shot our antelope within about 2 hours of when we got there.  Then we spent the next two days moving cattle, fixing fence, drinking coffee, and eating!!!

Here is a pic of my antelope and my trusty guide 

Jewel

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[Outdoors Junkie]

Congrats Jewel.  Nice looking antelope.  Did you get a sunburn?  It was pretty warm the past week out here.   

[MnMoose]

Nice one...Now you got some more practice!! go get that 11 pointer, and upgrade that doe!!

[MnMoose]

Rubbin it in a little here Heather and Jerry.
I'm off to Deer Camp tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish you two the best of luck have a ball.  And Most of all I pray for everyone's safety.
I will be back on Mon to check back in.  I hope you guys have fun!!
Shoot Straight...We already know Heather can!!

P.S. Hey Jerry Dont let us down Bud!!

Mike

[Realtree]

Congrats on getting your antelope Jewel! Nice looking animal

    

[dakids]

I will be leaving thursday morning and will be gone until the following sunday.  Nine days without the phone, work, kids.  HEAVEN!!!!
I turn 40 on the 12th, hopefully I will shoot a big birthdaybuck. (see picture below)
If I come back early it will be because my father-in-law has died or a big buck has died. Lets hope for the later.
Be safe and shoot straight.
Jerry





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[Grute Man]

Good luck and happy birthday!!  I hope you bag a big one.    

[CampYJewel]

Sounds like my Team Mates are gone Hunting!!!  Good luck and be safe, I will await the pics of your 12+pointers later in the week

  D

I can tell I have deer hunting on the brain.  This morning I was thinking of how when I was a kid I had to pack up my clothes for a weeks stay at the hunting cabin and stuff as I was driving down the road.  When I got to the T I need to take a right to go to work and a left to go to deer camp.  Well I took a left and continued to drive for a mile before I realized what I was doing!!!!

[Grute Man]

I like the way you think.   

And I forgot to say -- congrats on the antelope.     You don't waste no time out there do ya? What do you have into the season at this point -- 3 hours?   

Good luck and have a fun weekend.

Grute 

[CampYJewel]

Thanks!!  Yea the trip west was a quick one but lots of fun!! 

Maybe the quick hunt this year is making up for all the years I got skunked!!!  Or maybe I am just getting better..................I doubt it 

[MnMoose]

Well guys Im back...It was quite a bitter lllloooonnnggg weekend!!  I past up some smaller deer.   Opening Morning I had a fawn come right up to my stand.  About and hour later I had to does come flying by mach 3 so I past em up.  Nothing that night as I went for a long walk.  Sunday Morning my huntin buddy and his wife dropped two bucks... One was an 8 pointer the other was a 7 pointer.  They walked out together?????? how weird.  That evening I went to a different cutting.  I had a cow moose come and to say hello followed by a doe and a spike buck which I let walk since the folks were back at camp cutting up meat already.  Monday was very quiet.  Tuesday my buddies dad phoned in and said he dropped a very heavy 8 pointer.  I am off on another journey tommorrow to Glenwood to try again.  I am hoping my brother can harvest his first buck. 

Hey guys whats the deal with this "+1 tie breaker stuff on the scoreboard?

[Grute Man]

Sorry you didn't score but remember the season isn't over yet.

The +1 Tiebreaker is if you've gotten 2 deer.  You can take the points of whichever gives you the most points and then the 2nd (and more) deer count as tie breakers.  There's a chance that we all get does or no bucks over 10 pointers so the high score would be 300.  Then we'll go to tie breaker points which is basically counting who has the most.

Good luck to your brother; one of my sons is going for his first this year as well.

Good luck to you too.
Later.
GRUTE

[CampYJewel]

At least you are seeing deer!!!!  Opening I had a few does and a fawn come to my stand and ever since it has been the barron sea, plus a few annoying birds. 

Good luck this weekend!!!

[dakids]

I got to my stand 90 min BEFORE legel shooting light.  After 30 minutes I start to hear shooting .   30 minutes later I hear a deer comming and it turns out to be the big 10 pointer that I was hoping for.  He stops 20 yards away, broadside!! The new snow made it easy to see every point.  He had no clue that I was there.  After a few minutes he heads into the slashing just past my stand.  He is a very lucky deer because I won't shoot before it is legel to.  If you do you might as well shoot at 3:00 am.
 Finaly it is legel to shoot and here comes a small doe and her fawn. They stop right were the buck stopped, the tiny fawn starts to get a drink when the doe looks over her tail.  Here comes a buck   It is a small 8 (still inside the ears).  He chases the doe around my stand a few times grunting all the while.  They head in the wrong direction.   5 minutes later there are 2 shots and I see the tiny fawn coming my way.  He stops right under my stand and bleats.     After a few minutes I decide that since he is so small, and an orphan that he would look better on my plate instead of in a wolves stomach.  I shoot him.

I hear several shots from my parents stands over the next 2 hours.  I grab the little guy and head in.  Dad has shot a 165 pound 10 inch spike buck, and mom has missed on a doe.

After lunch I head back out and there is a guy in my stand   Since it is state land there isn't a thing that I can do.  I head up wind 200 yards and over the hill.  My luck turns as I see a doe comming out of the slashing an hour before dark.  As I am about to put the hammer down on her the bum in my stand starts to climb down making a lot of noise.  The doe hops back into the thick stuff.  Putting salt into my wound the bum comes over and introduces himself.
In the nicest way that I could I told him that he just scared a deer away on me as I was about to shoot and that he was sitting in my stand.  He apologized and said that he thought that since there was a gut pile at the bottom of the stand that the owner was done hunting.  I don't know if he was really that ignorant or was just an    I didn;t see him the next day.

Sunday comes I hear a shot at 8:00 am a few hundred yards away.  I see a doe coming and she is hit in the front shoulder.  I shoot and drop her.  After an hour of waiting for the person that shot her first to come and get her, I get down and gut her out. I climb back up and wait until dark without seeing anymore deer.  They never came so I hauled her in.

I saw a few more does on monday and tuesday on the edge of the slashing but no sign of the big ten pointer.  I had to come back home on Wednesday.  My wife had to work and we didn't have a baby sitter.  Nice birthday.  Hopefully I can get back up north this weekend.
 
  Jewel and MnMoose but I didn't realize that the tiebreaker was other deer so I only took a picture of the 1st deer.

[CampYJewel]

Love the story!!!!  And I hear you on hunting before or after the legal limits.  They have to set some rules to make if fair for the deer and the hunters. 

I had not checked the rule book on Wed when I was out and thought I was to late so I did not shoot at a doe. 
Come to find out I still had a good 15mns but it was dark enough for me already!!

Great job on the two deer so far. 

[dakids]

Great news!!!  I get to head back out deer hunting again.   I will be leaving later tonight.

Look out deer   Here I come.

[CampYJewel]

I am still stuck at work.  Though all I really have to do is cross the road and I could shoot something 

Better luck this weekend 

[MnMoose]

Ok guys I had the worst weekend deer hunting ever!!!! I wont elaborate my sob story to you though.  I did not see a single deer for four days out there... Thats a true rarity!!  So here I go go again one last final whoo rah to make some magic happen this weekend.  I am gonna sit/walk stalk till I cant no more.  Hopefully this weekend I dont have Moose interupt my hunt like the opening weekend.  I had close encounters with two of them on opening weekend one of them I was not armed and scared  :censored:less!!!!  Well Hopefully you guys can make it out again, heck it still beats a good day at work.

[deadeye]

MnMoose,
So how was it you were deer hunting in the woods (I assume that's where the moose was) without a gun?  Just a guess but from the sounds of it, you were taking a potty break.

[dakids]

I was invited to hunt last weekend out west near appleton with my best friend and his brothers. They shot a 9, and two 8's on opening day. We started out the day sitting for a few hours.  only saw a few does that I could not shoot.  The group only had one doe permit left and it belonged to a youth hunter.  After that we did a few drives.  It took all of 5 minutes for me to remember why I stopped hunting in zone 4.  I hate shooting at running deer, and I don't like not knowing where the nearest hunters are and if they are going to shoot at the deer right in front of me.  The group of guys that I hunted with were very safe but that might have been forgotten if a trophy were to jump up.  We did see a lot of deer but they were all running at mach 3.  We did have a huge buck get out the side on a drive without even getting a shot sent his way.

 I am hopeing to get up north this week end where I should have been last weekend.  One of my other friends hunts within a mile of our land and they got a huge 11 pointer on saturday.  It only weighed 185 and was a very old deer on its way down.  The heaviest deer in the big buck contest was only a 216 pounder.  First prize is a free mount.

[MnMoose]

Wasn't hunting at the time...I actually went out the thursday prior to opener just to check the clearing over, do some last minute scouting since the weather made a drastic turn that week.  I left my bird gun at home because I won a new shotgun in the local raffle in finland however the dealer who carried the ffl license didnt get his permit renewed in time, so grouse hunting was out of the question for the weekend, and that friday.  So I was out walking and scouting empty handed.  I had never seen any sign of Moose in that area in previous scouting expeditions, but to my surprise they must have moved in after their rut.  After I took my stand down that monday I did another walk through there(with a gun this time) I discovered 13 different moose beds.  I think it was a good idea to leave that stand empty for the weekend.  hopefully next year my group can draw a tag its only been 11 years in the making for that  lottery