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Post by vinnieb on Dec 28, 2007 19:21:08 GMT -5
i hope to get down to blackwater on the 12th when the season opens back up. just got a few questions
-i have my permit. do i need to check in somewhere or do i just park and go hunting.
-also any advice on a area. i have never been down there before and they all look the same too me
thanks
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Post by osprey on Dec 28, 2007 21:25:18 GMT -5
No check in for archery, just have your permit and go after 'em. Any section south of the Visitor Center will be 99% sika, just pick one and start exploring/learning it. Good luck, the late season can be great on sikas.
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Post by vinnieb on Jan 9, 2008 17:34:43 GMT -5
well im planning on heading up there this weekend. planning on hunting area U. is this a good area?
btw anyone else heading down to blackwater this weekend
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Post by osprey on Jan 11, 2008 9:10:20 GMT -5
Not this weekend, but hopefully next week.
U is good, but it's a mix of whitetails and sika. Saw some nice bucks and stags crossing into that area this summer in velvet. I killed my very first deer (sika doe) in that section nearly 22 years ago! Good luck Vinnie, hope you score.
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Post by Bartman on Jan 11, 2008 17:22:06 GMT -5
I might be out in the afternoon. Might just stick w/ public though.
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Post by vinnieb on Jan 13, 2008 21:51:45 GMT -5
yesterday was awesome. saw 6 sikas a spike and a hind came into bow range but i had no shot. can't wait to getback down there
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Post by osprey on Jan 16, 2008 9:13:45 GMT -5
Went down yesterday evening, saw one on the way in, one on the way out, none while hunting. 'Course I was ground hunting in phrag thickets, they'd have to be close. Like that I either shoot or don't see anything, but can get some awesome shots. The one I saw on the way in was funny. Little yearling, crossed the road in front of me and stood 5' away in the brush. Wanted to see what she'd take, so I stopped next to her, took the truck out of gear, got out the door, even pretended I was drawing a bow. Deer stood there the whole time. I shoulda thrown a rope around her and invited Fox down the next day!!  |
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Post by BIG FOX on Jan 16, 2008 14:23:46 GMT -5
well thanks for telling me now.. i would have taken you up on that offer too.. |
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Jan 17, 2008 20:25:34 GMT -5
I'm going for one more Monday afternoon. I kid not when I say "Sika is the best tasting wild game I have ever had" We cooked sika scrap meat and whitetail backstrap, not even close. Then we cooked the sika backstrap.....................HOLY COW.........awesome! Even my wife, who doesn't eat wild game, devoured the sika. Amazingly Awesome!!!
Did I mention they taste great?
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