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Journal 2014 Archive
January 2014
Sunday 22 January 2014
Roy and I went up for the last day of MN Rifle Deer
Season. Roy was the only who from the crew who drew
a doe permit for the unit.
It was cold in the morning, at least to me, 20 degrees
and predicted not to get above 30 degrees for the day.
Roy walked out to John’s stand and I put on the rest of
my cold weather clothes, then wander off to Jessie’s
stand on the EastEnd. I didn’t see anything on the way
out, but my fingers had gotten numb and were hurting
as they warmed up.
I made it out to Jessie’s stand and settled in, hoping to
see anything. I was shooting Archery so I could take a
buck or doe. The morning was clear and the wind was
barely moving and there was an heavy hoar frost on
everything giving the woods a ghostly hazy appearance.
The voles, mice and squirrels starting moving just after
sun up and tricked me into thinking that deer were
approaching as I dozed lightly.
There were no deer to be seen while I was in the stand.
I finally had enough of the cold, climbed down, swapped
out the memory card on the camera near Jessie’s stand
and started the walk in.
As I started down the slope past the meadow near Roy’s
stand, I scared up two deer. They stopped in the thickets
in the slew. Even if I had a rifle, I didn’t have a good
shot for either one. I stood still for about 10 minutes,
hoping they would come back around, no such luck.
Once I was at the meadow near the cabin, I reset Kip’s
blind that had blown over in the wind storm from a few
days ago. Roy wandered over and told me about what
he had seen.
Midday, Roy moved to Roland’s stands and didn’t see
anything until he got down from the stand, then scared
up two deer also, but he no chance to lower his rifle to
get a shot. There were two white flicks of tail and the
deer were gone. Roy lamented that he couldn’t say he
hadn’t seen any deer this year.
We drove around the property and saw four deer
standing on the edge a of meadow on Lenard’s property.
“Crappity-doo!!” Not quite what we said, but close
enough. Roy figured the deer were giving the equivalent
of the razzberry and “na-naw-na-naw-naaa!”.
Next year deer, next year...
Friday - Sunday 13-15 November 2014
Kip and I went up for the second weekend Rifle Deer.
We had purchased two new ground blinds and set both
in the meadow near the cabin Friday evening. Everyone
saw there was lots of activity in the meadow throughout
the year; deer prints everywhere...
Friday - Sunday 6-8 November 2014
Rifle Opener. I know that a few people took deer. Pass
along the information and I post it.
February 2014
Sunday
March 2014
Monday