1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:56 pm
Fired up the Rincon and took a ride up the mountain, barely a trace of snow on Irons Mountain. Looks like it's snow still on Dan's Mountain near Frostburg, MD, though.
Looks like y'all have some fine locations to view the power-line R/W!
I mentioned earlier my grandson going to the woods on Thanksgiving morning and evening and seeing quite a few deer. After the family left on Friday I didn't have any desire to go to the woods that afternoon. Saturday morning I rode down in the woods and exchanged my SD cards and was surprised and pleased to see a big bodied 6 point on the camera that hadn't been seen before. Still didn't feel like hunting but around 3:30 it got the best of me and I went down to the shooting house just to see what was going on.
While I was getting all my junk laid out in the shooting house I noticed a deer way out in the pines beyond the green field, it was 3:38. Continued getting my worldly possessions arranged, flash light, cell phone, rifle, etc 3 deer came into the patch almost under the shooting house. A few minutes later several more entered the patch, all coming from the west. All of a sudden, they all wheeled around looking at the trail they came in on. Out walks the 6 point, maybe 75 feet away. Never touched my rifle, just watched them as they all moved to the east. The buck spotted the deer in the pines and walked towards her.While all this was going on 4 small bucks, 3 spikes and a little fork horn entered the green field, they played around, browsed and work their way east also. Deer, mommas and fawns, kept coming in from the west and in all there were 21 passed by me that afternoon. I left the stand at about 4:50 as it was very cloudy and dark. A great hunt, no deer to dress in the dark.
Here is a picture of a few of the deer in the plot that afternoon:
That morning I got these game camera pictures from the same field:
- The 8 point that has been around most of the summer.
- 1st time seeing this 6 point.
- The deer that has the funny shaped rack.
- These fellers will be hard at it when the rut gets under way next month.
Muzzleloading starts tomorrow, not too interested in that right now but on the 13th it's back to rifle season maybe I'll be a bit more enthused by the.
Treefarmer
... One would think there would be some kind of chemical treatment for protection or even some way to alter the trees' genes to become resistant to the blight, as the trees in Asia are. My, OLD HUNTING BUDDY always used to talk about the great qualities of Chestnut trees and the wood and how the Indians relied on the chestnuts as important part of their diet (and frontiersmen too I reckon ) 
moseying around that pasture.
they say Friday and Saturday will be worse last days of muzzle season 
while bird hunting it got down to 74 degrees ....
... Don't mind 'Ol Zeus in the last photo ... 
He dropped a little more than just his opinion!!! 
.... 
I sure am scaring a lot of birds... but NOT putting too many on the table... 
season over