Who's goin' after what over Thanksgiving?

[roundball]

I got two does tags left that I want to fill and will be going out early in the morning for the first couple hours with my .54cal Flint smoothbore...if I get one I'll make a quick delivery to a needy family to help with their Thanksgiving, then hightail it home for my Thanksgiving with my Sweetie...

Supposed to be 18-20 degrees at 4:30am...sounds like some of that DaveK weather from Ohio...not good ole North Carolina weather !!
:grin:

 

[bulletman]

gonna eat and lay around

 

[dwarvenchef]

Sleep in, think about getting out of bed... wake up again and cook a beer birdy. Eat the beer birdy... wake up and play on the 'puter haha.

 

[adkmountainken]

going after Elvis bright and early tommorow. i have never taken a deer on Thanksgiving yet, maybe this one will be special. if ya listen close around 7:30-9:00 ya might just hear my .45 Miss Fish roar!!!

 

[roundball]

going after Elvis bright and early tommorow. i have never taken a deer on Thanksgiving yet, maybe this one will be special. if ya listen close around 7:30-9:00 ya might just hear my .45 Miss Fish roar!!!

Your deer must keep banker's hours up there...OK, you listen south about 6:30 and I'll listen north a little later
:grin:

 

[Gametracker]

Going after deer and/or turkey with the bow in the morning. Next gun season ain't until next Thursday. Highs in low 40's for tomorrow with 20's-30's wind chill. I've always wanted to kill a turkey on Thanksgiving day. Maybe tomorrow!

 

[guncobbler]

We had our feast tonite so we can take all day to climb Old Rag in the Shenandoah Nat Park tomorrow. Hunting will come Sat morning. I hope the snow that is falling now sticks around til Sat. Gonna be a few deer moved up the hill towards me and my son in the Nat Forest then. Last Sat the leaves were too rustly and the moon to bright at night before to make the deer move much. GC

 

[Brian Rice]

I am chasing Alberta whitetails again tomorrow morning, and coming home about 12:00 for Thanksgiving dinner. I hope to have a couple of deer tied to the top of the Yukon when I pull in the driveway. I missed a big 10 pointer monday that I rattled in, and I hope to peak his curiosity again and settle the score. My front sight had drifted over a bunch!!!!!! I shot 25 PRB's today, and have them grouping inside a pill bottle top at 50 yards about 2" high, so all should be well tomorrow if he shows up. I locktited the front sight by the way!!!! Good luck to you all, and if I get an Alberta Monster tomorrow, you might all just hear me yell while your carving your birds!!

 

[CrackStock]

Tomorrow is a day of rest and family. No hunting for me.

Friday, the hunt begins anew. Rabbit, deer and squirrel in that order. I love rabbit in mushroom sauce and have not gotten one in a long time.

CS

 

[Dave K]

I would be bowhunting tomorrow, but they are calling for winds over 40mph. I don't really care to be in the woods when it is that windy. Modern gun season starts this coming Monday. I will be carrying the 50cal. Beck next week.

 

[Birddog6]

I am gonna piddle here today & be lazy & eat turkey..... I am gonna hunt Friday & Sat. as Packdog & I saw a bunch of turkeys that have me wanting to harvest one with the ML, so I think I am gonna give that a try. We saw 3-4 different groups of them the other day at the hunting camp & all were withing range, but needed some deer meat in the freezer first. Have that accomplished so now may take a shot at a turkey.

 

[doverdog]

Turkey and football until Monday, when the regular deer season opens in Pennsylvania. This end of the state had a bad snowstorm yesterday, and the roads may not be any worse all winter. The prospects for the much desired 3" - 4" of snow for the first day looked good until they changed the forecast to sunny and 57 degrees on Sunday. :cursing:

 

[roundball]

I wimped out... ...didn't want to get out from under the electric blanket this morning so I didn't go...will have to go Friday / Saturday

 

[roundball]

What's a deer's primary food source in that type of environment?

 

[Walks Alone]

What's a deer's primary food source in that type of environment?

Varies a lot depending on the time of year, and the deer do move back and forth between different habitats here on the Mojave. While they do get some from the plants they eat, water is scarce and they have to travel miles between sources almost year-round. Short answer would be in spring and summer they feed selectively mostly on green leaves, ferns, fruits, herbs, fungus, weeds and grasses - fall/winter more on browse. That can include any summer fair that might still be available and tree/bush twigs, cactus fruits and any fallen seeds or nuts. They love sage, acorns, pinion nuts, prickly pear fruits and juniper berries especially here, but if food is scarce will also strip any leaves or bark they find even though not as succulent as during the other times of the year.

This is the desert, but we also have a fairly unique 10,000' high "island" mountain range very close by with riparian habitat found elswhere in the mountain west. This small range is so isolated by the surrounding desert and plateau deserts farther to the north and west that many subspecies found there are not found anywhere else on earth, both plant and animal. That's some bottom slopes of this mountain range on the right in my picture BTW. The Spring Mountains support a 500+ head heard of elk as well as the deer, bear and cougar yet only a very few miles away you can also hunt Desert Bighorn and all the other normal desert species. BTW, the desert mulies northwest of here in the high desert habitats are some of the biggest anywhere on average.

HTH

 

[cayugad]

Went out this morning.. wind chill they said was about -20ºs and it felt like it. I got on a nice fresh deer track and began following it slow. Never hear or saw anything. The track suddenly accelerated, so they must have winded me or something. The way the wind direction was changing and swirling around at times it does not surprise me.

Came back in and warmed up. Then some friends called and wanted to make drives on some small wood lots, so we went out again. Again, it was freezing and the winds was gusting to 25+ mph. You could not hear in the woods at all with the winds. Never saw anything either.

So I got home and stuffed myself.. Now all I want is a nap!

So, tomorrow to try again. I am sure it will be better. I have two more tags..

Happy turkey day to those that celebrate. :hatsoff:

 

[Protrucker]

Well, I was going to be in the woods before daylight. I got up & looked at the thermometer. It was 7* warmer than yesterday but it was still only 13* & my warm waterbed seemed like a much better place to be. When I got back up I played on the computer for a while then got ready & had my wife drop me off about 3/4 mile from the house. I still hunted back toward home, only seeing one track. Got back to the house just in time to get out of my hunting clothes & sit down for the big dinner. After dinner we were going to drive down to my brothers house for the evening. While getting ready my wife looked out the back window & saw a deer passing by. I grabbed my gun & within 5 minutes had meat(a big doe) for the freezer. I'd rather not shoot them "in the back yard" but this year I haven't had much time to hunt because of working on the house & we were out of venison. I'm hoping to have enough work finished on the house by the end of the weekend to get serious about hunting next week. I'll be hunting both NY & PA since I live only 4 miles north of the PA line.

 

[roundball]

Winds are supposed to reach 30mph before tomorrow morning, temps in low 20's, wind chill below that.
So to avoid a repeat conflict with my electric blanket tomorrow morning, I hereby cancel plans to get up at 4:30, and will hunt the late afternoon instead!
:rotf: