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Post by osprey on Oct 7, 2008 20:42:59 GMT -5
Got out to one of my favorite sika spots tonight, had a heck of a night! Not a ton of deer moving, but had two spikes pushing a doe around early, all broadside at 15 yards and got a pass. Doe ended up spooking off a raccoon. Later, just after sunset, it broke loose all around me with deer running everywhere. Big stag was pushing a doe all around me, through the phrag, out into the marsh and back, she was mewing constantly. Never did get a look at the stag, but at last light he was 20 yards away in the reeds growling at me. Very cool to hear.  |
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Post by shedslave on Oct 7, 2008 21:14:03 GMT -5
Don't post no more like this osprey!!! I CAN'T get back down there until Saturday.Good luck to you!!!
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Post by osprey on Oct 8, 2008 6:18:09 GMT -5
I won't get back out until Friday afternoon...
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Post by BIG FOX on Oct 8, 2008 6:38:12 GMT -5
way to rub it in you butt head
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Post by Bartman on Oct 8, 2008 9:43:07 GMT -5
Dave did you challenge bugle to him? Was he too close for this? Sounds like a cool night. Too bad I won't be back out until Sat. as well.
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Post by osprey on Oct 8, 2008 10:53:45 GMT -5
He was too close to bugle. I was mewing by mouth at him, and even growled back at him (first time trying that sound, didn't get it quite right but he didn't spook off it). The mewing she was doing for him was very soft, when they got more than 40-50 yards away you couldn't even hear it, and it was calm. Had to do that by voice, the seducer is way too loud for that one.
And, ummm, looking at the wind right now I think I'm blowing off tonight's plans and going sika hunting. Have fun waiting until Saturday fellas!!!
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Post by osprey on Oct 14, 2008 6:47:39 GMT -5
Went to a spot last evening I hadn't hunted in a few years, had bugles all around me, had to be a least a dozen different stags all over, but no shots or good sightings. Had three run under me just before the end of shooting light, chasing and mewing, but so fast I couldn't even see for sure what they were. Gonna have to head back to that spot, maybe today.
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Post by shedslave on Oct 14, 2008 6:53:21 GMT -5
They sure are fired up now.Good luck. Come on Thursday morning.
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Post by BIG FOX on Oct 14, 2008 7:25:12 GMT -5
hope to have a similar encounter as I had this past weekend this coming weekend only the Sika's fate may be a bit different when the Thompson Center OMEGA chirps off on him..  |
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Post by osprey on Oct 14, 2008 11:49:39 GMT -5
Don't boast too much yet Fox, it's been known to cause hangfires, dud caps and al sorts of bad juju!
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Oct 14, 2008 11:55:31 GMT -5
Now that he's actually seen one in range while hunting he is awful confident, isn't he.
Maybe after this weekend's hunt reality will settle back in (no sika for fox). ;D
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Post by shedslave on Oct 14, 2008 12:21:26 GMT -5
HARSHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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Post by BIG FOX on Oct 14, 2008 12:36:09 GMT -5
i know right, you think they would be a bit nicer.. maybe when they ask me to help them in the future and I am sitting at the truck with mine already loaded up and having a cool drink while they struggle they will change their tune...
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Post by osprey on Oct 14, 2008 16:45:42 GMT -5
Fox WILL kill one someday, and here's how. It'll be a nice, sunny day, Fox will just be dozing off in his treestand from the warm sun hitting him, and just about then the loblolly pine will snap from the weight load. The upper half of the tree, containing the Big Ox, will land on a sika that has been bedded, unseen, 10 feet away since before sunrise. Once coming to, climbing out from under the tree, scraping the 6 inches of marsh mud off his face and uttering many expletives, Fox will find the sika while digging his stand out of the muck and claim it as his own, all 13.2 lbs of it.  |
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Post by Bartman on Oct 14, 2008 22:08:54 GMT -5
Lol
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