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Around the Campfire / Re: What Did You Do Today?
« Last post by Eric Krewson on Today at 11:47:54 am »After a very strange deer hunting year with acorns so thick they were touching on the ground after they fell out of the tree and the deer going nocturnal in mid November, I got a doe in the hollow below my house on Saturday. With 3 days left in the season and two empty shelves in my freezer I went modern and full on Ghillie suit. I am a very experienced deer hunter, in spite of this I hunted hard and had not seen a deer in two months.
The wind was right as was the moon phase for an afternoon hunt so I gave it one more try and got lucky, finally.
I used my new 3K# deer winch and a Craftsman cordless drill for power to pull the deer across the hollow, across the creek and up the hill to an old logging road where I could get to it with my 4 wheeler. This is a very deep, steep hollow. My 88 TRX model wheel drive Honda couldn't make it up the steepest part of the hill pulling the deer, its turf like tires couldn't get a grip on the powdery forest floor a would just spin. Fortunately my neighbor was home and has a monster 4X4 quad, he came over and helped me get the deer out with his machine.
The wind was right as was the moon phase for an afternoon hunt so I gave it one more try and got lucky, finally.
I used my new 3K# deer winch and a Craftsman cordless drill for power to pull the deer across the hollow, across the creek and up the hill to an old logging road where I could get to it with my 4 wheeler. This is a very deep, steep hollow. My 88 TRX model wheel drive Honda couldn't make it up the steepest part of the hill pulling the deer, its turf like tires couldn't get a grip on the powdery forest floor a would just spin. Fortunately my neighbor was home and has a monster 4X4 quad, he came over and helped me get the deer out with his machine.
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